Involving Baby Boomers at JFCS

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Involving Baby Boomers at JFCS

• Judy Freundlich Tiell, LCSW
• Executive Director
• Jewish Family Career Services
• jftiell_at_jfcslouisville.org

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JFCS of Louisville

• B Agency-budget 1,700,000 - 25.1 FTEs
• Jewish Community 8,000
• JFVS became JFCS w/100th Anniversary

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Vision Become agency of choice for Baby Boomers

• Volunteer Opportunities
• Programs Services
• Information, Resources, Referrals

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Why?

• Demographic of our community/Board/Staff
• Key Programs at JFCS one stop for all
• a. Caregivers Title IIIE
• b. Mature worker Title IIIB
• c. Volunteer Program RRF
• 3. Potential fee generation, outreach, donor
  development, expansion of services through
  volunteers

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Strategies

• Task Forces
• Focus Groups
• Partnerships
• Service Offerings
• Volunteer Opportunities

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Task Force

• Board eliminated program committees
• Short term, topic related Task Forces
• Utilizing Board and non Board members,
• gaining from their expertise and creating
  interest and friends for JFCS.

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Examples of Task Forces

• Baby Boomer
• Volunteer
• Jewish Brain Gain
• Islamic Lending (Micro-enterprise)
• Technology

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Focus Groups

• Key constituencies (consumers,
• Boomer Women)

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Partnerships

• AARP
• Healthcare Providers
• Jewish Communal Institutions

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Boomer Expo and Ready Set

• Grant funded plus revenue producer
• IAJVS brochure
• Public face in community

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Volunteer Opportunities

• Short term projects/ongoing opportunities
• Use of career expertise
• Intergenerational

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Positive Outcomes

• Increase in volunteers
• Collaborations/partnerships
• Outreach
• Access to funding opportunities
• Profile in Jewish community

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Challenges

• Economic crisis
• Change in Boomer Status
• Higher need for employment lessened interest in
  volunteering

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Next Steps

• Continued programming (Boomer Expo, Ready Set)
• Task Forces
• Use of Volunteers

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Learning

• Short Term Projects
• Interesting Challenging
• Social Connections
• Informal
• Use of professional expertise
• Consumer

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Resources

• Civic Ventures (www.civicventures.org)
• Met Life Foundation Great Expectations Boomers
  and the future of volunteering
• (www.volunteermatch.org/nonprofits/
• resources/great expectations)
• Alliance for Nonprofit Management
• Baby Boomer volunteer resources-
• info_at_allianceonline.org