Jewish Communal Agencies in New York and Indianapolis Win Awards

The Federation Employment and Guidance Service of New York and two communal agencies of Indianapolis, the Jewish Welfare Federation and the Borinstein Home for the Jewish Aged, were named winners of the 1959 William J- Shroder Memorial Awards, it was announced today by William Rosenwald, chairman of the awards committee. The awards are sponsored by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds and are given each year to two communities, one large and the other small, for “superior initiative and achievement in the advancement of social welfare.”

Now in its seventh year, the awards were created by the Council in honor of the late Mr. Shroder, one of its founders and its first president. Mr. Shroder was a prominent Cincinnati civic and business leader as well as a leading philanthropist. The award was created as a “continuing living tribute to his ideals, with the goal of giving renewed force year after year, to the humanitarian purposes which he personified. “

The Federation Employment and Guidance Service, an agency of the New York Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, was named winner for communities with more than 40, 000 Jewish population, for its pioneering project to prove the value of rehabilitation services for vocationally handicapped persons 60 years of age and older to help them find jobs in private industry.

The Indianapolis Jewish Welfare Federation and the Joseph and Annie Borinstein Home for the Jewish Aged were honored among cities with less than 40, 000 Jewish population for their leadership in focusing attention on the needs of older people in the community and involving a group of private and public agencies in developing a Senior Citizen’s Day Center.