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Education
Gets
A Boost

Federation focuses
on education in its
allocations from this year's
Allied Jewish Campaign.

ALAN HITSKY
Associate Editor

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ewish education was a winner
this year in Federation's
Campaign sweepstakes.
At its meeting last week,
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit's board of directors approved
1998 allocations, giving local educa-
tional agencies 13 percent more than
they received last year. Other local
Federation constituent agencies got an
average of six percent more.
All told, the Allied Jewish
Campaign brought in $28 million in
pledges and an additonal $1 million in
gifts and the Challenge Fund. The
total was about $1.1 million more
than last year's fund-raising drive.
Minus administrative costs of $2.8
million and $840,000 set aside to
cover unpaid pledges, allocations
tor2lled $25,375,440.
Dr. Richard Krugel, chair of
Federation's planning and allocations
steering committee, said it was "a
good year."
Local agencies received $10.4 mil-
lion - up from $9.8 million in 1997
and $8.2 million in 1996 - and
received an additional $1 million from
the Jewish Fund, created from the sale
of Sinai Hospital.
National agencies received approxi-
mately $600,000, up about $8,000
from last year, and Israel and overseas
needs received $13.5 million, or about
$163,000 more than last year.
"The concern," Krugel said, "is that
we are not going to have campaigns

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Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
1998-99 Allocations Re ort

UJA/ISRAEL

United Jewish Appeal
Partnership 2000
Special Projects

TOTAL ALLOCATIONS

Fiscal Year
• 1997-98

Fiscal Year
1998-99

$13,083,846
$250,000
$83,000

$13,206,000
$300,000
$74,000

$13,416,80

$13,580,000

$1,132,758
$340,700
$456,000
$484,000
$105,000
$320,358
$122,500
$50,000

$1,176,758
$385,700
$485,000
$546,500
$111,000
$340,358
$300,000
$50,000

JEWISH EDUCATION

Agency for Jewish Education
Akiva Hebrew Day School
Hillel Day School
Yeshiva Beth Yehuclah
Yeshiva Gedolah
Michigan/Israel Connection
Supplement. School Scholar. Fund
Teen Mission

Total Jewish Education

$3,011,316

$3,395,316
like this one every
year."
CULTURE & GROUP SERVICES
Robert Naftaly,
B`nai Birith Youth Organization
$50, 000
president of
$65,000
Fresh Air Society
$452 , 20€1
Federation, said,
$479,332
Hillel Foundations
"We're continuing
EMU Hillel
the course of action
$52,150
Hillel
of Metro Detroit
set three years ago
$133,000
MSU Hillel
to meet our com-
$151,600
UM Hillel
munity priorities."
$206,000
Jewish Community Center
This year, emphasis
$1,549,400
Jewish Community Council
was given in the
$510,200
AeOl*
Michigan Jewish Conference
local allocations to -
43,650
$65,000
Neighborhood Project
education, health
$113,500
$115,050
and human ser-
Total Culture & Group Services
$3,154,566
$3,326,732
vices, and advocacy.
Larger-than-
COMMUNITY SERVICES
average increases
Commission on Jewish Eldercare Services (COJES)
$134 750
were given to the
Hebrew Free Loan Association
82 400
local Jewish day
Jewish Family Service
schools and to the
Jewish Federation Apartments
95
scholarship pro-
Jewish Home & Aging Services
gram for congrega-
Jewish Vocational Service
tional schools. The
Domestic Resettlement
campus Hillel
DMC/Sinai
Hospital
foundations
Total Community Services
received larger
increases, high-
lighted by the hir-
TOTAL LOCAL ALLOCATIONS
ing of an outreach
worker at Michigan
State University and the creation of an
Services (COJES).
classes and, indirectly, national legisla-
off-campus office at Eastern Michigan
The Federation board approved
tion on food stamps and
University.
increases in advocacy programs,
Supplemental Security Income for
Howard Neistein, Federation's
Neistein said, because they have paid
immigrants.
director of planning and agency rela-
major dividends in obtaining govern-
Along those lines, Neistein said,
tions, said emphasis also was given to
mental funding for programs that help
increases for the Jewish Community
programs for the elderly, including
the Jewish community.
Council of Metropolitan Detroit will
weekend food programs, translators
He credited the Michigan Jewish
fund trips to Israel for legislators and
for Russian immigrants and the
Conference for influencing state legis-
other dignitaries.
Commission on Jewish Eldercare
lation that helped fund citizenship

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