Schindler Fellows Program for Membership Certification
April 19-22, 2012 Cleveland, Ohio
Join other community builders: administrators, membership chair people, temple presidents, board and committee members and other lay leaders in an intensive four day program and discover how to open the doors to your congregations wider than ever before with best practices from across North America.
Learn to create a welcoming culture and increase membership through new recruitment initiatives and key strategies to integrate members into the life of your synagogue. Participants will learn to create an effective two-year plan, specific to their congregation, for increasing and retaining members across the lifecycle of membership. Limited scholarship money is available! Small congregations may apply for a Small Congregations Resource Fund Grant. Download grant application (PDF)
Invest in your congregation's future by reaching out to potential new members. Find out how your community can create a welcoming atmosphere, reach the unaffiliated, and understand affiliation issues.
Welcome new members into your community and encourage them to get involved and engaged in your congregation. Help your members feel like insiders by offering an active program of integration.
Promote lifelong congregation membership by creating a community where people feel deeply connected to one another, the congregation, and to Jewish life.
Create comprehensive congregational Outreach and Membership Programs using our Idea Book Series, including programs for Jews-by-Choice, intermarried couples and their children, and Jewish parents of intermarried couples.
Suggested reading material on Outreach, including books and download-able brochures.
Shabbat Across America
Join hundreds of other congregations making a collective commitment to reaching out to welcome the not-yet-affilliated by celebrating Shabbat Across America on March 2, 2012.
Dream Big! URJ Incubator Grants for Innovative Projects
URJ Incubator Grants provide seed funding for innovative new projects designed to actively engage more people in Reform synagogue life. 20 Grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded. Applications due February 28, 2012.
Learn new, innovative ways to make people in their 20s and 30s an integral,
active part of your synagogue. Our materials will help you understand how to reach out and welcome them and offer
programs and worship opportunities that will speak to their lives and
interests.
Connect with a Specialist
Member congregations are encouraged to contact a specialist from the Union's Congregational Consulting Group for additional resources and support:
Learn to create a welcoming culture and increase membership through new recruitment initiatives and key strategies to integrate members into the life of your synagogue. Participants will learn to create an effective two-year plan, specific to their congregation, for increasing and retaining members across the lifecycle of membership. Limited scholarship money is available! Small congregations may apply for a 
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