Building a successful volunteer culture
Subtitle: finding meaning in service in the Jewish community
By: Charles Simon ; foreword by Shelley Lindauer ; preface by Ron Wolfson.
Edition: Quality paperback ed.
Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodstock, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781580234085
Subjects: Voluntarism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Voluntarism; Corporate culture; Leadership; Boards of directors; Committees
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why risk raising your hand?; title: How can i fit in? : deconstructing organizational culture; title: From Babel back to Eden: creating a language of inclusion; title: Cultivating volunteers: deconstructing basic myths; title: The board of directors: is the herring rotten in the head?; title: How do we work together? : the volunteer-staff dynamic; title: The committee: where the rubber meets the road; title: The nominating committee: my way or God's way?; title: Cultivating leadership: balancing the seesaw; title: When things are just not working: the perennial president and other problematic people; title: When leadership is lacking; title: Bigger, but does it mean better? : from independent minyanim to cathedral congregations; title: Where did the guys go? : why male volunteerism has declined; title: Cracking the glass ceiling: hearing the female perspective.