by Susan Kardos | May 10, 2018
Tree of Life Award Acceptance Speech Solomon Schechter Bergen County Community Celebration 6 May 2018 By: Dr. Susan Kardos Thank you so much, and thank you Sarah and David for that lovely introduction. It’s an honor for me and for Guy to say thank you to all of you,...
by Susan Kardos | Mar 15, 2018
By: Dr. Susan Kardos You’ll sometimes hear it said in hushed and half-apologetic tones, mostly by policymakers, funders, or central office officials: “change is just hard for people.” Usually they are explaining why a funded program or state mandate or new idea from...
by Susan Kardos | Feb 13, 2018
By: Dr. Susan Kardos Eight years ago, AVI CHAI began a concerted grantmaking effort in the area of day school finance, seeking to help schools shore up sustainability and improve affordability for parents. Given the scope of the problem—hundreds of millions of dollars...
by Susan Kardos | Nov 21, 2016
Cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy. By Susan Kardos and Ellen Goldring CASJE (the Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education) recently released findings from the first phase of a study conducted by American Institute of Research (AIR). In Leadership in...
by Susan Kardos | Aug 7, 2013
By: Susan Kardos On July 21, I wrote an eJewishPhilanthropy blog post about AVI CHAI’s foray into different types of activities in these, our sunset years. I developed a gymnastics metaphor and compared a back flip (which may be scary at first, but where you can...
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