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M I N U T E S

OF THE

BOARD MEETING OF THE

JEWISH UNITED FUND

OF

METROPOLITAN CHICAGO

HELD ON JANUARY 24, 2013

AT THE

JEWISH FEDERATION

30 SOUTH WELLS STREET

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Ben Gurion Way, 30 South Wells Street, Chicago, IL 60606-5056 (312) 346-6700 FAX (312) 444-2086 www.juf.org

C O N F I D E N T I A L

M I N U T E S Of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, held on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at the Jewish Federation, 30 S. Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois. AGENDA & INDEX PAGE 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1

2. D’VAR TORAH 1

3. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT 2

4. ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL 7

5. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 8

6. REMARKS FROM CHAIR OF OVERALL PLANNING & ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE 9

7. REPORT OF PRESIDENT 10

8. REPORT OF COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING COMMITTEE 10

9. REPORT OF AUDIT COMMITTEE 10

10. REPORT OF MISSIONS COMMITTEE 10

11. REPORT OF SECRETARY 11

M I N U T E S OF THE

JEWISH UNITED FUND

BOARD MEETING HELD ON JANUARY 24, 2013

PRESENT: Jodie Berkman; Debbie L. Berman; David T. Brown; Scott I. Canel; Josh Daitch;

Robert Ferencz; Maury Fertig; Jason Friedman; Howard Friend; David Goldenberg; Hilary Greenberg; Ellen Spira Hattenbach; Marcie Hemmelstein; Josh B. Herz; Bennett E. Kaplan; Cindy Kaplan; Deborah Schrayer Karmin; Penny Keeshin; Ann-Louise Kleper; Dr. Jeffrey Kopin; Peter Kupferberg; Rabbi Vernon Kurtz; Jane Cadden Lederman; H. Debra Levin; Jennifer Levine; Brian J. Levinson; Miriam Lichstein; Stephen Malkin; Steven N. Miller; Jodi Newmark; Theodore Perlman; Elliott Robinson; Marc Roth; Eric Rothner; Lisa Rubinstein; Skip Schrayer; Steve Schreiber; Harry Seigle; Midge Perlman Shafton; Wendy Berger Shapiro; Kim Shwachman; Bill Silverstein; Barbara Kaplan Slutsky; Alan P. Solow; Pam F. Szokol; Phyllis Tabachnick; Arum Weinfeld; Adam Winick; Andrea R. Yablon; Michael Zaransky; and Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, Ex-Officio and Nathaniel Sack, Ex-Officio.

UNABLE TO ATTEND: Caryn Rosen Adelman; Harvey J. Barnett; David A. Baum; Ethan Budin; Mark

Chudacoff; Helene Diamond; Deanna Drucker; Bruce Ettelson; Linda S. Fisher; David Golder; Richard C. Goodman; Arnie Harris; Andrew S. Hochberg; Stuart Hochwert; Priscilla L. Kersten; Frances H. Krasnow; Steven H. Lavin; Francine F. Levy; Barry A. Malkin; Rabbi Steven S. Mason; Lee I. Miller; James C. Mills; Sanford E. Perl; Paula Resnick; Thomas Rivkin; Marc Sacks; Jimmy Sarnoff; Keith J. Shapiro; Morris Silverman; Marc Spellman; Sara C. Star; Nina G. Stillman; Ralph Wanger; Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein; James R. Woldenberg and Rabbi Carl Wolkin.

STAFF: Audra Berg; Ofer Bavly; David Brief; Jeffrey L. Cohen; Deborah Covington; Jerry

DeAngelis; Donna Kahan; Michael Kotzin; Rose Jagust; Louis Lazovsky; John Lowenstein; Caryn Peretz; Elissa Polan; Stephanie Pritzker; Susan Rifas; David Rosen; Jim Rosenberg; David Rubovits; Stuart Spector; Sherryl Steinberg; Michael Tarnoff; Jay Tcath; Adina Torchman; and Ariel Zipkin.

David T. Brown, Chairman, presided.

JEWISH UNITED FUND

ACTIONS TAKEN

AT THE BOARD MEETING HELD ON

January 24, 2013

1. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the Minutes of regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held on December 12, 2012, were approved.

2. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, in keeping with the Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation Act and the Jewish Federation By-laws, the appointment of the 2012-2013 Jewish United Fund Committees of both Community and Board members, was ratified.

DISCUSSION 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

It was Moved, Seconded and Carried that the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, held on December 12, 2012, be approved. (Motion No. 1)

2. D’VAR TORAH Elliott Robinson gave the D’var Torah. He said the week’s Torah portion is Parshat BO. It is where our people are finally let out of Egypt. The famous commentator, Nachmanides, is troubled by the constant references to the Exodus throughout all our religious lives, not only on Passover, but on the other two major holidays of Shavuot (when the Torah was given) as well as Succoth. And what does Shabbat have to do with Exodus? It’s in all our prayers, every day, all the time … why? He said Nachmanides offers a very cogent answer. Man’s memory is very short. Even when miracles happen, we tend to forget them. In recent Israeli history, when Iron Dome saved hundreds or possibly thousands of lives, or when Saddam Hussein’s missiles were totally off the mark, the Six Day War, or even going back to the birth of the State of Israel, have these miracles been relegated to second place behind the news of a Jewish coach for the Chicago Bears? Mr. Robinson said we need constant reminders of the Exodus – the experience that molded us into a nation. We also need to be reminded of the receiving of the Torah and its wonderful, insightful life guidelines. He then addressed why it was that he had not shaved nor cut his hair – he is in the 30 day mourning period for the loss of his father. He said the loss is evident in that he is not doing either of those things, or partying and doing few social activities. He said many of these customs will continue for a year. After his very quick passing in Chicago, his father was buried in Jerusalem where they also sat the traditional seven days of Shiva for him. His father’s final resting place is on Har Hazeitim, Mount Olives. He said in addition to the scenery being astounding, one can see the City of David, and the Temple Mount is across the street. The spirituality of our Homeland is in every breath and step taken and so perfectly fit his father. When the Shiva was over, almost as if G-d celebrated their “release”, Jerusalem had a 6-8 inch snowfall. While it is quite uncommon there, he said it was wonderful seeing the children sledding on cardboard boxes and garbage bags. The streets were nearly as quiet as on Yom Kippur but filled with laughter. And when the sun came out, Jerusalem was glowing. He concluded saying just as we have the constant reminders of the Exodus and our collective Jewish experiences, he is reminded of his father all day long … by going to and leading services, reciting the Kaddish three times daily. He is reminded of his father’s smile, of his absolute love for the Jewish community, Israel and Torah that defines who we are which also, in so many ways, defines our wonderful Federation as well.

