Jewish Communal Fund is delighted to welcome Teena Lerner to our Board of Trustees. Teena, a former bio-tech analyst and hedge fund manager, holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from The Rockefeller University. She currently serves as Chair of the Development Committee at Salanter Akiba Riverdale (SAR) Academy, a Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School in…
Few TED talks have created as long a trail as Dan Pallotta’s recent one. But the issues he recently raised about the role of the NFP sector and funding overhead are not new at all. Those of us who teach and advise funders address this question all the time. And thankfully, despite the suggestion to…
Alexandra Kukoff, a ninth grader at Thousand Oaks in California, regularly blogged for Babaganewz as a companion piece to her book, “A Jewish Girl’s Guide to a Bat Mitzvah Project,” which interviews girls of all ages about their Bat Mitzvah Projects. Last year, she won Seventeen Magazine’s 2011 Fiction Contest through Scholastic. Read her winning entry…
By Julie Finkelstein and Naomi Adland Slingshot was approached with what may seem like a simple question, “Do the organizations listed in the guide have minimum board giving guidelines?” Our answer was – “We have no idea, but let’s find out!” We reached out to a small group of innovative organizations listed in Slingshot…
Downton Abbey, the popular PBS drama, is a case study in estate planning gone wrong, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. “The whole plot is really about an enormous estate-planning problem,” Kenneth Brier, a lawyer in Needham, Mass, is quoted in the article saying. The show, which just wrapped up its…