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 Grant Awards
2008 Grants – Israel and Diaspora
The Jewish Women's Foundation has awarded the following grants to Israeli organizations. Implementation schedules vary from 1 to 3 years.
$15,000 over 2 years to ORR SHALOM Children’s Homes for "Life Skills for Future Independence", will support workshops for girls approaching "graduation" from ORR SHALOM special homes for girls ages 12-18 who have been removed from their biological families by the courts due to abuse, neglect or abandonment. Girls "age out" of the state supported foster care system at age 18, and must be prepared for independent living, the army and/or national service. Most often, they have no family or homes upon which to rely after leaving their ORR SHALOM families. The 2 years of workshops will help the girls learn how to secure and retain jobs, manage simple budgets, learn responsible sexual behavior and avoid sexual exploitation, understand basic nutrition, meal planning and healthy living, learn basic cooking, and more.
$25,000 over 3 years to JAFI for "Women Promote Health in the Central Galilee - Training Community Women's Health Advocates", will bring the program to our Partnership 2000 Region and will be administered through the community center in Nazareth Illit. The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) has run this project with great success in a number of regions throughout Israel. Staff, and then women in the community, will be recruited and trained to run women's health and wellness education and information projects throughout the area over a 3 year period. Health fares, workshops, parlor meetings, lectures and health care visits for women will promote breast cancer awareness and prevention, family planning, family and women's nutrition, healthy lifestyle habits, domestic abuse awareness and prevention, advocacy for better women's health care policies.
$5,000 to Isha L'Isha to "Raising Public Awareness and Changing Perceptions about Women Exploited in the Sex Industry in Israel", support its work in combating the trafficking of women in the Israeli sex industry. The project is an advocacy project aimed at government officials, policy makers, police, social service professionals and the public. This grant is a statement of support for a very large, multi-year project and for the important work done on behalf of exploited women by Isha L'Isha.
2007 Grants
The Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit is pleased to announce the grants awarded by its Board of Trustees in its 7th Grant Cycle. During the past seven years, the Jewish Women's Foundation has awarded nearly $600,000 in grants.
$10,000 to Central Station Detroit for “Getting to Know Yourself,” an after school, evening and weekend healthy lifestyles program for Orthodox high school age girls in the Oak Park area at Central Station, a drop-in center, at which volunteer mentors, professionals, trainers and experts on nutrition work with girls to promote healthy choices and work to prevent at risk behaviors.
$12,500 (Renewal Grant) to Friendship Circle’s Friendship House “Welcome Back” program, to provide Jewish women who are inmates in Michigan prisons and jails with opportunities for advocacy, friendship, support, professional guidance in prison and support for their reintegration into the community, helping them to find housing, jobs, treatment and friendship.
$20,000 to Hebrew Free Loan Association for “Building My Tomorrow”, loan capital for interest free, repayable loans to women in crisis, helping them to begin new lives after domestic abuse and the divorces that follow. Loans will be made to help women get ready to re-enter the job market and with financial burdens facing them and their children.
$10,000 to Hillel Eastern Michigan University for “Under One Roof: Muslim and Jewish Women Coming Together”, a program, based on a highly successful pilot, for Jewish and Muslim girls that will promote understanding and friendship, by exploring shared cultural, traditional and social practices and joining together for activities, field trips and to hear speakers of common interest.
$8,680 to Jewish Apartments and Services for “Women Create”, a creative arts enrichment program taught by professionals that will offer art curriculum throughout the year in the areas of ritual art, fiber art, story telling (and recording) and culinary art, enhancing social interaction and Jewish connection.
$10,000 to The Jewish Community Center for “Club Kavod”, a health and fitness program for Orthodox girls in the 6th through 12th grades at area day schools.
$20,000 to JET, the Jewish Ensemble Theatre, for “A Women’s Minyan: A Play”, a play about universal issues of domestic abuse and violence facing the Jewish community, but set in an Israeli religious community. The play will be performed for area audiences during JET’s 2008 season.
$15,000 to Jewish Family Service for “Caregiver Connections”, an outreach program offering information, assessment and services to women who are the caregivers of aging and ill family members.
$15,000 to Jewish Family Service for “Mentors for Girls”, to match more Jewish girls with volunteer mentors as part of JFS’s “Mentor Connections” and to market the availability and program throughout the community to ensure greater opportunities for and participation of girls within the Mentor Connections program.
