DINNER & A MOM TO Ti* MAX
(NOT YOUR TYPICAL DATE NIGHT)

Presented by the YAD Couples Committee
for ages 21-35.
Bring a date, friend, spouse
or movie-watching partner!

Community Gifts

Latest Jewish Fund grants top $2.3 million.

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8 p.m. — Dinner and Cash Bar
at A TASTE Of HISTORY in Greenfield Village

(Three stations of food: pastas, Southwest and Mideastern)

9:45 p.m. — 3-D IMAX® Movie
at the kir MEATH in Henry Ford Museum

Dearborn, Michigan

Stacey & Robert Alexander
Lisa & Eric Bronstein
Robyn & Jeffrey Dwoskin
Dana Miller & David Jacob
Suzanne & Cory Jacoby
Beth & Jeremy Kahn
Carrie & Eric Kovan
Jennifer & Todd Kroll
Ellen & Noah Krugel

Erin & Howard Krugel
Heidi & Joel Krugel
Leigh & Jeffrey Moss
Andrea Rautbort & Drew Saperstein
Amy & Jeff Schlussel
Jennifer & Paul Silverman
Robin & Lee Trepeck
Julie & Daniel Yaker
Julie & Steve Zalla

fifteen programs will be
expanding health and human
services to metro Detroit resi-
dents with more than $2.3
million in grants awarded Jan. 29 by
the Jewish Fund.
This marks the fifth round of grants
from the Jewish Fund to augment
health and human services within the
Detroit area since the fund was created
in 1997 from proceeds of the sale of
Detroit-based Sinai Hospital to the
Detroit Medical Center.
Grants were allocated for the follow-
ing programs:
• Jewish Apartments and Services:
$42,000 for the Assisted Meals
Program, in which adults with disabili-
ties are trained and employed as wait
staff for frail older adults. This program
received the Jewish Fund's first Robert
Sosnick Award of Excellence.
• City Year Detroit: $75,000 for this
national youth service organization,
which recruits, trains and places young

people of diverse backgrounds in social
service agencies in the Detroit area and
other major cities.
• Jewish Vocational Service and
Jewish Home and Aging Services:
$500,000 for adult day care for
older adults suffering from
Alzheimer's disease and other forms
of dementia. This program also pro-
vides support services for family
caregivers.
• Jewish Family Service, Jewish
Apartments & Services and Kadima:
$674,000 for in-home-support services
that help older adults remain in inde-
pendent living situations.
• Children's Hospital of Michigan
and Karmanos Cancer Institute:
$100,000 for the Friends Like Me
program that provides comprehen-
sive family support services for chil-
dren and families coping with can-
cer. Services include support groups,
medical and social work follow-up, a
database of pediatric cancer sur-
vivors and family
education.
• Jewish
Community Center:
$75,000 for Kids All
Together (KAT): The
program integrates
Nancy Grand has been named to the Jewish Fund
children with special
Board of Directors.
needs into summer
The Jewish Fund provides grants to programs that
camp programs and
improve health and human services. A total of 167
year-round activities at
Trograms have received more than $10 million in the
the JCC.
first three years of operation.
• Jewish Vocational
Grand is co-chair of the Jewish Federation of
Service: $30,000 for a
Metropolitan Detroit's Annual Campaign and 2. mem-
program that helps
ber of the Federation's Board of Governors and its
train and find mean-
executive committee. She previously chaired the Israel
ingful employment for
and Overseas Committee of
new Americans from
Federation's Michigan/Israel
the former Soviet
Connection. Grand also is a
Union.
member of the United Jewish
• Kadima: $78,000
Foundation Board of Directors.
for service coordina-
"Nancy brings to the Jewish
tion and support to
Fund a passionate connection
help 75 adults with
to our Jewish community —
mental illness remain
around the world as well as
in their own apart-
around the Detroit area," said
ments.
Mark Schlussel, Jewish Fund
• Reggie McKenzie
chair. "It will be a pleasure to
Foundation
Inc.:
Nano, Grand •
work with her."
$30,000 for Project
Her other affiliations
Impact 2003, which
include the American Jewish Joint Distribution
services at-risk seventh
Committee and the United Way Community Services
through 12th
Speakers Bureau. She is a member of Temple Beth El.
graders in Highland
Park. They receive

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For information, please contact Rebecca Rosen at
(248) 203-1492, or rosen@jfmd.org

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