Recent Grants
The Jewish Fund is proud to announce the approval of $1.4 million new and continuation grants at our November board meeting. These grants will support a range of initiatives to address the health and well-being of vulnerable and at-risk residents of metropolitan Detroit. We encourage individuals and foundations interested in learning more about the impactful work of our grant partners to contact The Jewish Fund.
In this announcement, we are highlighting several initiatives that we believe have a strong likelihood to lead to significant benefits for participants and for social impact.
November 2023 New Grants
Organization | Project Name | Project Description | Grant Duration | Grant Amount |
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Affirmations LGBTQ+ Community Center | Expansion of Affirming Mental Health Services (Telehealth) | To support the hiring of an additional telehealth therapist, increasing availability and access to affirming and affordable counseling. | 1 Year | $50,000 |
American Indian Health and Family Services | New Facility and Campus for Health and Wellbeing | To support the capital expense of one exam room in its new healthcare facility, fostering community well-being, cultural preservation, and expanding services for Native Americans and other underserved populations in southeastern Michigan. | 1 Year | $20,000 |
Autism Alliance of Michigan | Watch Me Grow | To support a staff position, improving and expanding the early identification and referral of children with suspected developmental delay and possibly autism through outreach, education, and advocacy. | 1 Year | $20,000 |
Crossroads of Michigan | General Operating Support | To support Crossroads mission of improving the lives of people in need and their vision of a community where everyone has the resources and opportunity to reach their potential. | 3 Years | $30,000 |
Forgotten Harvest | Balanced Plate Repack Expansion Program | To transform Forgotten Harvest’s food rescue/distribution model to provide a more consistent, equitable, and nutritious mix of food for food-insecure metro Detroit residents. | 1 Year | $25,000 |
Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic | Improving Access to a Medical Home for Uninsured, Low-Income Adults | To support an intake specialist position, continuing the Gary Burnstein Clinic’s goal establish itself as a medical home for the uninsured to improve health outcomes. | 1 Year | $20,000 |
Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit | Gilda’s @ Durfee | To support rent expenses at Gilda’s Durfee Innovation Society location, serving those affected by cancer in Detroit and surrounding communities. | 1 Year | $13,500 |
HAVEN | Safe Therapeutic Assault Response Team | To provide needed medical supplies to survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence strangulation through HAVEN’s Safe Therapeutic Assault Response Team. | 1 Year | $25,000 |
Jewish Fertility Foundation | Jewish Fertility Foundation-Detroit (JFF-DTW) | To help raise the initial capital required to open a Jewish Fertility Foundation location in Detroit. | 2 Years | $75,000 |
Jewish Senior Life | Coville RSC | To fund a portion of the Resident Service Coordinator (RSC) position at Coville that was defunded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). | 2 Years | $44,335 |
LifeLab Kids | Feeding Therapy Program and Adaptive Teaching Kitchen | To expand and enhance LifeLab Kids’ innovative feeding therapy program for children with the construction of an adaptive teaching kitchen. | 1 Year | $15,000 |
Lighthouse | Lighthouse Coolidge Place Supportive Services | To provide clients at Lighthouse’s Coolidge Place with supportive services including case management, access to mainstream benefits, and coordination of onsite health services. | 1 Year | $25,000 |
Planned Parenthood of Michigan | Centering Equity in Access to Family Planning Services | To provide family planning services to people in Detroit who experience disparities in sexual and reproductive health outcomes due to systemic and financial barriers. | 1 Year | $30,000 |
Starfish Family Services | Starfish Internship Program | To support the re-invention of their behavioral health internship program so that it becomes a stable pipeline of talent for the organization. | 1 Year | $25,000 |
Tamarack Camps | Tamarack Camps Mental Health and Well-Being Program | To add a staff position to address the growing mental health challenges of campers and staff members in our programs. | 2 Years | $150,000 |
November 2023 Continuation Grants
Organization | Project Name | Project Description | Grant Duration | Grant Amount |
