By Howard Sovronsky and Michael Johnston Community: A social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists. All of our work as Jewish communal leaders is about strengthening this thing we call Jewish community. Too often, we have come to equate success in building community with how much … [Read more...] about The Meaning of Jewish Community: Our Experiment With A Community Ethical Will
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Why Jewish Organizations Should Take a Stronger Stand Against Commission-Based Fundraising
With commission-based fundraising: charitable mission can become secondary to self-gain; donor trust can be unalterably damaged; there is incentive for self-dealing to prevail over donors’ best interests. By Robert Evans The tone of the potential donor’s email was skeptical and a little accusatory. Why, the individual wrote, should he or she support the congregation’s multi-million dollar capital campaign when a certain percentage of the … [Read more...] about Why Jewish Organizations Should Take a Stronger Stand Against Commission-Based Fundraising
Ethics for Giving Circles
By Ingrid Steinberg On a recent Shabbos afternoon, my family gathered with several other families from our Jewish community, IKAR, to talk about money. Specifically, we were meeting for the last time to talk about what to do with the $3,600 that we had pooled together as part of our Giving Circle. Our meeting was a culmination of a series of monthly gatherings during which we discussed various aspects of Tzedakah and our relationship to … [Read more...] about Ethics for Giving Circles
Fundraisers on Commission: Get What You Pay For
By Gila Weinberg The classic nonprofit fundraising catch-22: you need a professional fundraiser to bring in support for your important work, but you don’t have the funds to offer a competitive salary for said fundraiser; after all, you don’t even have money for your core projects - how can you justify a full time senior salary? One seemingly elegant solution to this conundrum is the fundraising on commission model. Simply put, the … [Read more...] about Fundraisers on Commission: Get What You Pay For
New Charity Guidelines Deal With Overhead, Executive Pay and More
Independent Sector has released the 2015 edition of the seminal "Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practices," a set of 33 principles broadly accepted by many nonprofit and philanthropic organizations as the foundational guide for charities’ and foundations’ self-governance. The release marks the first substantive changes to the guide document since the initial October 2007 publication of the Principles. The guide has been downloaded … [Read more...] about New Charity Guidelines Deal With Overhead, Executive Pay and More
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