NEW YORK (JTA) – The North American federation system has implemented a new system to determine overseas funding.
The Overseas Needs Assessment and Distribution Committee (ONAD) has been replaced by direct negotiations in New York between leaders of the federation system’s overseas beneficiary groups, the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Under the new two-year agreement, the Jewish Agency will continue to receive 75 per cent of the UJC’s undesignated overseas dollars and the JDC will receive 25 per cent.
The ONAD process, which included a cross-section of federation leadership to determine allocations, was widely seen as hamstrung by bureaucracy and politics. The new arrangement, arbitrated by UJC leadership, was hailed as a victory by both the JDC and JAFI. JAFI Chairman Zeev Bielski wrote in an email to the agency’s executive board that the “agreement sets the stage for a new era of cooperation and partnership for fund raising and meeting critical needs.”
But Steve Schwager, JDC’s executive vice president, warned that success is contingent on maintaining current levels of overseas funding – some $43 million in core funding for JDC and $129 million for the Jewish Agency.
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