by Harry Bloom | Oct 20, 2014 | Admissions, Data, Day school as community asset, Day Schools
Jewish day school growth is getting harder and harder to come by these days. According to a 2006-2010 survey of 50 cross-denominational schools across nine communities, enrollment declined by 14% in non-Orthodox schools and was virtually nil in Modern and Centrist...
by Arnie Samlan | Jan 16, 2014 | Communal Responsibility, Day school as community asset, Differentiation, Regional Advocacy
This guest post is by Rabbi Arnie Samlan, executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education in Miami, Florida, a subsidiary agency of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. He blogs at www.JewishConnectivity.com and is a podcaster on JCastNetwork....
by Jonathan Krasner | Dec 2, 2013 | Advocacy, Day school as community asset, Day Schools, Financial Sustainability, History, Value Proposition
In 2011, Professor Jonathan Krasner published a book called The Benderly Boys and American Education. The volume won the National Jewish Book Award and it prompted Barry Holtz to write in the Jewish Daily Forward: “It is not an exaggeration to say that this...
by Ken Gordon | Nov 21, 2013 | Affordability, Communal Responsibility, Day school as community asset, Development, Professional Leadership
[Originally published in late 2011, this post feels even more relevant today.] Who is responsible for Jewish education? Jewish parents? Wealthy philanthropists? Central agencies for Jewish Education and federations? There’s only one viable answer to this...
by Ken Gordon | Apr 23, 2013 | Day school as community asset, Development, Financial Sustainability, MATCH
The following is a guest post by Dan Perla, AVI CHAI’s program officer for day school finance. It is crossposted on the AVI CHAI Foundation Blog. The results of MATCH 4[1] are in and the numbers are impressive. Consider the following statistics: 119 Jewish day schools...
by Charles Cohen | Jan 8, 2013 | Affordability, Communal Responsibility, Day school as community asset, Financial Sustainability, Focus Areas, Value Proposition
Today’s institutional landscape is changing rapidly. In their book The Networked Nonprofit, Beth Kanter and Allison Fine coined the phrase “do what you do best and network the rest” as a way for organizations to specialize, and also gain efficiencies by not needing to...
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