The Jewish Fund Approves $1,714,638 in Grant Payments

December 2005

For more information, contact Jodee Fishman Raines, (248) 203-1487

At its December 8th board meeting, The Jewish Fund approved $1,714,638 in grant payments for 16 primarily health-related programs.

Two grants will help develop health and fitness programs for two distinct populations. A three-year, $285,000 grant to City Year Detroit will support a pilot program in partnership with Henry Ford Health System to improve the nutrition and physical fitness of elementary school-aged children in the Detroit Public Schools. According to newly elected Jewish Fund Chair Robert Naftaly, “Obesity is considered to be a public health threat on par with tobacco use and rates have almost doubled amongst young children in the past few decades. City Year is the ideal organization to pilot this program as they have been volunteering in the Detroit schools for the past six years and have earned the respect and trust of the school administrators, students and families.” A two-year, $60,000 grant will help Rose Hill Center hire a physical fitness trainer and dietician to serve the 70 adults with mental illness residing in Rose Hill’s residential and transitional living facilities.

$339,900 in grants will benefit the Detroit Medical Center, including $289,900 in grants to Sinai-Grace Hospital to purchase state-of-the art equipment and $50,000 to Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital from the Alfred L. and Bernice R. Deutsch Fund for a new, annual conference on perinatal loss.

Other grants will help develop relationships among emerging young leaders in the African American and Jewish communities; develop an AIDS advocacy program; support the United Way’s new 211 hotline; provide summer recreation and job opportunities for teens and young adults with special needs; leverage $10,000 in national funding for an intergenerational program coordinated through the Jewish Federation’s Alliance for Jewish Education; and support the continuation of four programs in the Jewish and general communities serving older adults and vulnerable children and families.

The Jewish Fund was created in 1997 from proceeds of the sale of Sinai Hospital to the Detroit Medical Center and has since awarded $30 million in grants to expand health and human services to residents of metropolitan Detroit.

Following is a complete listing of the dollars allocated and purposes of the latest awards.

  1. City Year (Detroit, Michigan): $285,000 over three years to develop an obesity prevention program in the Detroit Public Schools.
  2. Jewish Apartments and Services (JAS), Jewish Family Service (JFS), Kadima (West Bloomfield, Oak Park and Southfield, Michigan): $674,000 in continued support to provide in home support services to over 700 frail older adults so that they may continue to live as independently as possible in their own homes.
  3. Jewish Community Center/JVS (West Bloomfield and Southfield, Michigan): $53,000 over three years to develop a summer recreational and vocational program for older teens with special needs.
  4. Jewish Community Council/Kids Kicking Cancer (Detroit, Michigan): $100,000 to continue a new program that uses martial arts to empower Detroit Public School students who may be at risk of substance abuse and violent behavior.
  5. Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan): $10,000 to continue an intergenerational program in the supplemental religious schools.
  6. Jewish Home and Aging Services/JVS (West Bloomfield and Southfield, Michigan): $274,896 in continued support for the Brown Adult Day Care Program.
  7. Michigan AIDS Fund (Southfield, Michigan): $25,000 for one year to develop a new public engagement initiative.
  8. New Detroit (Detroit, Michigan): $90,000 over two years to develop a program to enhance relationships among emerging leaders in the Jewish and African American communities and other communities of color in partnership with the Jewish Community Council.
  9. Rose Hill Center (Holly, Michigan)- $60,000 over two years to develop a health and fitness program for adults with mental illness.
  10. St. Joseph Mercy Hospital/JFS (Pontiac, West Bloomfield and Oak Park, Michigan): $30,000 to continue the Healthy Start program.
  11. United Way for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit, Michigan): $50,000 for one year to support the new 2-1-1- resource line.
  12. DMC/Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital (Commerce, Michigan): $50,000 from the Alfred L. and Bernice R. Deutsch Fund for the first annual HUGS conference for bereaved parents.
  13. DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital (Detroit, Michigan): $100,000 to purchase beds and monitors for the Nephrology Department.
  14. DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital: $22,500 over 3 years from the Benard L. Maas Fund for the annual Maas Lecture.
  15. DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital: $100,000 to purchase a digital mobile imaging system for use in vascular surgery.
  16. DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital: $67,400 to purchase three infant ventilators.

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