The deputy executive director of one of the largest charitable foundations in Russia - the Dmitry Zimin Dynasty Foundation - Roza Hatzkelevitch has been interviewed by the Community Life and graciously agreed to express her opinion concerning the NGO management and Jewish NGO management in particularly

the magazine represents two contradicting approaches to this issue. One is expressed in an interview with Konstantin Plotkin - the head of the 'Permanent museum exposition' of the St. Petersburg Jewish Charity Center. The exposition is an example of a community-oriented museum, where the exhibit is put together mainly with the help of the community members, for whom participating in the museum's activity is an important life experience. The museum comprises of two exhibits: 'The Jews of Russia: Catastrophe and Renaissance' and 'The Jewish Destinies'.

Another approach is expressed in an article by Valery Dymshits, a director of the 'Center for the Jewish Museum creation' of the Judaica Institute St. Petersburg. According to Dymshits, the Jewish museum should serve not just the community, but also the city as a whole, being an integral part of its museum complex. The project implies the recreation of the Jewish Museum in the building where the Jewish historical-ethnographic society resided in 1916-1929 in St. Petersburg. The collection of this museum later became a property of the Ethnographic Museum. The objects from these collections as well other objects from collections of St. Petersburg museums could constitute the part of exhibits in the new space

President of the Vaad and Secretary General of Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Prof. Mikhail Chlenov speaks about the history, the contemporary role and the future place of Jewish community organizations. In his opinion the Jewish community of Russia has been formed by the pattern of European communities, while there are no people in the synagogues, which is traditionally the basis of Jewish community. The strongest point of community organizations is social and educational activity, though Russian Jews are not active in community life and prefer to be mere recipients of benefits from community organizations.

Chief Editor of on-line newspaper mosnews.com and member of Editorial Board of Israeli information agency 'Kursor' Anton Nosik thinks that considerable number of both Jewish and secular non-commercial organizations in Russia perform self-sufficient bureaucracy. The problem is that these organizations are aimed at donors, not at clients. Nevertheless, Nosik finds necessary to develop grassroots activities and considers truly effective those community life forms which are actuated by the participants' interests.

Director of the Moscow rep office of the American organization called International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), discusses the trends of non-governmental sector development in Russia and the role of managers of non-for-profit organizations.