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of $100,000 is met, the application pro-
cess will begin this fall.

New Leadership
While momentum is building for the
Do It for Detroit campaign, there's a
changing of the guard of sorts taking
place among Federation's young adult
leaders. Josh Levine, 32, of Huntington
Woods was recently sworn in as the
new president of Federation's Young
Adult Division (YAD).
Jessica Goodwin, 27, of Southfield,
a former Federation campaign asso-
ciate, has been promoted to YAD
director. Jordan Wolfe, 28, director
of CommunityNEXT and one of six
Moishe House residents, is slated to
leave his position in September. A
search is under way for his replace-
ment, although Wolfe is expected to
remain involved in a consulting role.
Kaufman says an effort to merge YAD,
CommunityNEXT and other programs
like Birthright Israel, which provides
free 10-day trips to Israel for Jewish
18- to 26-year-olds visiting Israel for the
first time, is also in the works as part of
Federation's cost consolidating.
"We're in the process now of work-
ing on a comprehensive strategy for
Next-Gen Detroit; that's a working title,'
Kaufman told members of the Jewish
News editorial board during a recent
meeting. "Looking at CommunityNEXT,
YAD and Birthright, we have excellent
programming in all of these spaces.

The challenge is to create a holistic
structure to keep some of the entrepre-
neurial energy and speed of, let's say
CommunityNEXT or Birthright, but
give it the right levels of oversight and,
more importantly, the right sense of
coordination and teamwork."

Rebuilding Detroit
Meetings and brainstorming sessions
are taking place as the new structural
model is built. Nothing has been final-
ized, including a budget or timeframe
for this process. But one thing is clear:
There's energy and excitement about
rebuilding Detroit that even caught the
attention of the New York Times. A July
1 article titled "Detroit Pushes Back
with Young Muscles" quoted several
members of the local Jewish commu-
nity and described Detroit as a land of
opportunity.
"The city seems like a giant candy
store for young college graduates
wanting to be their own bosses," the
article read. "All that has helped cre-
ate an entrepreneurial spirit." I

See Contributing Editor Robert Sklar's
related column on page 43.

To learn more about
upcoming Do It for Detroit
events and fundraisers, go to
www.jewishdetroit.org or
www.doitfordetroit.com .

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