$11,124 (Renewal Grant) to JVS for “Senior Service Corps”, to continue a program that provides opportunities for senior Jewish women to come together at JVS to do projects that support area non-profit organizations. The Senior Service Corps offers often isolated senior women an opportunity to engage in meaningful, fulfilling service projects, to socialize with peers and to receive necessary social services.
$15,000 (Continuation Grant for an Ongoing Project) to Jewish Women International for “Building a Coordinated Response to Domestic Abuse in the Detroit Jewish Community”, to present the results of the JWF funded Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment Survey to lay and professional groups, including rabbis, educators, social service professionals and Community Leaders, including the Trustees of the Jewish Women’s Foundation; and to begin the task of building a community coalition to respond to the problem of domestic abuse in our community.
$20,000 to YAD EZRA, the Jewish Community Food Bank, for “A Two Pronged Approach: Healthy Minds and Bodies”, a pilot project that is planned for expansion to other schools. The program will provide nutrition education and counseling for students, parents and staff at Beth Jacob School for Girls throughout the 2007-2008 school year; and a revamped, nutritionally sound school lunch program that will offer fresh fruits and vegetables in lieu of starch and fatty foods. A portion of the grant will provide lunch ticket subsidies for students whose families fall below YAD EZRA’s poverty guidelines, to ensure their participation.
$7,000 (Third Year of a Three Year Grant totaling $30,000) to PACT-Netanya in Israel, for its “Well Baby Clinics for Ethiopian-Israeli Mothers and Children” the third year of a 3-year grant to support the training and salaries of Ethiopian-Israeli home health liaisons. The home health liaisons work with pregnant women and new mothers in the Ethiopian Olim community, to help them raise healthy, well stimulated babies and toddlers, ready to enter school on a par with their veteran Israeli counterparts.
2006 Grants
The Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit (JWF) is pleased to announce the grants awarded by its Board of Trustees in its 6th Grant Cycle. To date, the JWF has committed more than $400,000 to support projects that benefit Jewish women and girls in our community. This year, grants totaling $101,334 were awarded to the following 2006 JWF Grantees:
$7,500 (second year of support totaling $15,000) for the Jewish Population Study conducted by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. This allocation completes the JWF’s support for the population study’s report relating to the status of Jewish women in the Detroit area Jewish Community.
$9,250 (second year of a three year commitment totaling $30,000) to PACT-Netanya in Israel, for its "Well Baby Clinics for Ethiopian-Israeli Mothers and Children" the second year of a 3-year grant to support the training and salaries of Ethiopian-Israeli home health liaisons. The home health liaisons work with pregnant women and new mothers in the Ethiopian Olim community, to help them raise healthy, well stimulated babies and toddlers, ready to enter school on a par with their veteran Israeli counterparts.
$5,400 to The Fresh Air Society for “Free To Be Who I Am”, a Tamarack Camp program for girls entering the 9th grade in their schools, designed to address self-esteem and self-image issues that they face as they become young women through creative and “cool” camp experiences in an all girl setting that will encourage discussion of “coming of age” issues.
$10,000 to The Friendship Circle for “Welcome Back”, to provide Jewish women who are inmates in Michigan prisons and jails with opportunities for advocacy, friendship, support, professional guidance in prison and support for their reintegration into the community, helping them to find housing, jobs, treatment and friendship.
$9,900 to JARC for “Learning to Lead”, a program for JARC’s female residents with developmental disabilities designed to help them build the skills and knowledge that will enable them to participate in the community as members of committees and on boards.
$9,034 to JVS for “Senior Service Corps”, for the expansion of a program that provides opportunities for senior Jewish women in the Senior Service Corps who come together at JVS to do projects that support area non-profit organizations. The Senior Service Corps offers often isolated senior women an opportunity to engage in meaningful, fulfilling service projects, to socialize with peers and to receive necessary social services.
$5,000 to the Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit for “Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing”, a syndicated Jewish values based program that uses informal Jewish education to enrich the lives of Jewish teenage girls through learning, discussion and creative projects. The program is designed to strengthen self-esteem and self-confidence, foster friendships and build Jewish identity.
$9,600 to the Jewish Gay Network of Michigan for “Twice Blessed: Being Lesbian and Jewish”, for a year long, bi-monthly series of educational and support programs about issues such as coming out, family dynamics, relationships, Jewish community connections, personal health and well being, and reconciling being Jewish and gay, that will reach out to lesbians, mothers of lesbians, children of lesbians, family members and those in the straight community who wish to support the lesbian community.
$10,000 to Jewish Women International for “Building a Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Abuse in the Detroit Jewish Community”, with Jewish Family Services and other Detroit area Jewish community organizations, JWI will engage community leaders, educators, rabbis, funders and social service professionals through meetings and workshops to begin to understand and treat domestic abuse and to begin to shape a coalition that will systematically change the way the community prevents, addresses and responds to abuse. JWI will conduct a needs-assessment study in the Detroit area to collect the perceptions, experiences, understanding and awareness of abuse in the community.
$9,000 to KADIMA for “KADIMA’s Women’s Project”, a program for Jewish women with mental illness who are immobilized emotionally and unable to develop as adults. The project will employ a trained professional to help the participants gain understanding and more control of themselves, their bodies, their sexuality and their relationships. It will prepare them for employment in either independent or sheltered work places, and will empower them to assert and protect themselves.
$10,000 to National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section, for “Advocacy in Action: Empowering Young Jewish Women”, a 4-part series that will educate, train and empower young Jewish women between the ages of 18 and 30 to become advocates, learn effective lobbying skills and how to speak to power about issues of importance to them. Trainers will include experienced lobbyists, including NCJW’s National Advocate and the Greater Detroit Section’s lobbyist in the state capital, and a local NCJW Board Member with extensive advocacy experience. The program will culminate in a lobbying day in Lansing.
$6,650 to the Prentis Memorial Library at Temple Beth El for “Am Echad / Safer Echad: A Community Book Club for Girls ages 11-13 and Their Female Valuable Persons”, a community-wide initiative encouraging Jewish organizations to develop book clubs for girls and their female role models, kindling a lifelong love for reading and learning. A long list of participating synagogues and educational organizations are building book clubs and will come together for an initial book assignment meeting and ice cream social. The book clubs will all begin by reading the same book, and will come back together for an evening with the author. The book clubs will select books on their own or from a provided list for subsequent assignments.
$15,000 Israel Emergency Allocation, In addition to the 2006 Grants listed above, the Trustees awarded a $15,000 special emergency allocation to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for a Trauma Response Program for Primary School Teachers and Children in the Central Galilee, Haifa and Northern Israel. This allocation was matched and awarded jointly with the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York, for a total joint allocation of $30,000.
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2005 Grants
Trustees of the Jewish Women's Foundation awarded $76,250 to 9 programs in the Detroit metropolitan area and in Israel. This includes the first year of two multi-year commitments; a 3 year grant to PACT Netanya, for a total of $30,000 over 3 years and a 2 year special allocation to support a study of the status of Jewish Women as a part of a planned 2 year Jewish Demographic Study of the Detroit area. Special 2-Year Allocation will go to the following:
An Allocation of $7,500 (the first part of a $15,000 2-year Special Allocation) will go to the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit for an analysis of the status of Jewish women in the Detroit area Jewish community as part of a planned Jewish Demographic Study to be conducted by Federation’s Planning and Allocations Department.
The 2005 Grant Awards are:
$10,000 to the David B. Hermelin ORT Resource Center for its "Back to Work Program for Orthodox Women", a second year of support for a project to provide at-risk women with marketable job skills, an opportunity for economic self-sufficiency and the enhancement of self-esteem as the enter the job market, many for the first time.
$8,000 to the Dorothy and Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Care Program, JVS, for its "Caring Partners Project", support for a series of 8 training and informational sessions for women who are care givers for loved-ones with dementia and other debilitating disorders.
$10,000 to The Friendship Circle for "Women Helping Women", a second year of support for a project that pairs women recovering from addiction with other women who have experienced similar struggles. The project includes family members of recovering addicts, as well, and builds coping mechanisms and healthier mind-sets, and organizes safe events for those not yet ready for pairing.
$9,000 to the Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET) for a 2005-2006 "Mean Girls Tour", support for a program that will ensure subsidized performances of the play "Mean Girls" at Jewish synagogue and day schools, followed by its discussion curriculum. "Mean Girls" was commissioned by JET and paid for by a 2004 Jewish Women’s Foundation Grant, and has played at scores of area schools over the past year, to great acclaim.
