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The Charlotte Jewish News - August 2012 - Page 18 A Strategic Plan for CJDS CJDS has its marching orders. We now have a six-year strategic plan that will guide us as we con tinue to grow the school. The main purpose of this strategic plan is to delineate the financial, organiza tional and enrollment manage ment elements needed to provide the strongest possible platform in support of Charlotte Jewish Day School’s mission-focused purpos es and outcomes. Charlotte Jewish Day School chose ISM to be the facilitating group to guide us through our strategic planning process. ISM (Independent School Management) is an organization that sup ports independent schools across the country. The approach that ISM takes is a bit different than one might find in a typical strategic planning process of a non-profit. It focuses primarily on viability related issues. With all of the experience that ISM has with over 2000 independent schools, they have gathered a plethora of data on what constitutes a school of excellence. They used this data to convey a list of eighteen stability markers that a school can and should attempt to achieve. The strategic plan is then fash ioned from information gathered from surveys of all stakeholders in the school, ratings from the stabil ity marker assessment, and hopes and dreams of the board of direc- six-year plan is then laid out together with a financial strategic plan that matches the expected next steps. Too often strategic plans are created without enough thought given to the financial fea sibility of the plan. The themes addressed in the plan are Student and Faculty Culture, Faculty and Staff Support, Community Relations with the organizations at Shalom Park, Internal and External Marketing, and Board Structure and Function. The responses to the surveys assured us that the quality of education, the atmos phere, and the dynamics of the school were health ier and more robust than found at a typical inde pendent school. Our facul ty and student culture was healthier than is found in most independent schools. It was clear that our enrollment is challenged by the economics of our times, along with the changes taking place in the Jewish world. Our marketing techniques require a different approach and the progress we have made partnering with organizations on the Park needs to continue. We completed the three day marathon with our facilitator and guide exhausted, but exhilarated that we don’t have far to go to reach the Level Three (the highest level) in meeting the stability markers set out by ISM as an indi- Community News CRRA Continues a Compelling Calling tors and community supporters. A cator of excellence. ^ By Karen Brodsky Since Carolina Refugee Resettlement Agency has had the pleasure of appearing monthly in The Charlotte Jewish News, there are still many who wonder about the CRRA’s raison d’etre and what makes it Jewish. Recently Gideon Aronoff, who served more than six years as president and CEO of HIAS, with which CRRA is affiliated, resigned his position to spend more time with his family. Flis remarks to FIIAS and affiliate staff upon leaving included, “I sincerely believe that FIIAS’ 130 years of service to the Jewish community and to Jewish and non-Jewish migrants in need is one of the truly compelling call ings in the Jewish community. It has been a great honor and pleas ure for me to work in partnership with you to assist so many of the world’s most vulnerable refugees and immigrants. I am in awe of the work that all of you do in your communities - day in and day out - providing newcomers with new homes and new hopes for the future. We have provided rescue and resettlement and have made our country and the world much more just and humane places.” CRRA exists to carry out that mission and helps Charlotte to be a more just and humane city. Its work is based upon the Jewish tenet in the Torah to welcome the stranger. The Torah says, “Do not mistreat strangers living in your land, but treat them just as you treat your own citizens. Love strangers as you love yourselves, because you were strangers once in the land of Egypt.” (Leviticus 19:33-34) The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s managing editor Uriel Heilman interviewed Aronoff for a story released on May 17. Writes Heilman, “Aronoff’s tenure at HIAS was not without controversy. As president and CEO, he was an unapologetic pro ponent of HIAS’ advocacy and support for non-Jewish immigra tion to America - something some Jewish critics saw as outside the scope of HIAS’ raison d’etre. “Aronoff never saw it that way. He said, T helped the agency look into its past and understand and discover both from a values stand point and a history standpoint how you can be unapologetically focused on Jewish ... concerns and unapologetically focused on universal values at the same time. HIAS always had a focus on Jews in danger, which still exists - both the danger and the focus - but also historically and traditionally has used our skills and capacities to help people of other backgrounds when they turn to us in need. ‘“What I did was help the Gideon Aronoff agency see its history more clear ly and be more forthright that both sets of activities are core to what HIAS is. People often try to por tray some kind of a fundamental shift, but I don’t think the funda mental shift occurred in what we do so much as the way that the integrated program of HIAS is understood and described and dis cussed in the community.’” Heilman interjects, “There’s also a pragmatic reason for pursu ing a more universalist mission. Aronoff said: ‘If HIAS simply were to be dormant except in times of great Jewish need, it wouldn’t have the capacity or ability to respond when the Jewish world suddenly needs it.’ “‘It would be both irresponsi ble and unethical to not help oth ers where we can and to not pre- (Continued on page 23) Back to school = Back to YOU! cammiT UJ It’S Hll Mer&at.tti&J!. SrOOO sq.ft. Fitness Center (completely updated 2012) Tennis Leagues/Lessons 11 Tennis Courts Indoor Lap Pool Raquetball Courts Group Exercise Zumba'^IAdult Dance Pilates/Yoga Fall Sports Art Classes Book Club &MOBEI No Joining Fee Aug 15 thru Sept 30 (V’cJL^c\ ) L e ycc Charlotte
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