Last week we shared about the forming of our wonderful new member led, volunteer community task forces. Since the newsletter was long, we wanted to highlight them front and center this week to make sure you know about them, see their latest updates, and know how to get involved if you’d like to support the Kadima community as we weather this difficult moment, and build towards a better, more stable future.
Volunteer Task Forces
A group of Kadima members has proposed mobilizing the community into task forces to navigate the current financial/organizational crisis together and continue building Kadima towards a more sustainable, transparent, and engaged future. People from this group met with the board to initiate important work areas, which can evolve into the system of standing committees prescribed in the Bylaws.
Interested Kadima members are invited to join task forces - please learn more below and reach out to them individually if you want to explore joining.
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Volunteer Financial Task Force
In response to Kadima’s current financial difficulties, Kadima’s new Financial Task Force has launched. It brings together ten Kadima members, along with Kadima’s treasurer, Marion, who have deep experience in budgeting and finance, nonprofit management, organizational development, crisis management, and data analysis and presentation. Our goals are to identify the roots of Kadima’s current crisis, craft a remedial plan, and develop a strategy for Kadima’s stability, solvency and growth. We are well on our way. We’ll present our findings and share our recommendations at Kadima’s community meeting on March 8th. Look forward to receiving background information from the Financial Task Force before the meeting; we want Kadima members to come with shared context and renewed optimism!
Questions? Please email the FTF at [email protected].
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Volunteer Programming Task Force
Members need to feel this community around them, receive the ritual and other programming they crave. As a lay-led community at our core, we can give these community spaces to each other. Maybe it is a zoom class in your field, maybe it is Shabbat dinner at your place, maybe it is a hybrid workshop for adults during Kadima School!
Join: This group is seeking members excited about programming content, logistics, event planning, setting up chairs, etc. If interested in offering programming to Kadima, fill out this form or email Maia and Rainer to join the Task Force to help support and schedule events in collaboration with staff: [email protected] & [email protected]
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Volunteer Member Engagement Task Force
This group will implement a community outreach plan to listen to, engage, and get members plugged into programming and volunteer opportunities at Kadima. This can include the implementation of a survey about what we want and need and personal check-ins with community members to ensure that fruitful feedback is well documented and actionable.
Join: This group welcomes people with interests in research, surveying, outreach, community organizing, making phone calls, and potential fundraising. Email Sandy and Leah: [email protected] & [email protected]
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Volunteer Mutual Aid Task Force
Addressing the need for community care for staff who have had their hours cut, been furloughed, and laid off both in the form of food and care packages, but also potentially collecting transitional financial compensation in collaboration with the Finance Committee findings.
Join: This group needs many more members to make it happen. Submit this form if you’re interested in getting involved! Have questions? Email Gillian & Abra at: [email protected] & [email protected]
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Mutual Aid Task Force Update:
Dear Kadima Community, we write to you as fellow members who have been working on a plan to share some love and mutual aid with all of the staff who were affected by the recent cuts.
Please take a moment to send them some words of love (no condolences or sympathies, just things you appreciate about them) here. Multiple Appreciations submissions welcome, including hand written words or images! We will collect responses on Sunday, March 8 for delivery to folks.
If you have some extra financial capacity in this moment, please feel free to sign up for grocery deliveries or contribute towards bodywork and basic needs, as identified by each individual. All opportunities to contribute can be found here feel free to sign up for one or more.
Many hands make light work, and joy and appreciation shared is joy doubled–whether with words, food, or funds, your love is appreciated.
Gillian, Abra, Ruth, Aster
The Ad Hoc Staff Mutual Aid Committee 💛
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Volunteer Values Process Task Force
It is incredibly important to continue the process of rearticulating our values as a community. It is a process that has been perennially paused before completion over many years and this crisis moment should spark us to continue rather than retreat from it once again. There is energy among members to find both our clarity of purpose as well as maintain an invigorating and inclusive diversity of tactics.
Join: There are many already interested, but room for a few more as well as opportunities down the line to participate. Email Sima & Maia together at: [email protected] & [email protected]
A group of Kadima members has proposed mobilizing the community into task forces to navigate the current financial/organizational crisis together and continue building Kadima towards a more sustainable, transparent, and engaged future. People from this group met with the board to initiate important work areas, which can evolve into the system of standing committees prescribed in the Bylaws.
Interested Kadima members are invited to join task forces - please learn more below and reach out to them individually if you want to explore joining.
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Volunteer Financial Task Force
In response to Kadima’s current financial difficulties, Kadima’s new Financial Task Force has launched. It brings together ten Kadima members, along with Kadima’s treasurer, Marion, who have deep experience in budgeting and finance, nonprofit management, organizational development, crisis management, and data analysis and presentation. Our goals are to identify the roots of Kadima’s current crisis, craft a remedial plan, and develop a strategy for Kadima’s stability, solvency and growth. We are well on our way. We’ll present our findings and share our recommendations at Kadima’s community meeting on March 8th. Look forward to receiving background information from the Financial Task Force before the meeting; we want Kadima members to come with shared context and renewed optimism!
