THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Fridoy, July 2, 1976 9
Allocations to Overseas Agencies to Exceed $10 Million
From AJCampaign; Federation Lists Fund Distributions
The Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration board of governors
voted the allocation of $9,-
836,576 to subsidize human-
itarian agencies at its meet-
ing last week.
The money will be paid to
local, national and overseas
agencies from the proceeds
of one "regular" 1976 Allied
J rh Campaign.
,,rmarked for use over-
seas is the United Jewish
Appeal allocation of $4,-
764,800. The monies pledged
to the 1976 Allied Jewish
Campaign-Israel Emer-
g Fund over the $11
"regular Campaign"
ceiling are sent to the Israel
Emergency Fund through
the United Jewish Appeal.
It is estimated that funds in
the 1976 Israel Emergency
Fund will bring the overseas
allocation to $10,400.000.
The Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, which provides
Jewish news wire service
throughout the world, will
receive $26,000. The Amer-
ica-Israel Cultural Foun-
dation was granted
$23,000, and the HIAS
(Hebrew Immigrant Aid
Society), providing reset-
tlement and absorption
services to emigrants, was
voted $73,000.
The gross total allocated
for use in the Detroit area is
$4,532,576. It will be divided
among Federation member
agencies and three Detroit
day schools as well as the
three Bnai Brith Hillel
foundations serving college
students in Michigan.
Culture, Education
hudah, and $30,000 to Akiva
Day School, .
The UniVersity of Michi-
gan Bnai Brith Hillel Foun-
dation was voted $26,500, in-
cluding $6,500 earmarked
foi• the Bet Midrash pro-
gram in Ann Arbor; the Hil-
lel Foundation at Wayne
State University will receive
$11,000, and the Michigan
State University Hillel
group will be given $6,500.
Community Services
Agencies receiving ap-
proval for funding from the
Federation's Community
Services Division also were
granted an average increase
of 9 percent over last year's
allocations. The total given
to the 10 groups under this
Division's supervision is
$1,502,393, which is an in-
crease of $116,253 over last
year's grants.
The Jewish Family Serv-
ice received the largest
grant within the group,
$419,900. Its sister agency,
Resettlement Service, which
provides Detroit immigra-
tion services to newcomers,
was voted $343,139. The
Jewish Home for Aged will
receive $229,600; the Jewish
Vocational Service and
Community Workshop,
$188,300; Fresh Air Society,
$127,600; and the Federa-
tion committee responsible
for communal- camping far
cilities, Tamarack Hills
Authority, $27,600.
Federation Apartments
was granted $12,500 to un-
derwrite the kosher meals
served in its communal din-
ing room, and the Hebrew
Free Loan Association and
the Jewish House of Shelter
were granted small operat-
ing.budgets.
The other agency within
the Community Services
Division is Sinai Hospital.
The Federation allocation to
that agency of $150,000 was
recommended by Federa-
tion's executive committee.
Agencies funded by rec-
ommendations of Federa-
tion's Culture and Educa-.
tion budget and planning
division will receive $1,-
928,300 this year, an in-
crease of $168,000 or an av-
erage 9 percent over last
year's total.
Leading the grants is
$800,000 to be used as a defi-
National Agencies
cit allocation toward the $3
million operating budget of
Twenty-two national
the Jewish Community Cen- agencies received allocations
ter. The money, as is the from Federation. The funds
case with other revenue- are channeled to the na-
producing beneficiaries, is a tional headquarters of each
subsidy for operating ex- group and then budgeted for
penses, according to Federa- local chapters and opera-
tion president Martin E. tions.
Citrin.
The recipients of the larg-
An allocation of $727,000 est grants were the Ameri-
was given to the United can Jewish Committe and
HO-trey,' Schools and Mid- the Anti-Defamation
rE
, $219,600 to the Jew- ,League of Bnai Brith, which
isl'
Council, will each receive $69,000.
$5
to Hillel Day School, The National Jewish Wel-
$49,u00 to Yeshiva Beth Ye- fare Board was granted
$52,500; the American Jew-
C - leer Center
ish Congress, $47,000; the
Joint
Cultural Appeal for
ev,-n in Israel
nine agencies, $39,200; the
JERUSALEM (JTA) — American Association of
The Siegfried and Irma Ull- Jewish Education, $36,500,
mann Building for cancer and the National Jewish
and related diseases was Community Relations Advi-
formally opened at the Had- sory Council, $28,900.
assah Medical Center last
The National Bnai Brith
week.
Hillel Foundation will re-
The $15 million facility, ceive $27,000 from the De-
financed by special grants troit Allied Jewish Cam-
from the Siegfried and Irma paign; the Jewish Labor
Ullmann Foundation, the Committee, $22,000; the
U.S. Agency for Interna- Jewish War Veterans,
tional Development and $10,000; the National Con-
substantial sums raised in ference on Soviet Jewry,
Israel, will be open to pa- $6,500; the National Asso-
tients from all over the Mid- ciation of Jewish 'Vocational
dle East. Europe and Israel. Services - (formerly the Jew-
ish Occupational Council),
$4,750; Dropsie University,
$2,500 and the Synagogue
Council of America, $1,650.
These grants to national
organizations total $416,-
500, a six percent increa-
se over last year's alloca-
tions of $392,900.
Also approved at last
Thursday's meeting was
$250,683 for the Jewish
Welfare Federation, a
professional training fund
of $1,200 for the agency,
and a depreciation and
replacement fund of
$100,000 for the central
services operation of Fed-
eration.
Board action earlier in the
year had set aside $750,000
for the capital needs of the
community.
Heading the Culture Edu-
cation Division is Tillie
Brandwine, who is assisted
by associate chairmen Stan-
ley D. Frankel and Norman
D. Katz.
The Community Services
Division is chaired by Dr.
Conrad L. Giles, whose as-
sociate chairmen are Byron
B. Gerson and Mark L.
Kahn.
The National Agencies
Division is headed by Avern
L. Cohn and associate chair-
man Joel D. Tauber.
David Handleman is
chairman of the Capital
Needs Committee and is
assisted by Jack 0. Lefton.
Mandell L. Berman,
Federation's executive
committee chairman,
made its recommendation
for board approval of the
Federation allocations and
that for the United Jewish
Appeal from the "regular
Campaign."
Martin E. Citrin com-
mending the work of the
division's.
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