Projects

Community Foundation for Jewish Education (CFJE)

Amidst a city-wide survey of community educational needs, CFJE needed an objective professional to explore “Jewish enrichment” programs not formally affiliated with a synagogue to uncover the scope and range of programs, replicability, trends and needs.

Meeting Your Mission was engaged to document innovation within Jewish after-school program market. Live program observation, interviews of stakeholders, founders, educators, parents and students. Exploration of program models, trends and replicability. Comprehensive report presented on findings.

Leslie did an excellent job for us researching, interviewing and interpreting data on a relatively unknown area of Jewish education. She provided information and analysis that helped us better understand this genre and share that understanding with the larger Chicago Jewish community as well as Jewish communal and foundation professionals who needed to enhance their knowledge of it.

Rabbi Scott AaronExecutive Director, Community Foundation for Jewish Education

Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation

The congregation’s board of directors concluded that focus groups were a necessary part of its strategic planning process and were required to better understand members’ sense of engagement and the appeal of an alternate dues structure.

Meeting Your Mission’s Managing Director was engaged to serve as an external, objective resource to engage members in dialogue about their membership, perceptions of Humanistic Judaism and value of congregational membership dues. Comprehensive summary of key research findings presented.

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Spertus Institute for Jewish Leadership and Learning

In an effort to increase the number of participants in its programs, Spertus begins market study to and needs assessment to learn about perceptions, habits, interests, and needs of adult Jewish learners in Metro Chicago.

Meeting Your Mission was contracted to facilitate four focus groups to explore the participants’ habits and breadth of educational topics of appeal to adults in the Jewish community. Meeting Your Mission delved into various topics including registration costs, content of course offerings, quality of instructors, location, and settings. Expansive data collection and formal recommendations for immediate implementation provided in final report.

Working with Meeting your Mission was a remarkable experience. Leslie Rosen Stern is an outstanding professional, who took the time to understand the needs and context of our project, provided invaluable insights into the planning of the research and focus groups, and was an expert facilitator able to cull important insights from focus group participants. The results of the research were extremely valuable to our institution and the overall project. With her experience, professional skills, and knowledge of the Jewish community, Leslie provided the expertise we needed in a timely and thoughtful way.

Dean BellProvost and Vice President, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership