"We can really use them to meet the specific needs of an individual family."

But it's probably not a good idea to do that when you're still asking people to give money for a specific need.

What public school wouldn't like to be free to design a curriculum to meet the specific needs of its student population?

A service is helping others with a specific need or want.

He or she can design a treatment plan to meet your specific needs.

Rock stars, after all, have very specific needs of their own.

Many have grown out of specific cultural, economic or social needs.

But the older you get, the more specific your needs.

In other words, specific needs are more important to some than to others.

Such measures meet a very specific need, and we should, of course, continue with them.