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3. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

RE: 2012 JUF Campaign Stephen Malkin, 2012 General Campaign Chair, presented the final report on the 2012 JUF Campaign. As most already know, the 2012 JUF Annual Campaign closed at $79,351,407 from 32,798 donors. This is a great accomplishment and is the product of a generous community, engaged lay leaders and a hard working professional staff. Mr. Malkin thanked the entire campaign cabinet and said their names are on page 12 of the handout. He went on to say “It is truly a group effort and we value everyone’s contribution but especially wanted to acknowledge Jodie Berkman and Marc Spellman the end of Year chairs, Martha Davidson Women’s Board Campaign Vice President, and Jimmy Sarnoff and Michael Teplitsky YLD Campaign Vice Presidents for their extraordinary leadership.” The results of the campaign represent an increase of approximately $600,000 over last year and a decrease in gifts of 1,677 (what that means in terms of actual donors it is difficult to measure). He noted that there are a variety of statistics and data in the information distributed, attached to these Minutes as Exhibit A, and there are tactical implications (pace, staffing, etc.) for future campaigns when analyzing this data. Those he said will leave that to a campaign strategy development group. He shared a few high level ideas as a result of his experiences with the campaign. First, one thing we all know is that there is nothing better than peer to peer solicitation. Donors respond the best to peer volunteers and our cost of fundraising can be kept down. The corps of volunteers who are willing to and actually solicit seems to be shrinking and we need to expand the group -- both Board members and others. Second, it is hard to get new gifts but it is imperative that we do so. We have been losing donors and becoming more heavily reliant on larger gifts. There are layers of implications to this trend. Third, one of the tenets of what we do is to do our best to help cover the annual needs of the community. In order to be in a sustainable position, we need to have our cash inflows cover the cash outflows. The largest and most important cash inflow is the annual campaign. We have worked hard and will continue to work hard to raise as much money as we can. Page 8 shows that we have supplemented our annual campaign with two rounds of J-Help. When you combine that with the Israel@60 match program, some of our donors have been asked every year for 6 straight years for special extraordinary gifts to help fund the annual needs of the community. We need to get back to a position of no specials within a couple of years or risk extraordinary donor fatigue with us. We also can help reach sustainability by managing tightly our expenses and finally looking very hard at and prioritizing our allocations. We are doing all of these things and must rigorously continue to do so.

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Finally, he said he visited many, many donors and prospective donors over the past 18 months and have thought a lot about the value of what we do. I heard all sorts of stories both good and bad about their impressions and experiences with JUF. We have a lot to be proud of and yet a lot of opportunity for improvement. He was amazed at how many long time donors did not really fundamentally understand what we do, yet they have loyally given for years. This is a happy story in so far as there is a lot of trust in what we do within the community and it is an opportunity for us to do better with some donors. What do I mean by that? I feel, as I suspect we all do, that JUF does great work and offers compelling philanthropic value for our donors. If we can better communicate our story, those donors and new donors will possibly increase their financial commitment or get more involved.

JUF, a 112 year old successful organization, grew up at a time when there was less competition for philanthropic dollars, Jews weren’t accepted in many circles and the community was emotionally more tight-knit. During those days giving to JUF was often viewed as the Jewish tax both outside and possibly even inside of the organization. As we all know there is far more competition for today’s charitable dollar, Jews are welcomed in many more arenas and our charity follows and our community is becoming more disparate. We have to compete more now than ever before for a share of donors’ philanthropy. The good news is we have a GREAT product to offer with proven results. We have to get better at telling our story and showing our appreciation to our donors. This is not our parents and grandparents JUF, it is ours – let’s make it reflect that. The Board then stood, applauded and thanked Mr. Malkin for all that he did. Dr. Nasatir presented him with a book of photographs, invitations, etc. of the 2012 campaign. Dr. Nasatir continued by also thanking all the volunteer leadership and staff. He said the outcome of the 2012 was excellent. Total JUF-JF Revenue for 2012 was $206,884,407 comprised of the following:

JUF Annual Campaign $ 79,351,407

JF Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund 511,000

Israel Terror Relief 811,000

Centennial Campaign 27,565,000

Corporate Partners 1,162,000

Jewish Women's Foundation 444,000

Donor advised funds 31,100,000

Field of interest funds 5,124,000

Support foundations 46,640,000

United Way 1,276,000

Govt./Foundation/Supplemental Grants 12,900,000

Total

$206,884,407

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With regard to giving units, he said it is complicated. In total, we had approximately 32,800 gifts which includes covered gifts. That is approximately 1,700 fewer than in 2011. But we know that 700 were from 2011 one-time Women’s Division J-Help gifts for the Holocaust project. So that makes the one-year decrease approximately 1,000. We also had 500 fewer new gifts than the year before (2,470 vs 2.970). In addition, 2,740 donors made contributions to the JF Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund and JUF Israel Terror Relief Fund. Of the 1,332 donors to the JF Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund, 591 did not donate to the JUF 2012 Campaign; and of the 1,408 donors to the JUF Israel Terror Relief Fund, 231 did not donate to the JUF 2012 Campaign. If you add those into the mix, we are about even with 2011. Dr. Nasatir also noted that one giving unit often represents more than one person in a household, so it is not easy to get a true reading of how we are doing. A review of 7 years shows a trend of retaining 77-78% of annual donors with a consistent number of about 500 new, skips and priors each year. Dr. Nasatir said that is a recipe for shrinking our donor base. We need 8,000+ new, skips and prior gifts each year … not 5,000. He informed the Board that we just hired a Director of New Gifts in Campaign as part of new hires approved by the Board. Our primary focus for2013 is an elevated campaign as we have done for the past three years. A big challenge will be … can we do both -- can we focus on both dollars and units? RE: 2013 JUF Campaign Michael Zaransky, 2013 General Campaign Chairman, gave his congratulations and thanks to Steve Malkin for his hard work in leading a most successful campaign. He also thanked EOY chairs Jodie Berkman and Marc Spellman. As everyone knows, we are already six months into the 2013 campaign which stands at $38,154,091 from 2,909 donors. Included in this number is $5,719,576 that has been pledged to the J-Help initiative. At this time last year the 2012 Campaign had $36,652,323 from 2,968 donors. We are running $1,501,768 ahead, but 59 gifts behind. Pertinent material was distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit B. Upcoming events include:

JUF in January which is the first 2013 phonothon, being held Sunday, January 27 – Tuesday, January 29th. On Sunday it will be at three locations: Weinger JCC, Fiedler Hillel and Anshe Sholom in Olympia Fields. Overall Phonothon Chair is Barbara Kaplan Slutsky and Mr. Zaransky asked everyone to support her and the 2013 campaign by participating at the Phonothon. Last year, the Phonothon brought in over $1 million; and these are the easiest calls to make – these folks made their gifts during the first half of 2012 so they haven’t been called in over six months.

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The Campaign Highlights, distributed to the Board and attached as Exhibit B, list the full

range of up-coming 2013 events and he said it would be appreciated if Board members would attend some of them, including their congregation event. Mr. Zaransky drew everyone’s attention to the Agency Board and Non-Profit Dinner on Thursday, February 28th at the Standard Club. The 11th Nachshon Mission will be February 3-10, with almost 60 men traveling to Poland and Berlin, led by Josh Herz and David Golder. Of the 60 participants, 24 are first-timers, 10-12 are “next-Gen” and three emigrated from the FSU.

Mr. Zaransky concluded saying that people have been most thoughtful in asking him how they can be helpful. He thanked everyone, noting that almost everybody has made their 2013 annual campaign gift. He said what is needed are new gifts, including from high capacity donors. Introductions are needed to those new donors and he asked everyone to think about potential candidates – business associates, synagogue members, neighbors, etc. He stressed that they did not need to do the solicitation but that they could help by making the introduction. RE: The Centennial Campaign Midge Perlman Shafton presented the Report on The Centennial Campaign. Pertinent material had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit C. She said that the campaign stands at $632,499,240 from 3,844 gifts. She was pleased to announce some recent gifts to The Centennial Campaign: Biff Ruttenberg has signed a Declaration of Intent for a gift of $2 million dollars, 1/3 for a

Campaign Continuity Fund and 2/3 for a special Tzedakah Fund for unfunded social services.

