Here’s what’s happening in the Jewish news during the holiday season: Yeshiva University will trim its budget but will not make huge rollbacks to deal with a $24 million budget deficit that is in part due to expansion over the past several years and is exacerbated by the economy, reports the New York Jewish Week…. More ▸
The UJA-Federation of New York was able to raise $43 million at its annual Greenberg dinner on Thursday Sept. 25 – an increase of $2 million over last year. That the UJA was able to actually increase its total should probably not be taken as a sign that the philanthropy world is surviving the financial… More ▸
Guest post by Editor Man The Fundermentalist dives into the world of video (if he seems a little stiff, that’s because someone at the Slingshot party slipped him some Kryptonite) … More ▸
The UJA Federation of New York is expecting a difficult year, the organization’s executive vice president and CEO, told me. “We are going to have a challenging year,” John Ruskay told the Fundermentalist in a brief telephone interview Wednesday afternoon, “but we remain confident that our donors will understand, as they have in the past… More ▸
American giving to Israeli organizations outpaced American giving to general philanthropies between the years 2001 and 2006, according to a Philadelphia-based Philanthropy consulting group, EHL Consulting. EHL studied the 990 forms of 80 “American friends of” organizations that collected money for Israeli groups and institutions over that period. The findings (contained in a set to… More ▸
Since the New York Times Magazine ran Natalie Portman’s mug on the cover of its money issue in March, which featured a story about celebrity influence on giving, it seems that the charitable world has gone a bit TMZ. The phenomenon is legit enough that the Chronicle of Philanthropy held an interesting online panel discussion… More ▸
Giving by individuals who have more than $2 million invested in the stock market should remain strong and could increase in 2008, Crown Philanthropic Solutions told the Wall Street Journal blog The Wealth Report. William Hewitt, the firm’s national marketing chief, said that giving by the mass affluent – those with $100,000 or more invested… More ▸
Nigel Savage, the founder and executive director of Hazon, is trying to create a shared work space for young Jewish non-profits. The idea behind the space, which would be called “Makom Chadash,” Hebrew for “New Place,” is that these non-profits could cut overhead costs by moving in under one roof and sharing office infrastructure and… More ▸
The Jewish community in Louisville, Ky., is struggling as population numbers decline and the Jewish community in Louisville becomes more dispersed, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. The Jewish population there dropped from 8,700 to 8,307 between 1991 and 2006, which has put pressure on the Jewish infrastructure in the area. Louisville’s only non-Orthodox day school recently… More ▸
The London Jewish Chronicle is reporting that Jewish charities are among the worst in Britain when it comes to being open and transparent. An independent charity watchdog, Intelligent Giving, studied the reporting of 500 English charities and gave each a percentage score based on a number of criteria. The 10 worst charities on the list… More ▸
