Building a Successful Volunteer Culture: Finding Meaning in Service in the Jewish Community
Autor Rabbi Charles Simonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 iun 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1683360001
Pagini: 188
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Turner
Notă biografică
Rabbi Charles Simon, executive director of the 30,000-member Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs, has been developing vehicles to increase volunteer involvement for more than thirty years. He is the author of Building a Successful Volunteer Culture: Finding Meaning in Service in the Jewish Community (Jewish Lights), several books on improving community prayer, a regular contributor to CJ Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism Magazine and a contributor to Commentary Magazine and Reform Judaism. He teaches regularly at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and American Jewish University in Los Angeles.
Rabbi Charles Simon is available to speak on the following topics:
- Could You Attend Chelsea's Wedding?
- The Status of Intermarrieds in Conservative Judaism
- The Leadership Dilemma
- Creating a Successful Volunteer Culture (Two-Three Lectures)
- Where are the Men and What Does This Mean?
Cuprins
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Risk Raising Your Hand?
1 How Can I Fit In? Deconstructing Organizational Culture
2 From Babel Back to Eden: Creating a Language of Inclusion
3 Cultivating Volunteers: Deconstructing Basic Myths
4 The Board of Directors: Is the Herring Rotten in the Head?
5 How Do We Work Together?
The Volunteer-Staff Dynamic
6 The Committee: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
7 The Nominating Committee: My Way or God's Way
8 Cultivating Leadership: Balancing the Seesaw
9 When Things Are Just Not Working: The Perennial President and Other Problematic People
10 When Leadership Is Lacking
11 Bigger, But Does It Mean Better? From Independent Minyanim to Cathedral Congregations
12 Where Did the Guys Go? Why Male Volunteerism Has Declined
13 Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Hearing the Female Perspective
Suggestions for Further Reading