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SEPTEMBER–NOVEMBER
Make sure you are a presence at all sisterhood programs, especially the Paid-Up
Membership event.
Remember—you are a role model.
Distribute Torah Fund Pins before
• Prepare a Torah Fund presentation display for
Rosh Hashanah!
the sisterhood Paid-Up Membership event
Why not at your Selichot program?
and give each woman a tzedakah box.
• Celebrate your successes at the kick-off event.
• Continue campaign plans, implementing a variety of marketing techniques Schedule
your next cabinet/team meeting to review the campaign.
• Finalize plans for the Special Gifts event.
DECEMBER
Women are looking to make their charitable donations for the tax year. Remind them of
the opportunity to ensure the future of Conservative Judaism with Torah Fund.
• Send out notices to all contributors regarding payment of pledges for this tax year.
• Submit all Torah Fund money to the Torah Fund office along with appropriate
transmittal forms/information prior to December 31 for proper tax-year credit and
receipts.
• Display the tzedakah box in the Judaica shop and
give one with each purchase.
Review
JANUARY–MARCH 2012
The tempo of your campaign changes as you begin
holding special appreciation events for your
Benefactors and providing information for women to
consider major gifts and planned giving.
• Hold a Special Gifts event.
• Use tzedakah boxes as centerpieces.
• Schedule parlor meetings and educational forums
for planned giving opportunities.
• Hold an appreciation event.
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Meet with the Torah Fund
Cabinet to review the
campaign year
Evaluate
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Revise
What worked?
What wasn’t successful?
Why wasn’t it successful?
▪ Remap campaign
▪ Keep what was successful
▪ Select new strategies
▪ Write action plan
Proceed
▪ Implement new action plan
Reevaluate
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Several times throughout
the campaign
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