- Legacy Giving Stories
The Marian Huret Fund to Help Young Women Start Their Careers offers direct grants to women 17 and older who apply to Jewish Family and Children’s Services for financial assistance for career counseling, job hunting expenses, resume design and printing costs, and short-term career-related training courses.
The Huret family—Bob, Judy, and Deborah Huret; Carol and Charles Sumner; and Jennifer Huret Dulski and Leonard Dulski—chose to honor their mother and grandmother, Marian Huret, by establishing a named continuity fund in her memory.
Marian Huret was born on June 24, 1912 in New York City, and grew up on the Lower East Side. After graduating from high school, where she served as president of her class, Marian worked as a bookkeeper for an advertising agency in the 1920s and ’30s, when there were few women in the workforce. She temporarily “retired” in the 1940s to devote herself to her family, but returned to work when her children were still in elementary school—a rarity in the 1950s. She went on to become the first woman field auditor for the New York State Department of Labor.
Even after retirement, Marian volunteered to prepare taxes for other seniors, and she was active in Planned Parenthood and advocacy on family planning issues.
Because Marian was a trailblazer who believed that women can achieve great things in the workplace, the Huret family wants other women to have the opportunity to achieve their dreams as well.
If you would like to start a Named Endowment Fund at JFCS, please contact [email protected] or 415-449-3858.