Highlights from Gesher Human Services Awards Night
Gesher Human Services held its annual Awards Night on Sept. 12 at the Community House in Birmingham, celebrating the achievements of staff, participants and outstanding contributors.
Janet Aronoff, one of the founders of Kadima (the predecessor mental health agency that joined with JVS Human Services in 2022 to form Gesher) was awarded Gesher’s highest honor, the 2024 Bridge Builder Award. Accepting her award, Aronoff explained that her pathway to philanthropy began because she wanted to “pay off the freedoms that I had that other people didn’t have” after reading about the atrocities others suffered during the Holocaust.