Jco raises $650,000 for COVID relief

needs. That’s the phrase Rabbi Jay Strear, president and CEO of JEWISHcolorado, uses to describe what he and other leaders of the Denver-based Jewish federation saw coming when the coronavirus first made its perilous presence known. On March 17, a day after Jco implemented its work-from-home platform, the organization’s board of directors voted unanimously to establish the COVID-19 Community Response Fund. Strear, board chair Ruth Malman, development chair Cintra Pollack and other Jco leaders realized quickly that the pandemic was going to affect the Jewish community in many ways, including financially. “We all understood,” Strear told the Intermountain Jewish News this week, “based on what we were hearing, that there were going to be emergent needs. “I’m very proud that we were able to respond […]