,Searching for the Eighth Degree of Tzedakah: Jewish Institutional Investment in Low-Income Community and Economic Development Financial Institutions

Searching for the Eighth Degree of Tzedakah: Jewish Institutional Investment in Low-Income Community and Economic Development Financial Institutions


 

Publication Date: June 1997

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Jeffrey Dekro; Lawrence Bush

Research Area: Banking and finance; Culture and religion

Keywords: Poverty; Jewish Organizations; Fundraising and Philanthropy

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

American Jewish institutional investment in low-income community and economic development is a new realm for Jewish institutional tzedakah that is both informed by traditional Jewish concepts and serves to build bridges between the Jewish and non-Jewish communities. The Tzedek/Justice Economic Development Campaign facilitates partnerships between Jewish institutions and community-controlled community development financial institutions.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.73 no.4, Summer 1997.