Jonah Halper
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Don’t cancel the ritual: The case for annual galas (opens the original)
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Net revenue is the wrong way to measure what these events are actually worth. For 10 years without fail, while we still lived in the United States and our kids were young, my family made the same trip: Every summer, we would drive up to Story Land and the North Conway area of New Hampshire. Each time, we did more or less the same things we did the year before. The same rides. The same hikes. The same ice cream stop. The shape of the trip never changed. My kids could practically recite the itiner
Before you set a destination, know your starting point (opens the original)
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Vision divorced from an honest baseline is just wishcasting. Every strategic plan I read this year has a vision statement: bold language about where the organization is headed in five years, 10 years, a generation. Board members love this work, consultants build entire practices around it. I understand the appeal; vision is exciting, it’s aspirational and it photographs well for the annual report. But here’s what almost nobody talks about first, and what I think is actually the harder and more i
Jewish donors are giving billions. Why don’t more of those gifts reach Jewish institutions? (opens the original)
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A system designed to renew a wide base of annual commitments is not the same system that calls forth a single monumental gift. A Jewish family from Mexico, the Jusidmans, recently committed 200 million shekels toward what will become the largest rehabilitation hospital in Israel, a roughly $390 million project rising near Tel Aviv to restore the lives and dignity of those who defended the country and paid a heavy price for it. In 2024, Ruth Gottesman gave $1 billion to the Albert Einstein Colleg
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