JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT

1999-00 ALLOCATIONS REPORT: LOCAL AGENCY ALLOCATIONS

1998-99

JEWISH EDUCATION

Agency for Jewish Education
Alliance for Jewish Education
Day Schools
Akiva Hebrew Day School
Hillel Day School
Yeshiva Beth Yeh udah
Yeshivas Darchei Torah
Yeshiva Gedolah
Total Day Schools
Michigan/Israel Connection
Supplement. School Scholar, Fund
Teen Mission
TOTAL JEWISH EDUCATION

1999-00

51,222,600
158,000

$1,176,758

397,300
509,000
604,000
75,000
115,071

385,700
485,000
546,500

111,000

1,528,200
340,358
300,000
50,000
$3,395,316

1,700,371
393,500
300,000
50,000
$3,824,471

$65,000
479,332

$70,300
518,100

CULTURE & GROUP SERVICES

B'nai Writh Youth Organization
Fresh Air Society
Hillel Foundations
EMU Hillel
Hillel of Metro Detroit
MSU Hillel
UM Hillel
Total Hillels
Jewish Community Center
Jewish Community Council
Michigan Board of Rabbis
Michigan Jewish Conference
Neighborhood Project
TOTAL CULTURE & GROUP SERVICES

61,000
144,000
159,000
213,000

52,150
133,000
151,600
206,000

542,750
1,549,400
510,200

65,000
115,050
$3,326,732

577,000
1,611,600
519,100
12,000
83,400
121,600
$3,513,100

COMMUNITY SERVICES

Commission on Jewish Eldercare Services (COJES)
COJES Long-Term Care Reserve
Hebrew Free Loan Association
Jewish Family Service
Jewish Apartments and Services
Jewish Home and Aging Services
Jewish Vocational Service
Domestic Resettlement
DMC/Sinai -Grace Hospital

TOTAL COMMUNITY SERVICES

TOTAL LOCAL ALLOCATIONS

92,400
1,524;355
145,375
288,370
892,809
386,179
131,000

$148,469
100,000
88,272
1,692,924
H. 202,693
300,855
954,227
210,200
131,000

$3,683,879

$3,828,640

$10,405,927

$11,166,211

$223,391

Source: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit

the new UJC/JESNA report while
expressing skepticism about its impact.
Hanus, the founder of the National
Jewish Day School Scholarship
Committee, is a passionate advocate of
day schools, calling them the single-
most important remedy for assimila-
tion. He said he does not think we
can rely on federations, which are hav-
ing a hard enough time trying to
define themselves," to dramatically
improve the lot of day schools.
Although Hanus is "not waiting
for" federations - many of which
have suffered flat campaigns in recent
years - other members of the task
force said they hoped the new report
would have a significant impact.
"This is not a milquetoast report,"
said Jonathan Woocher, JESNA's exec-
utive vice president. "It wants leader-

ship from federations in partnership
with others to strengthen day schools,
and at the same time it fits into a larg-
er framework, recognizing that day
schools together with other areas" will
"power a Jewish renaissance."
Federation executives praised the
report, while pointing out that they
are already stepping up funding for
day schools.
Steven Nasatir, president of the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Chicago, which helped start the task
force, said he is "very pleased" with the
report and hopes it will inspire other
federations to focus on day schools.
His own federation's allocations for
day schools have increased only modest-
ly over the years - $2.4 million to 14
day schools, compared to $2 million five
years ago. But the Chicago Federation is

Jewish Family Services
will receive $1,692,924,
or an 11 percent
increase, for the addition
of two staff members.
"We appreciate the
level of commitment
that the Federation has
shown to the people
that we serve," said
Kathleen Wilson-Fink,
president of JFS. "By
making the allocation of
this size, the Federation
has demonstrated their
commitment to the
safety and dignity of the
most vulnerable Jewish
populations in our area,
mostly older adults and
families in crisis who
usually don't have any-
where else to turn.
Although Sinai
Hospital, the historically
Jewish medical facility,
was merged earlier this
year into Grace Hospital,
its owner, the Detroit
Medical Center (DMC),
will still get a $131,000
allocation to support
community services.
DMC is committed to
providing free care to

helping day schools set up
their own endowment
funds, providing loans
and loan guarantees and
has raised close to $10
million in the past few
years for day school capital campaigns.
Robert Aronson, executive vice
president of the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit, said he hoped
the report would lead other federa-
tions to be more like his when it
comes to day schools.
"The recommendations are things
we've already been in the process of
implementing," he said. Detroit allo-
cates $1.5 million to five Jewish day
schools, up from $969,000 in 1994-95.
Detroit also provides buildings at
reduced or no rent to three schools,
and provided $750,000 in start-up
funds to a new high school that has
not yet opened. Perhaps even more
significantly, Aronson said, the
Detroit Federation has raised $5 mil-
lion for a community-wide day school
scholarship fund, and intends to

newcomers, free medical supplies to the
Fresh Air Society at camp and other
collaborative efforts with Federation,
said Neistein, so the subsidy for those
services will continue "until we have
other reasons to change that."
The direct funding for the
Commission on Jewish Eldercare
Services (COJES) dropped to just
under $150,000, but Neistein said
that did not reflect any decrease in the
level of services to the elderly. The
money for the Federation Resource
Line, about $66,000 a year, was trans-
ferred from COJES to JFS.
In addition, last year's allocation
included a one-time appropriation
to buy equipment and computerize
Elderlink, a phone help-line that
links callers into a network of older
adult services.
The Federation board approved
making a $100,000 start on a
reserve fund that will allow COJES
to sustain its programs of adult day
care, transportation and in-home
support. COJES was started three
years ago with a $1.3 million grant
from the Jewish Fund, which was
created out of proceeds from the sale
of Sinai Hospital.
"In anticipation that the grants might
be reduced or terminated over time, we
are building funds that will sustain those
[COJES] programs," said Neistein. fl

match the revenues dollar for dollar.
John Fishel, executive vice presi-
dent of the Jewish Federation
Council of Greater Los Angeles, said
that Los Angeles recently added $1
million a year in allocations to its
Jewish day schools, mostly by scaling
back allocations to Israel.
Although they had not yet had an
opportunity to review the task force
report, some day school principals said
they hoped it would make a difference.
For Rabbi Yisroel Rosenfeld of the
Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh, a
Lubavitch institution recently named a
"Blue Ribbon" school by the U.S.
Dept. of Education, more community
funding is desperately needed to tackle
a deficit running close to $1 million.
We have a policy that we don't turn
down any Jewish child, regardless of
ability to pay," Rosenfeld said, "but that
puts us in a difficult situation financially.
"If we had more money we could
enhance our programs, get rid of the
deficit and the teachers could be paid
on time," he said. E

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