Building a Successful Volunteer Culture bookcover

Building a Successful Volunteer Culture

Finding Meaning in Service in the Jewish Community

Charles Simon 

(Author)

Ron Wolfson 

(Preface by)

Shelley Lindauer 

(Foreword by)
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Description

Build and retain a thriving volunteer culture for your organization-regardless of size or complexity. A practical guide to help you decipher the culture of your organization and implement ways to improve volunteer involvement and increase effectiveness.

Product Details

PublisherJewish Lights Publishing
Publish DateJune 01, 2009
Pages188
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781580234085
Dimensions8.9 X 5.9 X 0.5 inches | 0.6 pounds

About the Author

Rabbi Charles Simon, executive director of the 30,000-member Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs, has been developing vehicles to increase volunteer involvement for more than thirty years. He is the author of Building a Successful Volunteer Culture: Finding Meaning in Service in the Jewish Community (Jewish Lights), several books on improving community prayer, a regular contributor to CJ Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism Magazine and a contributor to Commentary Magazine and Reform Judaism. He teaches regularly at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and American Jewish University in Los Angeles.

Rabbi Charles Simon is available to speak on the following topics:

  • Could You Attend Chelsea's Wedding?
  • The Status of Intermarrieds in Conservative Judaism
  • The Leadership Dilemma
  • Creating a Successful Volunteer Culture (Two-Three Lectures)
  • Where are the Men and What Does This Mean?

Shelley Lindauer has been the executive director of Women of Reform Judaism since 2003. Her path to professional Jewish communal service began as a volunteer at Temple Sinai of Roslyn Heights, New York, where she eventually became executive vice president. Formerly, she was president of Media Alternatives Group, Inc., and Shelley Lindauer, CPA, PC.

Dr. Ron Wolfson, visionary educator and inspirational speaker, is Fingerhut Professor of Education at American Jewish University in Los Angeles and a cofounder of Synagogue 3000. He is author of Relational Judaism: Using the Power of Relationships to Transform the Jewish Community; The Seven Questions You're Asked in Heaven: Reviewing and Renewing Your Life on Earth; Be Like God: God's To-Do List for Kids; God's To-Do List: 103 Ways to Be an Angel and Do God's Work on Earth; Hanukkah, Passover and Shabbat, all Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs Art of Jewish Living family guides to spiritual celebrations; The Spirituality of Welcoming: How to Transform Your Congregation into a Sacred Community; A Time to Mourn, a Time to Comfort: A Guide to Jewish Bereavement and Comfort and, with Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, What You Will See Inside a Synagogue (all Jewish Lights), a book for children ages 6 and up. He contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism--Yizkor, Who by Fire, Who by Water--Un'taneh Tokef, All These Vows--Kol Nidre and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism--Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights).

Reviews

"Warm and user-friendly ... effectively shares insights into the many facets of what it takes to nurture and sustain a successful volunteer-professional culture where everyone feels they can make a difference."
-Doug Barden, executive director, Men of Reform Judaism (MRJ)

"Volunteers are the lifeblood of virtually every well-run Jewish organization. [This] book provides astute advice to professionals and laypeople who want to maximize this precious resource."
-Rabbi Ellen Flax, foundation and nonprofit consultant; project consultant, STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal)

"The book for which Jewish leadership has been waiting. Wise and practical, principled and realistic, deeply value driven and pragmatic ... should be required reading for all organizational leadership-professional and volunteer.... Important and highly useful."
-Rabbi Irwin Kula, president, CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership

"A rich, informative, and upbeat guide to unlocking the latent power of volunteers.... A must-read for anyone-inside or outside the Jewish community-who wants to empower, invigorate and stimulate a rich volunteer culture."
-Dana Raucher, executive director, The Samuel Bronfman Foundation

"Makes it possible for us to re-invent our institutions to better meet the needs of today's communities, and to elevate curious individuals into roles of real leadership and vision.... You and your community will both benefit from this wonderful book."
-Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies; vice president, American Jewish University

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