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While 70 percent of the survey's 1,114 respondents are affiliated with the Jew- ish community in some way, the majority do no volunteer work, attend no meetings and contribute little finan- cially. "This, then, is the reality of affiliation with which Jewish organizations and Jewish leadership must grapple," wrote Drs. Renae Cohen and Sherry Rosen in the study, titled "Organizational Affilation of American Jews: A Resear- ch Report." That reality is "a potential membership pool that `believes in' Jewish organ- izations, gives to them of their time and money at relatively modest levels and prefers the organizations to adhere to an unchanged agenda that emphasizes fighting anti- Semitism, supporting Israel and preserving Jewish identity," the authors wrote. "There do not appear to be large numbers of Jews here who are willing to par- ticipate with greater expen- ditures of time and money or who care enough to re- evaluate current organiza- tional structures and agen- das," they conclude. But what deserves em- phasis, Rosen said, is the fact that 31 percent of re- spondents said they have less involvement in Jewish organizations than they want, as compared to 19 per- cent who want more in- volvement in non-Jewish organizations. And respondents have a very positive image of people involved with Jewish organ- izations; a majority think of them as well educated, Jew- ishly knowledgeable, active in the community and inter- ested in community or world affairs. The policy implications of these findings are far- reaching, said Rosen, a research associate in the AJCommittee's Department of Communal Affairs. There clearly is a sizable Jewish population ready to be asked to do more, a widespread willingness on which Jewish organizations should capi- talize, she explained. Some of the findings that could shape the way Jewish organizations market them- L), selves include: • More than twice as h many respondents said they belong to non-sectarian j organizations to network for-, ) professional reasons as said they belong to Jewish groups c. for that reason (33 percent vs. 15 percent). • Many more said they belong to Jewish groups be- cause of family and friend-,_ ship ties to the organization (43 percent), and because of an emotional attachment to it the group (34 percent) than cited those as reasons for belonging to non-Jewish groups (21 and 19 percent, respectively). • Two-thirds of re- spondents believe that af- filiation with Jewish groups and with non-sectarian organizations is of equal im- 46 percent said they were involved with one Jewish organization other than a synagogue in 1990. portance and that affiliation with a Jewish organization is as important as belonging to a synagogue. Most of those surveyed expressed satisfaction with their level of involvement. • A plurality — 46 percent I — said they were involved with one Jewish organiza- tion other than a synagogue in 1990, 25 percent said ther_ were involved with two, and 28 percent with three organ- ci izations or more. • But two-thirds of the survey's respondents said that other than dues and membership fees, they do-), nated less than $200 to all Jewish organizations. Roughly the same percen- tage of respondents donated less than $200 to non- sectarian groups. • By a margin of 56 per- cent to 47 percent, more re spondents said they gave money to Jewish organiza- tions than to non- sectarian groups, but more were likely to do volunteer work for non- sectarian groups than for Jewish ones (41 percent vs.c' 32 percent). • And they were slightly