Securing Our Future

A Journey to Israel Inspires Kari and Nick Coburn
to Support Our Community’s Future

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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.”

December 1 • 2016

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