Securing Our Future
A Journey to Israel Inspires Kari and Nick Coburn
to Support Our Community’s Future
IN
2014, Nick Coburn joined a Federation Solidarity
The Centennial Fund is the central campaign for ensuring the
Mission to Israel following the recent conflict in
long-term security of Jewish Detroit. Over the past several
Gaza. This was his first trip to Israel and the experience had
years, the Fund has become a vehicle for over a hundred
a profound impact on him. “Like so many others, I came
families to support our community’s future welfare. “As parents,
away with an overwhelming sense of connection to a place I
we strive to make the importance of charity and giving
really didn’t understand before,” he says. “It’s impossible to
a thematic part of our kids’ upbringing,” the Coburns note,
even begin to appreciate the determination and spirit of the
“and we hope that this gift inspires them, and others in
country and its people, or the importance of its role in an
our community, to continue to support our Jewish heritage
unstable world without seeing it in person.” The experience
through generous giving. We also look forward to taking
led him and his wife Kari to consider how they might make a
our children to Israel this year to show them the incredible
difference in the Jewish world. As a result, they decided to
impact that generous Detroiters have made there, and we
make a commitment to Federation’s Centennial Campaign.
hope that this gift inspires others to do the same. We are
“Generous and philanthropic Detroiters have an incredible
blessed to be able to make this gift and are grateful to
history of continuous support for our local and global Jewish
the Jewish Federation for all it does."
community,” Nick says, “and we decided to make this gift to
be a small part of that great tradition.”
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