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Federation of
Metropolitan
Detroit, moved
into the Jewish
nonprofit
space when he
relocated home
to Detroit from
San Francisco some 12
years ago. He’d worked in
advertising for an agency that
had some nonprofits clients,
as well.
“I always really enjoyed
that work and being able to
connect to the mission of an
organization and understand
the impact it was having,” he
says. Today, he’s working with
professionals and volunteer
leaders committed, as he
is, to making a difference
and helping others in the
community.
“
At Federation, we have a
very broad range of things
we do, and so every day,
every week we get to work on
different areas of Jewish life
and Jewish community that
are making a difference, and
it’s great to see people being
helped, to see lives being
improved,” he says. “There
are challenges, certainly,
but it’s very different than
working for a company that’s
putting out a product and is
really focused on the product.
We’re focused on our mission,
and that feels good.”
Like other organizations in
the space, they’re faced with
the challenge of trying to
do the most possible within
the limits of the time and
resources they have, he says.
“You’re always trying to
make the best use of your
resources and, at the same
time, you are really always
wanting to do more and more
and more, in our case for the
community, for those who we
support,” he says.
“You have to make choices
because you can only do
so much, and I think,
fortunately, we have a really
generous community. We do
have resources, so we’re able
to do a lot. Even so, I wish
I had more time — I wish
I could do twice as much,
simply because there’s so
much opportunity to make a
difference.”
As part of Michigan’s
program, JCLP’s
Goldman taught
Jake Ehrlich,
who lives in
Detroit, about
the Jewish
landscape of
Michigan and
Jake
Ehrlich
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Jason Charnas helps a client at Gesher Human Services.
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