Agencies Receive
Grant Support
At a recent meeting of the Jewish
Fund board of directors, action was
taken to provide a total of up to
$500,000 to four community agen-
cies that have been adversely affect-
ed by funding reductions from the
government, United Way and Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
Typically, the Fund approves
grants in January and August.
Through an accelerated approval
process, grants from the Jewish
Fund will be directed as follows:
• $200,000 to JVS for career
counseling and job placement;
• $150,000 to Jewish Family
Service (JFS) to provide direct
financial assistance to people facing
medical and other emergency needs;
• $90,000 to DMC-Sinai-Grace
Hospital for medical and pharmacy
services for indigent Jewish patients
referred by JFS;
• $60,000 to Jewish Home and
Aging Services for guardianship
services for vulnerable Jewish elderly
and disabled younger adults in need
of legal representation.
"Our priority is to protect the
most vulnerable members of our
community," said David Page, chair
of the Jewish Fund.
"With the stock market's plunge,
the national trend of foundations
managing endowments is to reduce
grants. We are fortunate in this
community that our legacy of giving
and planning has provided us the
means to still grant new requests."
The Federation is deeply appre-
ciative of the Jewish Fund's extraor-
dinary efforts to help our communi-
ty," said Lawrence Jackier,
Federation president.
He thanked the Fund's chair,
David Page, the grants committee
chair, Robert Naftaly (who also
serves as the Fund's vice chair), and
Michael Maddin, who chaired the
ad-hoc committee created to review
the grants and develop recommen-
dations for the board.
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