By Sheila Katz “Hmmm. Okay, there are steps here” our tour guide murmured. “Let’s try going this way instead.” I was a prospective student visiting the campus I hoped to attend alongside my parents and sisters when we got stuck along the tour route. Our tour guide didn’t know how to get to the next part of the tour without going up a large set of steps my mother was unable to climb. So, we went through the mail room, through the trash room, … [Read more...] about The Unfinished Work of Inclusion
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Hillel Ontario Announces Schwartz/Reisman $1M Investment in Campus Advocacy
Hillel Ontario has received a new investment in campus advocacy through a $1M gift by The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation. The gift will be used over three years to hire advocacy professionals that will join local Hillel campus teams across Ontario. The Hillel Ontario campuses to benefit from the new strategy are Western, Ryerson, York, and McMaster. “Hillel is the only organization that is on campus every single day, … [Read more...] about Hillel Ontario Announces Schwartz/Reisman $1M Investment in Campus Advocacy
A Culture of Risk Taking – Walking the Walk
By Jaime Walman It was a very hot day in June 2018. I was sitting around my kitchen table with my Strategy Team during one of our “porch days” (a thing I came up with to get us out of the office one day a week during the summer months). Sometimes, they involve sangria. Three years ago, Hillel Ontario created and built a very successful peer-to-peer fundraising campaign called On One Foot. The feedback we had received from our student … [Read more...] about A Culture of Risk Taking – Walking the Walk
Off Campus: How Hillels outside North America Reach Students of all Ages
By Shana Medel for eJewishPhilanthropy.com A college student in ripped jeans and a tank top gazes at a whiteboard scrawled with Hebrew words. A few seats away sits a middle-aged man in a crisp polo, twiddling a pencil between his fingers as he recites the Aleph-Bet. They’re among the roughly 250 people enrolled in a free, 10-week Hebrew course offered by Hillel Russia. Each Sunday, the Hebrew beginners gather in a sun-flecked pavilion … [Read more...] about Off Campus: How Hillels outside North America Reach Students of all Ages
Fundraising vs. Fun-Raising: How Development Work and Experiential Education Intersect
By Allison Gerstley This semester, I’ve been working as a graduate student development intern at GW Hillel and taking a fundraising course concurrently as part of my master’s program. With no prior fundraising experience beyond phone banking at my undergrad university, I figured experience in fundraising and philanthropy would prove beneficial in my future career as a Jewish educator. Though I hope to eventually work in a setting where I am … [Read more...] about Fundraising vs. Fun-Raising: How Development Work and Experiential Education Intersect
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