Ben & Maxine Arkes have designated $1million dollars as a testamentary gift to The Centennial Campaign for JCC Camp Chi Scholarships.

Milton and Iona Levenfeld have signed a Declaration of Intent for $1million dollars, leaving a

substantial Campaign Endowment gift and increasing Mrs. Levenfeld’s LOJE.

Four new Campaign Continuity Funds have been established as LOJEs, each for $100,000:

Elaine Morrison; Women’s Board members Susan Arbeiter Reese and Rhonda Wener; and Francine F. Levy, President of the Women’s Board.

And from David Sherman, a past Chairman of the Board and his wife Susie, a gift of $100,000 in honor of his late mother Diane Sherman, to support The Diane Sherman Welcome Shabbat- Lunch and Learn Program at CJE SeniorLife. Mrs. Shafton concluded saying that it is important for every Board member to participate in The Centennial Campaign and that there many ways to do that. For more information, people should contact her, David T. Brown, Steven Nasatir, Jeffrey Cohen, David Rosen or Dee Anthony.

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RE: Philanthropic Funds Peter Kupferberg, Chair, presented the Report of the Philanthropic Funds Committee that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as D. Exhibit He said that on December 10, 2012 the Philanthropic Funds Committee met to discuss a number of items including the status of the program and a new policy that seeks to make funds attractive to high net worth donors. Our Donor Advised Fund Program increased substantially in 2012. 48 new funds were opened, the largest number opened since 2002. Contributions totaling $31.1 million were received into new and existing funds, which is significantly more than has been seen in the last few years. The program now manages total assets of over $98 million, the most assets we have managed since before the economic downturn. During the year, the program made 5,439 grants totaling $32.3 million to charities throughout the United States and internationally. 60% of these grants went to support Jewish charities, further strengthening the Jewish community building work of this Federation. Donors also used their philanthropic funds to contribute $5.4 million to the Jewish United Fund’s 2012 annual campaign. He said that at the meeting, the Committee discussed a proposed policy that would allow donors with significant assets in donor advised funds to continue having their financial advisors manage the assets in the fund. Committee members agreed that this could attract new high net worth donors who may have been reluctant to move charitable assets away from their trusted advisors. In addition, members felt that the policy would provide incentive for wealth managers to refer clients to the Federation’s program if they could continue managing the donor advised fund assets. The Philanthropic Fund Committee agreed to move the policy on to the Pooled Endowment Performance Committee for further review of the appropriate business procedures, after which it will be considered by the Board. For 2013, we are looking forward to continuing the positive trend in our Donor Advised Program and staff continues to develop and implement effective marketing strategies to attract new donors to the program. We also hope to take advantage of the fact that for people in the top tax bracket, the new tax act will make charitable donations of appreciated stock more beneficial, something many Board members may want to consider as they think about charitable giving this year. However, after reviewing our 2012 numbers, it was noted that the large majority of funds came to us through word of mouth and personal referrals -- and we want to continue that trend and ask your help in building this program. He said those who do not yet have donor advised funds will find that they are a great vehicle for your charitable giving. When he became the chair of the Committee, he immediately opened a fund and was really happy that he did. The fund was simple to set up, is easy to use, and provides great tax planning benefits. He concluded asking everyone to please think about opening a donor advised fund -- and also let their friends and family know about them. People can contact Rose Jagust or David Rosen about how to do so.

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RE: Recent Tax Legislation Implications for Donors Living in Illinois David Rosen, Senior Vice President, spoke about the recent tax act. Pertinent material was mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit E. He said he would focus on our generous donors who want to support the Jewish Federation/Jewish United Fund and other charities and to prepare Board members as solicitors. However, the first step for everyone is to see their own tax professionals to determine how the Act applies to them. He then spoke about the impact of the new tax act. I. The Act does increase taxes for high income individuals. It accomplishes this by raising the tax rate to couples at $450,000 and individuals at $400,000. It also increases taxes at $300,000 ($250,000 indirectly) by reducing the value of certain itemized deductions. No one knows for sure what the potential impact is going to be on individuals with less discretionary income to give to charity. II. For Illinois residents who itemize their income tax deductions and are high-income individuals, the after tax cost of making a charitable gift will probably go down. The much talked about reduction of itemized deductions sometimes known as the PEASE Amendment, which was around in the l990’s and part of the last decade, had little effect in those days and probably will have less of an effect now. However, he said they should always check with their tax advisors on the actual tax consequences of any proposed gift.

III. The Act reinstated the IRA Rollover Provision. This allows individuals 70½ or older to make qualified charitable distributions directly from their IRAs without having those distributions taxed. While individuals have the entire year to think about 2013 distributions, a special provision allows individuals prior to the end of January to use their IRAs for charitable giving and we have, as already noted to the Board, sent out a lot of information on this topic.

IV. The charitably inclined should continue to use appreciated assets held for more than one year as gifts to charity. In light of the increased taxes on capital gains, donors who donate these assets will discover that their after tax costs making the gifts has again gone down.

V. Finally, while estate taxes have increased, the number of estates that they will apply to has decreased.

He concluded saying we would be happy to supply any of Board member with additional information on the Tax Act and its possible implications to both them and donors they may come in contact with. Again, he encouraged everyone to meet with their tax professionals to determine the actual consequences to them.

4. ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL Mr. Brown said that for a little over a year now, Ofer Bavly, a 20 year veteran of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, has been the Director General of the JUF-JF Israel office. Mr. Brown said that in that time he has established himself as a prolific writer and popular public speaker, as well as a trusted professional vetting potential donor projects in Israel.

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In Chicago that week as part of his twice annual visits, he had already spoken to two committees, a special donor luncheon, the YLD board and the Young Women’s board, JCRC, TIP Steering Committee and, earlier that day, taking advantage of his fluency in French, he spoke at the Lycée Français de Chicago (the French International High School). Still ahead are the Women’s Board, B’nai Tikvah’s Shabbat services Saturday and Hillel’s campus interns Sunday. In his free time he met with foundation staff and donors and colleagues throughout JUF.

Mr. Bavly gave a timely and insightful analysis on the Israeli elections that had been held just two days prior to the Board meeting. Following the questions and answers regarding the report, Board members then held small group discussions.

5. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

David T. Brown, Chairman, informed the Board of the following:

Mr. Brown gave a mazel Tov to Cindy Kaplan on the bat mitzvah of her daughter; to Steven Nasatir on the bar mitzvah of his son, Eli; to Avrum Weinfeld on the marriage of his daughter; to Ann-Louise on the birth of her newest granddaughter; to Debra Levin on the birth of her first grandchild; and to Jeffrey Cohen, and his wife Zenia, who are being honored as “Grandparents of the Year” at the March 3rd Hillel Torah Scholarship dinner.

