William Avrunin, Detroit Jewish Welfare Fund vice-president, charged here that local budgeting and planning were being “down staged” by fundraising operations. “Federation leadership, lay and professional, knows that it is being Judged by the level of local services,” Avrunin told delegates attending the 74th annual meeting of the National Conference of Jewish Communal Service,
“Jewish agencies,” he continued, “are now confronted with a different United Way which listens to loud and aggressive demands from Black and racial groups, from unions, from those who have been excluded from the Establishment. We who have been a part of the Establishment have assumed that the United Way will take care of us.”
Jewish community services must “express the same kind of deep conviction about the necessity for our services as other groups do,” Avrunin said, adding: “There is a growing feeling among my colleagues In Federation that an imbalance has developed In organized Jewish community life which threatens not Just the local agencies but the federations themselves, The survival of the Federation depends also on maintaining and strengthening local services.”
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