metro

Pitch Fo

Baseball

fundraiser

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September 8 • 2011

draws huge

crowd to

benefit Live

Detroit Fund.

Craig and Cheryl Gastwirth of West

Bloomfield

Hannah Posen
Jewish News Intern

I

t was the perfect day for softball

as about 800 players and specta-
tors gathered at Inglenook Park
in Southfield on Aug. 28 for Pitch for
Detroit. The softball tournament, which
culminated CommunityNEXT's month-
long Do it for Detroit campaign, raised
about $80,000 for the Live Detroit Fund
(LDF), a rent subsidy program to help
young Jewish adults live in the city.
The day was filled with softball,
games, entertainment and food for all.
After a rough game, players could relax
with a massage or acupuncture and
could cool off with a smoothie from
Beyond Juice or a made-to-order ice
cream sandwich from Eskimo Jack's.
As the day warmed up, there was an
inflatable slip 'n slide at the front of the
park. Star Trax provided music through-
out the day to keep players and specta-
tors pumped up.

"I can't imagine Pitch for Detroit
being a bigger success:' said Sammi
Cutler, 20, of West Bloomfield.
"Everyone played great, the weather was
beautiful and we raised a lot of money
for the LDE'
Cutler has been working all sum-
mer on the Do it for Detroit campaign
with Adam Blanck and Benjy Gordon,
co-founders of Pitch for Detroit; Jordan
Wolfe, director of CommunityNEXT
(an arm of the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit); and staffers
Rachel Lachover, Rachel Winer, Allie
Shipper and Kimi Sugiyama.
Wolfe not only had a hand in putting
together the event but was also the top
fundraiser for Pitch for Detroit, indi-
vidually raising more than $1,000. For
Wolfe, Pitch for Detroit and the Do it for
Detroit campaign are important steps
needed in bringing back Detroit and
the region as a whole.

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