Our recent JPAC Mission to Sacramento was a great success and we just wanted to give a big THANK YOU to all of you who took a time out of your busy work and personal lives and joined us in our state’s capitol to lobby on the important issues that affect our lives as Californians.
As you know, with the budget situation as critical as ever, it is vitally important that you stay engaged in the process. Funding to vital social services is at stake and the hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Californians who depend on these services need you to speak out for them.
If you attended the Mission, a survey was emailed to you recently. Please take a moment to complete it. We are always looking for ways to improve the Mission and your input goes a long way.
We will post follow up on the issues we lobbied on as it becomes available but in the meantime, here are photos from the Mission -
David O. Levine (Jewish Family Service), The Hon. Joel Anderson and Paul Castro (Jewish Family Service, Los Angeles) at the Legislator Reception
Ann Millman (NCJW), The Hon. Ted Lieu and Sandra Horwitz (Long Beach Federation)
Jessica Kianmahd (Milken Community High School) introduced The Hon. Mike Villines, Assembly Republican Leader, as our morning keynote speaker
Mike Genest, State Director of Finance, and Marc Carrel, JPAC Chair
Holocaust Survivor and Yom HaShoah speaker Bernie Marks with Nancy Goldberg, Immediate Past Chair of JPAC
Marc Carrel, JPAC Chair, and Kim Belshe, Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency
Anita Friedman, President, Jewish Family and Children's Services, presents Nancy Goldberg with JPAC's Earl Raab Award for community activist of the year
Rabbi Doug Kahn, Executive Director of the San Francisco JCRC, Nancy Goldberg, JPAC Immediate Past Chair and 2009 Earl Raab Honoree, and Anita Friedman, JFCS Executive Director
Past Earl Raab Honorees Howard Welinsky (Los Angeles), Carol Velarde (Sacramento), Norma Satten (San Francisco) and Barbara Yaroslavksy (Los Angeles) welcome Nancy Goldberg to the rarified air of being an awardee
JPAC Chair Marc Carrel with The Hon. Kevin De Leon, Chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee
