by Florence Broder In a year when the Israeli Presidential Conference not only piggybacks on the Jewish Agency Board of Governors and Assembly, but also on the World Council of Jewish Communal Service Quadrennial, I expected the lone philanthropy panel titled, “The Tomorrow of Jewish Philanthropy,” to blow me away. Instead, the panel was nothing more than a fizzle. The session, on the Presidential Conference program, achieved geographic diversity by featuring panelists from the United States, Israel, Mexico, Holland and Australia. It also succeeded in emphasizing a trend in philanthropy that has become common practice: the diminishing philanthropic dollars for the collective and the Core while the desire to designate increases. This point should not be taken lightly as many organizations … [Read more...]