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Blog entries tagged: Jewish Federations Of North America

JFNA continues overhaul by hiring top fund-raiser

The Jewish Federations of North America continued the overhaul of its top professional staff by hiring the chief fund-raiser at the country’s largest Jewish federation to help rethink its financial and resource development operations.

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For Manning-Kaplan duo, Jewish nonprofits are the ties that bind

If there is a power couple in the world of Jewish nonprofits, Kathy Manning and Randall Kaplan are it.

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JDC and JAFI seek conflict resolution

Representatives of the Jewish Agency, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America met today at the New York offices of the JFNA in an attempt to solve a decades-old struggle over how much each of the two overseas organizations take home from the federations’ annual campaigns.

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UJA by the numbers

The UJA-Federation of New York, the country’s largest Jewish federation and local charity, is expecting that revenue in fiscal year 2009-10 will drop slightly, but that it will be able to keep intact nearly all of its local grant-making.

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The Gentrification of #Ish

The gentrification of #ish: Shortly after the Jewish Federations of North America started its What’s Your #Ish campaign, some commentors in the blogosphere pointed out that the federations might have a problem.

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JFNA wants to know: What’s your “ish?”

The Jewish Federations of North America is launching a major new campaign… and asking you “What’s your #ish.”

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Jewish federations and religious streams tell Netanyahu they oppose conversion bill

The country’s largest Jewish charitable network and the leaders of three of the four major streams of American Judaism are strongly protesting a proposed change in the laws that dictate the process for conversion to Judaism in Israel. 

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Kanfer looks back at JFNA chairmanship and hopes more change is possible in future

While the UJC had to make some very difficult and unpopular decisions under his watch, laying off in essence a quarter of its staff and cutting its budget significantly, it was some of Kanfer’s biggest and most revolutionary ideas that met with the most resistance.

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Jerry at the JFN

There’s something about Jerry: Though he hates the description, Jerry Silverman seems to be a rock star no matter where he goes these days in the Jewish philanthropic world—and it was no different at the Jewish Funders Network conference.

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