Federation: An Agency in Need of Change

Publication Date: January 1991

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Gerald A. Kleinman

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Management; Funding; Communal Organization

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Our community, our country, and the world are undergoing radical changes in the way that they function. Federations, if they are to be the central agencies for communal growth that they must be, will have to make major changes as well. Each community must set its own priorities, develop its own agenda, and establish its own manner of doing business. In order to do that, however, each must base its actions and decisions on the realities of today, not on responses of the past. We must all take risks, explore even those options that may initially seem ridiculous, and together redefine the manner in which we function.