On the CNBC reality show "The Profit," business executive Marcus Lemonis, who helps struggling businesses, often says, “Business success is about the three P’s: People, Process and Product.”
It’s a good mantra for the nonprofit world as well, and certainly relevant for Jewish Federa…
On Shavuot earlier this week, we joyously celebrated our receipt of the Torah at Mount Sinai, with its commandments that give our Jewish values and our sense of community. We read from the Book of Ruth, which teaches us to be kind, loving and open.
As is tradition, many of us studied as a c…
Nikolai is confident that volunteering holds the key to a better Moldova.
His country is plagued by economic turmoil and a culture that still associates volunteering with draconian Soviet mandates. But with funding and meeting space provided in part by Federation partner JDC, Nikolai organi…
In Israel, when the two-minute siren sounds at 11 am on Yom Hazikaron, the Jewish State's Memorial Day, the nation comes to a halt. As we saw just two weeks ago, cars on streets and highways pull over, and drivers and passengers get out of their vehicles to stand and observe a moment of sile…
A veteran of Federation partner JDC’s youth leadership programs in Ukraine, Masha couldn’t wait to become a community leader in Donetsk. When conflict arrived, she was forced to flee to safety in Kharkov, becoming one of 2,800 internally displaced Ukrainian Jews.
But Masha refused to …
