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September 13, 2012 - Image 82

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The Detroit Jewish News, 2012-09-13

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>> ... Next Generation ...

Pitch Perfect

Charity softball game raises $66,000.

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Three hundred players and 800 spectators came out Aug.

Michelle Friedman and Kyle Zwiren give each other a

26 for Pitch for Detroit.

high five after a big play.

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Stuart Solomon and his fiancee, Jody

Satovsky, enjoy the day.

Brian Shulman and Lauren Reich relax.

Adam Blanck and Gabe Neistein take a break from the

action to pose for a photo.

n Sunday, Aug. 26, batters were swinging
for the fences at Inglenook Park in
Detroit.
Now in its third year, the charity softball
game Pitch For Detroit had 18 teams of 300 people to
play softball and more than 800 community members
come together for a fun day of charity and sport.
Collectively, more than $66,000 has been raised so far
for the Do It For Detroit Fund.
Congratulations go out to the Pitch For Detroit
champion teams: Detroit Harmonie, a men's team
captained by ComeplayDetroit's Justin Jacobs, and Sun
Communities, a co-ed team captained by Amy Brody,
now a two-time co-ed division champion.
"I look forward to Pitch all summer. There's a
great sense of camaraderie, not just among players,
but throughout the whole community," Brody said.
"CommunityNEXT has done an incredible job taking
co-founders Adam Blanck and Benji Gordon's vision
and making it even more inclusive. This year kids and
adults of all ages were able to participate. Every year
the event gets stronger and stronger." Brody will be
chair of next year's event.
"The goal is to activate our community with the

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city of Detroit through a Jewish lens," said Rachel
Lachover, associate director of CommunityNEXT, a
division of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit.
"We are very excited that NEXTGen Detroit and
Repair The World will be able to come together this
upcoming year and launch this new fund.
"We are very excited for what's in store, as Pitch
For Detroit transitions its proceeds into the Do It For
Detroit Fund (DI4D)," she added. "DI4D is a micro-
grant program created to allocate funds to projects
and individuals that will create positive change and
cultivate service opportunities in the city of Detroit for
members of the Jewish and non-Jewish communities
alike."
This is how the proceeds from the Do It For Detroit
Fund will make an impact:

• Provide micro-grants, ranging from $500-$3,000, for
ideas and initiatives designed to create positive social
change in the city of Detroit.

• Empower the next-gen population and Detroit ex-
pats nationwide to find relevant and meaningful ways
to transform the city.

• Activate next-gen peers to apply for grants and/or
learn about emerging and new projects.

• Partner with Repair the World (RTW), an authority
for volunteering and service in and by the American
Jewish community. Headquartered in New York City,
RTW now has a fellow in Detroit connecting individuals
with meaningful service opportunities, and enabling
individuals and organizations to run effective programs
rooted in Jewish values.
"We will also be hosting five events in Detroit
ov , r the coming months," Lachover said. "Each will
fa,— on a different theme, such as education, health/
wellness, hunger, arts and the environment." ❑

Want to find out more about Dl4D? Look for
more info at doitfordetroit.com or Facebook/
Twitter (CommunityNEXT) or contact Josh
Kanter at joshk@communitynxt.com .
Questions about how to get involved with
CommunityNEXT? Email Rachel Lachover at
Rachel@communityNXT.com .

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