Recent Grants

November 2009

• 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 GLBTQ youth.

July 2009

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit (Detroit): $70,000 over 2 years ($45,000 year one; $25,000 year two) to support the launch of Sports Buddies, a mentoring program focusing on physical well-being through sports, fitness and nutritional education.
• Fresh Air Society (Bloomfield Hills): A challenge grant of up to $133,500 over 3 years ($40,000 year one; $49,500 year two; $44,000 year three) to support the expansion and enhancement of the special needs inclusion program at Camp Maas.
• HOPE Hospitality & Warming Center (Pontiac): $65,000 over 3 years ($30,000 year one; $20,000 year two; $15,000 year three) to expand the organizational capacity of the shelter by extending its months of operation and enhancing fundraising efforts.
• Jewish Federation of Metropoitan Detroit (Bloomfield Hills): $600,000 for one year to be allocated to programs and services identified as highest priority in responding to urgent special unmet needs.
• Starfish Family Services (Inkster): $45,000 over 3 years ($20,000 year one; $15,000 year two; $10,000 year three) to provide initial funding for individual and group counseling and mental health services for youth in crisis and transitional living programs.
• Working Together/Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network (West Bloomfield): A matching grant of up to $100,000 over 2 years (up to $50,000 year one; up to $50,000 year two) to establish a new challenge grant program to help the agency meet unprecedented hospice and palliative care needs during the economic downturn.
• Yad Ezra (Oak Park): $61,000 for one year to support the expanding needs for free groceries in response to urgent special unmet needs.

December 2008

• Child Abuse and Neglect Council of Oakland County (Pontiac, MI): $10,000 for the second year of a three-year, $30,000 grant to train state—mandated reporters on identifying child sexual abuse.
• Freedom House (Detroit, MI): $50,000 for the first of a two-year, $90,000 grant to provide medical care and health services to homeless refugees who reside in Freedom House.
• Friendship Circle (West Bloomfield, MI): $50,000 for the second year of a three-year, $150,000 grant to create a residential program for Jewish adults recovering from substance abuse.
• Henry Ford Behavioral Health Maplegrove Center (West Bloomfield, MI): $22,000 for the second year of a two-year, $67,000 grant to engage families living with active addition into the treatment process of their addicted family member.
• Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital (Commerce Township, MI): $118,000 for a one-year grant to support the renovation and update of its Intensive Care Unit.
• Jewish Apartments and Services and Jewish Home and Aging Services (West Bloomfield, MI and Oak Park, MI): $170,000 for the first of a three-year, $521,000 grant to facilitate the intended merger (pending the agencies’ boards’ approval) and to assist with the start-up of a new lead agency to better coordinate and expand services to Jewish older adults.
• Jewish Community Relations Council, MI Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion, and ADL (various Metro-Detroit locations): a matching grant of up to $114,000 for the second of a three-year, $342,000 grant to develop cross-cultural relationships between Jewish and African American and Latino communities.
  Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (Bloomfield Hills, MI): $930,000 in combined matching and operating funds for the second 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 Hospice & Chaplaincy Network (West Bloomfield, MI): $10,000 for a one-year grant to support a coalition of caregiving professionals working with the public who face end of life issues.
• Summer in the City (Berkley, MI): $5,000 for the third of a three-year grant of $21,000 to expand the organization’s youth work in Detroit.
  

August 2008

• Adult Well-Being Services (Detroit, MI): $240,000 over three years to support efforts to prevent diabetes among low-income and older African Americans.
• Detroit Science Center (Detroit, MI): $100,000 for one year to develop a new healthy nutrition-focused exhibit in its new Medical Marvels Gallery.
• Forgotten Harvest (Oak Park, MI): $105,000 over three years to expand its food rescue program’s distribution by adding a mobile food pantry
• Hospice of Michigan (Detroit, MI): $20,000 for the final year of a two-year grant to support its innovative @HOMe Support program serving non-hospice patients with advanced chronic illness.
• Jewish Apartments & Services (Oak Park, MI): $150,000 for the eighth year of a ten-year grant to subsidize rent for 30 low-income seniors at the Norma Jean and Edward Meer Apartments.
• Jewish Community Center (West Bloomfield, MI): $15,000 to support the Council on Jewish Orthodox Active Retirees (COJAR) program, which provides active retirees with social, educational and cultural programs.
• Jewish Family Service (West Bloomfield, MI): $290,000 for a one-year renewal grant to support Project Chessed, a network of free and reduced price medical care for uninsured Jews in the community.
• Jewish Family Service (West Bloomfield, MI): $156,000 over 3 years to support the hiring of a case manager to assist clients of Hebrew Free Loan Association.
• Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (Bloomfield Hills, MI): up to $50,000 toward support of the Hechtman Fire Relief Fund which was established following the recent fire at Hechtman Apartments serving older adults.
• Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (Bloomfield Hills, MI): $75,00 for one year to provide patrol cars during Shabbat hours in Oak Park and Southfield in response to an increase in criminal incidents in the area.
• Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network (West Bloomfield, MI): $50,000 for the final year of a three-year grant to develop a palliative care program for the Detroit Jewish community.
• JVS (Southfield, MI): $120,000 over two years to assist in the development of a financial literacy and consumer advocacy program.
• Kadima/JFS (Southfield and West Bloomfield, MI): $20,000 for the final year of a three-year grant to create a support program for families of children who struggle with emotional disorders.
• Matrix Theater Company (Detroit, MI): $25,000 for the final year of a three-year grant to include people with special needs in community-based theatre productions.
• Yeshivas Darchei Torah/Beth Yehudah/Akiva (Oak Park and Southfield, MI): $15,000 for the final year of a three-year grant to develop and expand physical education programs in the Orthodox Jewish day schools.