“Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own,…they, in turn, will want to serve our people”

Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own — you educate, celebrate and invest in your people — they, in turn, will want to serve our people. It’s a winning formula for excellence. Unfortunately, it’s not intuitive in our community. Look around at many Jewish nonprofits, and you’ll find inconsistent supervision and evaluation. Very few organizations have created and sustained a culture of learning. If they have episodic programming, it’s often not meaningful enough to have real impact. Our talent pipeline has been drying up for years.

Erica Brown, “Taking Care of Our Own”, The Jewish Week (6 January 2017), 38.