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For Supporting Financially Vulnerable Jews in Your Community
- Dollars Raised and Allocated
- Annual Campaign Allocation to Your Human Service Portfolio
- Specifically for financial vulnerability on top of annual unrestricted giving
- Designated allocations: Scholarships, food pantries,
- Supplemental Dollars Raised: for financial vulnerability
- Develop baseline - how much you’re currently giving
- Set a goal for following year that reflects urgency your data shows.
- Grows at least with the rate of inflation
- What does your “Case for Giving” look like and does it include messaging about the 20% of Jews in your community who are struggling – and dispel myths funders may have on what those people look like?
- Increased Communications
- Up to date “community resources” page on website
- Do your communications mention low income Jews? Include messaging about economically vulnerable Jews. While acknowledging the stressors in Israel or locally, this is a part of our community who is feeling these effects more acutely.
- Send sample messaging
- “We envision a world where every Jew has their basic needs met and can live a thriving Jewish life.”
- Low income Jews aren't getting messages from the Jewish community. How are you (through partnerships etc) reaching low-income Jews?
- Intersectional Programs
- Classics: everyone has food pantry, scholarships. Are you thinking creatively around integration of financially vulnerable Jews into new programs? Accessing day school.
- Surveying and evaluation: ask about a person’s income / financial security in as many surveys as possible.
- Visible Leadership
- Did one of your leaders grow up low income? Or have a story within their family?
- Find 1-3 donors who are willing to take on this mantle.
- Human service matching fund. JFNA matched what feds raised to support agencies.