“Strategic philanthropy is possible because strong communal bodies take care of the basic needs of the community”

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Strategic philanthropy is possible because strong communal bodies take care of the basic needs of the community. We need strategic funders and independent philanthropists to cover gaps, take risks and produce additional innovation, because we can pick an issue and “move the needle” in that specific domain in a way that a federation can’t. But we wouldn’t be able to do that if we needed to replace federation in covering basic needs and establishing a broad safety net.

Andrés Spokoiny, “Think Twice Before Blaming Federation”, The Jewish Week (27 February 2015), 26.

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