Benjamin Ulin, president of the Associated Jewish Philanthropies here, told the 60th anniversary meeting of the group that unless planning and coordination were made more effective, “we will not be doing our most important job as we should.” He stressed the fact that aside from financing constituent agencies, the major responsibility of the A.J.P. is that of serving as the community’s planning agency.
The communal leader said that one area requiring immediate community-wide coordination was the “growing problem” of care for the aged and chronically ill. This problem, he added, together with all other health and hospital activities, takes the largest percentage of community money. “This is, by every test,” he went on, “the all-important area for planning and coordinating through our central communal agency.”
Mr. Ulin told the meeting, which also heard, as its guest speaker, Sidney Hollander, president of the National Social Welfare Assembly, that thinking “in terms of the total Jewish community and its total good” is the “basic implication of a federation like the Associated Jewish Philanthropies and the test of our maturity as a community.”
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