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Challenge Award Lessons Learned“Got challenge? We got money!” That’s how PEJE announced the Challenge Awards to the day school field over a year ago. Now the winners can say to the field, “Got challenge? We got winning advice!” As our awardees innovated their way to increased revenue, they learned lessons—lots of them—about increasing revenue via the annual campaign, affordable tuition, a... more >> |
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Data-Driven Day SchoolsOne of the biggest challenges that day schools face is how to increase alumni donations. Data from the 2011 PEJE Challenge Award shows that alumni, and their families, are an untapped market. Of the over 6,000 gifts recorded in the Challenge Award Impact Tracker, only 2 percent came from alumni: Where Do Grads Give?? Of the 1,000 Day School alumni surveyed in th... more >> |
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Illustrating the CaseCharles Dickens' insight that certain moments can be both the best of times and the worst captures the quality not only of revolutionary periods but of much in life. If sugar is the taste of childhood, then the dominant flavor of adult life is surely bitter-sweet. That's an idea one encounters in the shacharit service each morning when the Almighty is blessed not only for creatin... more >> |
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The Virtual AssemblyJewish day school development lives or dies on the strength of an institution’s philanthropic kehillah. If you create robust, honest relationships with donors and prospective donors, you have a viable development program. If not, not. Social media functions precisely the same way: great relationships create success. Interact well in the online world, and you’ll proje... more >> |
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Kibbitz with KatzInnovation. Creativity. Novelty. In our consumer-driven society we are always looking for the best way to hook our customers, to carve out a unique niche for ourselves. In this environment the word “innovation” can become trite; a catch-all term used for its selling power rather than an expression of what it really means: The act of inventing something or introducing somethin... more >> |
