This might be the best pitch for a philanthropy during hard times I have seen. JBooks.com figured out the formula: One National Poet Laureate, one Casio keyboard, a silly song and an honest pitch for money. Now if we could only get Robert Pinsky to play the bongos for JTA. Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style… More ▸
AIPAC’s fund-raising nearly doubled in four years. More ▸
This week I have a story about Chabad’s efforts to transform the recent Mumbai attacks into an opportunity to spread its message, along with a sidebar about some Lubavitchers being rankled by similar efforts launched by the Israeli orphanage run by an uncle of one of the victims. Of course, in general, it’s become a ritual… More ▸
I’ll be in Israel for the next week and a half blogging from three major federation-related conferences: The Lion of Judah Conference of the UJC’s National Women’s Philanthropy in Tel Aviv from Nov.12-16, the UJC’s system wide General Assembly in Jerusalem Nov. 16-19, and the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors meetings Nov. 19-20. If I… More ▸
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The second annual Limmud FSU in this seaside tourist town attracted several Jewish philanthropists with deep pockets. But every day that the Dow drops, pockets around the world get a bit shallower. This point was not lost on the donors here at Limmud. "When the stock market’s down 40 percent and portfolios are giving away… More ▸
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 ▸
