Metro

Keeping It Whole from page 15

Local Agencies

2008-09
$22,600,974

561,948
214,114
743,225
1,014,716
139,900
301,514
10,000
782,664

4,454,281
579,448
409,114
936,925
1,304,716
142,400
319,014
10,000
752,664

3,361,096
78,356
673,065
97,211
184,736
187,791
200,500
1,899,437
20,000
20,000

3,650,096
78,356
923,065
97,211
184,736
187,791
200,500
1,938,437
20,000
20,000

Advocacy/At-Risk Aid
Hebrew Free Loan
JELS scholarships/loans
JCommun. Rel. Council
Jewish Family Service
JFS financial assist. fund
Small congs. emergency
Jewish Housing Assn.
Meals On Wheels
Jewish Senior Life
Jewish Apts. & Services
Jewish Home & Aging
JVS
Corp. designation
Corp. designation
Senior in-home support
YAD in-home support

6,008,003
129,378
18,895
488,810
2,542,340
567,500
95,000
260,000
1,500

6,048,815
350,458
20,042
454,810
2,555,782
532,500
60,000
211,000

Addl. Local Support
Fnd. For Jewish Elderly
Alliance for Jewish Educ.
Mich. Jewish Conf.
Mission subsidies
Birthright Israel
Commun. security dir.
Campus security plan
UJC secure commun. net
Agency incentive grants
Capital needs reserve
Fund guarantees/loans

9,463,794

Jewish Education

Akiva Hebrew Day School
Frankel Jewish Academy
Hillel Day School
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
Yeshiva Gedolah
Yeshivas Darchei Torah
Special Needs Allocation
Supplemental School Scirshp

Jewish Identity Building
BBYO
Fresh Air Society
EMU Hillel
Hillel Metro Detroit
MSU Hillel
U-M Hillel
JCC
JCC seniors coordinator
JCC Kids Altogether

3,768,081

2009-10
$23,817,954

226,470
309,774
1,190,836
30,000
80,000
30,000
37,500

1,205,000
77,000
135,000
235,322
100,000
160,000
12,500
7,688
995,000
1,700,000

UJF endowment admin.
Reserves - local needs
Challenge fnd. - other
Sakwa/Frankel unallocated
Challenge fund reserve

3,880,037
150,000

National Agencies

$511,355

806,247

536,244

1,180,479

80,000
30,000
37,500

9,664,762
293,647
1,155,000
74,500
150,000
235,322
100,000
142,000

15,824
995,000
1,800,000

3,833,703

528,800
260,729
80,237

$261,355

Israel And Overseas

$14,742,500

$11,876,650

Totals

$45,138,024

$42,492,246

16

August 20 * 2009

Planning Ahead

Next year's Campaign and allocation
planning are already underway.

for what they could in the past" and
Federation's board and officers man-
dated "that we give as much as possible
to local needs. We pulled a lot of rabbits
erri Farber Roth isn't worried
out of a lot of hats."
about the economy in 2010.
As for next year, Elson is worried
Whether good or bad, she
about the economy but "hoping for a
knows that there will be Jewish people
soft landing. We're lucky that so many
in need.
people in the community
Roth of Farmington
understand that nobody but
Hills and Ron Klein of
Detroiters are going to take
Birmingham are chairing
care of Detroiters."
the 2010 Annual Campaign
Bloom, the PSAC's chair
for the Jewish Federation of
elect, has served many years
Metropolitan Detroit.
with the group, as chair of
"The year 2010 will be just
both the education and com-
like every other year before
munity service divisions, and
it," Roth said. "We'll have
Douglas Bloom
from the other side of the
needs and this community
table when he was president
will rise to meet those needs.
of the Jewish Community
We get it, we understand it
Center of Metropolitan
and we know what we have
Detroit.
to do."
His sense, however, is the
Roth and Klein are plan-
decision-making is getting
ning a people-to-people
more complicated. "We have
Campaign, talking to potential
an aging population that
donors every day. "What part
needs more services:' he
of sustaining a life do you not Irwin Els on
said. "Combined with the
want to be a part of?" Roth
economy, it's a double or triple
asked. "Everybody wants to
whammy."
help somebody else."
Bloom said at least 75 people from
"I hope that every person I talk to
the agencies and the community com-
tells the community's story to someone
bine to consider how the Federation pie
else. We all love a winner and a happy
is divided. The needs extend from those
ending ... I can't imagine a single need
who
need mortgage relief, counsel-
- from the youngest child to a senior
ing, job help, tutition, synagogue dues,
adult - that we wouldn't want to sat-
insurance, elder care, medical and other
isfy."
needs.
"We have to cover the whole
She described donors to the Annual
body,' he said.
Campaign as remarkable. "Year after
The process involves meetings from
year, they write a check. It's the best
September until May, dissecting agency
hands-on experience you can have: It is
programs and budgets. Before approval,
selfless, anonymous and remarkable."
Bloom said, Federation officers, divi-
Yet, she is happy to raise the money
sions and the PSAC as a whole "see and
and let someone else decide where it
question all the numbers. A pure out-
needs to go. Next year, that someone
sider would not know how carefully the
will be Douglas Bloom of Birmingham
decision is made ...
and 24 other lay leaders on Federation's
"If you would ask most people in the
Planning and Allocations Steering
community, `Did you know we pay for
Committee (PASC).
this, this and this?' They would say, `No'
It was led the last three years by
They think all the money goes to Israel:'
Irwin Elson of Bloomfield Hills. This
Bloom knows the PSAC decisions
year, the PSAC had the unenviable task
affect Jews around the world. "So far,"
of dividing the $33 million from the
the retired businessman said, "it doesn't
Annual Campaign, $6.3 million from
affect what I will have for dinner tonight.
the Stanley and Judy Frankel Challenge
But it will affect what someone will have
Fund and $2 million in endowment
for dinner tonight or their ability to see
proceeds between 19 local agencies,
a doctor."
national groups, and Israel and over-
That's why he wants to keep the pro-
seas causes.
cess open and detailed. "I personally
Elson said the local needs "have been
like to see everyone together so we can
so acute" during the last three years.
all see the whole picture."
"Families haven't been able to pay

Alan Hitsky

Associate Editor

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