The American Jewish community’s network of charity organizations is a font of Jewish power, a source of communal pride and a huge mystery. We know that the network exists. We know that its federations, social service groups and advocacy organizations influence America’s domestic and foreign policy, care for the old, educate the young and send more than a billion dollars a year to Israel. Yet until now we’ve had no idea what the network looks like. Individual organizations file tax returns. Some umbrella groups offer information on their members’ work. But no one has measured the network as a whole: how much it spends, how much it raises, how it prioritizes causes, how much it gets from the government. Read more: forward/articles/194978/-billion-bucks-the-jewish-charity-industry-unco/?p=all#ixzz2x0qTXFyY
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:34:49 +0000
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