$10,000 to Jewish Family Service for "Out of the Shadows: Illuminating the Issues of Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community", support for a community event for the professional and lay communities on the issues of coercive and violent domestic abuse to rekindle awareness of a significant problem within the Jewish community. The event will feature Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD, author of Shame Borne in Silence.
$5,000 to Jewish Family Service for "Hannah’s Sisters", support for a new program and conference addressing the issues of infertility and peri-natal loss as they impact women, their partners and their support systems. The focus will be on how to help women by helping the affected couple to increase their mutual sensitivity.
$3,000 to the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section "Teen Dating Abuse Project", support for the training of volunteer facilitators to take the NCJW Teen Dating Abuse video and curriculum to the freshman classes of area Synagogue and day schools. The video and curriculum deal with issues of control and violence in teen dating relationships, and the facilitators will work with students to develop insights, coping skills and the ability to exit abusive relationships.
$13,750 to PACT-Netanya, in Israel, for its "Well Baby Clinics for Ethiopian-Israeli Mothers and Children", the first year of a 3-year grant to support the training and salaries of Ethiopian-Israeli home health liaisons. The home health liaisons work with pregnant women and new mothers in the Ethiopian Olim community, to help them raise healthy, well stimulated babies and toddlers, ready to enter school on a par with their veteran Israeli counterparts.
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2004 Grants
- David B. Hermelin ORT Resource Center’s “Back to Work Program for Orthodox Jewish Women.” $8,000.
- The program uses the latest technology to equip Orthodox Jewish women with computer skills for successful re-entry into the employment market. JVS will offer additional employability skill sessions and coordination of job placement.
- The Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah’s “Beyond the Mirror.” $6,000.
- This program for 4th to 6th grade girls addresses issues that affect self-esteem by promoting positive body/self image and healthy lifestyle choices.
- Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit’s “Tzenuit.” $6,000.
- This project, which offers workshops for middle-school girls, will address the social, emotional and physical challenges of adolescence, in order to equip the girls with the knowledge and coping skills necessary to make healthy decisions with dignity and self-confidence.
- JARC’s “We are Women.” $8,000.
- This program for developmentally disabled women, will build understanding and comfort about body and sexuality interests and concerns, empowering the women to take a more active role in their gender specific health care needs. The program will also help the women acquire assertiveness and personal protection skills to avoid victimization. This grant was supported by the JWF Tody Barnett Memorial Trubute Fund.
- Jewish Family Service’s “Girls’ Services at Yeshivas Darchei Torah.” $7,900.
- This program provides clinical social work services to elementary and middle- school girls.
- Jewish Home and Aging Services’ Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families “Opening Windows for Widows.” $6,000.
- This grant provides a second year of funding for support groups for widows who are also Holocaust survivors, struggling with their heightened and rekindled sense of loss.
- Lester J. Morris Hillel Jewish Student Center/MSU Campus for its “Hillel Jewish Women’s Leadership and Identity Initiative.” $8,000.
- This program strives to establish a sense of Jewish pride and empowerment among Jewish women on campus, while responding to expressions of anti-Semitism. Initiatives will focus on Jewish feminism, social responsibility, community service, body image and intermarriage.
- Sol Drachler Program in Jewish Communal Service at the University of Michigan School of Social Work for the “Drachler Program Alumni Institute – Forwarding Jewish Women Professionals Summit.” $7,200.
- The summit convenes women professionals and students in the field of Jewish communal service, addressing the important issues of breaking the glass ceiling and achieving a work-life balance.
- Friendship Circle’s “Women Helping Women.” $6,000.
- This program will match Jewish women, suffering from substance addiction, or members of their families, with other Jewish women who are successfully recovering from similar situations.
- Upper Galilee Rape Crisis Center “Project Education.” $7,000.
- The project seeks to educate young people about positive inter-gender behavior by providing workshops and lectures for groups of students, teachers, law enforcement professionals and the community about sexual harassment, abuse, violence and rape. The program promotes communication and respectful behavior, working to avoid the need for crisis intervention.
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2003 Grants
Supporting the Foundation in its 2003 Grant Cycle were the following
sponsors: Alix Partners, Edith & Benson Ford Foundation, Matilda
R. Wilson Foundation, Nancy & James Grosfeld, National City Bank,
Robertson Brothers Company and Questor Fund.
