The Jewish Fund Approves $2,261,659 in Grant Payments

December 2006

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

At its December 18th board meeting, The Jewish Fund approved $2,261,659 in grant payments for 18 primarily health-related programs.

Two grants will coordinate and expand health programs for children in the City of Detroit. A $25,000 grant to City Connect Detroit will support the Growing Well Children’s Health Collaborative, a partnership effort with the City of Detroit’s Department of Health and Wellness Promotion and over 22 nonprofit service providers targeting infant mortality, immunization, physical fitness and nutrition, chronic diseases and lead poisoning. A $75,000 grant to Communities in Schools, one of the members of the Growing Well collaborative, will expand the organization’s ability to bring health and wellness programs into over 60 schools in Detroit.

Grants also will help some of our community’s top health care institutions to improve their quality of care. A three-year, $225,000 grant to the Karmanos Cancer Institute will facilitate the integration of the Maisel Breast Imaging Center into the Weisberg Cancer Center in Oakland County, where it ultimately will be housed in a separate building on the campus, while $709,263 in grants to the Detroit Medical Center ($315,087 to Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital and $394,176 to Sinai-Grace Hospital) will purchase state-of-the art equipment and improve nursing recruitment and retention.

Other grants will enable Jewish Family Service to create a donor development department; the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit to hire a Community-Wide Director of Security; Summer in the City to expand its efforts to build bridges between the Jewish and suburban community and the City of Detroit by bringing together young people as summer volunteers in the city; and support the continuation of six programs in the Jewish and general communities serving older adults and vulnerable children and families.

A tradition of caring, The Jewish Fund was established in December 1996 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. The Jewish Fund Board of Directors remains committed to continuing Sinai Hospital’s tradition of sustaining, enriching and addressing the overall health care needs of both the Jewish community and broader community in the greater Detroit area. Since its creation, The Fund has awarded $35 million in grants to expand health and human services to residents of metropolitan Detroit. Among the recipients of grants from The Jewish Fund are programs that improve the quality of life for older citizens and special needs children, and that provide health supports for people of all ages and religions.

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

  1. City Connect Detroit (Detroit, MI): $25,000 for one year to support the Growing Well children’s health collaborative in Detroit.
  2. City Year Detroit (Detroit, MI): $95,000 for the second year of a three-year, $285,000 grant to continue an obesity prevention program in the Detroit Public Schools in partnership with Henry Ford Health System.
  3. Communities In Schools (Detroit, MI): $75,000 for one year to expand health and wellness programs for children in the Detroit schools.
  4. DMC/Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital (Commerce, MI): $292,892 to purchase state-of-the-art infant beds and cardiac equipment: $274,397 from the Gershenson Fund and $18,495 from total returns on the DMC/Sinai Health Care Grants Fund.
  5. DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital: (Detroit, MI): $358,982 from the Gershenson Fund to purchase sterilization and waste management systems for the Operating Room.
  6. DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital: $7,500 for the second year of a three-year, $22,500 grant from the Benard L. Maas Fund for the annual Maas Lecture.
  7. DMC/Sinai-Grace Hospital: $5,500 from the Tauber Fund for a lecture on biomedical ethics.
  8. DMC/Sinai-Grace & Huron Valley-Sinai Hospitals: $19,607 from the Shapero Institute for Nursing Fund to increase nursing certification: $9,804 at Huron Valley-Sinai and $9,803 at Sinai-Grace.
  9. DMC/Sinai-Grace & Huron Valley-Sinai Hospitals: $24,782 from the Michelson Nursing Scholarship Fund to assist the hospitals in obtaining Magnet Nursing Certification: $12,391 at Huron Valley-Sinai and $12,391 at Sinai-Grace.
  10. JARC (Southfield, MI): $45,000 for the second year of a three-year $135,000 grant for CHEERS, a program providing meaningful social inclusion opportunities for people with developmental disabilities.
  11. Jewish Apartments and Services (JAS), Jewish Family Service (JFS), Kadima: (West Bloomfield, Oak Park and Southfield, MI): $674,000 for a tenth year 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.
  12. Jewish Community Center/JVS (West Bloomfield and Southfield, MI): $18,000 for the second year of a three-year $53,000 grant for a summer recreational and vocational program for older teens with special needs.
  13. Jewish Community Council/Kids Kicking Cancer (Bloomfield Hills and Detroit, MI): $100,000 for the final year of a three year $300,000 grant to use martial arts to empower Detroit Public School students who may be at risk of substance abuse and violent behavior.
  14. Jewish Family Service (West Bloomfield, MI): $175,000 over two years to establish a donor development department: $100,000 in 2007 and $65,000 in 2008.
  15. Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (Bloomfield Hills, MI): Up to $62,500 for eight months to hire a Director of Security to benefit the metro Detroit Jewish community.
  16. Jewish Home and Aging Services/JVS (West Bloomfield and Southfield, MI): $274,896 for a tenth year for the Brown Day Care Program.
  17. Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit/Farmington Hills, MI): $225,000 over 3 years to help move the Maisel Center to the Weisberg Cancer Center: $75,000 in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
  18. Summer in the City (Bloomfield Hills, MI): $21,000 over three years to expand operations: $8,000 in 2007 and 2008 and $5,000 in 2009.

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