A guide to exploring your community's relationship to money and creating a budget for your congregation based on your values and priorities.
Topics: Fundraising, Money and Values
Type: How to
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
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
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.
Topics: Congregational Development, Jewish Life, Capital Campaigns, Fundraising, Money and Values, Jewish Thought, Jewish Community, Congregational and Organizational Life
Type: Essay
Fundraising Through Grants
In this guide to grant writing, Sharon Schwartz presents tips and information from several websites.
Type: Manual
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: Congregational Development, Capital Campaigns, Fundraising, Money and Values, Synagogue Administration, Membership
Type: Article
Books on Values and Resources
A list of books about Jewish values and money.
Topics: Congregational Development, Capital Campaigns, Fundraising, Money and Values, Synagogue Administration
Type: Bibliography
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: Congregational Development, Capital Campaigns, Fundraising, Money and Values, Synagogue Administration, Membership
Type: Article
Resources on Money and Congregational Life
An annotated bibliography of books and articles about Jewish perspectives on money.
Topics: Congregational Development, Capital Campaigns, 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.
Type: Audio Interview