- Sarah’s Tent (Alliance for Jewish Education). $5,200 over 2
years.
- Sarah’s Tent is a program with a two year curriculum that provides
support and education for women who are new to Judaism, through marriage
to a Jew, because they are Jews by choice or because they were born
Jewish but had minimal Jewish education.
- JCare Women’s Health (Jewish Apartments and Services). $8,500.
- This grant will extend the hours of the JCare nurse, allowing her
to offer senior women residents of Jewish Apartments and Services preventive
care such as educational seminars, health screenings, simple blood
work and flu shots. The nurse will also supervise the work of a nutritionist.
Since there is a direct correlation between proper nutrition, preventive
health care and increased quality of life, the nutritionist will provide
the residents with the information and education that will be of the
greatest benefit to these women.
- Jewish Ensemble Theatre. $5,000.
- This grant will support the creation, casting and production of a
performance piece and related study guides designed for upper elementary
and middle school girls. The performance will deal with the selective
peer pressure and virtual emotional torture of peers, focusing on developing
insight and behavioral change.
- Healing Waters (Jewish Family Services). $7,500.
- This grant provides support for a spiritual experiential program
of three seminars, to be repeated approximately 10 times throughout
the year, for women interested in a personal mikvah ritual to mark
their transition form cancer treatment to healing. Healing Waters is
for Jewish women living with cancer, regardless of the primary site,
who are at least 12 months post-diagnosis. More information about Healing
Waters...
- Opening Windows for Widows (Jewish Home and Aging Services). $7,000.
- This program offers professionally facilitated support groups for
women who are both Holocaust survivors and widows, and for their families.
The groups provide an intimate understanding of the survivor experience
for those who are struggling with the loneliness of widowhood.
- Women in Pastoral Care (Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network). $5,000.
- This is a second year grant to support the salary of a woman rabbi
who will continue to increase pastoral care services to women patients,
work to educate and reach out to hospices, hospitals, nursing homes
assisted living facilities and synagogues, establish a Health Care
Forum for women clergy and increase the connection between women Rabbis
in the Detroit Metropolitan Area.
- Single Mother Family Camp (Single Jewish Parents Network – Alliance
for Jewish Education). $6,800.
- This grant provides support for a camp for single Jewish mothers
and their children, offering them an opportunity to enhance their Jewish
learning, bond with their children, relax and recharge and to establish
friendships and support systems with other single mothers and their
families in a Jewish-based educational and recreational environment.
- Mavoi Satum. $5,000.
- This Israeli based educational program seeks to eliminate the problem
of “agunot”, women who are unable to obtain a Jewish divorce.
The program raises awareness about the social and legal problems of “agunot” and
promotes the use of preventive measures, primarily through education
and pre-nuptial agreements. The program focuses on two groups: young
adults, prior to marriage, and family professionals such as lawyers,
rabbis and social service providers.
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2002 Grants
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. $6,000.
- This grant will fund a research and counseling project called: Molecular
Biology and Genetics: Breast and Ovarian Cancer in Ashkenazi Jews.
JWF funding will be used to further research into the causes and detection
of certain breast and ovarian cancers in Ashkenazi Jewish women, and
the disproportionate frequency of certain cancer causing genetic mutations
in this population. The family members of participants in the research
are offered information and support at bi-weekly genetics counseling
sessions.
- JARC. $10,000.
- This grant will fund a project called: Strengthening the Jewish Identity
of Women with Developmental Disabilities. This Rosh Chodesh project
will offer JARC residents monthly programs designed to increase their
knowledge of Judaism with instruction about Jewish history, traditions
and spirituality through Jewish holiday celebrations and Shabbat observances.
- The Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network. $10,000.
- This grant will fund a “Women in Pastoral Care” program.
This is a Gayle Halperin Kahn Memorial Grant in memory of our beloved
Trustee who succumbed to cancer. Funding will help the organization’s
efforts to encourage women rabbis to enter the field of chaplaincy
and to train other professional women in the direct care of adults
with disabilities, loss and grief accompanying end of life issues.
An important part of the program will be efforts to improve the professional
status of women in the field of pastoral care, traditionally a male
dominated field.
- JVS. $5,711.
- This grant will fund a “Personal and Career Awareness Program
for Girls”. The program will serve girls in Jewish schools by
providing interactive, hands-on activities which will help them to
build self-esteem; identify their unique, personal styles; learn about
their aptitudes and to understand how those aspects of their character
relate to personal relationships and career choices.
