Leah Rosenbaum, JVS Executive Director and Lynn Marie Oates, Women’s Fund Board Member
Rochester, MI – (June 5, 2017) – The Women’s Fund recently presented the Jewish Vocational Services (JVC) with a $750 grant for their Better Jobs Opportunities Program.
JVC helps people meet life challenges affecting their self-sufficiency based on the belief that the best way to help people is to make it possible for them to help themselves
The Women’s Fund grant will help fund scholarships for Oakland County women, through which they will receive computer skills needed to succeed in the workplaces. The grant check was presented to Leah Rosenbaum, JVS Executive Director by Lynn Marie Oates, Women’s Fund Board Member.
Over the past 16 years, the Women’s Fund has donated more than $300,000 to organizations helping women. The fund is a permanently endowed fund owned and administered by the Community Foundation of Greater Rochester. Through grant-making, the Fund provides ongoing and future support for programs that aid women while preserving and managing its donations in perpetuity by spending only the fund’s income and annual earnings.
For more information on the Women’s Fund or for questions please call (248) 812-0763 or email womensfundrochester@gmail.com. You can also follow them on Facebook at “The Women’s Fund.”