What makes a healthy Jewish Community? This was a question that came out of a meeting I attended this morning. Of course, when you think of the word healthy, two thoughts come immediately to mind: a healthy body (the JCC has a quality fitness center and pool and soon will have Edge of the Wo…
Last Sunday, Lag BaOmer, seems so long ago. There was a lot going on in town that day. I started my day here at the JCC with the 36 PoolPak Challenge. The lanes at the pool were kept busy all morning with swimmers and many of them brought in additional donations as well. And the laps continu…
Two months ago I told you about that first meeting I attended with the JCC ‘swimmers’. The fundraising activity, the 36 PoolPak Challenge, that came out of those early meetings will take place this coming Sunday. It’s been a slow process, but this week it looks like it is coming togeth…
This week after the JCRC meeting at the Towers there was a phone night, with five of our best callers: Art Levy, Allan Hillman, Milt Wallack, Barry Kelmachter and Don Hendel. Art had the biggest success story of the evening. One woman he called went from giving $100 to the Annual Campaign to…
I was on a call yesterday and the discussion turned to how do we fundraise to different age groups. I think we sometimes get caught up with age, rather than stage of life. For example, the 28 year old may be a person who is three years out of graduate school and making a halfway decent salar…
