The Importance of Services to an Action Program


 

Publication Date: December 1974

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Lawrence E. Blonsky

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Social Planning; Organizational Development

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

There has been a dichotomy, asserts the author, between service-oriented and community action-oriented agencies and groups, with the former concerned only with pointing out unmet needs and organizing new services, and the latter concerned only with implementing existing services. The author argues that this dichotomy is artificial, arbitrary and self-imposed. The two pursuits can greatly inform and assist one another.