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Friendship Circle | Friendship Circle UMatter Coordinator Position | Second year of a $120,000 grant to support a new coordinator position for the UMatter mental health program, improving teen engagement and widening and deepening the program’s reach in the community. | 3 Years | $40,000 |
Hillel Day School | Speech and Language Pathologist and Occupational Therapist Need at Hillel Day School | Second year of a $180,900 grant to increase the availability of speech and occupational therapists, helping Hillel’s students address the physical, cognitive, psychosocial, and sensory components of performance. | 2 Years | $105,545 |
Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue | Dor Hadash General Operating Support | Second year of a $105,000 grant supporting the Dor Hadash Jewish family education programming, passing the wisdom of antient traditions to our newest generation, and empowering children to be a positive force in the world. | 3 Years | $35,000 |
JARC | General Operating Support | Third year of a $300,000 grant to support JARC’s mission of enriching lives and erasing barriers for adults with developmental disabilities, allowing them to live full and meaningful lives. | 3 Years | $100,000 |
Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit | Alleviating Social Isolation | Second year of a $425,040 grant to alleviate and address effects of social isolation on older adults, including growth of depression and anxiety, by providing access to communicative technology. | 3 Years | $140,340 |
Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit | Behavioral Health Retention Project | Second year of a $390,064 grant to increase behavioral health therapists’ compensation in order to improve staff retention and increase client care and satisfaction. | 2 Years | $199,798 |
Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit | Family Caregiver Support Network | Second year of a $283,756 grant to expand services committed to family caregivers and build a network of resources to address their needs. | 3 Years | $93,856 |
Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit | Strengthening Families Program | Second year of a $361,248 grant to provide intensive case management services to meet the needs of the community’s most vulnerable families. | 3 Years | $120,132 |
Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit | Suicide Prevention Initiative | Third year of a $401,675 grant to implement a Zero Suicide framework within JFS and in the community it serves, advancing and expanding previous suicide prevention work. | 3 Years | $125,085 |
2023 Teen Board Grants
Organization | Project Name | Project Description | Grant Duration | Grant Amount |
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Anti-Defamation League | Words to Action | To educate teens and provide them with strategies, skills, and practices to respond to antisemitism utilizing the Words to Action program. | 1 Year | $6,000 |
Birth Detroit Inc. | Birth Detroit Care: Detrot’s Black-led, community-based maternity clinic | To provide equitable access to safe, quality perinatal care in their community-based maternal health clinic regardless of ability to pay. | 1 Year | $15,000 |
Children’s Foundation | Psychological supports for LGBTQ identifying adolescents at Hamtramck High School | To provide mental and behavioral health services to reduce psychological symptoms and risky behaviors among LGBTQ identifying Hamtramck High School youth. | 1 Year | $10,000 |
Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program | Books Before Boxing | To support youth mental and physical wellbeing through their out-of-school time programming, including academic support, athletics and mentorship. | 3 Years | $6,000 |
Jewish Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit | Safety Kid Expansion | To expand Safety Kid, a culturally informed and age-appropriate child sexual abuse prevention program to include sixth to eighth grades at Detroit Jewish day schools. | 1 Year | $15,000 |
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | Expanding LifeLinks | To expand JHCN’s LifeLinks program, bringing supporting-palliative care to more individuals and more service to existing patients. | 3 Years | $15,000 |
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | Grief and Bereavement Support Pilot Program | To create a pilot program addressing the mental health impact of grief/bereavement on caregivers of older adults. | 1 Year | $15,000 |
Malta Medical and Dental Clinic | Malta Dental 2023 Denture Support | To make dentures for low-income and uninsured patients. | 1 Year | $10,000 |
Single Family Living | CTAP-Children Trauma After Pandemic | To protect families coping with trauma in isolation, anxiety, and grief from the long-lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. | 1 Year | $8,000 |