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October 19, 2001/Cheshvan 2, 5762, Vol. 54, No. 6
Study moves forward
BARRY COHEN
Editor
The first demographic study in 18 years for the Valley's Jewish community is proceeding on schedule.
The executive committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix has signed a contract with Ukeles Associates, Inc., a national consulting group, to conduct the study.
Valley residents Harold and Jean Grossman pledged $150,000 to underwrite the study.
About $30,000 is needed for additional expenses, including pre-survey marketing and report printing, according to federation officials, who are hoping to raise the funds from agencies, grants, congregations, individual underwriters and businesses, said Howard Cabot, chairman of the federation's demographic study committee.
"We are looking to anyone, secular or non-secular, who will derive a benefit (from the study)," said Cabot.
Contributing money to make the demographic study a reality can be viewed as a "business investment," he added.
"Demographic studies generate useful information for the purposes of businesses ... that need to have an understanding of what the market is looking for," he explained.
Ukeles consultants plan to visit Phoenix in late October to meet with federation leaders, agency representatives and members of constituency groups, said Cabot.
"We want them to get as much input as they can (about the community)," he said.
Cabot said the study findings should be available by late spring.
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