Answer your questions about financial planning
Revenue streams: Dues, fees, catering and endowments

Review and evaluate personnel relations 
and synagogue management practices
Job descriptions, staff relations and training; 
operational procedures and policies
 

Can provide comprehensive 
educational programming 
Curriculum evaluation, physical plant management, 
teacher training, and parent educational programming
 

Develop individualized synagogue 
fund-raising programs 
Feasibility studies, case statements, matching gift programs, 
endowment structuring and campaign planning
 

Design membership and public relations 
campaigns for individual synagogues 
Advertising, retention techniques, interfaith 
and civic profiles

“Volunteers are at a minimum…and our members constantly tell us that...
‘the only time they hear from us is when the synagogue 
either wants my time or my money.’”

Demanding something from your members rather than servicing them 
produces these tensions. 

“We don’t have enough members paying full dues.”

No synagogue regardless of size can survive even when 
all of its members are paying full dues.

“It is simple. The budget can easily be balanced by reducing 
salaries and services.”

The financial problems of today’s synagogue should never be 
unconsciously shifted to the next generation. 

The financial problems of today’s synagogue cannot be allowed to 
become tomorrow’s unbearable burden. 

To determine the viability of a synagogue by looking first at the budget 
is backward management.

“In our religious school, our students cross the Red Sea every year when Moses, maybe, only crossed it once. All we hear from our students is, ‘It’s all the same. It’s boring!’”

A properly constituted curriculum builds on the previous year’s learning as opposed to merely repeating that learning on a higher level. 
Students must be accompanied by parents in their discovery of Judaism.

“All my friends belong to the other synagogue, 
but we are more friendly?”

A projection of a negative profile is often very subtle. 
Defensive posturing usually obscures what your synagogue 
needs to do in order to be successful.

How your synagogue delivers personal services, the manner in which it 
treats its membership, and its willingness to offer 
alternative programming is the key.

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