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Temple Israel's Robert Sosnick Family Life Center,
in Conjunction with The Caring Community, Presents
an Afternoon of Music
With the
Ban Joes of Michigan
at the
Senior Adult
Program
Thursday, July 19, 2007
1:30 PM
Open to the public
Free of charge
Bring your friends for all the fun!
Partially funded by the David Arthur Stulberg Memorial Fund,
the Harry and Phyllis Kellman Memorial Fund and the Bertha & Harry
Kifferstein Memorial Fund. Co-sponsored by the Temple Israel Treasures.
For additional information, please contact Kari K. Provizer, ACSW,
in the Robert Sosnick Family Life Center at Temple Israel at 248-661-5700.
Temple Israel
5725 Walnut Lake Road • West Bloomfield, MI 48323
1211510
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July 12 • 2007
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Aiding Women, Girls
Foundation awards $174,304 in grants.
T
he Jewish Women's
Foundation of Metropolitan
Detroit (JWF), a grant-mak-
ing and educational foundation estab-
lished to enhance the lives of Jewish
women and girls through philanthro-
py, has awarded $174,304 in grants.
JWF has awarded nearly $600,000
since its inception seven years ago.
"Our funding will provide seed
money for projects addressing a
diversity of issues, touching the lives
of women and girls from all ages and
walks of life," said chair Sharon Hart.
JWF's 2007 grants are as follows:
• $10,000 to Central Station Detroit
for "Getting to Know Yourself:' an
after-school, evening and week-
end healthy lifestyles program for
Orthodox high school girls in the Oak
Park area at the drop-in center, where
volunteer mentors, professionals,
trainers and experts on nutrition work
with girls to promote healthy choices
and to prevent at-risk behaviors.
• $12,500 (renewal grant) to
Friendship Circle's Friendship House
"Welcome Back" program, to provide
incarcerated Jewish women with advo-
cacy, friendship, support, guidance
and support for reintegration into the
community, helping them find hous-
ing, jobs, treatment and friendship.
• $20,000 to Hebrew Free Loan
Association for "Building My
Tomorrow," loan capital for interest-
free loans to women in crisis, helping
them to begin new lives after domestic
abuse and subsequent divorce. Loans
will help women re-enter the job mar-
ket and support their children.
• $10,000 to Hillel Eastern Michigan
University for "Under One Roof:
Muslim and Jewish Women Coming
Together," a program to promote
understanding and friendship.
• $8,680 to Jewish Apartments &
Services for "Women Create:' an arts
enrichment program that will offer art,
storytelling and culinary art.
• $10,000 to the Jewish Community
Center for "Club Kavod," a health and
fitness program for Orthodox girls in
the sixth through 12th grades.
• $20,000 to Jewish Ensemble
Theatre for A Women's Minyan: A Play,
about universal issues of domestic
abuse and violence facing the Jewish
community, but set in an Israeli reli-
gious community. The play will be
performed during JET's 2008 season.
• $15,000 to Jewish Family Service
for "Caregiver Connections:' an out-
reach program offering information,
and services to women who are care-
givers of aging and ill relatives.
• $15,000 to Jewish Family Service
for "Mentors for Girls:' to match more
Jewish girls with volunteer mentors
as part of JFS's "Mentor Connections"
and to market the program.
• $11,124 (renewal grant) to JVS for
"Senior Service Corps:' to continue
a program that provides opportuni-
ties for senior Jewish women to come
together at JVS to do projects that
support area nonprofit organizations.
The Senior Service Corps offers often-
isolated senior women an opportunity
to engage in fulfilling service projects,
to socialize with peers and to receive
necessary social services.
• $15,000 (continuation grant)
to Jewish Women International for
"Building a Coordinated Response to
Domestic Abuse in the Detroit Jewish
Community," to present the results
of the JWF funded Domestic Abuse
Needs Assessment Survey to rabbis,
educators, social service profession-
als and community leaders, including
the trustees of the Jewish Women's
Foundation; and to begin the task of
building a community coalition to
respond to domestic abuse.
• $20,000 to Yad Ezra, the Jewish
community food bank, for "A Two
Pronged Approach: Healthy Minds and
Bodies," a pilot project. The program
will provide nutrition education and
counseling for students, parents and
staff at Beth Jacob School for Girls
throughout the 2007-2008 school year;
and a revamped, nutritionally sound
school lunch program that will offer
fresh fruits and vegetables in lieu of
starch and fatty foods. A portion of the
grant will provide lunch ticket subsi-
dies for students whose families fall
below Yad Ezra's poverty guidelines to
ensure their participation.
• $7,000 (end of three-year grant
totaling $30,000) to PACT-Netanya
in Israel, for its "Well Baby Clinics
for Ethiopian-Israeli Mothers and
Children." The grant supports the
training and salaries of Ethiopian-
Israeli home health liaisons who work
with pregnant women and new moth-
ers in the Ethiopian community. I I