to the members of The Jewish Fund Teen Board 2014-2015, a diverse group of Jewish teens who have deepened their engagement within our community through learning of communal needs and responding through philanthropic grantmaking. Carly Abrahams Taylor Golden-Wise 10th Grade, West Bloomfield High School Cooper Bellinson Livvy Gordon 11th Grade, Bloomfield Hills High School 10th Grade, Cranbrook-Kingswood Upper School Nick Bellinson Avi Greenbaum 10th Grade, Bloomfield Hills High School 10th Grade, Cranbrook-Kingswood Upper School Jack Israel 11th Grade, Walled Lake Central High School Adam Cohn 11th Grade, Groves High School Jane Jacobs 10th Grade, Berkley High School Carolyn Cohn 11th Grade, The International Academy Brandon Karr 10th Grade, Berkley High School Brian Colton 11th Grade, Cranbrook-Kingswood Upper School Ben Epstein Oren Lerner 11th Grade, Canton High School 12th Grade, Walled Lake Western High School Aviv Lis Annie Schechter 11th Grade, Seaholm High School Brittany Tapper 12th Grade, Frankel Jewish Academy 12th Grade, Walled Lake Central High School Connor Tukel 10th Grade, Frankel Jewish Academy 12th Grade, Frankel Jewish Academy Emily Stillman 11th Grade, Groves High School 11th Grade, Frankel Jewish Academy Kendall Coden Lucie Rosenthal 11th Grade, Berkley High School Dani Silverman Michael Krivichkin 11th Grade, Seaholm High School Eden Lichterman 11th Grade, Frankel Jewish Academy Kyle Rechter 11th Grade, Akiva Hebrew Day School Cooper Brovenick Special thanks go to our 2014-2015 Leadership Committee for their dedication and hard work in facilitating board meetings and site visits. Emily Levin 11th Grade, Groves High School 10th Grade, Walled Lake Northern High School Caroline Strauss 10th Grade, Frankel Jewish Academy 10th Grade, North Farmington High School Samuel Gendelman 11th Grade, The Roeper School The Jewish Fund Ana- TEEN BOARD 2014-2015 Mission: As the Jewish Fund Teen Board, we will assist community organizations that strive to support families in creating a healthy environment in which to raise their children. To accomplish this objective, we focus our grantmaking on projects in two areas: those promoting early childhood health and kindergarten readiness, and effective family communication in order to decrease substance abuse among youth. The Jewish Fund Teen Board is proud to announce that a total of $50,000 in grants has been awarded to the following organizations: JARC Ruth Ellis Center Starfish Family Services The Guidance Center The Link Up Empowerment Program Family Preservation and Acceptance Project Inkster Family Literacy Movement Get Up and Go! For more information on the work of The Jewish Fund Teen Board, or to apply for a 2015-2016 Board position, please visit www.thejewishfund.org/teenboard. Application deadline is May 29, 2015. THE JEWISH FUND crl A LEGACY OF SINAI HOSPITAL The Teen Board is a project of The Jewish Fund. The Jewish Fund was established in 1997 from the sale proceeds of Sinai Hospital to the Detroit Medical Center. Sinai Hospital was a Jewish community funded facility that grew into one of metropolitan Detroit's top health care institutions. As a legacy of Sinai Hospital, The Jewish Fund continues the tradition of assuring quality and compassionate care for those in need in Metropolitan Detroit. JEWISH TEEN FUNDE2S PETWORK The Jewish Fund Teen Board is proud to be a part of the Foundation Board Incubator, a project of the Jewish Teen Funders Network, which is generously funded by Laura Lauder and the Maimonides Fund. JN May 21 • 2015 31