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We appreciate your business! Women's Foundation has filled an he Jewish Women's Foundation important need within our Jewish com- of Metropolitan Detroit, a munity. The breadth of J\XTF's grants and grant-making and educational the aggressive growth of its trustee base foundation established to enhance the reflects how well respected the founda- lives of Jewish women and girls through tion has become in a very short time and philanthropy, recently approved an how needed its services are among increase in the size of its 2004 grant pool women." and announced its 2004 grant recipi- The 2004 allocation is the ents. single largest grant cycle award- JWF trustees voted unani- ed yet by the Jewish Women's mously to increase the 2004 Foundation, surpassing the grant dollars by 40 percent on 2001 grants of $50,000 more June 9. Trustees decided to than $60,000 in 2002 and more increase their fourth grant cycle than $50,000 in 2003. from its anticipated $50,000 to "Through financial growth $70,000. and the addition of new "We are fortunate to be grow- trustees, we hope to play an Liss ing and in the financial position increasingly more significant to support more projects than role for Jewish women and we anticipated to further our girls," said Liss. "Our contribu- mission of helping women in tion is even more meanin our community and in Israel," during this challenging econom- said Beverly Liss, foundation ic time in our community and chair. in Israel," she added. Trustees of the Jewish There are presently 118 JWF Women's Foundation complet- trustees. ed their 2004 grant cycle by The grant supporting Back to awarding more than $70,000 to Nachman Work Program for Orthodox 10 programs in the Detroit area Women at the David B. and Israel. Foundation trustees Hermelin ORT Resource awarded: Center will equip Orthodox Jewish • $8,000 to Back to Work Program women with marketable computer-relat- for Orthodox Women ed job skills for successful re-entry into • $8,000 to Hillel Jewish Women's the employment market. Leadership and Identity Initiative Sponsorship of Hillel Jewish Women's • $8,000 (the Tody Barnett Memorial Leadership and Identity Initiative organ- Grant) to We Are Women ized by Lester J. Morris Hillel Jewish • $7,900 to Girls' Services at Yeshivas Student Center-MSU Campus will Darchei Torah establish a sense of Jewish pride and • $7,200 to the Drachler Program empowerment among Jewish women on Alumni Institute • $7,000 to Project Education in Israel campus while responding to expressions of campus anti-Semitism. Initiatives will • $6,000 to Beyond the Mirror focus on Jewish feminism, social respon- • $6,000 (second-year grant) to sibility, community service, body image Opening Windows for Widows and intermarriage. • $6,000 to Tzenuit Funding for JARC's We Are Women • $6,000 to Women Helping Women. program, the Tody Barnett Memorial The 2004 grant cycle marks the fourth JWF grant recipient, will work with time the JWF has allocated dollars to developmentally disabled women to help programs and projects that benefit them understand and become comfort- Jewish women and girls. Since its 1999 able with their bodies and sexuality and inception, the foundation has awarded empower them to take an active role in more than $230,000 in the Detroit area their gender-specific health-care needs. and in Israel to projects that further its The program will help them acquire mission. assertiveness and personal protection Allan Nachman, president of the skills to avoid victimization. United Jewish Foundation of Support of Girls' Services at Yeshivas Metropolitan Detroit, said, "The Jewish , GRANT on page 64