With some 500 representatives of 79 communities taking part in eight locations across the country during the last two months, the United Jewish Appeal’s “National Campaign Cabinet on the Road” program has successfully completed its mission of maximizing community participation in the planning of the 1987 UJA/Federation Campaign.
In the final stage of a comprehensive development process, the resulting document, the 1987 UJA Campaign Plan, was approved by the agency’s National Officers, the highest UJA decision-making body.
“The aim of ‘NCC on the Road’,” said Martin Stein of Milwaukee, Wisc., UJA national chairman designate for the 1986 Campaign, “was to obtain advice and consent at the grass-roots level, to bring the campaign planning process to our regions and to community leadership throughout the nation and have local Jewish leaders help shape the national plan. I am happy to say I believe we have met our objectives.”
Stein, a UJA national vice chairman and chairman of UJA’s Community Leadership Consultation Program, and other top lay leaders and UJA professionals met with community representatives in such centers as Atlanta, Philadelphia, Miami and Hartford, Conn. The resulting dialogues produced a variety of program suggestions in the areas of major gifts, missions, leadership development and raising the level of Jewish consciousness.
The meeting also provided Stein, who will succeed Alex Grass of Harrisburg, Pa., as UJA national chairman in May, with the opportunity to relate to a broad segment of the UJA/Federation family and to develop a meaningful dialogue in regard to all aspects of UJA’s work. In addition to the meetings in the “NCC on the Road” program, 28 others were held, involving lay and professional leaders and representatives of such groups as the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet and Cabinet and Campaign Chairmen. More than 750 persons participated in both series of meetings.
The approval of the 1987 Campaign Plan by the UJA National Officers was the culmination of a planning process that, Stein said, was designed “to incorporate community perceptions and ideas and to respond to community needs.” The process began with the UJA Planning Committee, led by UJA national vice chairman H. Paul Rosenberg of Kansas City. The Committee’s draft plan was subsequently discussed by the UJA’s National Campaign Cabinet and refined during the “NCC on the Road” program.
The UJA National Campaign Cabinet, which helps shape overall campaign policy, is composed of national, regional and community leadership.
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