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Women of Vision Society Grant
With the heLp of a Women of vision soCiety
grant, isaBeL BaiLin Created and organiZed the
LifeBoard proJeCt for residents of the toWers
As a volunteer at Tower One/Tower East in New Haven for the
past four years, Isabel Bailin, a junior at Hopkins School, created
a project unlike any other— The LifeBoard Project was formed to
create personalized visual displays for Towers’ residents capturing:
w Life milestones
w Values
w Cherished memories
A LifeBoard is a collage of magazine photographs and other printed materials
that are pasted on self-adhesive foam boards that visually describe a story.
Over three workshops, Isabel led residents in the creation of their own personal
LifeBoards. Sitting with local high school students, Tower’s residents – ranging in
age from mid-70s to mid-90s — recounted episodes of their lives and chose
photographs and words from old Life magazines to evoke and illustrate
personal memories and feelings.
Isabel’s initial hope was that the project would enhance the quality of life for
Jewish men, women and their families by providing a unique tool to encourage
elderly members to talk about their lives, lessons learned, and the experiences
they have had with other women, with their children, with their grandchildren
and with their great-grandchildren. The Towers, grounded in Jewish values and
traditions, attracts residents who abide by those values and who seek opportunities
to live by them. This was clearly the case as many of the residents
made a point to talk about how they were going to show the LifeBoards to
their families at their next visit, especially their younger family members. The two
most meaningful outcomes of this project were the very poignant personal
stories shared by the residents as each described their LifeBoard to the rest
of the group and also the relationship formed between the residents and Isabel
during the creation of the LifeBoards.
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Top: Towers’ resident Eva Cooper
Middle: Towers’ residents work
with Isabel Bailin on
Lifeboard project.
Bottom: Towers’ resident Sylvia
Rosenthal with Isabel Bailin
The more charity,
the more peace.
Pireki Avot, 2:8
Sidney and Arthur Eder Foundation
sidney and arthur eder
foundation estaBLishes neW
designated endoWment funds
idney and Arthur Eder, founders of
S
Eder Brothers, Inc., a wholesale liquor
distributor, worked together and gave
together. In 1954, they established the
Sidney and Arthur Eder Foundation, Inc. to support
charitable organizations in Stamford and New Haven
where they lived, respectively, with their families. In early
1980, they involved Sidney’s son, Andrew, and Arthur’s
daughter, Jill, in the activities of their Foundation.
Sidney died in 1985 and Arthur in 2006. Andy and
Jill wanted to make sure that their fathers’ legacies
would continue and be honored. They worked with the
Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven to establish
designated endowment funds at the Jewish Foundation
that would be funded through the Sidney and Arthur
Eder Foundation. These endowment funds are
designated for the following organizations:
w The Anti-Defamation League of Connecticut’s
education-related programs, including
Confronting Anti-Semitism and the A World
of Difference Institute.
w Juvenile Diabetes research Foundation
International
w The Arts Council of Greater New Haven for the
New Haven Clay and Paint Club’s annual juried
exhibition, something Arthur had consistently
supported for over 30 years.
w PACE (Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment)
to benefit the Jewish Federation of Greater
New Haven Annual Campaign. Funds will help to
support the Jewish community in Greater New
Haven, as well as Jewish communities in need in
Eastern Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, India,
Latin America, the former Soviet Union and Israel.
Each of these funds will continue in perpetuity
and will be managed and invested through the
Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven.
“Closing the Sidney and Arthur Eder Foundation, and
transferring the assets to the Jewish Foundation made
sense,” said Andy Eder. “The monies that my father
and uncle donated will continue to support the
organizations which were most important to them
over many years. Both Jill and I have confidence in the
Jewish Foundation managing and administering these
endowments. This will insure that the legacy started
by Sidney and Arthur continues. Furthermore, It also
reduces the administrative and legal costs that would
have been incurred if our family foundation continued
as a separate entity “
The Jewish community was of particular importance
to both brothers. Sidney was a past President of The
Jewish Federation of Greenwich and was one of the
founders of The Jewish Home for the Elderly in Fairfield.
When he retired to Palm Beach, he continued working
in both the Jewish community and the arts community
there. Arthur, along with his friends Pat Goodwin and
Sam Glazer, was one of the founders of the Jewish
Foundation of Greater New Haven. During his lifetime,
Arthur established funds at the Foundation for the benefit
of Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden, and the
Jewish Community Center in Woodbridge. He served
on many committees for the benefit of the community.
“Jill and I know that this is what they would have
wanted,” stated Andy. “We are honored to continue to
support those organizations that were so important to
them. We both learned a tremendous amount from our
fathers and only hope that we can continue to carry on
their good works. We could not be more proud of their
generosity and their accomplishments.”
.
Nobody is ever impoverished through
the giving of charity.
Moses Maimonides
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