The results of MATCH 4[] are in and the numbers are impressive. Consider the following statistics: 119 Jewish day schools have received $9.7 million of gifts, including approximately $2.8 million of matching funds from the AVI CHAI and Kohelet foundations. The 235...
By: Dan Perla Allow me to tell you a great fundraising story. A donor to the Federation of Greater Washington was interested in giving Federation a legacy gift using universal life insurance. He agreed to a $1 million policy on his and his wife’s life (called “second...
By: Dan Perla The Solomon Schechter Day School (SSDS) of Greater Boston observed an interesting financial anomaly among the 28 families sending three children to the school (there were no families with more than three children): only one was middle class. By middle...
By: Dan Perla A traditional Shabbat lunch is usually book-ended by well- established rituals—kiddush and motzei at the beginning of the meal and birkat hamazon at the end of the meal. These days it appears that a new “ritual” is emerging as a focal point...
By: Dan Perla If you ask a large group of parents whose children attend a Jewish day school to name the most pressing school issue on their mind, they will almost certainly utter the same word—AFFORDABILITY. Simply put, for a large group of parents, a day school...
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