The National Jewish Welfare Board has created a Committee on Reappraisal and Planning charged with responsibility for undertaking an immediate objective reappraisal of JWB’s program, organizational structure and community relationships, it was announced here today by Solomon Litt, JWB president.
Chairman of the Committee on Reappraisal and Planning is Louis Stern, a JWB vice-president as well as a vice-president of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. It is expected that the committee’s findings will be ready early in 1962 and will be acted on at JWB’s 1962 National Biennial Convention in Miami Beach.
In authorizing the study, JWB’s executive committee was motivated by the need to reexamine the way in which JWB carries out its functions and services in the light of its commitments in its three major areas of service. Far-reaching changes at home and abroad that have been paralleled by equally significant changes in JWB’s fields of work “make it imperative for JWB to look closely at itself and the way it is meeting its commitments, ” the charge to the Committee on Reappraisal and Planning pointed out.
The charge explains that “the executive committee desires to assure the fact that JWB is achieving its purposes effectively, efficiently and economically, ” and “wishes to be certain that the organization is meeting its responsibilities to the maximum.”To accomplish these objectives, JWB’s executive committee is asking the Committee on Reappraisal and Planning to find the answers to these basic questions:
1. What should be JWB’s programs in the 1960’s? 2.How should JWB be organized to provide the services this program requires? 3. What can and should be done to strengthen and streamline JWB’s lay structure? 4. How can public understanding of JWB be improved?
Emphasizing the importance of the study and the significant role of the Committee on Reappraisal and Planning, the charge declared: “The answers to questions of this character call for defining broad concepts and principles and require the establishment of clear cut guidelines. The answers call for social statesmanship by experienced JWB leaders and by other responsible community leaders. The answers are to be sought in courageous concepts and bold thinking rather than in concern with minutiae and evaluation of isolated services.
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