What Funders Want

by | Feb 1, 2012

By: Deborah Fishman The North American Jewish Day School Conference’s session “What Funders Want” dealt with a few striking questions which funders – and anyone interested in deciding where to devote resources – face. One such question is whether the needs of...

Failing to Succeed

by | Jan 5, 2012

By: Deena Fuchs The AVI CHAI staff is hard at work preparing for our upcoming Board of Trustees meeting and therefore not as prolific as usual, with respect to this blog. We will be sure to report back here about any new developments that arise from the meeting, which...

Shifting the Spend-Down into High Gear

by | Nov 17, 2011

By: Joel L. Fleishman For the past three years, I have been chronicling the ongoing process of spend-down at AVI CHAI, a foundation located in Jerusalem and New York with programs in Israel, North America, and the former Soviet Union. The third annual report, titled...

Will We Be Builders and Not Just Buyers?

by | Jul 13, 2011

By Sarah Kass Today’s e-Jewish Philanthropy reports JDub is closing up shop despite a 9 year history of innovation and success. The reason?  Financial pressures. The article notes that “among the reasons stated for closing are [an] ‘aging out of the cohort of Jewish...

It’s long, but you asked for it. . . .

by | Jun 1, 2011

Here is the full text of Sarah Kass’s Memo on AVI CHAI’s spending down in the 21st century, referenced in yesterday’s post. Spending Down in the 21st Century By Sarah Kass, Director of Strategy & Evaluation [1] In North America, AVI CHAI’s planned spend-down...
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