Capital Campaigns
Featured: Fundraising Tips
Values-based tips for general fundraising, continued support, capital campaigns, studying feasibility and movement giving from the JRF Department of Affiliate Services.
Topics: Capital Campaigns, Fundraising Type: How to
Featured: Organizing Money: Capital Campaigns and Fundraising
A guide to values-based, community-oriented fundraising. Includes sections on general/annual fundraising, capital campaigns and solicitation.
Topics: Capital Campaigns, Fundraising Type: How to
The Halakhic Basis for Community Financing of Jewish Life
A perspective on taxes and community responsibility throughout Jewish history that sheds light on today's congregational practices of collecting dues.
Walking the Walk: The Sacred Art of Energy Conservation
Rabbi Brant Rosen makes a passionate plea, textually based, for building an environmentally sustainable synagogue. His own congregation, The Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC) of Evanston, IL is an example.
Topics: Capital Campaigns, Community Building, Congregational Development, Divrei Torah, Jewish Community, Jewish Life, Money and Values, Tikkun Olam, Yom Kippur Type: Dvar Torah
A Jewish Approach to Obligatory Giving
This 2001 article explores our discomfort with money, offers some historical perspective and some contemporary solutions of how American congregations have set up their dues structure.
Topics: Capital Campaigns, Congregational Development, Fundraising, Membership, Money and Values, Synagogue Administration Type: Article
A Group Discussion About Money (RT Winter 1999/2000)
This article from Reconstructionism Today contains a transcript of a conference call involving Rabbi Shawn Zevit, JRF board members and synagogue representatives from the West Coast Region about the Torah of Money workshops.
Topics: Capital Campaigns, Congregational Development, Fundraising, Membership, Money and Values, Synagogue Administration Type: Article
Books on Values and Resources
A list of books about Jewish values and money.
Topics: Capital Campaigns, Congregational Development, Fundraising, Money and Values, Synagogue Administration Type: Bibliography
Resources on Money and Congregational Life
An annotated bibliography of books and articles about Jewish perspectives on money.
Topics: Capital Campaigns, Congregational Development, Fundraising, Money and Values, Synagogue Administration Type: Bibliography
Communities and Resources
Rabbis Shawn Zevit and Mordechai Liebling discuss the uses and variety of values-based approaches to money and other resources in congregational planning, dues, budgets, building campaigns, fundraising and tzedakah. This program relates to the JRF leadership workshop and resource book on Jewish Values-based Approaches to Financial and Human Resources by Rabbi Zevit. An episode of Heart, Mind and Spirit.
Topics: Capital Campaigns, Congregational Development, Fundraising, Money and Values Type: Audio Interview
A Torah of Money
Sue Hoffman and Larry Bush engage in a lively discussion about the way money has historically been and can be a spiritual tool for communal and societal transformation. Special focus is given to the meaning ascribed to money, issues of class and social justice in Jewish life. An episode of Heart, Mind and Spirit. (NOTE: Torah of Money is a term developed by Jeffrey Dekro who was founder of The Shefa Fund and is a member of Congregation Mishkan Shalom.)
Topics: Capital Campaigns, Congregational Development, Fundraising, Jewish Life, Money and Values, Tikkun Olam Type: Audio Interview
