Metro
Spreading The Wealth
Grants aid Detroit students plus Jewish community.
T
he Jewish Fund approved $2,468,898 in
grant payments for 19 primarily health-
related programs.
Among the grants is $300,000 over three years to
the Jewish Community Council in partnership with
Kids Kicking Cancer for the new Heroes' Circle pro-
gram. Based upon Kids Kicking Cancer's success
with using martial arts to empower children with
cancer to conquer their pain, the Heroes' Circle will
use similar techniques to empower Detroit Public
School students facing unique challenges created by
poverty and other adverse situations. The program
will be implemented as part of the Jewish
Community Council's Detroit Jewish Initiative.
'A part of The Jewish Fund's mission is to foster rela-
tionships between the Jewish community and the
broader community," said Jewish Fund Board Chair
David Page. "Past efforts of the Detroit Jewish Initiative
have been successful at building those relations, and the
new partnership between the Council and Kids Kicking
Cancer provides a promising venue to further strength-
en relations while helping vulnerable youth."
Another Jewish Fund grant made at the Feb. 4
board meeting-will provide $100,000 in matching
funds to the Detroit Institute for Children for any
new or increased gift of $1,000 or more. "The
Detroit Institute for Children provides high-quality,
health-related services to children with special needs
and their families, primarily low-income families in
Detroit," said Jewish Fund Director Jodee Fishman
Raines. "The matching funds will help the DIC
build an engaged leadership donor base and position
them for future growth."
More than $800,000 of the grants will benefit the
Detroit Medical Center, including grants to Sinai-
Grace Hospital to purchase state-of-the art equipment
for its critical care, in_tensive care and emergency
departments and to Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital to
purchase cardiac equipment.
Jewish Fund grants also will enable Jewish Family
Service to develop a bereavement program in partner-
ship with Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network that
In House
Federation forms management
team to replace Davidoff
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ne week after executive director and chief
operating officer Mark Davidoff left to pur-
sue a new career opportunity, the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit announced that
several staff members will incorporate his job duties.
Dorothy Benyas, Andrew Echt and Howard
Neistein will run the organization's daily operations
under the supervision of Robert Aronson,
Federation CEO.
will provide individual grief counseling with a Jewish
perspective; will help the Girl Scouts of Metro Detroit
to develop nutrition and fitness education and activi-
ties for low-income girls in the city of Detroit to
address the growing problem of obesity among youth;
and will support the continuation of 9 other programs
that have multi-year grants from the Fund.
The Jewish Fund was created in 1996 from pro-
ceeds of the sale of Sinai Hospital to the Detroit
Medical Center and has since awarded $27.5 million
in grants to expand health and human services to
residents of metropolitan Detroit.
Following is a complete listing of the dollars allo-
cated and purposes of the latest awards:
• Anti Defamation League of B'nai B'rith,
Bloomfield Hills: $50,000 in continued support to
provide the World of Difference program in the
Detroit Public Schools.
• Arthritis Foundation of Michigan, Southfield:
$50,000 in continued support to develop a compre-
hensive arthritis education and management program
in the Detroit Jewish community.
• Children's Dental Health Foundation,
Farmington Hills: $30,000 in continued support to
provide dental services to uninsured children and
families in Detroit.
• City Connect Detroit, Detroit: $20,000 in con-
tinued support to increase federal and national grant
support for the city of Detroit and the Metro Detroit
nonprofit community.
• City Year, Detroit: $75,000 in continued sup-
port to sponsor the Jewish Community City Year
team in partnership with the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit, United Jewish Foundation
and Jewish Community Council.
• Detroit Institute for Children, Detroit: $100,000
challenge grant to match new and increased gifts of
$1,000 or more to subsidize services for low-income
children with special needs.
• DMC/Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital, Commerce:
$45,684 from the Heritage Ball Fund to purchase car-
diac biphasic defibrillators and a transport monitor.
"It's the right time and the
right team for the job
ahead," Aronson said. "All of
these changes draw upon
our collective experience and
individual expertise."
As chief financial officer,
Echt
Benyas
Benyas will oversee all finance
and accounting services, human resources, informa-
tion technology and property management functions.
Echt, campaign and community development
director, will become the chief financial resource and
development officer overseeing Federation's Annual
Campaign, endowment, marketing and all fund-
raising initiatives.
Neistein, chief planning officer, will become chief
administrative officer to oversee planning and agency
• DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital, Detroit: $627,625
from the Gershenson Fund to purchase and upgrade
beds and monitors for the Critical Care Center.
• DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital, Detroit: $54,314
from the Gershenson Fund to purchase ventilators
for the respiratory care department.
• DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital, Detroit $27,379 to
buy Dinamap Monitors for the emergency department.
• Friendship Circle, West Bloomfield: $30,000 in
continued support to develop an educational curricu-
lum for Ferber Kaufman LifeTown, a new facility that
will serve as a therapy center, social meeting place and
activity center for children with special needs.
• Girl Scouts of Metro Detroit, Detroit: $15,000
to develop nutrition and fitness education and activ-
ities for low-income girls in the city of Detroit.
• Jewish Apartments & Services, Jewish Family
Service, Kadima, Oak Park, Southfield: $674,000 in
continued support to provide in-home support services
to 700 frail older adults so that they may continue to
live as independently as possible in their own homes.
• Jewish Apartments & Services, Oak Park:
$20,000 in continued support for a mental health
program in collaboration with the Wayne State
University Institute of Gerontology and Jewish
Family Service.
• Jewish Community Center, West Bloomfield:
$100,000 in continued support for a challenge grant
for the Kids All Together program to include children
with disabilities into existing recreational and social
programs at the JCC.
• Jewish Community Council/Kids Kicking
Cancer, Bloomfield Hills and Detroit: $300,000
over 3 years to develop a new program that uses the
martial arts to empower Detroit Public School stu-
dents to overcome adversity.
• Jewish Family Service, Southfield: $35,000 to
develop a special unit providing bereavement counsel-
ing from a Jewish perspective in partnership with
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network.
• Jewish Family Service, Southfield: $60,000 to sup-
plement an earlier, continued grant of $150,000 to pro-
vide direct financial assistance to Jewish individuals and
families facing financial crisis.
• Jewish Home and Aging Services/JVS, West
Bloomfield, Southfield: $354,896 in continued sup-
port for the Dorothy and Peter Brown Adult Day
Care Program. ❑
Cutler
Blumberg
Neistein
relations, Federation's Alliance for Jewish Education,
Federation and Foundation board governance activi-
ties as well as Federation's daily operations.
Two additional promotions also have been
announced. Linda Blumberg, formerly director of
eldercare services, now will hold the position of
planning director. Associate Campaign Director Lisa
Cutler will move up to Campaign director.
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