Lee Miller was out of town, but Mr. Brown wanted the Board to know that we are pleased and proud to announce that a committee of past General Campaign Chairmen has unanimously selected LEE for the chairmanship of the 2014 JUF Annual Campaign. We are delighted that Mr. Miller has enthusiastically accepted this major community responsibility, and look forward to the guidance of this involved and deeply committed leader. Mr. Miller currently is Chair of the JUF-JF Security Committee, former Chair of the JUF Jewish Community Relations Council, and as Treasurer, he also chairs our Treasurer’s & Risk Assessment Committee. He has long been involved in the JUF Campaign, including Lawyer’s Division, Advanced Gifts; was a leader on the 2011 Kirk Mission to Israel as well as participant on the Prime Minister’s Mission. He is Co-Global CEO of DLA Piper and was instrumental in DLA being a major corporate donor. He is a member of Congregation Sinai. He is passionate about the Jewish community – and in particular, JUF-JF. Mr. Brown said he knows that everyone thanks and congratulates Mr. Miller – along with pledging their support to him in his new role as our 2014 Campaign Chairman.

Mr. Brown was delighted to inform the Board that Rabbi Carl Wolkin and Miriam Lichstein have agreed to co-chair our April 28th Israel @65 celebration. He thanked them and said he knows both are excited. We very much appreciate that they have agreed to co-chair this event.

In keeping with the Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation Act, and the By-laws, the appointment of Committees must be approved by the Board.

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A copy of the 2012-2013 JUF-JF Committees has been distributed and is attached to the Minutes as Exhibit F. It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, that in keeping with the Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation Act and the Jewish United Fund By-laws, the appointment of the 2012-2013 Jewish United Fund Committees of both Community and Board members, be ratified. (Motion No. 2)

Mr. Brown was pleased to attend and make opening remarks at the Song Leader Boot Camp last Monday night. 45 Song Leaders, 170 8th graders heading to Israel the week of January 27th on Ta’am and about 200 others attended the community concert.

The 18th Annual Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture will be on Wednesday, February 20th at DePaul University Lincoln Park Student Center. Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik will be the guest lecturer.

On January 23rd, Mr. Brown brought together senior lay and professional JUF-JF leadership to envision the Jewish community in 2023. Building upon the strength of current leadership in the agencies, campaign, JUF-JF and the community the focus was on what could or should the Jewish community be 10 years from now; how can this be used as a launching pad for what needs to be looked at, what is or may not be possible, etc.

The next Board meeting will be on Monday, February 18th here at the Federation building.

6. REMARKS FROM CHAIR OF OVERALL PLANNING & ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE

Bill Silverstein, Chair, updated the Board on the following: RE: Israel Terror Relief Fund Allocations

Immediately following the onset of the Pillar of Defense Operation in November, the JUF/Jewish Federation sent $1 million to JFNA to support the national collective effort to meet immediate needs in Israel. As reported last month, the JUF Israel Terror Relief subcommittee designated $663,000 and left undesignated $337,000 to be allocated in the future. In addition to our fair share support of the collective, Mr. Silverstein said we made special designated grants to support programs in the Partnership Region, for ZAKA, and the Israel Trauma Coalition.

A group of JFNA leaders was convened to make decisions about how dollars were to be spent. Andrea R. Yablon served as its co-Chair and Elissa Polan, Assistant Vice President Israel and Overseas Projects & Programs, served on the committee representing Chicago. Resources were used to address immediate needs during the crises and resiliency programs after the cease-fire. A total of $5,390,709 was allocated:

Most of these funds were directed to our partner agencies, the Jewish Agency for Israel

(respite) and the Joint Distribution Committee (vulnerable populations).

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The Israel Trauma Coalition and the Masorti (Conservative Movement) and the Israel

Movement for Progressive Judaism (Reform) also received funding to address trauma and post-trauma therapies/interventions and support of resiliency programs.

The JFNA Israel Emergency Response Micro-Grant Fund was established. The Micro-Grant Fund will distribute grants of up to $5,000 per proposal. It serves as a standing fund, like the Victims of Terror Fund. It will become an essential part of emergency preparedness and urgent response capacity.

7. REPORT OF PRESIDENT

Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, President, informed the Board of the following:

Rabbi Vernon Kurtz is the newly elected President of the American Zionist Movement (AZM). Dr. Nasatir said it is wonderful to have Chicago leadership like Rabbi Kurtz take on national roles. It is something that Chicago leadership has done for many years. He also noted that as President of AZM, Rabbi Kurtz will also be a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

Several years ago, Jay Tcath, Executive Vice President, did an analysis of the Latino community and projected, accurately, its growth. Dr. Nasatir said that at that time, there was a presentation on the growing Latino population, our community’s connection to it and the challenges we confront in advancing the relationship. With the recent Presidential election highlighting the growing Latino population and its dramatic importance, a number of volunteer leaders and professionals met recently to revisit our own efforts and opportunities to engage that community. He said a number of meetings are in the works and it is hoped that in the not too distant future, there will be more to report on this emerging priority for our community relations agenda.

8. REPORT OF COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING COMMITTEE

The Report of the Communications & Marketing Committee was mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit G.

9. REPORT OF AUDIT COMMITTEE

In the absence of Harvey J. Barnett, Chair, Michael Tarnoff, Executive Vice President, was available to answer questions about the Report that had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit H.

10. REPORT OF MISSIONS COMMITTEE

In the absence of Sanford E. Perl, Chair, Jeffrey L. Cohen, Senior Vice President, was available to answer questions about the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit J.

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11. REPORT OF SECRETARY

Jodi Newmark, Assistant Secretary, presented the Report that had been distribute to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit K. She informed the Board that the Jewish United Fund had been advised of the following bequest: JEWISH UNITED FUND Unrestricted

**Eva B. Levi $ 150,000 Additional proceeds

**Betty Yablin 10,000 ** Golden Giver

The meeting adjourned at 7:30 pm.

Respectfully Submitted,

By:

Assistant Secretary

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M I N U T E S Of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, held on Monday, February 18, 2013 at the Jewish Federation, 30 S. Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois. AGENDA & INDEX PAGE 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1

2. D’VAR TORAH 1

3. AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE 2



6. JEWISH LEADERS INSTITUTE 6


8. REPORT OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE 8



JEWISH UNITED FUND

BOARD MEETING HELD ON FEBRUARY 18, 2013

PRESENT: Debbie L. Berman; David T. Brown; Scott I. Canel; Deanna Drucker; Bruce Ettelson; Robert Ferencz; Linda S. Fisher; David Golder; Hilary Greenberg; Arnie Harris; Ellen Spira Hattenbach; Marcie B. Hemmelstein; Andrew S. Hochberg; Stuart Hochwert; Bennett E. Kaplan; Ann-Louise Kleper; Frances Krasnow; Steven H. Lavin; H. Debra Levin; Jennifer Levine; Francine F. Levy; Lee I. Miller; Steven N. Miller; Jodie Newmark; Theodore Perlman; Paula Resnick; Elliott Robinson; Marc Roth; Eric Rothner; Jimmy Sarnoff; Skip Schrayer; Steve Schreiber; Harry Seigle; Midge Perlman Shafton; Keith J. Shapiro; Wendy Berger Shapiro; Kim Shwachman; Bill Silverstein; Alan P. Solow; Marc Spellman; Nina G. Stillman; Pam F. Szokol; Phyllis Tabachnick; Avrum Weinfeld; Rabbi Carl Wolkin; Michael Zaransky; and Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, Ex-Officio and Nathaniel Sack, Ex-Officio.

