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delivered by separate agencies or
sub-agencies?
• Consensus or paralysis?
Federations rely on a consensus
model to get things done, trying to
get the most people representing
the most points of view to reach
some common ground. The result is
often the least common denomina-
tor, with the fewest people terribly
unhappy, but nobody really happy
either.
Is this still a good model? Is it
efficient? Getting everyone to "buy
in" may bring community harmony
but also paralysis.
•Finding the right executive:
Federations often seek the impos-
sible — someone who knows the
federation business as an insider,
and someone with fresh new per-
spectives, who is unsaddled by the
old way of doing business — i.e., ar,
outsider.
What is the mix of skills and
experience necessary to run a fed-
eration? What do federations really
want in their executives besides
miracle workers who will solve
every issue discussed in this article?
•Establishing better relation-
ships with private foundations: In
a number of communities, private
Jewish foundations give away more
money than the federation, and in a
growing number of places, a single
Jewish foundation does so. Many
foundations often complain that
federations are too slow to respond
to changing needs and are too
bureaucratic.
Federations complain that foun-
dations start projects that they do
not finish and leave the mess for
federations to clean up. How can
federations work closer and more
effectively with private foundations?
The bottom line is that federa-
tions need to change. We will make
a better system by tackling the real
issues, not hiding from them. If not,
federations will remain part of the
Jewish philanthropic landscape, but
nowhere near as important as they
ought to be.
While federations have evolved
significantly in recent years, the
change is not happening compre-
hensively or quickly enough for
them to be the powerhouses in
Jewish philanthropy they would like
to be or were in the past.
Gary Tobin is president of the Institute
for Jewish & Community Research and
writes frequently about American and
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Jewish philanthropy.