Evaluating Charities -- an interactive session with JCC Rockland's Teen Leadership Initiative
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JCC Rockland Teen Leadership Initiative
April 1, 2014
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JCF’s Impact• Each year, JCF makes a Community Gift of
$2 million to UJA-Federation of NY • $10 million has been awarded from JCF’s
Special Gifts Fund since 1999 to dozens of Jewish communal organizations • JCF donors grant more than $250 million
annually to charities in all sectors
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Educational ResourcesJCF provides seminars, guidebooks, webinars and online resources to help people be more strategic and have greater impact with their philanthropy:• Teen Tzedakah Guide• Your Jewish Philanthropy Roadmap• JCF Roadmap – Start Your Journey Conversation Cards• JCF Legacy Scrapbook & Guidebook
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Goals for this session:
•Create an evaluation rubric•Learn how to research charities•Discover tools to help you be more thoughtful with your own charitable giving
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Who said this?“To give away money is an easy matter…and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy and noble.”
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Share an example of a time when you had to make a
decision about where to give tzedakah (charity).
What did you decide and why?
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Ways to evaluate charities:
•Review grant application• Look at charity’s website/materials• Site visits• Interviews with
staff/volunteers/recipients• Look at charity’s financial health
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Research Charities Online
•Charity Navigator (www.charitynavigator.org) •GuideStar (www.guidestar.org)•Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org/us/charity-reviews)
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How to Read a 990
• If an organization is doing important work but its finances are a mess, your donation may be mishandled.• Every public charity files a form 990
with the IRS which can tell you about its financial health
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Exercise: Sharsheret’s 990
•What % of donation goes to charitable purposes? (Should be at least 60%)• Is the charity in good financial health?•What is the organization’s mission?•What programs are in place to achieve
these goals?• How do they measure effectiveness?• How long has the organization been in
existence?
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Why an evaluation rubric?
•Common set of questions to ask of all organizations levels the playing field•Choose grantee more objectively, less because of emotion
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Articulate a Mission Statement
We, the JCC Rockland Teen Leadership Initiative, will support an organization that:___________________________________________________________________________
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Grant Application Evaluation Qs
•What is the purpose/mission of the program?•What need does it address? What
would happen if it didn’t exist?•How many people will benefit? •Who will benefit?•Does the project’s budget seem
appropriate?
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More questions• How great is the need this project
addresses?• How feasible is this project?•Will this program have a measurable
and sustained impact?• Does the budget/financials seem
appropriate?• Do you have confidence in the
applicants’ ability to carry out this program successfully?
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Questions?Tamar Snyder
Associate Director, Strategic Initiatives & Communications
212.752.8277 ext. [email protected]