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Farmington Hills, where it ultimately
will be housed in a separate building
on the campus, while $709,263 in
grants to the Detroit Medical Center
($315,087 to Huron Valley-Sinai
Hospital in Commerce and $394,176
•to Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit)
will purchase state-of-the art equip-
ment and improve nursing recruit-
ment and retention.
Other grants will enable Jewish
Family Service to create a donor
development department; the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
to hire a community-wide director
of security; Summer in the City to
expand its efforts to build bridges
between the Jewish and suburban
community and the city of Detroit
by bringing together young people as
summer volunteers in the city; and
support the continuation of six pro-
grams in the Jewish and general corn-
munities serving older adults and
vulnerable children and families.
The Jewish Fund was created in
1997 from proceeds of the sale of
Sinai Hospital to the Detroit Medical
Center and has since awarded $35
million in grants to expand health
and human services to residents of
metropolitan Detroit.
Following is a complete listing of
the dollars allocated and purposes of
the latest awards.
• City Connect Detroit: $25,000
for one year to support the Growing
Well children's health collaborative in
Detroit.
• City Year Detroit: $95,000
for the second year of a three-year,
$285,000 grant to continue an obesity
prevention program in the Detroit
Public Schools in partnership with
Henry Ford Health System.
• Communities In Schools:
$75,000 for one year to expand health
and wellness programs for children
in the Detroit schools.
• DMC/Huron Valley-Sinai
Hospital: $292,892 to purchase
state-of-the-art infant beds and
cardiac equipment: $274,397 from
the Gershenson Fund and $18,495
from total returns on the DMC/Sinai
Health Care Grants Fund.
• DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital:
$358,982 from the Gershenson
Fund to purchase sterilization and
waste management systems for the
Operating Room.
• DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital:
$7,500 for the second year of a three-
year, $22,500 grant from the Benard
L. Maas Fund for the annual Maas
Lecture.

• DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital:
$5,500 from the Tauber Fund for a
lecture on biomedical ethics.
• DMC/Sinai-Grace & Huron
Valley-Sinai Hospitals: $19,607
from the Shapero Institute for
Nursing Fund to increase nursing
certification: $9,804 at Huron Valley-
Sinai and $9,803 at Sinai Grace.
• DMC/Sinai-Grace & Huron
Valley-Sinai Hospitals: $24,782
from the Michelson Nursing
Scholarship Fund to assist the hos-
pitals in obtaining Magnet Nursing
Certification: $12,391 at Huron
Valley-Sinai and $12,391 at Sinai-
Grace.
• JARC: $45,000 for the second
year of a three-year $135,000 grant
for CHEERS, a program providing
meaningful social inclusion opportu-
nities for people with developmental
disabilities.
• Jewish Apartments &
Services (JAS), Jewish Family
Service (JFS), Kadima: $674,000
for a tenth year to provide in home
support services to over 700 frail
older adults so that they may con-
tinue to live as independently as pos-
sible in their own homes.
• Jewish Community Center/
JVS: $18,000 for the second year
of a three-year $53,000 grant for a
summer recreational and vocational
program for older teens with special
needs.
• Jewish Community Council/
Kids Kicking Cancer: $100,000 for
the final year of a three year $300,000
grant to use martial arts to empower
Detroit Public School students who
may be at risk of substance abuse
and violent behavior.
• Jewish Family Service:
$175,000 over two years to establish
a donor development department:
$100,000 in 2007 and $65,000 in
2008.
• Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit: Up to
$62,500 for eight months to hire a
director of security to benefit the
Metro Detroit Jewish community.
• Jewish Home and Aging
Services/JVS: $274,896 for a 10th
year for the Brown Day Care Program.
• Barbara Ann Karmanos
Cancer Institute: $225,000 over
three years to help move the Maisel
Center to the Weisberg Cancer Center:
$75,000 in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
• Summer in the City: $21,000
over three years to expand opera-
tions: $8,000 in 2007 and 2008 and
$5,000 in 2009.

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