UNABLE TO ATTEND: Caryn Rosen Adelman; Harvey J. Barnett; David A. Baum; Jodie Berkman; Ethan

Budin; Mark Chudacoff; Josh Daitch; Helene Diamond; Maury Fertig; Jason Friedman; Howard Friend; David Goldenberg; Richard C. Goodman; Josh B. Herz; Dana Hirt; Cindy Kaplan; Deborah Schrayer Karmin; Penny Keeshin; Priscilla L. Kersten; Dr. Jeffrey Kopin; Peter Kupferberg; Rabbi Vernon Kurtz; Jane Cadden Lederman; Brian J. Levinson; Miriam Lichstein; Barry A. Malkin; Stephen Malkin; Rabbi Steven S. Mason; James C. Mills; Sanford E. Perl; Thomas Rivkin; Lisa Rubinstein; Marc Sacks; Morris Silverman; Barbara Kaplan Slutsky; Sara C. Star; Ralph Wanger; Dr. Michel Sackheim Wein; Adam Winick; James R. Woldenberg and Andrea R. Yablon.

GUESTS: John C. Colman; Liz Fine; Alan Gill; Michael Novick and Barry Rosenthal. STAFF: Audra Berg; Amy Berger; Yael Brunwasser; Aaron Cohen; Jeffrey L. Cohen;

Deborah Covington; Donna Kahan; Reis Kayser; Michael Kotzin; Louis Lazovsky; John Lowenstein; Jamie Pinkston; Elissa Polan; David Prystowsky; Susan Rifas; David Rosen; Jim Rosenberg; David Rubovits; Sherryl Steinberg; Rachel Sternberg; Jay Tcath; Adina Torchman and Ariel Zipkin.


JEWISH UNITED FUND

ACTIONS TAKEN


February 18, 2013

1. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the Minutes of regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held on February 18, 2013, were approved.


It was Moved, Seconded and Carried that the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, held on January 24, 2013, be approved. (Motion No. 1)

2. D’VAR TORAH Marc Roth gave the D’var Torah. In the most recent Torah portion, Terumah, the Lord spoke to Moses and said “Speak to the children of Israel, and have them take for Me an offering; from every person whose heart inspires him to generosity, you shall take My offering … And they shall make Me a sanctuary and I will dwell in their midst.” Mr. Roth said the Mishkan is the equivalent of the universe. Two weeks prior, he traveled on Nachshon 11 to Poland and Berlin with 60 Jewish men, many of them leaders on the Board that he admires and from whom he personally takes great spiritual and philanthropic inspiration. He said it was deeply meaningful and enlightening, so much so, that it is difficult to express in mere words. However, one event beautifully sums up their experience in a manner consistent with the Parsha: They visited The House of the Wannsee Conference. For those not familiar with that, he said it is a stunning Villa on a lake in the heart of Suburban Berlin, a neighborhood that looks not unlike any in our Northshore, where 15 high ranking SS officers met to draft the Wannsee Protocol, a set of documents that clearly outlined the plan to murder ALL 11 million European Jews. As a group, together they walked up the path to this majestic villa, now a memorial and education center. They closed it to all other visitors. Then, everyone sat quietly in THE room while the Director both explained and illustrated in great detail the nature of the SS actors and their plot to exterminate our people. There are many plausible themes they could have chosen as a group to mark this historic moment of return to the exact scene of the hatching of such a horrific conspiracy against humanity. He was proud to say, that in the face of such evil, this leadership, consistent with the idea that the World is a Mishkan, caucused, and with hearts inspired toward generosity, pledged their lives to benevolence. Each as individuals and as a collective, signed a written commitment to our community that he asked its author, Michael Zaransky, to read.

Mr. Zaransky then read the following Commitment that all Nachshon XI participants signed:

We, Nachshon XI, hereby affirm our commitment to the continued growth and vitality of the Jewish People. We commit to remain involved in the affairs of our community and to use our freedom, power, and affluence on behalf of our people.

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We will never forget those that came before us and their struggles. Without them, we would not be here in the position we are in today. We will continue to provide for Jews in need anywhere in the world, rescue Jews at risk, and plant the seeds for future generations of vital and strong Jewish communities. February, 2013, Wannsee, Berlin, Germany

3. AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE (JDC)

David T. Brown, Chairman of the Board, said that we had a special opportunity to hear a report on the Joint Distribution Committee, one of our two major overseas partners.

Many have had the opportunity to see JDC’s work first hand while participating on a JUF mission, whether in Israel or in the FSU. He said we have seen how JDC helps to provide basic humanitarian services to the poorest Jews overseas. He thanked JDC for their good work on behalf of our community and the entire Jewish community. JDC was established in 1914 when Henry Morgenthau Sr., U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, cabled prominent American Jewish leader Jacob Schiff in New York appealing for $50,000 (equal to $1 million today) in aid to be dispatched immediately to the 60,000 Jews in Ottoman-ruled Palestine who were cut off from traditional sources of support in the European Jewish community by the outbreak of World War I. American Jewish donors promptly wired the sum. For the last century, when Jews have been in need, JDC has been there. As recently as the war between Russia and Georgia, JDC intervened to move Jews from danger to safety. As a matter of fact Alan Gill was a part of that emergency relief team doing this holy work, saving Jewish lives. Mr. Brown said JDC does incredible work in Israel, serving as a leading social innovator to provide more efficient and effective services to vulnerable populations. He also noted that our relationship with JDC is strong. There are many respected members of the Chicago community who are especially close to JDC and serve on their board. Those Chicago JDC Board members are Andrew Hochberg, Richard Goodman, Howard Friend, Larry Field, Carol Kaplan, Ellen Block, John Colman and Skip Schrayer. Mr. Schrayer joined Alan Gill at the podium to serve as the JDC lay leader for the evening.

Dr. Steven Nasatir introduced JDC’s newly installed CEO, Alan Gill, Michael Novick, JDC Executive Director for Strategic Development and Liz Fine, JDC Midwest Director. He first spoke about the some of the work done by JDC and the connection to Federation. For example, 15 years ago, JDC made known how dire the food situation in the FSU was and how they would be able to continue to meet the needs there. Chicago helped JDC get additional funds to meet this vital need; over the past 15 years, JUF provided JDC with $11.3 million for the supplemental program. In Chicago, other supplemental grants are obtained every year – $2.5 million over the last four years.

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He said Mr. Gill has been a colleague since the 1980’s and spoke about his long involvement in the Jewish community, including serving as the CEO of the Columbus Jewish Federation. It was in 1992 that Mr. Gill and his family made Aliyah and he became the JDC International Relations Division Director. In that capacity, Mr. Gill played a leadership role in launching many JDC landmark programs. He served as special advisor to JDC’s FSU operations and was a member of the JDC emergency relief team during the 2008 Georgia-Russia war. During his tenure as JDC’s Executive Director of International Relations he grew the JDC’s total annual budget which helped expand its critically needed humanitarian assistance and Jewish community development activities. Dr. Nasatir also said he was privileged to be called when the search for the new CEO of JDC was taking place. He strongly felt that JDC already had on its team the best person to be the next CEO of JDC – Alan Gill and was very pleased when JDC selected him. Mr. Gill thanked Dr. Nasatir for the kind introduction and reminded everyone that Nachshon was the first to jump into the Red Sea – and that Nachshon is an apt metaphor for the JUF-JF of Metropolitan Chicago. He said Chicago and JDC have a shared mission and partnership and it is most often that Chicago is the first to respond when needs arise. He then spoke about JDC outside of Israel - where JDC works in more than 70 countries and is often the only life-line for the people they serve; they work to alleviate hunger and hardship, rescue Jews in danger, create connections to Jewish life and provide immediate relief and long-term development support for victims of natural and man-made disasters. In Israel, he said while it has one of the world’s most dynamic economies and most diverse populations, it has the second largest gap between rich and poor in the OECD. JDC partners with the Israeli government to create strategies and solutions to deal with the biggest internal challenges. Mr. Gill thanked everyone for all they do; the support of the Chicago Jewish Federation and said he looks forward to working together in the coming years. Following his presentation, the Board then asked questions of Mr. Gill and then held break-out sessions regarding JDC.

4. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT RE: Remarks from Lee I. Miller Lee I. Miller, 2014 Campaign Chairman, thanked everyone for giving him the opportunity to serve as the General Campaign Chairman. He said there is no organization he has worked with that has the extraordinary commitment of people to work to serve for the betterment of the community. He has been involved with many organizations, Jewish and non-Jewish, including serving on their boards, but none have the special vitality and entrepreneurial leadership that JUF has. He said that past Campaign Chairmen have already been most helpful to him. The focus, he said, now needs to be on the 2013 campaign and he pledged to assist Michael Zaransky and asked everyone to join him in doing that.

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RE: 2013 JUF Campaign Michael Zaransky, 2013 JUF Campaign Chairman, informed the Board that to date, the 2013 campaign stands at $43,047,049 from 6,336 donors. We are running $2,860,467 ahead with a 2.6% gift-for-gift increase. He said we are also running 1,190 gifts ahead. Pertinent material had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit A. He then spoke about various campaign initiatives: Pace – We are focusing on staying on top of the pace of the Campaign - meaning trying to

bring in gifts that were in at this time last year to the 2012 Campaign that are not yet in for 2013. For example there are almost 2,500 gifts representing over $6.4 million that was in at this time last year in the 2012 Campaign that are not in for 2013. If these gifts came in at the same time this year as last year, we could be over $10 million ahead.

Events – Recruitment/pre-soliciting and strong follow-up

He said we are trying to use the “hook” of upcoming events to not only get people in the door, but get the money in before the event. In addition, we are working on strong event follow-up through post-event e-mails, segmented with a thank you to those who made gifts and a solicitation to those who did not. Specialized and increased attention is being given to congregation events.

Campaign Outreach – How can we reach more people?

Mr. Zaransky asked Board members to introduce him to non-donors and/or donors giving below their capacity to try to cultivate new connections and relationships. He encouraged everyone to also join the committees at their country clubs, synagogues, etc. as it helps attracts others to join; and then to attend the event and use it as an opportunity to invite friends and family. Another way Board members can help is to attend the parlor meeting being hosted by Marc and Lisa Roth. The Roths are hosting a Taste of the JUF and Wine Tasting on Tuesday, March 19 in their home. It is being positioned post-Nachshon and prior to trade and country club events and a Northwest suburban congregation program as a cultivation event.

Mr. Zaransky then went on to say that JUF-in-January was a huge success. He thanked everyone who volunteered their time and gave a special thank you to Barbara Kaplan Slutsky, 2013 Overall Phonothon Chair and Lindsay Meltzer on the JUF staff. Over $1.3 million was raised from over 1,400 gifts. This is over $200,000 and 400 gifts more than in 2012. YLD held their first Bar Mitzvah Bash on January 30th. It was a celebration of Birthright Israel’s 13th anniversary and an opportunity to celebrate young adults who were recently Bar Mitzvahed -- some on their Birthright trips. It was a sold out event and had a waitlist of over 50 people.

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Over 500 people attended even with the horrible weather that night. It was a first-ever JUF Event for 122 of the attendees. There were 43 Host committee members; and over 60% of the attendees were Birthright Israel alumni. Women’s Division held its WB Book and Author event with speaker Jenna Blume. There were 125 attendees, and approximately $580,000 was raised from over 180 gifts. The YWC Winter Campaign Event had 52 attendees and $45,166 was raised. Last year’s event had 33 attendees and raised $35,513. The YWB Valor event had 76 attendees and $75,230 was raised.

Women’s Division combined two campaign events and offered one this year. Last year’s two Campaign events, combined, attracted 86 attendees and raised $53,626. The Women’s City Group Cooking and the City was a new Women’s Division group for women living in the city. It was an Outreach Event that attracted 38 women (on a snowy night) and raised $2,186. With regard to Missions, Mr. Zaransky said that the Chicago Mission to Cuba just returned led by Martha and Michael Davidson. $83,200 was raised from 13 gifts. Kim Shwachman and Laurie Lustbader participated on a national Mission to Ethiopia with their daughters. He thanked them for representing Chicago. He spoke about the recent Nachshon Mission. He and nearly 60 other men participated. This year, the Mission was led by Josh Herz and David Golder. He thanked them for their leadership. He spoke about how meaningful the mission was; how participants bonded during the trip; and how exciting it was to have so many new participants. $550,000 in open gifts was raised from 43 gifts, which was a 71% gift-for-gift increase. Overall, Nachshon participants are giving $1.7 million to the 2013 campaign which is a 40.5% gift-for-gift increase. He thanked the JUF staff – David Prystowsky, Caryn Peretz and Rabbi Yehiel Poupko. He then called on Rabbi Carl Wolkin to discuss the recent JUF Rabbinic Mission. Before talking about the Mission, Rabbi Wolkin said that the recent passing of Rabbi David Hartman was a significant loss for the Jewish world. He said that it was funding from Chicago that helped establish what is now known as the Rabbinic Leadership Institute. Rabbi Wolkin was one of the three rabbis from Chicago in its freshman class; and it was that experience that was the impetus for his getting involved. He then spoke about the recent Rabbinic Mission, and that Chicago continues to be the only community to sponsor its own Rabbinic mission. He said a highlight for him was the home visit in Odessa – and the connection to JDC’s work there. He said that this year, the Mission raised $13,000 for the 2013 JUF Campaign and that the mission builds community among the rabbis. Rabbi Wolkin then spoke about the 2013 Israel Solidarity Day which he is co-chairing with Miriam Lichstein. A “Save the Date” card had been distributed to the Board and he asked everyone to mark the date in their calendars. The 2013 Israel Solidarity Day will be held on Sunday, April 28th from 12:00 – 4:00 pm at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park.

This year, as we celebrate Israel’s 65th anniversary, he said we will come together for one big, festive event filled with Israeli spirit! Event highlights will include:

The Walk with Israel (a three-mile walkathon to raise funds to provide Israeli children with

the supplies they need to enrich learning and literacy)

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Fabulous all-day entertainment in Ravinia’s Pavilion featuring The King David Drummers,

Maccabeats and Matisyahu A special teen program Food for purchase and festivities for all ages.

The event's schedule of the day will be free flowing to allow young families to come in the morning and Sunday School families to come in the afternoon. The invitations will hit homes within the next few weeks and online registration will open at the end of the month. He encouraged everyone to come … and to bring with them friends, colleagues, neighbors and family – children and grandchildren. It will be a wonderful day and he said we look forward to seeing everyone there. Finally, the 2103 Campaign “Thank You” video was shown. It will be sent to all who make their pledge to the campaign. Mr. Zaransky gave a big thank you to the JUF Communication Department for producing such great work.



