Community foundations will play an important role in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN.
Read More »UN’s Development Goals Are A Roadmap For Powerful Donor Impact
In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and established a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Let’s put these new goals into a good news/bad news context.
Read More »Colorado’s Shlichah Comments on U.S. Embassy Move
I love Jerusalem. It is holy, sacred, ancient and full of life. Jerusalem always has been, is, and always will be Israel’s capital.
Read More »Involve Kids Early In Family Philanthropy
Give children input into giving -- in too many families, philanthropic values are unilaterally created by the older generations.
Read More »Reflections on Israel at 70
Yom HaZikkaron was my last day, for now, in Israel, but I did see the beginning of Yom Ha’Atzmut, Independence Day, before heading to the airport.
Read More »New Study Outlines Unprecedented Financial Risk To Many Nonprofits
An important new study finds that half of U.S. nonprofits are at risk financially -- facing inadequate cash reserves, negative income margins and technical insolvency.
Read More »The Shape Of Our Inner Monsters
When I saw ‘The Shape of Water,’ this year’s Oscar winner, and winner of the Golden Globe awards, I was at first repulsed but then intrigued, both with the film and its director Guillermo Del Toro.
Read More »2018 Is An Ideal Time To Focus On Strategic Corporate Philanthropy
Businesses must play a more strategic and integral role in efforts to solve the most pressing problems of our local, national and global communities.
Read More »Journey of the Spirit
The Boulder Chevra Kadisha invites the community to its Annual Meeting, Sunday February 25th, 3:45 pm at the Boulder JCC.
Read More »4 Questions For a Personal Chef: Ambra Lowenstein
Welcome Ambra Lowenstein to Boulder from North Carolina! She's a personal chef... but what does that actually mean?
Read More »Six Trends to Affect Philanthropic Landscape in 2018
When it comes to the world of philanthropy, 2018 promises to be transformational. Watch for these trends in 2018.
Read More »Guest Post: Never Been More Proud to Be Jewish
A few weeks ago, I traveled with 13 other Jewish teens from BBYO to Ukraine on Ambassadors to Ukraine. After returning home from this life-changing experience in Ukraine, I see the work I must do in my local community.
Read More »A Declaration of Interdependence: Hanukkah is a Feast of Solutions
The lesson of Hanukkah that I am suggesting we consider for 2017 and beyond is to stop pointing our fingers at Agribusiness, Big Pharma, the Fossil Fuel Industry. I suggest that we can refocus our language and our behavior on our own agency and how it impacts our global interdependency.
Read More »Soliloquy of Yehudis
Given the present day focus on gender abuse, the story portrayed here about Judith and the Maccabees seems to have particular contemporary relevance.
Read More »Next-Generation Donors Will Revolutionize Giving
We are currently engaged in the largest wealth transfer in history. Over 50 years, between 2007 and 2061, an estimated $59 trillion will pass from older to younger generations. What does that mean for philanthopy?
Read More »Coco and Jewish Perspectives on Life and Beyond
Honor your parents, follow your destiny, remember your ancestors, cherish honesty…prime Jewish values? Indeed, these are some of the main themes in the upcoming Joseph story throughout the final Torah portions of the book of Genesis.
Read More »This Thanksgiving, Carve More Than Turkey
Soon, many of us will gather around the Thanksgiving table with family and friends -- to indulge in an abundance of delicious traditional foods and give thanks for abundant blessings and freedoms.
Read More »Mother Sarah and ‘Me Too’ Encounters
Since the disclosures about Harvey Weinstein and others, a media flurry of ‘me too’ talk on sexual harassment has emerged- some of it constructive, some of it not so. My purpose here is not to comment on these individual responses, but rather to shed some healing perspectives about this issue, from this week’s Torah portion, Chayei Sarah.
Read More »Thinking of Giving to an International Charity? New IRS Regs Clarify Requirements
Bruce DeBoskey shares thoughts on giving to international charitable organizations.
Read More »Higher Ed Philanthropy, More Like Soccer or Basketball?
Bruce DeBoskey shares thoughts on weak links and strong links in philanthropy.
Read More »Once We Were Brothers, Once We Were Sisters
Sid Fox shares thoughts about the upcoming holy days.
Read More »LETTER: DREAMers Deserve a Future
DACA was implemented in 2012 to protect DREAMers, undocumented young people who arrived in the U.S. before the age of sixteen, from deportation. It's now under attack and in danger of being ended.
Read More »Enchanting and Accessible Forests
In coordination with partner LOTEM-Making Nature Accessible, JNF is able to make Israel's forests and parks accessible to the country’s special needs and disabled community.
Read More »Collaborative Divorce: A Better Way
Most divorces are resolved through litigation, and some are resolved through mediation. However, there is a third way, which although it has been around for quite a while, it is still a well-kept secret.
Read More »Look at a Nonprofit’s 990 Tax Form Before Donating Your Hard-Earned Money
2016 included record levels of giving and impact investing and more strategic approaches to charitable efforts. 2017 will likely launch its own unique trends.
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