Does your org need an elevator pitch?
A good friend and colleague told me today that ‘Elevetor pitches are dead’. Then I saw this by Seth Godin: The best elevator pitch doesn’t pitch your project. It pitches the meeting about your project. The best elevator pitch is true, stunning, brief and it leaves the listener eager (no, desperate) to hear the rest of it. It’s not a practiced, polished turd of prose that...
Read MoreUnique Foundation Acharai Fund awards $50,000 to Carmei Ha’Ir! Recently, our client Carmei Ha’Ir- a Jerusalem charity caring for the needy with dignity- was awarded $50,000 from the Acharai Fund as a result of an application we submitted. The Acharai Fund has a unique and wonderfully intimate way of reaching its philanthropic goals. In their words: Founded in 2011 by 35 families...
Read MoreFrom the Field: The Current Reality of Fundraising in the United States
BY Danielle K Berkowitz Upon returning to the US after five years living and working in Israel, I am shocked and dismayed by the state of affairs within the Jewish community. We all know that the economic situation here has hit the community hard. Its effects are both far reaching and frighteningly close to home. As a fundraiser in the Jewish communal world for almost 15 years I...
Read MoreWhy Content is King in Conferences Too
I was recently privileged to attend a rather large conference (the Israeli Presidential Conference) with many big names and lots of exciting panel topics. The atmosphere was charged, the rooms were full of people I know I wanted to talk to, and I was looking forward to learning much. One panel in particular had me running up the street in heels to try to be on time. Huge names and brands were...
Read MoreGuilty
of committing the unforgivable sin of not updating the blog. We know! It must be said, however that at the least, the reasons are good ones. We are busy working! And conferencing. And growing and of course, learning. 2K has left for the US and will be working from those shores once settled in. In fact, she’s gracing Gracy Mansion will her presence as we speak- er, type. Mayor Bloomberg...
Read MoreMeasuring Your Impact
Today 1K & 3K met with Dubby Arbel at Midot (2K is with new little baby girl K ) What an enjoyable and educational meeting! Once discussions of family, origins, hometowns and offers of Shabbat hospitality were out of the way, we got down to business. Midot is an NGO founded by some really incredible people looking to help nonprofits do good, better. In other words, be more efficient and have...
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