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Partnering with Community Health Centers on Outreach and Enrollment Activities

Health centers are playing an essential role in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Nationwide, health centers have expanded their current outreach and enrollment (O&E) assistance activities to facilitate the enrollment of millions of eligible health center patients and service area residents into affordable health insurance coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces, Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program. Click here for tips for how organizations can partner with health centers on Outreach & Enrollment activities.

Keshet Parent & Family Connection

The Keshet Parent & Family Connection is composed of remarkable parents and family members of LGBTQ Jews across the country who are coming together to transform the Jewish community through peer support, public events, and advocating for change. We come from all streams of the Jewish world, have children of all genders and sexual orientations, and are driven by personal journeys of struggle and celebration. Learn more here.

Go Outside: Expanding Your Professional Development Horizons

The professional Jewish community overflows with conferences. The pockets of time between major holidays are crammed with opportunities for learning, connection, case studies, best practices and keynote speeches. While they are worthwhile, informative, necessary and valuable, they are also an echo chamber. Continue reading here.

How Do I Get My Development Officers Out of the Office to Meet with Donors?

While everyone in the development business seems to understand that the face to face meeting is probably one of the most powerful donor cultivation tools available, so many development employees become frozen when asked to pick up the telephone to make appointments. Learn how to get your development officer out of the office.

We are pleased to announce that AJFCA has entered into a new partnership with Verified Volunteers. Verified Volunteers is truly the only background check platform tailored to the specific needs of the service sector and the first online community to mobilize repeat, vetted volunteers. We believe this platform has the potential to dramatically transform volunteer screening for the better for AJFCA member agencies throughout the United States and Canada. Learn more here.

How to Get Your Board on Board with Online Fundraising

If you're a fundraiser who is struggling to get your executive director or board to understand why you should launch an online fundraising program or invest more in online giving tools, try these talking points to help plead your case. 

How to Talk Mergers with Boards and Senior Staff, Feburary 26, 2014, Bridgespan Group, by Katie Smith Milway, Maria Orozco & Cristina Botero

Mergers can often leave senior staff and board members feeling uneasy. Staff and board members may not have a clear sense of what their roles might be in the newly formed entity. And board members committed to their respective organization's mission can see the merger as a departure from why they joined their boards in the first place. Continue reading here.

The Dirty Dozen Website Mistakes

With 2013 behind us, we encourage staffers to take a close look at your website and examine every single page for content, style, tone and layout. Think about the big questions first and ask yourself: is this page really necessary? What is the main message from this page? Is there a shorter, more effective way of saying it? It's a best practice to regularly maintain your website to keep it functioning optimally, much like a car. Click here to read the dirty dozen website mistakes.

Pew Research Breaks Down Social Media Use by Age and Other Factors

A recent study from the Pew Research Center shows that as of September of 2013, 73 percent of all online adults are currently using social media. The data shows that within every age group across the map, from young adults to those over 65 years old, social media usage increased over the past year. Learn more here.

Is the thought of an audit enough to make you ill? Are you tired of running around collecting stats from different programs and sites? Corporate compliance programs help your agency adhere to the regulations governing your services and protect you from the risks associated with substandard performance. Electronic chart records like Foothold's AWARDS software can help you relieve stress, expedite internal audits, and assist you in managing Medicaid and other outside audits. Join AJFCA's partner and 2014 Annual Conference sponsor, Foothold Technology, for a complimentary webinar for just one hour and see how AWARDS can help you avoid days of headache and worry later.

Labor Department Study Says Volunteering at 10-Year Low

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been conducting studies of the rate of volunteerism in the U.S. since 2002, and its study this year shows that rate to be the lowest to date at just 25.4 percent. Neither the Bureau nor the Corporation for National and Community Service were able to explain the drop. Judging from the chart below, the decline began to be recorded in 2006. Continue reading here.