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Guide to Day School Sustainability and Affordability This Greenbook written by Dan Held, published by the Jewish Funders Network aims to fuel and inform the increasingly urgent conversation surrounding day school...
Each professional in the Jewish day school arena comes from a different community and organizational structure, but we are all dealing with constituents who, at the end of the day, react in similar ways. When I met my...
Energy, excitement, optimism, and passionate commitment: these are the words I would use to describe the discussions among the lay leaders who attended the Prizmah Conference. The 120 day school lay leaders and investors...
Before I was a Jewish foundation professional, I was a farmer, and so it’s likely no surprise that one of my favorite holidays on the Jewish calendar (one of our four new years according to Mishnah Rosh Hashanah) is Tu...
Relationships are the engine of the Jewish day school world. They drive our students’ work, our parents’ support, our administrative efforts, and the philanthropy of our donors. And never before have the relationships that...
As someone with decades of experience in the philanthropic world, I first began to understand the acute need for mental health advocacy when I saw how those in Jewish education lacked access to proper support. I found that...
In North America, there are approximately 900 Jewish day schools with nearly 300,000 students. With few exceptions, these schools face significant, and in some cases, existential, challenges. Among the most prevalent of these...
For most schools in Prizmah’s network, 2020-21 was a year of remarkable accomplishments in the face of unprecedented challenges. Following upon the Covid closures at the end of the previous school year, this was to be a year...
Local federations, such as the Greater MetroWest, New Jersey Federation where I work, play an important role in supporting Jewish day schools. Traditionally, schools rely upon the annual allocations and supplementary...