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.
Awards & Grant Opportunities
Belin Outreach & Membership Awards
The Belin Outreach and Membership Awards honor Reform synagogues with innovative outreach and membership programs. The 2013 Belin Awards winners and Honorable Mentions, who will be honored at the 2013 Biennial in San Diego, have been officially selected.
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.
20s and 30s
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.
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