With the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and recent trends in stock market performance over time, Americans can expect major changes in the landscape of charitable giving in the coming years, The Philanthropy Outlook 2018 & 2019 indicates. The new report is researched … [Read more...] about Tax Policy Changes, Strength of U.S. Economy Lead to Mixed Outlook for Charitable Giving
Archives for February 2018
The Chicago Adult Jewish Learning Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges
By Dr. Dean P. Bell First in a series of articles about lifelong Jewish learning There are many opportunities for adults seeking to engage in Jewish learning - ranging widely in format and topics and offered from synagogues and havurot, colleges and universities, local and … [Read more...] about The Chicago Adult Jewish Learning Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges
Hebrew Learning for the 21st Century
By Rabbi Stacy Eskovitz Rigler I graduated from Hebrew Union College in the age of possibility. At the turn of the millennium anything was possible for Jewish life. Five years before the first recession, looking back, it seemed like the golden age of synagogues. I started at … [Read more...] about Hebrew Learning for the 21st Century
“We Need a New Communal Norm”
By Rabbi Lee Buckman This past fall, Birthright Israel turned 18 years old. Over 600,000 young adults - roughly the number of Jews in the State of Israel in 1948 and the number of Israelites who stood at Mount Sinai thousands of years ago - have now participated on one of … [Read more...] about “We Need a New Communal Norm”
Making an impact – Thoughts on Allocating Jewish Philanthropic Time and Resources in 2018
By Larry Brooks In his book, Good to Great and The Social Sectors, Jim Collins articulated a question many struggled to ask. Namely, how could the nonprofit sector shift its focus from inputs to outputs, which moves us closer to measuring the genuine impact of the … [Read more...] about Making an impact – Thoughts on Allocating Jewish Philanthropic Time and Resources in 2018
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