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Fundraiser to Fight Substance Abuse
The Jamie Daniels Foundation
(JDF), an initiative of the Children’
s
Foundation, is preparing for its very
first event, The Celebrity Roast of
Mickey Redmond, which will take
place Sept. 7, at the MotorCity Casino
Hotel’
s Sound Board. Mike “Doc”
Emerick, TV voice of the NHL on
NBC, will serve as the emcee. Local
celebrity “roasters” include John
Davidson, Scotty Bowman, Ian Bagg,
Marcel Dionne, Jim Ralph and Mike
Babcock. Several current and former
Red Wings players will also be in
attendance.
The evening event includes both
a live and silent auction including a
unique, “jersey/ticket” drawing, allow-
ing event attendees to get their own Red
Wings jersey or set of tickets.
The event will close with perfor-
mances by the Jake Maurer Band. After
8 p.m. tickets are available to purchase
via ticketmaster.com. Tickets include
appetizers, drinks and premiere seating.
The Jamie Daniels Foundation,
which recently received a grant from
Michigan State University was estab-
lished by FOX Sports Detroit Red
Wings play-by-play broadcaster Ken
Daniels and his family in honor of his
late son, Jamie, to provide education,
resources, guidance and support to
people battling drug addiction
Proceeds raised during The Celebrity
Roast of Mickey Redmond will sup-
port JDF’
s efforts to end the stigma
associated with addiction and provide
the guidance and resources needed so
that lives can be saved. In collaboration
with The Children’
s Foundation, JDF’
s
long-term goal is to build a long-term
recovery center in Metro Detroit as
part of a collaboration with the state
of Michigan. A long-term facility will
improve access to trustworthy addic-
tion treatment and recovery services in
Metro Detroit.
“We chose to do a roast because
Jamie loved to laugh, and there was no
better choice than Mickey for our inau-
gural Celebrity Roast because he and
Jamie had such a special relationship,
”
stated JDF co-founder Lisa Daniels-
Goldman. “
As sure as this will be a
night of laughter, we also want to keep
the conversation going regarding sub-
stance use disorder.
”
Shalom Hartman to Expand Work in Detroit
Thanks to a grant from the William
Davidson Foundation, Rebecca Starr
has been named Midwest manager
of the Shalom Hartman Insitute of
North America. The funds are also
making it possible for rabbis Aaron
Starr of Congregation Shaarey Zedek
and Ariana Silverman of Isaac Agree
Downtown Synagogue to participate in
Shalom Hartman’
s three-year Rabbinic
Leadership Initiative.
Because of two new grants of $10 mil-
lion each to the Shalom Hartman, its
work in Detroit will continue to expand.
The new funding for Hartman’
s
Detroit presence will focus on develop-
ing more community leaders, conduct-
ing more research to help the commu-
nity tackle local challenges, and funding
more campus and communal programs
to engage the local Jewish community
as well as runs programs that educate
Muslim and Christian leaders about
Judaism and Israel.
The San Francisco-based Koret
Foundation just made a $10 million
grant. “The Shalom Hartman Institute
is elevating the conversation in the
Jewish community by encouraging us
to live up to our core values,
” said Koret
Foundation CEO Jeffrey Farber. “
At
this critical time, when much of society
is fraught with division and discord,
Hartman is empowering communi-
ties to solve problems by training and
equipping new leaders at a variety of
organizations with the means to tackle
more local challenges in communities
across the country.
”
Jim Joseph Foundation, also based in
San Francisco, gave Shalom Hartman
a $10 million grant as well. The grants
make up the majority of a $25 million
business plan for the institute, which
was founded in 1976 in Jerusalem.
Under the leadership of Yehuda
Kurtzer, its American branch since
2010 has expanded from a small office
in New York to having staff in San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington,
D.C., and Detroit. The grants will
expand programs in each of those
communities.
“We’
re extremely excited about
and very grateful for these gifts,”
said
Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield, the
organization’
s executive vice presi-
dent. “They enable us to deepen and
expand our core work of developing
ideas and training thought leaders, as
well as to build out our infrastructure
in significant ways.”
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