DETROIT
The Campaign Helps,
But Area Agencies Worry
ALAN HITSKY
Associate Editor
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ayoffs are bad enough.
But waiting three to
eight weeks to get help
from Jewish Vocational Ser-
vice only exacerbates a bad
situation, says Barbara
Nurenberg, JVS executive
director.
Ms. Nurenberg is happy
that the Jewish Federation
was able to hold the line
with JVS in allocations from
the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign. Other agencies were
asked to take a 5 percent cut.
JVS also received $35,000
from the United Jewish
Foundation.
But JVS, like the Jewish
Family Service which
received similar treatment
from Federation and UJF, is
girding for a major battle
between its 1993 budget and
the growing caseload
spawned by the recession.
The agencies are seeing
hundreds of middle- and
upper-income Jews. During
the last 12 months, Ms.
Nurenberg estimates JVS
served 600 Jewish engi-
neers, accountants, com-
puter system analysts,
bankers, managers and
small business owners.
Another 1,000 Jews who
have graduated from college
within the last five years
have sought help from JVS
this year.
"We are serving people
with resumes you could die
from," Ms. Nurenberg says.
"These are people who are
never out of work or would
normally have a job in no
time. These are people who
are also going to Family
Service because they are
afraid that they can't make
their mortgage payments
and may lose their homes."
Alan Goodman, head of
Jewish Family Service
(JFS), tells the same story.
His agency is grateful for the
Jewish communal alloca-
tions, but fears cuts later
this year from its other fun-
ding sources.
JFS is already planning to
cut two or three positions via
attrition, and is expecting
cuts in "highly subsidized
services." Mr. Goodman will
not identify those programs
until cuts have to be made.
United Way, he says, is the
second largest contributor to
JFS and Mr. Goodman ex-
pects a 5 percent reduction
from that agency. A five-
year Skillman grant to JFS
ends this year. The grant
has given the agency as
much as $250,000 each year
($180,000 this year).
With these and other )‘
reductions, JFS expects
$939,000 less in funding for=z---
1992. This will have a direct
impact on people seeking
help.
"During the last year,
with the heavy demand for <
financial assistance, we had
to be very careful," Mr
Goodman says. "Someone
who would have been eli-
gible for help two years ago
may have been turned down
this year.
"With our subsidized ser-
vices, the client may have to
contribute more. We are
constantly playing the game
of 'Who doesn't have other
choices?' We have to help
those people first."
JFS is trying to build a $3
million endowment to fund„
its family violence preven
tion program. But while that
is happening, the agency
must continue to adjust pro-
"The allocation is
good, but the
needs are
immense."
Alan Goodman
grams and staffing patterns.
"The allocation from Fed-
eration is good news," Mr,
Goodman says, "but the
needs we are dealing with
our immense. It still won't j
be sufficient to deal with the (-
social concerns of this com-
munity."
Many agencies were forced
to take the 5 percent reduc?
tion. Federation softened the
blow by writing off next
year's agency payments to ,f
the over-funded community
pension plan. Even so, the
Jewish Community Council
will be forced to cut two half- 0
time secretaries and a long-
standing grant program to
inner-city agencies to cut
$26,000 from its budget.
Executive Director David
Gad-Harf said Council will
seek volunteers to make up ci=,j
for the 25 percent cutback in
secretarial help. It will also <
explore alternative sources
of funding and fund raising,
with Federation's blessing.
Federation Executive Vice
President Robert Aronson c -
admits "the last couple of 1
years have been tough" for
the Allied Jewish Campaign
and the local agencies. In
1990, the Federation bud-
geted $27.5 million and the