Mazel Tov to Skip Schrayer whose son is becoming a bar mitzvah.

February is Jewish National Disability Month. The month’s capstone event took place on February 12th when JFNA’s Washington Office partnered with the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism to host the third annual Jewish Disability Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill.

The 2013 JFNA GA is going to be held November 10-13 in Jerusalem and Mr. Brown said it is hoped that we will be able to bring a large group from Chicago. The GA was last in Israel in 2008. He asked that if anyone has any questions about the GA and/or if they have an interest in attending to please let him or Audra Berg know. Everyone will get more information when it is available.

The next Board meeting will be on Monday, Thursday, March 14th at Chicagoland Jewish High School. He encouraged everyone to attend. There will be opportunity to tour the school, beginning at 4 pm; and the board meeting will begin at 5 pm. So that we and the school can plan appropriately – he asked that everyone please reply to the two calendar event requests sent to them – one for the tour and the one for the meeting.

6. JEWISH LEADERS INSTITUTE

Wendy Berger Shapiro, Chair, presented a brief Power Point presentation regarding the Jewish Leaders Institute.

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She said that the Jewish Leaders Institute (JLI) was begun in 2010 to further the Chicago Jewish community’s deep dedication to leadership development programming. Its purpose is to educate Jewish communal leaders in the history, thought, traditions and contemporary challenges of the Jewish people. The Leadership Development Advisory Committee spent months identifying appropriate candidates through conversations with board members and JUF-JF professional staff. Approximately 75 candidates were considered, 23 people accepted The program was 15 months long, met monthly for three hours sessions learning together with a top notch teacher. It kicked-off with an opening retreat facilitated by a Rabbi-in-residence. The first half of the program focused on Jewish history and thought and the second half focused intensely on JUF-JF, its mission and agencies. She said they also collaborated with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management for two focused classes on decision making and group dynamics. Immediately following the program each JLI participant filled out an extensive online survey and participated in a one-on-one exit interview with a member of the Leadership Development Advisory Committee. Planning for JLI II is already underway. Some changes include:

• Change in length of program from 15 month to 18 months • Shorter evening classes • Increase the intensity of campaign training • Scholar in Residence to help link programmatic content between courses

She said they are currently collecting recommendations for JLI II and asked Board members to consider potential candidates to submit to Audra Berg or her. The ideal candidate would someone who has the potential to be a future JUF-JF Board member and is 35-50 years old. A follow-up email will be sent to the Board requesting recommendations. She concluded saying that JLI was an incredibly rewarding program and the inaugural cohort’s post-JLI success has exceeded our wildest dreams. As a result of being in the program, the class members now serve in the following roles:

• Two new JUF-JF board members: Josh Herz and Steve Schreiber • Young Leadership Division President • Young Women’s City Council President • Jewish Women’s Foundation Chair • Three Young Leadership Award Winners • Lawyer’s Division Chair • Financial Services Division Chair • Real Estate Division Giving Society Chair • National Young Leadership Cabinet Chicago Chair • Two new professional staff members

There are the same high expectations for the 2013 JLI II class and she said everyone is looking forward to launching a successful second cohort in the Fall 2013. She said that everyone is tremendously proud of what has been accomplished.

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The 2013 Snowbird season is well underway. Five events have already been held (Boca Raton – two events, Palm Beach, Miami and Aventura) and most were sponsored. Participants paid at those not sponsored. Over 350 donors have attended the JUF events so far; and there are six up-coming events – Sarasota, Naples, Tucson, Phoenix and two in Palm Springs. Dr. Nasatir spoke about how important it is for us to hold these events, the nature of the meetings – the kind of things that are discussed in one-on-one meetings, that there is competition from other Jewish organizations who reach out to Chicagoans and holding our events enables us to maintain relationships with these donors.

Dr. Nasatir said donors who are domiciles of other states, particularly Florida, but also have ties to Illinois, such as property ownership, may be concerned that their contributions to us or to other public charities in Illinois would be used by the State to question their Florida domiciliary for tax collection purposes. Ohio and Massachusetts clarified that charitable donations cannot be used to assess domicile. The Illinois Department of Revenue agreed with us that it is in the best interests of the state to promote charitable giving and so drafted a rule stating that charitable donations to public charities in Illinois cannot be used to assess a person’s domicile in the State. This is now in the comment period and we expect it to become the law by April.

The JFNA winter board meetings were recently held in Orlando, FL. Dr. Nasatir said the major agenda item was the JFNA strategic plan with focus on trends, needs and areas where JFNA leadership can make a difference. One area is fund-raising and JFNA is searching for a new Director of Development and a COO. David T. Brown, as Chair of JFNA Human Services & Public Policy, made a report. Following the board meetings, the meetings regarding the Global Planning Table (GPT) took place. Dr. Nasatir said a recent eJewish Philanthropy had a biting critique of the GPT; that it is being designed to destroy relations with JAFI and JDC. He said this is not at all the case. There is a Partner Committee that will determine the flow of dollars; that we want communities who currently are sending very little overseas to join in; and that we are interested in moving away from the current formula.

Dr. Nasatir also reflected on the recent passing of Rabbi David Hartman. He and David T. Brown sent a letter to Rabbi Hartman’s son, attached to these Minutes as Exhibit B. He also noted that the only time JUF-JF had a board meeting outside of Illinois was when we went to Israel in 1998 and held the meeting at the Hartman Institute.

8. REPORT OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE

The Report had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit C.

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Jodi Newmark, Assistant Secretary, presented the Report that had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit D. She informed the Board that the Jewish United Fund had been advised of the following bequests:

JEWISH UNITED FUND Unrestricted *Dr. Norman M. Glazier, DDS $ 50,000 *Judith Millenson 26,604 *Silver Circle



By:

Assistant Secretary


M I N U T E S

OF THE


JEWISH UNITED FUND

OF


HELD ON MARCH 14, 2013

AT THE

CHICAGOLAND JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL

1095 LAKE COOK ROAD

DEERFIELD, ILLINOIS



M I N U T E S Of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, held on Thursday, March 14, 2013 at the Chicagoland Jewish High School, 1095 Lake Cook Road, Deerfield, Illinois. AGENDA & INDEX PAGE 1. INTRODUCTIONS 1

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1

3. D’VAR TORAH 1

4. CHICAGOLAND JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL 2

5. ONE HAPPY CAMPER 3


7. REPORT OF STREAMS SUBCOMMITTEE 5




JEWISH UNITED FUND

BOARD MEETING HELD ON MARCH 14, 2013

PRESENT: Caryn Rosen Adelman; David A. Baum; Jodie Berkman; Debbie L. Berman; Ethan

Budin; Deanna Drucker; Howard Friend; David Golder; Ellen Spira Hattenbach; Josh B. Herz; Dana Hirt; Bennett E. Kaplan; Ann-Louise Kleper; Frances H. Krasnow; Rabbi Vernon Kurtz; Steven H. Lavin; Jane Cadden Lederman; Brian J. Levinson; Francine F. Levy; Miriam Lichstein; Lee I. Miller; Steven N. Miller; Theodore Perlman; Paula Resnick; Tom Rivkin; Elliott Robinson; Eric Rothner; Skip Schrayer; Midge Perlman Shafton; Keith J. Shapiro; Kim Shwachman; Bill Silverstein; Barbara Kaplan Slutsky; Sara C. Star; Phyllis Tabachnick; Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein; Avrum Weinfeld; Rabbi Carl Wolkin; Michael Zaransky; and Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, Ex-Officio and Nathaniel Sack, Ex-Officio.

