Health & Fitness

Reaching Out

Jewish Fund awards new cycle of grants.

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ore than 130 non-profit orga-
nization grantees, community
leaders and Jewish and general
community agency representatives attended
the Jewish Fund annual meeting on Dec. 9.
Outgoing Chair Robert Naftaly noted
numerous accomplishments of the Fund,
which has granted $40 million to Metro
Detroit agencies in the areas of health and
social welfare since its inception in 1997.
Naftaly gave special recognition of the
Fund's accomplishments in supporting the
growing needs of the Jewish elderly and of
families profoundly impacted by the down-
turn in the economy over recent years.
Michael Maddin, incoming chair, spoke
of the need to find the most important
causes and grant limited dollars as effec-
tively as possible.
The Robert Sosnick Award of Excellence
and $25,000 was presented to JVS and
Jewish Home & Aging Service's Dorothy &
Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day
Care Program.

The Brown Program was launched and
continues with financial support by the
Jewish Fund. It provides socialization and
therapeutic activities for adults with demen-
tia related disorders and respite to caregivers.
Maddin was elected new chair and Penny
Blumenstein was elected vice chair. Dorothy
Benyas was re-elected secretary/treasurer.
Three-term chair Robert Naftaly will con-
tinue to serve as a board member. The
following board members were re-elected
to three-year terms: David Aronow, Mark
Davidoff, Selwyn Isakow, Mark Schlussel,
Jerome Schostak and Gary Torgow.
The Jewish Fund approved $1,479,000 in
grants for 10 primarily health and social
welfare programs:
• Child Abuse and Neglect Council of
Oakland County (Pontiac): $10,000 for
the second year of a three-year, $30,000
grant to train state-mandated reporters on
identifying child sexual abuse.
• Freedom House (Detroit): $50,000
for the first of a two-year, $90,000 grant

to provide medical care and health ser-
vices to homeless refugees who reside in
Freedom House.
• Friendship Circle (West Bloomfield):
$50,000 for the second year of a three-
year, $150,000 grant to create a residential
program for Jewish adults recovering from
substance abuse.
• Henry Ford Behavioral Health
Maplegrove Center (West Bloomfield):
$22,000 for the second year of a two-year,
$67,000 grant to engage families in the treat-
ment process of addicted family members.
• Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital
(Commerce Township): $118,000 for a
one-year grant to support the renovation
of its intensive care unit.
• Jewish Apartments and Services and
Jewish Home and Aging Services (West
Bloomfield and Oak Park): $170,000 for
the first of a three-year, $521,000 grant to
facilitate their pending merger to better
coordinate and expand services to Jewish
older adults.

• Jewish Community Relations
Council, Michigan Roundtable for
Diversity and Inclusion, and ADL: a
matching grant of up to $114,000 for the
second of a three-year, $342,000 grant
to develop cross-cultural relationships
between Jewish and African-American and
Latino communities.
• Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit (Bloomfield Township): $930,000
in combined matching and operating
funds for the second of a three-year grant
of up to $2,782,000 to support in-home
services, escorted transportation and adult
day care in the Jewish community.
• Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy
Network (West Bloomfield) : $10,000 for
a one-year grant to support a coalition of
caregiving professionals working with the
public who face end-of-life issues.
• Summer in the City (Berkley): $5,000
for the third of a three-year grant of
$21,000 to expand the organization's youth
work in Detroit.

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