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Making Leaders: How the American Jewish Community Prepares Its Lay Leaders
Publication Date: January 2004
Publisher(s): Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Hal M. Lewis
Series: Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 80:2-3
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Social conditions (Volunteerism)
Keywords: Employment; Professionalism; Volunteerism
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author analyzed the methodologies, core components, and educational objectives of the lay leadership development and training programs of 40 national and local Jewish organizations. He found that, with very few exceptions, the programs did not actually train lay people to be leaders.