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upporters of the Oak Park
Jewish Community Center
are turning to online
crowd-funding as a way to raise
money — and possibly stave off the
closure of the 60-year-old building.
When Federation
signs off on it, the
page will go live.
The immedi-
ate goal of the
Committee to
Save the Oak Park
Jewish Community
Jim Issner
Center is to sign up
200 new members and raise $200,000
by mid-March.
The building was slated to close May
31, but a joint vote of the Federation
and JCC Executive Board was post-
poned to give the committee time to be
successful. The building will likely stay
open until at least Aug. 31, said JCC
Interim Executive Director Jim Issner.
Raising the kind of money needed
to break even won't be easy. The
Oak Park JCC runs a yearly deficit of
$800,000 to $1 million.
Along with asking for donations
online, the grassroots committee is
planning a fundraising phone-a-thon.
Meetings, which have been held at
7 p.m. Mondays at the center, have
attracted upwards of 100 people.
Hundreds of area residents showed
up at a forum last month to hear the
JCC's reasoning for closing the Oak
Park building and to offer their own
ideas for rescuing the center.
As an agency, the JCC as a whole is
in serious financial trouble, with losses
at the West Bloomfield facility esti-
mated at $200,000-$400,000 per year,
said Issner, whose efforts have helped
drive down a $6.2 million deficit to
$2.6 million.
Funds raised for the Oak Park cen-
ter will go exclusively there — or be
returned to donors if the building is
closed. Checks can be sent to either
JCC building and should be made pay-
able to the JCC. In the check "memo"
line, note that it is for the Oak Park
JCC.
"I'm actually quite pleased that
those who have a vested interest in
Oak Park as a facility are motivated to
help solve an issue," Issner said. "It's a
fairly large task, as we all know:'

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16 February 5 • 2015

Supporters seek
$200,000 for
Oak Park JCC.

