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October 2003 Tishrei 5764
 
 

MINNESOTA BIENNIAL COUNTDOWN
November 5-9, 2003
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Consultation Table to Chat, See Our Latest Publications, and Click On the All-New Communicate!

A top-ten checklist to help your board team prepare its schedule as you Lech L’cha, “Go Forth,” on a journey of spiritual discovery. ...Full text

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Featured Entry of the Month…
TEMPLE SECOND CENTURY

Our congregation celebrates its one hundredth anniversary in 2003. In order to ensure our future, the leadership has embarked on a campaign to fund it by:
1. Creating an endowment
2. Building new space for classrooms
3. Remodeling the existing areas of our building.

As a result of the recommendation of an outside fund-raising consultant, we included funding of an endowment as one of the goals of our 1994–95 capital campaign. ...Full text

ENSURE YOUR TEMPLE’S FUTURE - CONSTRUCT A COMPREHENSIVE ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN
Part II: Targeting the Key Givers
Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, TX, with nearly 3,000 households, has created a fine-tuned and successful endowment campaign that has raised more than $17,500,000 in pledges. Last month we outlined the strategies it used to plan its campaign. This month we will focus on Phases I and II of the campaign, which raised the bulk of the fund.. ...Full text
SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER
A Guide for Congregations Taking Public Policy Positions
Concerned about how and when your synagogue should engage in advocacy on social justice issues? A new publication, Speak Truth to Power: A Guide for Congregations Taking Public Policy Positions, is now available to answer your questions about where to begin. ...Full text

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