This 3-part Summit series will strengthen your Jewish leadership effectiveness in three, day-long intensive skill-building Summits with renowned experts and practitioners. Each Summit will offer choices for growth in fundraising, community organizing and/or and volunteer-professional relations. Participants will apply new learning and skills to real-life Jewish volunteer and professional settings. Methodologies include:
- Small group and 1:1 interaction
- Mentoring with seasoned leaders and peers
- Connection to related Jewish traditions and values
- Opportunities for fieldwork & continued relationships between sessions
Sample Topics include:
Fundraising - Building a culture of tzedakah
- Personal Solicitation
- Grant Writing
- Planned Giving and Endowments
Community Organizing - Generating compassionate change
- Advocacy
- Grassroot techniques
- Online organizing
Volunteer/Professional Relations - Creating holy relationships
- Recruitment and Volunteer Relationship Development
- Board Development
- New Partnership and Decision-Making Models
Dates:
Los Angeles - All dates are Sundays from 10:00am to 6:00pm
Summit I (Fall) - December 14, 2008
Summit II (Spring) - May 17, 2009
Summit III (at ThinkTank 4 in Los Angeles) - October 18, 2009
New York City - All dates are Sundays 10:00am to 6:00pm
Summit I (Fall) - December 7, 2008
Summit II (Spring) - April 26, 2009
Summit III (at ThinkTank 4 in Los Angeles) - October 18, 2009
Cost:
$180 PLP Talent (Must have participated in PLP LiveNetworks, ThinkTank(s), and/or Academic Fellowships). PLP will cover travel costs up to $300 for Talent outside of the area.
$250 New Talent (Outstanding Jewish Professional and Volunteer Leaders in their mid-20's to early 30's not currently involved with PLP).
Registration is closed.
Please consider subsidizing another Talent with less financial means to attend either initiative.
PLP and these initiatives are made possible by the extraordinary vision and support of its co-founders: Robert P. Aronson, William M. Davidson, Michael Steinhardt/Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, Eugene & Marcia Applebaum, Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Rhoda Weisman, Executive Founding Director
