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"We are going to have to adapt to the times, mod- ularize, accommodate our members. If you can't come The Numbers Game Many volunteer organ- izations do not have readily available statistics comparing current levels of participation and fund- raising results with those of ten or 20 years ago. However, they report that they have either kept pace or made slight gains in numbers of dues-paying members and on a whole have met or surpassed fund-raising goals — due to the intense efforts of less than ten percent of their memberships. GREATER DETROIT CHAPTER OF HADAS- SAH: According to president Susan York, local membership of 6,000 has grown by 1,000 in the past 15 years. Three of their 12 groups have been formed within the past five years. Last year local women met the $496,500 quota set by national. However, York said that a ten percent turnout to a meeting is considered very good, and that Hadassah now com- bines a board meeting and a dinner meeting with each of its two telethons so that a volunteer can spend just one evening accomplishing several activities. While Hadassah locally has always met their fund-raising quota, within the past five years the local Hadassah thrift shop has gone from a staff of volunteers to all paid per- sonnel, and the organiza- tion is always in need of executive officers. "Women don't want the responsibil- ity of the top jobs," York said. Hadassah is the largest women's volunteer organ- ization of any kind in the United States and the largest Jewish women's volunteer organization as well. NAAMAT USA: For- merly Pioneer Women, the group has met the nation- ally set fund-raising quota for the past five years (half raised by volunteers aged 70-90). Membership in the original five clubs has de- creased by 128 members since 1975. Many of these deceased members left money in their wills to Naamat USA, helping the organization reach its fund-raising goals. The younger clubs have in- creased membership by 146 since 1975, and the organ- ization has more than 500 members. "We make our goals," said president Ann Kaplan, "but that goal is very hard to raise." SINAI HOSPITAL GUILD: Volunteers have contributed 3.5 million hours of their time since the 1950s when Sinai Hos- pital opened. Whereas the volunteer of the '50s and '60s was a 30-40-year-old homemaker who volun- teered a regular amount of time each week, today's volunteer is either a high school or college student or a retiree who may work less regularly — either less hours weekly or less months of the year than the original volunteers. WOMEN'S AMERICAN ORT: Locally ORT is se- eing a downward trend in both membership and fund raising. Local membership of 3,800 has decreased be- tween five-ten percent for the last two years, accord- ing to Nancy Silverman. Last year's fund raising was 10 percent short of the goal set nationally by ORT. The Detroit area committ- ment was $225,000. This year ORT nationally is $1 million short of its pledge committment to the World ORT Union. YOUNG WOMEN OF JEWISH NATIONAL FUND - EREV: Current membership is 250 with active participation at 10 percent or less. "Ten years ago we'd get 40 women at a meeting, now we're lucky to get ten," said past president Donna Sklar. "But ten-15 years ago our annual auction raised $2,000 and last year we raised $25,000, which is what we've done for the past few years," she said. "We're either paddling harder or bailing water faster." ❑ (