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Toward a Strategic Philanthropic Approach to Field Building

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By Susan Kardos [As The AVI CHAI Foundation prepares to sunset, a year-long series from their staff about philanthropic lessons learned.] About ten years ago we, at The AVI CHAI Foundation, set out to determine our spend-down strategy for our Jewish day school work, which we have been documenting and sharing here. Our intention was to spend down thoughtfully and strategically, and we came to understand that we would also have to think about … [Read more...] about Toward a Strategic Philanthropic Approach to Field Building

Giving Away Knowledge, Free of Charge

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By Deena K. Fuchs [As The AVI CHAI Foundation prepares to sunset, a year-long series from their staff about philanthropic lessons learned.] I woke up January 1st with an uneasy feeling. It was officially the first day of the last year of The AVI CHAI Foundation’s grantmaking. This is not the time, nor the place to go into how that feels and the myriad conflicting thoughts that go through my head over the course of a day. (Although I would … [Read more...] about Giving Away Knowledge, Free of Charge