CENTENNIAL
FUND
SECURING OUR FUTURE
Through the Centennial Fund, Irving z"/ and Shirley z"/ Fader
Leave a Legacy of Support for Education Within the Community
rving Fader attended Yale University to study
The Centennial Fund is the central endowment
engineering, yet his education was cut short due
campaign for ensuring the long-term security of
to the onset of WWII. After the war, he was drawn
Jewish Detroit. Providing educational opportunities
into business with his brother, and built a thriving
is one of the Fund's core priorities, which meshed
and well-respected real estate development
perfectly with Shirley and Irv's vision. "To Irv, education
business. Despite never finishing his formal
was the key to a successful life," says Sandy Hack,
education, Iry never lost his appreciation for
his sister-in-law. "Iry and Shirley would be extremely
the true value of a college education. Though they
proud to know that, through the Shirley and Irving
had no children of their own, Shirley and Irving
Fader Jewish Education Scholarship Centennial Fund,
generously assisted in the education of their nieces
they would leave a meaningful legacy, making it
and nephews. Now, through a gift to the Centennial
possible for Jewish students to attend college."
Fund, the Faders will continue to help Jewish
students attend Michigan colleges and universities
long into the future.
g% Jewish Federation
OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
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