F ree
Jewish Community," to support a pro-
fessional and lay event with Rabbi
Abraham Twerski, author of Shame
Borne in Silence, on the issues of coer-
cive and violent domestic abuse.
• $5,000 to Jewish Family Service
for "Hannah's Sisters" to support a
new program and conference address-
ing infertility and peri-natal loss as
they impact women, their partners
and support systems.
• $3,000 to the National Council of
Jewish Women, Greater Detroit
Section's "Teen Dating Abuse Project"
for the training of volunteer facilita-
tors to take the NCJW Teen Dating
Abuse video and curriculum to the
freshman classes of synagogue and day
schools.
• $13,750 to PACT-Netanya in
Israel for its "Well Baby Clinics for
Ethiopian-Israeli Mothers and
Children," the first year of a three-year
grant to train and pay Ethiopian-
Israeli home health liaisons to help
new mothers raise healthy children
who are ready to enter school on par
with their Israeli counterparts.
Enhancing Lives
Since its inception, the JWF has
awarded more than $300,000 in
grants.
"As women helping women, our
annual grant cycles are beginning to
raise the community's collective con-
sciousness about women's issues," said
Liss. "Local organizations are begin-
ning to think about projects that work
to enhance their lives. In addition, our
trustees are learning to be focused phi-
lanthropists."
According to Allan Nachman, presi-
dent of the United Jewish Foundation
of Metropolitan Detroit, "The Jewish
Women's Foundation has filled an
important need within our Jewish
community. The breadth of JWF's
grants and the aggressive growth of its
trustee base reflects how well respected
the foundation has become in a very
short time and how needed its services
are among women."
There are presently 126 JWF
trustees who participate in planning
and grant making. To become trustees,
women make financial commitments
entitling them to board membership.
For information about the JWF,
becoming a trustee or applying for a
grant, contact Helen Katz at the JWF
office, (248) 203-1483. ❑
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