SECURING OUR FUTURE
With Two Very Different Gifts to the Centennial Fund,
Bill & Audrey Farber Help the Community Take Care of Both Young and Old
en Bill and Audrey Farber decided to make
The Farbers also decided to create the William and
Wa gift to the Centennial Fund, Federation's
Audrey Farber Family Performances Centennial Fund
central endowment campaign for ensuring the
as a means of reaching a very different group in the
long-term security of the Detroit Jewish community,
community. The fund will help enable our Jewish
the area they wanted to impact was obvious.
Audrey, Bill's wife of 58 years, suffers from
Alzheimer's Disease and has benefited from Jewish
Senior Life's Brown Adult Day Care Program. They
Community Center to present major concerts on their
campuses and elsewhere. "There are many young
Jewish kids that don't otherwise have a means to
develop a strong Jewish identity," says Bill, "and these
performances are a powerful way to create bonds to
directed their gift to support the program so that
the community." With these two gifts, Bill and Audrey
others like Audrey can continue receiving compas-
have made a remarkably diverse and lasting investment
sionate and professional care long into the future.
in the future well-being of Jewish Detroit.
Jewish Federation
OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
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