SYNERGY Resources

The shared commitment of UJA-Federation and area synagogues to strengthen Jewish life is reflected in our array of programs and resources.

Webinars Archive

SYNERGY’s 2011-2012 webinars and workshops offer practical, hands-on skills to increase leaders’ capacity to grow and strengthen their synagogue within three main areas: the Membership Pipeline, Financial Sustainability, and the Leadership Pipeline.

Membership Pipeline
High Holiday Outreach: How to Move Three-Day-a-Year Jews from “See You Next Year” to “See You All Year"
This session will help leaders to identify the untapped engagement potential of key moments of contact during the High Holidays, and develop them into opportunities for deeper connection and concrete next steps. Session includes cultivating relationships, training to engage newcomers, mapping relevant next-step programs, and enhancing marketing efforts for post-High Holiday programs.

Financial Sustainability Pipeline
Sacredness of Money: Jewish Values-Based Approaches to Financial Sustainability
This introductory webinar is for synagogue leadership committed to looking at financial resources as tools for building sacred community. The session will address how to recognize financial and other resources as spiritual components of the conversation on how we want to live our lives in holy ways, and will include a model for Intentional Values-Based Community Planning and Budgeting.

The Potential of Gift Planning for Sustaining Your Synagogue
Whether your synagogue is beginning a new development program, creating an endowment, or looking for additional sources of support, this webinar will provide the basic steps for developing various gift-planning options that will provide immediate and long-term support. You'll learn how to detect signs of interest among existing and potential donors and learn some of the key phrases to use in developing that interest.

Leadership Pipeline
Building the Leadership Pipeline: Talent Identification and Development
This introductory webinar is for synagogue leadership involved in identifying and developing new leadership. It is the precursor to a year-long program designed to enable congregations to put in place a structured, intentional approach for cultivating committed, energized lay leaders.

Getting the Most Out of Your Consulting Relationship
Working with an outside consultant can be useful in many ways -- from board development or strategic planning to specific areas of focus like fund development or engaging volunteers. This webinar will help you to maximize the effectiveness of your consulting relationship and will address the top ten keys to a successful consulting relationship, including defining the project, understanding value and managing expectations, and selecting the consultant.

Foundations for Sustaining Vibrant Synagogues Webinar Series
This webinar series provides basic knowledge for teams of synagogue leadership that can be used as a foundation for synagogues to build upon. The series explores three critical elements that a synagogue needs to strengthen and grow their community: Mission and Vision, Managing Data, and Budget.

Foundational Synagogue Skills Webinars
These webinars build on the learning from the Foundations for Sustaining Vibrant Synagogues webinar series and offer practical, hands-on skills to increase leaders’ capacity to grow and strengthen their synagogue.

Building Blocks for Synagogue Change
Three one-hour webinars for synagogue leaders help to kick off a great board year and develop new approaches to membership outreach, membership in-reach, and volunteer engagement. Webinars are facilitated by a senior consultant at the Alban Institute.

Considering Partnerships and Mergers in Post-2008 Environment
Alban Institute consultants explore innovative forms of collaboration and merger, examine myths about mergers that could harm the chances of success, and consider how congregations shift from a survival focus to a visionary stance. Watch now.

SYNERGY Resource Guide

The SYNERGY Resource Guide is a valuable tool for synagogue leaders in New York, Westchester, and Long Island to learn about grant opportunities, conferences, leadership development programs, and information and referral services offered by UJA-Federation of New York and its beneficiary agencies.