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individuals with Alzheimer's disease.
• The City Year Project, $75,000,
/--2 the first grant of a three-year commit-
ment toward sponsorship of a "City
Year Youth Team" of young people
who will develop and implement
strategies for addressing social service
and health needs in Detroit.
• Jewish Vocational Service,
$50,000 to enhance the JVS Senior
Service Corps program, providing
meaningful volunteer job opportuni-
ties for 75 Jewish older adults. Also
$27,372, the first installment of a
three-year grant providing employ-
ment assistance to refugees who have
been in the U.S. for more than five
years. Also, $60,000 to continue help-
ing 300 homeless individuals in
Detroit to overcome medical barriers
to employment.
• Jewish Federation Apartments,
$60,000 for its Congregate Housing
Services Program that serves frail older
adult residents. The grant will help the
JFA continue weekend meals, trans-
portation, social work and housekeep-
ing services, allowing residents to age
in place and remain in their apart-
ments as long as possible.
• JARC (Jewish Association for
/—
Residential Care), $65,000 to provide
respite to 30 families caring for a fam-
ily member with a disability
• Kadima, two grants of $25,000
each for services to adults with chronic
mental illness. One grant covers the
cost of prescription medicine and
other medical needs for low-income
> adults. The other will help maintain
13 elderly individuals living in their
own apartments who are at risk for
premature nursing home placement,
eviction or institutionalization.
• MJAC (Michigan Jewish Aids
Coalition), $10,000 to expand its
HIV/AIDS education program among
fifth and sixth graders.
• Area Agency on Aging, $85,000
to staff an outreach program targeted
to Medicaid-eligible Jewish older
adults and individuals with disabilities.
Care management teams will assess
and enable these individuals to receive
alternative community-based services
that maintain them in their own
home, making nursing home place-
ment unnecessary.
• Epilepsy Center of Michigan,
$35,000 for an individual and family
support program, with the addition of
advocacy training workshops.
The Jewish Fund grants include
$424,648 for five programs at DMC's
Sinai and Grace Hospital facilities.
The five range from a computer

equipment upgrade and a diabetes
foot disease clinic at Sinai, to automa-
tion of Sinai-Grace medical libraries
and the funding of two community
health programs conducted by the
DMC/Wayne State University
Community Health Institute.
A sixth grant, $125,000 for laser
equipment in Sinai's Department of
Ophthalmology, was made possible
through the Nevins Restricted Fund.

Harriet K Cooper
Heads Jewish Fund

Harriet K. Cooper combines her
health care experience and commit-
ment to the Jewish community as
grants administrator of The Jewish
Fund.
The fund was created with pro-
ceeds of the sale of Sinai Hospital to
the Detroit Medical Center in 1997.
It has awarded more than $6 million
in grants to support 102 health and
social welfare programs in the
Detroit area. It
is based at the
Jewish
Federation of
Metropolitan
Detroit head-
quarters in
Bloomfield
Township.
Cooper previ-
ously was vice
president of
Harriet K Cooper
human resources
for the
Michigan office of Horizon Health
Care/Rehab Works.
Her background includes: admin-
istrator of the physical medicine and
rehabilitation department at the
University of Michigan Medical
Center; vice president of operations
at Healthsouth Rehabilitation Inc.;
director of corporate planning and
marketing at Care Centers of
Michigan; director of programs and
services at Oakland Family Service;
founder and executive director for
the Council for the Prevention of
Child Abuse and Neglect in Lansing.
In the late 1980s, Cooper worked
for the Jewish Federation as founder
and first director of the
Neighborhood Project, which pro-
vides no-interest incentive loans to
Jewish home buyers in Southfield
and Oak Park and interest-free home
improvement loans to home owners
in those neighborhoods.

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Yad Ezra provides kosher food packages to 1,000 families
every month. The families helped by Yad Ezra include:
single parents
disabled
working poor
the elderly
those in emergency situations.
new Americans
With your help, all families in our community can enjoy a
nutritious and satisfying meal,

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$ 18.00
A weekday meal for 3 small families
$ 36.00
A Holiday meal for 4 small families
$ 50.00
small
families
5
A Shabbat meal for
$ 72.00
Holiday
meal
for
4
large
families
A
$ 100.00
A year of Holiday meals for 1 family
$ 200.00
families
2
A year of Holiday meals for
$ 500.00
A year of Shabbat meals for 1 small family
Enclosed is my check in the amount of
as a tax deductible contribution to Yad Ezra to help feed the
Jewish hungry Your contribution is eligible for a 50% Michigan Tax Credit
(subject to certain limitations).
Name
Address
City
Phone
Zip
State
Make checks payable to Yad Ezra or
charge your contribution to your VISA/Mastercard or Discover.
(Minimum suggested donation - $18.00)
Exp.Date
Card No.
Signature
Name
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Tributes and Memorials available.

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2/12
1999

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