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Our Funders
JVS Thrives With Support from Our Funders
Thanks to unwavering support from our network of corporate and foundation funders, JVS Boston can advance our shared goals to help change the lives of job seekers, their families, and future generations, radiating out to neighborhoods and communities.
With support from our funding partners, we can continuously improve our programs and services, focus on innovative solutions, and have greater impact on our clients. Here is a spotlight on just a few of our vital partnerships.
Foundational Partners:
Combined Jewish Philanthropies
In 1938 the Vocational Service of the Associated Jewish Philanthropies (now CJP) was founded to help refugees from Austria and Germany gain skills, secure jobs, build careers, and begin to achieve the American dream. As one of our foundational partners, CJP supported the formation and creation of JVS. Throughout the 1930s to 1990s, JVS and CJP grew as individual organizations, with a deep partnership. Today, CJP continues to be a committed partner to JVS in workforce development, with a specific connection to the services we provide to the Jewish community.
Foundational Partners:
United Way of Mass Bay
United Way exists to build more equitable communities, together. With over 85 years of local impact in eastern Massachusetts, United Way works with and for our communities to build economic prosperity and enable everyone—across races and ethnicities—to share in the knowledge, wealth and resources available. United Way believes that the key to unlocking opportunity is uniting people, and they bring together individuals, community leaders, corporate partners, legislators and organizations to build a powerful engine of change. United Way of Massachusetts Bay partners with 124 organizations in a first-of-its kind effort to eradicate the conditions that lead to poverty and economic injustice.
The Cummings Foundation
Woburn-based Cummings Foundation, Inc. was established in 1986 by Joyce and Bill Cummings of Winchester, MA and has grown to be one of the largest private foundations in New England. The Foundation directly operates its own charitable subsidiaries, including New Horizons retirement communities, in Marlborough and Woburn, and Cummings Health Sciences, LLC. Cummings Foundation now awards at least $50 million each year, and has awarded a total of more than $500 million to date, to a widely diverse group of nonprofits primarily in eastern Massachusetts. In 2024 JVS Boston received a 10-year $750,000 grant through the Cummings $30 Million Grant Program—the first time JVS Boston has ever received such a long-standing grant commitment.
SkillWorks: Partner For A Productive Workforce
SkillWorks is a nationally recognized workforce funder collaborative, launched by the Boston Foundation in 2003 to improve workforce development in Boston and across Massachusetts. SkillWorks strengthens the workforce development sector in Greater Boston in order to reduce poverty and narrow racial income and wealth gaps. They do this through targeted investments in workforce innovations, collaborating with stakeholders to build capacity and professional development in the sector, and partnering with employers and government to advance equitable practices, policies and systems that empower workers and provide sustainable pathways to quality, household-sustaining jobs.
JVS Boston Funders
See our annual report for a complete list of funders.
Our Impact
11K
Individuals served 2023
113
client nations
43
total programs
63
languages spoken
1878
job placements in 2023
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“JVS continues to be a leader and innovator in the workforce and economic mobility space. They are laser focused on helping community members advance economically through strategic job training, career development and integrated supportive resources; centering immigrant communities as they build strong employer and nonprofit partnerships, modeling the systems change the United Way of Massachusetts Bay aspires to see for community financial wellbeing.”
Juan Bonilla, SVP, United Way of Mass Bay
“SkillWorks is always looking to push the workforce conversation in Greater Boston to new frontiers. It’s no surprise, then, that involves a long and deep partnership with JVS. We are proud allies in constantly pushing to improve career pathways for low-income workers.”
Andre Green, Executive Director, SkillWorks
