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During my 30 years as an educational administrator and, most recently my 15 years as head of Denver Jewish Day School, I have come to appreciate the board and the lasting impact that an outstanding board can have on a school...
The American Jewish community has been making a decades-long massive investment in education, including the expansion of Jewish day schools, overnight Jewish camping, Jewish Studies in college, Hillels, and educational travel...
This pulse survey report explores FY21 and FY22 development trends and the state of Jewish day school endowments. This year, the results from Prizmah’s survey show a shift from reactionary fundraising during the pandemic, to...
Recognizing the profound impact that day schools have on the vibrancy and vitality of a Jewish community, we aim towards creating a day school system which is affordable and sustainable and offers an excellent education. Our...
As Jewish communal leaders, we have a shared, sacred obligation to ensure that future generations have the resources to shape the future of our Jewish world and ensure our Jewish communities flourish. Each one of us is the...
Teachers truly provide some of the most formative influences in our lives. As both a school administrator and the proud parent of three alumni of Golda Och Academy (GOA), I have experienced firsthand the incredible dedication...
It was spring 2020, and Covid-19 was running rampant in Los Angeles. Schools, both public and private, had closed their buildings, and many had moved to online education. The timing of the pandemic coincided with re...
Endowments are no longer a luxury, but rather a critical component of every school’s financial stability plan. Building an endowment, to provide a consistent source of annual funding for your operations, takes planning and...
When faced with running a school during a pandemic, most of our school’s actions, like every school’s, were focused on the next pivot to adjust to the changing demands of the situation. When it came to our development...
When you remodel your campus, what happens to all of the donor plaques from the existing space? One of the most exciting initiatives that I was involved in as head of school was remodeling our campus. We gutted buildings...