Questions? Please email the FTF at [email protected].
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Volunteer Programming Task Force
Members need to feel this community around them, receive the ritual and other programming they crave. As a lay-led community at our core, we can give these community spaces to each other. Maybe it is a zoom class in your field, maybe it is Shabbat dinner at your place, maybe it is a hybrid workshop for adults during Kadima School!
Join: This group is seeking members excited about programming content, logistics, event planning, setting up chairs, etc. If interested in offering programming to Kadima, fill out this form or email Maia and Rainer to join the Task Force to help support and schedule events in collaboration with staff: [email protected] & [email protected]
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Volunteer Member Engagement Task Force
This group will implement a community outreach plan to listen to, engage, and get members plugged into programming and volunteer opportunities at Kadima. This can include the implementation of a survey about what we want and need and personal check-ins with community members to ensure that fruitful feedback is well documented and actionable.
Join: This group welcomes people with interests in research, surveying, outreach, community organizing, making phone calls, and potential fundraising. Email Sandy and Leah: [email protected] & [email protected]
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Volunteer Mutual Aid Task Force
Addressing the need for community care for staff who have had their hours cut, been furloughed, and laid off both in the form of food and care packages, but also potentially collecting transitional financial compensation in collaboration with the Finance Committee findings.
Join: This group needs many more members to make it happen. Submit this form if you’re interested in getting involved! Have questions? Email Gillian & Abra at: [email protected] & [email protected]
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Mutual Aid Task Force Update:
Dear Kadima Community, we write to you as fellow members who have been working on a plan to share some love and mutual aid with all of the staff who were affected by the recent cuts.
Please take a moment to send them some words of love (no condolences or sympathies, just things you appreciate about them) here. Multiple Appreciations submissions welcome, including hand written words or images! We will collect responses on Sunday, March 8 for delivery to folks.
If you have some extra financial capacity in this moment, please feel free to sign up for grocery deliveries or contribute towards bodywork and basic needs, as identified by each individual. All opportunities to contribute can be found here feel free to sign up for one or more.
Many hands make light work, and joy and appreciation shared is joy doubled–whether with words, food, or funds, your love is appreciated.
Gillian, Abra, Ruth, Aster
The Ad Hoc Staff Mutual Aid Committee 💛
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Volunteer Values Process Task Force
It is incredibly important to continue the process of rearticulating our values as a community. It is a process that has been perennially paused before completion over many years and this crisis moment should spark us to continue rather than retreat from it once again. There is energy among members to find both our clarity of purpose as well as maintain an invigorating and inclusive diversity of tactics.
Join: There are many already interested, but room for a few more as well as opportunities down the line to participate. Email Sima & Maia together at: [email protected] & [email protected]
Join for the next Kadima Community Meeting
Sunday, March 8th | 2-4pm | Zoom
Join us for a community meeting to learn more about our finances, new volunteer task forces, and more. Full meeting agenda to come.
This community meeting will be held solely on Zoom. We look forward to being in constructive community dialogue with you then!
Click here to save the event to your calendar and access the Zoom link.
Sunday, March 8th | 2-4pm | Zoom
Join us for a community meeting to learn more about our finances, new volunteer task forces, and more. Full meeting agenda to come.
This community meeting will be held solely on Zoom. We look forward to being in constructive community dialogue with you then!
Click here to save the event to your calendar and access the Zoom link.
Kadima Still Needs Your Support!
We are happy to share that Rabbi David has returned from furlough at reduced hours, alongside staff who remain at reduced hours. Our dream is to return our staff to their usual hours through the rest of the fiscal year, and in order to be able to do that, we still need your support!
Can you help us secure our staff hours and programmatic capacity as we work hard to build towards a better future for Kadima that is more transparent and more stable, both for our staff and our community?
Here are four ways to show your support today:
Chelsea, Hila, Guy, Marion, Michael
Kadima Executive Board
We are happy to share that Rabbi David has returned from furlough at reduced hours, alongside staff who remain at reduced hours. Our dream is to return our staff to their usual hours through the rest of the fiscal year, and in order to be able to do that, we still need your support!
Can you help us secure our staff hours and programmatic capacity as we work hard to build towards a better future for Kadima that is more transparent and more stable, both for our staff and our community?
Here are four ways to show your support today:
- If you haven’t donated yet, or if you have and can do more, please consider making a meaningful contribution today to help us meet our goal of making a better Kadima for you, your family, and your community.
- Please share our fundraiser with your friends and family and welcome them to help support your community through a generous donation. Let your loved ones support you by supporting Kadima today!
- If you are eligible, explore employer matching gifts. These can double or even triple your impact!
- Monthly donations increase our financial stability so we can predictably pay our workers. Consider becoming a member if you aren’t one already, and increasing your Nadiv Lev contributions if you are. If you are already giving monthly, please check to make sure your donation was processed correctly. To start or increase your Nadiv Lev, or to report any issues, email [email protected].
Chelsea, Hila, Guy, Marion, Michael
Kadima Executive Board
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