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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. The objective was 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. Using on-site program observation, and interviews of founders, educators, parents and students, we explored program models, trends and replicability. A comprehensive report presented our 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 shared 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

An Exploration of Independent Jewish Enrichment Programs in Metropolitan Chicago. Click link for PDF view.