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Building A Successful Volunteer Culture: Finding Meaning in Service in the Jewish Community - Softcover
A step - by - step guide to cultivating volunteers who thrive within the Jewish community. ''We can never forget that volunteering is a two - way street. Volunteers must be motivated, but volunteer organizations also need to maximize volunteer satisfaction. Blaming one or the other for the failures prevalent today in the world of Jewish volunteering helps no one. The search is for a win - win strategy.'' - from the Introduction Cultivating successful volunteers in the twenty - first century is increasingly more challenging. Budgets are tight, hands are few, and competition for a person's discretionary time is severe. How do you develop and maintain the volunteers who are essential to the vitality of your organization and community? What can you do to avoid volunteer burnout? Rabbi Charles Simon draws on over thirty years of professional experience to provide you with the resources you need to build and retain a thriving volunteer culture for your organization - regardless of size or complexity. In a straightforward, accessible style, Simon provides you with: Methods for analyzing your organization's needs Innovative ways for creating an environment that strengthens volunteer involvement and satisfaction while increasing your organization's effectiveness Plans for developing or modifying your leadership framework, positions and styles The groundwork for creating a language of inclusion that will motivate and inspire your volunteers Practical tips for establishing healthy, meaningful interpersonal relationships with and among your volunteers
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From the Inside Flap:
"Turned off or burnt out?"
"Who is working for whom?"
"Why take the risk?"
About the Author:
"Turned off or burnt out?"
"Who is working for whom?"
"Why take the risk?"
Too many not-for-profit organizations stumble along in a not-so-happy way, which results in bruised feelings, insensitive responses, and burnout on the part of volunteers and professionals. It doesn't have to be this way.
This practical guide can help you--lay leader, professional staff member, or volunteer--decipher the culture of your organization and implement ways to improve volunteer involvement while increasing your organization's effectiveness. Whether you are involved with a large Jewish community organization or a small, independent minyan, this resource will help you:
*Deconstruct the Basics Myths and Indentify Core Values
*Cultivate Strong and Effective Leadership
*Establish a Healthy Volunteer-Staff Dynamic
*Develop Sensitive Approaches for Working with "Problem People"
*Address the Challenges Specific to Motivating Both Men and Women Volunteers
*Restore the Element of Fun in Day-to-Day Work
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?
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- PublisherReadHowYouWant
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1459683269
- ISBN 13 9781459683266
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages252
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