Jewish Fund Elects Officers, Awards Grants
Detroit Jewish News, November 5, 2009
At its Annual Meeting on November 3, 2009, The Jewish Fund elected five new board members, Dr. Dan Guyer, Lisa Lis, Lionel Margolick, Joshua Opperer and Gregg Orley. The board also re-elected Michael Maddin as Chair, Penny Blumenstein as Vice-Chair and Dorothy Benyas as Secretary/Treasurer.
The annual Robert Sosnick Award of Excellence was presented to JARC in recognition of its six programs launched with support of The Jewish Fund since 1998. The award includes a $25,000 prize.
At its board meeting earlier that day, The Jewish Fund approved the following grants totaling $1,750,500:
- Adult Well-Being Services (Detroit, MI): $80,000 for the second year of a three-year, $240,000 grant to provide preventive activities to African American adults who are pre-diabetic.
- Care House of Oakland County (Pontiac, MI): $10,000 for the third of a three-year, $30,000 grant to provide a child sexual abuse education program to those professionals required to report such abuse.
- Forgotten Harvest (Oak Park, MI): $45,000 for the second of a three-year, $115,000 grant to increase the amount of fresh food available for under-nourished residents in high-poverty areas.
- Freedom House (Detroit, MI): $40,000 for the second of a two-year, $90,000 grant to provide medical care and health services to homeless refugees who reside in Freedom House.
- Henry Ford Behavioral Health Maplegrove Center (West Bloomfield, MI): $20,000 for the third year of a three-year, $67,000 grant to engage families living with active addition into the treatment process of their addicted family member.
- Jewish Family Service (West Bloomfield, MI): $63,000 for the second of a three-year, $156,000 grant to provide a case manager at Hebrew Free Loan to assists clients seeking financial support.
- Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (Bloomfield Hills, MI): $900,000 in combined matching and operating funds for the third of a three-year grant of up to $2,782,000 to support in-home support services, escorted transportation and adult day care in the Jewish community.
- Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (Bloomfield Hills, MI): $60,000 for a one-year grant on behalf of the Merkaz Division of the Council of Orthodox Rabbis-VAAD to increase security in the Oak Park/Southfield Jewish communities.
- Jewish Senior Life (West Bloomfield and Oak Park, MI): $212,500 for the second of a three-year, $521,000 grant to facilitate the merger and to assist with the start-up of a new lead agency to better coordinate and expand services to Jewish older adults.
- Jewish Senior Life (West Bloomfield, MI): $150,000 for the ninth of a ten-year, $1.5 million grant to provide rent subsidies for low-income older adults living in the apartments.
- JVS (Southfield, MI): $55,000 for the second of a two-year, $120,000 grant to implement a financial literacy and consumer advocacy program.
- Kadima (Southfield, MI): $70,000 for the first of a three-year, $195,000 challenge grant to provide services to children and adolescents who are diagnosed with emotional and behavioral disorders.
- Orchard’s Children’s Services (Southfield, MI): $10,000 for the first of a two-year, $15,000 challenge grant to provide dental services not covered through conventional public assistance programs to underserved youth.
- Ruth Ellis Center (Highland Park, MI): $10,000 for a one-year challenge grant to provide support for professionally facilitated peer support groups for runaway and homeless youth.
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11/05/2009