The Jewish Occupational Council has awarded $5, 000 in grants to four member agencies to aid them in developing job and other productive opportunities for older immigrant Jews, Samuel S. Greenberg, chairman of the Council’s board of directors, announced today. The grants were made possible through the Baron de Hirsch Fund.
The grants, the first of their kind by the Council, went to the Jewish Vocational Service of Detroit, the Jewish Vocational Service of Newark, the Jewish Employment and Vocational Service of St. Louis, and the Jewish Vocational Service Department of the Jewish Family Service of Erie County, New York.
The Detroit agency received the funds for its program of promoting employment opportunities for Jewish immigrants of 62 years of age and older, who are seeking part-time Jobs to supplement social security benefits. The Newark agency will seek to develop full-time Job opportunities for persons 60 years old and over. The St. Louis agency will use the grant to conduct a pilot program to provide employment in the home for older handicapped Jews. The Erie county service will seek to recruit and train older Jewish women for employment as home makers for aged and disabled persons.
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