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Project Build! to get
$30,000.

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Project Build! volunteer Cheryl

Deaven helps to repair a local home
in the Metro Detroit area.

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roject Build!, a collabora-
tive effort between Jewish
Family Service (JFS) and
the Building Industry Association
of Southeastern Michigan (BIA),
won by a less than 1 percent margin
(slightly more than 100 votes) in
a national voting contest through
Facebook hosted by the Home Depot
Foundation.
The contest, Aprons in Action, took
place throughout January. The prize?
$25,000 cash and $5,000 in Home
Depot gift cards, which will be used
to fund home improvement projects
for disabled and elderly clients of JFS.
Project Build! is a program that
provides clients with safe and
barrier-free homes through pro bono
repairs and renovations provided by
members of the BIA.
Project Build! now moves on to
a new voting round to take place
in March, with a grand prize of
$250,000 cash, a second-place prize
of $150,000 and a third-place prize of
$100,000.
Project Build! will compete against
11 other nonprofits across the nation.
Although Project Build! finished
with more than 9,000 votes, "we will
be planning three rallies at JFS in
March where people will make phone
calls, post/message on Facebook
and text their networks to create a
large boost in votes at one time said
Michelle Malamis, development asso-
ciate at Jewish Family Services.
Those interested in helping or
who have a workplace or organiza-
tion that would like to partner, call
Malamis at (248) 592-2651 or email
mmalamis@jfsdetroit.org .
"Winning the $25,000 has meant
so much to our organization and the
people we serve said Perry Ohren,
CEO of Jewish Family Service. "The
$250,000 grand prize would allow us
to continue to expand our work in the
community" ❑

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