- Machon L'Torah. $3,119.
- This grant will kick-off its “Uniquely Ours / JCC Women’s
Rosh Chodesh Lecture Series”. Funds will support the initial
lecture of a year-long series. The featured speaker at the kick-off
lecture will be Esther Jungreis, whose topic will be, “How to
keep the High of High Holidays in our Lives through Prayer”.
- Single Jewish Parents Network. $10,000.
- This grant will fund a Single Mother/Child Family Camp and its Quarterly
Jewish Family Programs. SJNP provides single parent families with Jewish-based
environments, offering them opportunities to enhance their Jewish learning,
bond, relax and establish friendships and support systems through educational
and recreational activities. This the second JWF grant awarded to the
SJNP.
- Jerusalem Rape Crisis Center. $5,175.
- This grant will fund a “Women’s Education and Empowerment
Project. The JRCC will provide series of sexual violence education
workshops for women participating in community women’s groups
sponsored by the Jerusalem Municipality. Each workshop series will
focus on the dynamics of sexual violence; victims’ responses
to trauma and how to help friends heal; sexual violence against children;
and women’s empowerment in romantic relationships, assisting
participants to develop self-help skills and resources, recognize the
signs of sexual abuse and cope with sexual trauma.
- SHILO: Pregnancy Advocacy Center (in Jerusalem). $5,000.
- This grant will fund a program called “CHOICES: Healthy Relationships
for High-Risk Girls and Young Women. The program will address the issues
of sexual risk-taking and coercive sexual situations with adolescent
girls and young women considered at “high risk” through
multi-session workshops in schools and community centers. The focus
will be on early onset of sexual activity, sexual health problems,
avoidance of unplanned pregnancy, exploitation and abusive relationships.
- YEDID: The Association for Community Empowerment (in Nazareth Illit,
Israel). $5,000.
- This grant will fund a program called "Women to Women".
This two-staged, year long program will assist and empower women in
gender related advocacy and assistance fields. In the first stage,
30 women will be trained as advocates for other women in the community,
especially recent immigrants and low income women, in the areas of
women’s employment rights; control over one’s body; violence
against women; single parents’ rights; marital and divorce procedures
and housing. The second stage will be the formation of model self-help
groups facilitated by the newly trained advocates.
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2001 Grants
- The Institute for Single Jewish Parents, a program of the Agency
for Jewish Education. $10,000.
- The grant will fund a Mother/Child family camp to provide emotional
support for single mothers and their children and enhance their Jewish
affiliation in a recreational setting. The grant will also support
a Shabbat Dinner program for single parent families.
- B.B.Y.O - BBG International Mind, Body and Attitude Convention. $10,000.
- The grant will support a leadership training convention hosted by
Detroit's local BBG chapter for its high school aged members throughout
the United States and Canada. The convention will be held at Camp Maas.
- Sarah's Tent - A support group for women who are Jews by choice.
$2,340.
- The grant will support a yearlong continuation of a pilot project
that reaches out to Jews by choice, helping them to understand and
build Jewish tradition into their lives.
- The Mothers' Team Project - A Kollel Ladies Auxiliary League's short-term
crisis intervention program. $10,000.
- The grant will fund a women to women program that provides temporary
help for families in crisis due to the death the mother, or her absence
because of illness, troubled pregnancy or the serious illness of a
family member.
- The Women's Health Initiative of Jcare - a health care project for
residents of Jewish Apartments and Services. $10,000.
- The grant will support preventive care education and medical services
not covered by Medicare for residents of the apartments, 89 percent
of whom are women, to help them age in place and avoid moving to full
care facilities.
- GOALS (Getting our Jewish Adolescents to Learn about Sexuality) -
a project of the Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition. $5,000.
- The grant will support a program for girls set in a context of Jewish
values and beliefs to help them understand Jewish and societal messages
about sexuality, self-esteem and personal power and to develop strategies
that will help them during adolescence.
- Shalom Bayit - an outreach project that is a Jewish response to domestic
violence and abuse. $3,000.
- The grant will help educate the Jewish community and increase its
awareness of domestic violence by paying to produce and distribute
a Shalom Bayit brochure. The brochure will help women recognize signs
of abuse and find help.
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