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he Jewish Fund has approved
$779,000 in grant payments
for 12 primarily health-relat-
ed programs, bringing total projects
funded since 1997 to just over $25
million. The majority of the newly
funded programs will benefit the
local Jewish community.
After 1.5 years of study and plan-
ning, a three-year, $310,000 grant to
Jewish Family Service will help devel-
op a network of free and reduced-
price medical care for uninsured and
underinsured Jews in our community.
"The Jewish Fund was created to
continue Sinai Hospital's tradition of
excellence and compassion," said
Jewish Fund Board Chair David
Page. "We therefore have long been
concerned that our community's
neediest populations receive quality
health care. This program promises to
be an efficient, effective way to
improve access to health care for
those who cannot afford adequate
insurance."
According to a study conducted by
Jewish Family Service (JFS) last year
with a Jewish Fund grant, an estimat-
ed 4,800 members of our Detroit
Jewish community cannot afford ade-
quate health care. The study found
that many people in our community's
lower income groups must "sacrifice
necessities" in order to pay for health
care. Still others are forced to go
without needed care and medications.
The study showed that the problem
clearly expands beyond the senior
population (which has Medicare) and
is really a problem of the "working
poor."
The new program developed by
JFS to address these needs, called
Chessed, has pledges from more than
150 area physicians and dentists to
provide pro bono services to the
Jewish community and is attempting
to secure commitments from local
hospitals and diagnostic groups. The
network should be ready to accept
patients by early 2005.
Jewish Fund grants also support
health care programs beyond the
Jewish community and help strength-
en relations between the Jewish com-
munity and other communities.
The Anti-Defamation League of
Metropolitan Detroit received a two-
year, $108,000 grant to provide
$150,000 for a second year to pro-
vide direct financial assistance to
Jewish families and individuals in cri-
sis. (This is part of a second year,
$330,000 grant in response to con-
tinued urgent needs in the Jewish
community.)
• Jewish Family Service —
$82,000 for a seventh year to provide
escorted, door-to-door transportation
to frail Jewish seniors.
• Jewish Family Service/COJES —
$100,000 over three years (commenc-
ing in September 2005) to support
and expand the federally funded
Supportive Communities program, a
pilot program that helps older adults
residing in "naturally occurring retire-
ment communities" to age in place.
• Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy
Network (Southfield) — $50,000 for
a second year to expand its outreach
and education programs.
• JVS (Southfield) — $180,000 for
a second year to provide career devel-
opment and employment services for
unemployed individuals, primarily
Jewish. (This is part of a second year,
$330,000 grant in response to con-
tinued urgent needs in the Jewish
community.)
• Kadima (Southfield) — $80,000
over two years to provide on-site art
therapy and other therapeutic pro-
grams at Kadima for adults with
mental illness.
• St. Joseph Mercy Hospital/JFS
(Pontiac) — $35,000 for a second
Award Recipients
year to continue a culturally sensitive
home-visiting and mental health pro-
Following is a complete listing of the
new dollars allocated and purposes of gram to help improve childhood/
family outcomes in large Jewish fami-
the latest awards:
lies that are overburdened with other
• Alliance for Jewish Education
needs.
(Bloomfield Hills) — $30,000 for a
• Starfish Family Services (Inkster)
third year to provide short-term, one-
— $35,000 for one year to establish a
on-one assistance to Jewish preschool
group prenatal education, counseling
children with special needs.
and medical support program for
• Hillel Day School of
low-income
women in western
Metropolitan Detroit (Farmington
Wayne County.
Hills) — $60,000 over three years to
• United Way Community Services
contract with Jewish Family Service
of Metropolitan Detroit (Detroit) —
for social work services for middle
$12,000 for a third year for the
school-aged children.
Nonprofit Facilities Center to assist
• Jewish Family Service
nonprofits whose mission is to
(Southfield) — $310,000 over three
improve the health of the residents of
years to develop a network of free
metropolitan Detroit. The Jewish
and reduced-price medical care for
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
uninsured and underinsured Jews liv-
also is supporting the program in
ing in metropolitan Detroit.
partnership with the Jewish Fund. ❑
• Jewish Family Service —
multi-cultural education to school-
aged children in the city of Detroit
through public and charter schools,
community programs and the
Museum of African American
History. Research has shown that
learned prejudice and discrimination
can be reduced with anti-bias curric-
ula and programs, and ADI2s World
of Difference program is a market
leader in providing diversity training.
Starfish Family Services was award-
ed a $35,000 grant to establish a pre-
natal program for low-income
women in western Wayne County,
while the United Way Community
Services received a $12,000 grant to
provide loans and assistance to help
meet nonprofits' building needs.
The Jewish Fund was created in
1997 from proceeds of the sale of
Sinai Hospital to the Detroit Medical
Center and awards grants to expand
health and human services to resi-
dents of metropolitan Detroit. Of the
$25 million granted to date, $11 mil-
lion has been paid to programs help-
ing older adults, $3 million to pro-
grams serving children and adults
with special needs, $6 million to high
priority programs at the DMC, espe-
cially Sinai-Grace and Huron Valley-
Sinai Hospitals, and $5 million for
innovative programs designed to
assist other vulnerable Jews and non-
Jews.