UNABLE TO ATTEND: David T. Brown; Harvey J. Barnett; Scott I. Canel; Mark Chudacoff; Josh Daitch;

Helen Diamond; Bruce Ettelson; Robert Ferencz; Maury Fertig; Linda S. Fisher; Jason Friedman; David Goldenberg; Richard C. Goodman; Hilary Greenberg; Arnie Harris; Marcie B. Hemmelstein; Andrew S. Hochberg; Stuart Hochwert; Cindy Kaplan; Deborah Schrayer Karmin; Penny Keeshin; Priscilla Kersten; Dr. Jeffrey Kopin; Peter Kupferberg; H. Debra Levin; Jennifer Levine; Barry A. Malkin; Stephen Malkin; Rabbi Steven S. Mason; James C. Mills; Jodi Newmark; Sanford Perl; Marc Roth; Lisa Rubinstein; Marc Sacks; Jimmy Sarnoff; Steve Schreiber; Harry Seigle; Wendy Berger Shapiro; Morris Silverman; Alan P. Solow; Marc Spellman; Nina G. Stillman; Pam F. Szokol; Ralph Wanger; Adam Winick; James R. Woldenberg and Andrea R. Yablon.

GUEST: Michael Small. STAFF: Jeffrey L. Cohen; Donna Kahan; Reis Kayser; Michael Kotzin; Louis Lazovsky;

Susan Rifas; David Rosen; Jim Rosenberg; David Rubovits; Stuart Spector; Michael Tarnoff and Jay Tcath.

Skip Schrayer presided.

JEWISH UNITED FUND

ACTIONS TAKEN


March 14, 2013

1. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the Minutes of regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held on February 18, 2013, were approved.

DISCUSSION 1. INTRODUCTIONS

Skip Schrayer called the meeting to order and informed the Board that David T. Brown asked him to chair the meeting as Mr. Brown’s wife, Suzanne Muchin, was being inducted into the UIC Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies’ Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. He congratulated Ms. Muchin on this honor. He then introduced Dana Hirt who, as the Chair of the Jewish Women’s Foundation, now serves on the JUF-JF Board.

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES It was Moved, Seconded and Carried that the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, held on February 18, 2013, be approved. (Motion No. 1)

3. D’VAR TORAH Bill Silverstein gave the D’var Torah. He said as we turn to Passover, there are so many stories – of redemption, Nachshon as well as indulgence and instant gratification. We often associate instant gratification as a negative, be it our children how channel surf, text or ourselves – how many stay for entire board meeting. However, we are not that different than our ancestors who also wanted results immediately. He said the Passover story is replete with examples of the Jewish people’s expectation of instant gratification; and within the story, we learn that our Jewish lives – this “immediate need” – is not all bad but actually a Jewish virtue. Ha-Shem said to Abraham “thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs … and shall afflict them 400 years.” When Pharaoh asked Moses to pray to Ha-Shem to remove the frogs from Egypt, Moses asked Pharaoh, when? And Pharaoh replied “Tomorrow” … not today but tomorrow. Why? Because a sense of waiting would downplay the severity of the situation (as if immediacy would suggest weakness). Mr. Silverstein said that this prominent example shows that even the best of us, even our leader, Moses, was not immune to the dangers of wanting quick solutions. When enslaved in Egypt, the Jewish people complained to Moses that his demands of Pharaoh seemed to have contributed to the deterioration of their situation in Egypt. They didn’t seem to have patience even though they believed Moses when he told them that G-d had sent him to lead them out of Egypt. Yet Moses turned to G-d and said that since he spoke to Pharaoh in His name, he has done evil to the Jewish people; that He had not saved His people. And G-d responded “NOW you will see what I will do to Pharaoh.” Rashi noted that G-d’s use of the word “now” was a hint to Moses that he had been impatient; that he had been seeking instant gratification. “Now” this time, Moses would get to see G-d’s hand in history; however, at the end of the story, Moses would not be so privileged. Mr. Silverstein said in our world of instant gratification, it seems fitting that we eat matzah on Passover, that matzah is the epitome of instant gratification. You’re hungry, you need some bread, you quickly knead dough, throw it in the over and voila, you have a quick bread.

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However, our sages taught us that matzah has to bake quickly for the same reason we have to hurry to do nay mitzvah – whether Tzedakah or honoring our parents. If you bake matzah quickly and don’t let it turn into bread, it will never go stale. It is eternal. But if you delay too long while you are making it, it naturally ferments and turns into bread. Similarly, every opportunity to do a mitzvah, if we delay, spoils the mitzvah. If we don’t give right away, when we can, then we have shown that there is something more important to us than the eternal value of the commandments. We have spoiled the quality of the mitzvah – we have let it go stale; we have denied its eternal importance; we have chosen something else in this world. If we seek instant gratification we should be looking for “quick bread” … for matzah. And the word for matzahs is spelled the same as mitzvahs. So instant gratification rises to a virtue. He said we need to make our matzahs, and perform all our mitzvahs especially our gifts to charity, as quickly as possible and without delay. He concluded saying the real instant gratification we should seek is the instant “satisfaction” – of giving charity and doing mitzvahs for which we enjoy the fruits of their reward.

4. CHICAGOLAND JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL (CJHS) Skip Schrayer introduced Michael Small, President of the Chicagoland Jewish High School and explained that Tony Frank, Head of School, could not be at the meeting as his wife was ill. Mr. Small grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, attending synagogue and participating in both USY and BBYO. He spent summers at Camp Herzl and Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, and was a long-time staff member at Ramah. After graduating from Brown University in 1985, he attended Midreshet Yerushalayim in Jerusalem and earned an M.A. in Judaic Studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York. In 1991 he graduated from University of Chicago Law School and has been a partner at Foley & Lardner, LLP since 2000.

Mr. Small thanked the Board for holding its meeting at CJHS. He said the school would not exist were it not for the support from the community and from JUF-JF. He said among the things he is most proud of is that: - the CJHS students have learned about and feel connected to the community; - the students are connected strongly to the teachers - the quality of academic and moral instruction is outstanding He said primary goals of CJHS are to make each student a whole person who is proud of who they are, including Jewishly; to be a leader; to be assured and comfortable in the secular and non-secular settings. Mr. Small concluded saying that the investment made in the CJHS students will have long-term benefits both to the school and Jewish communities in which they reside.

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5. ONE HAPPY CAMPER

Jodie Berkman, Chair of the Academic Scholarship Committee, presented a report on the One Happy Camper (OHC) program. She said we all know and value the importance of that experience as it builds Jewish identity and community at a very key stage of a child’s development. The bottom line is that Jewish campers at Jewish camps experience Jewish life in a whole new way. One Happy Camper is a national incentive program to encourage families to send their children to Jewish overnight camp. The program is run through Foundation for Jewish Camp, with local partners providing funding for the grants in each major metropolitan area. Locally, the program which up until recently had been funded by an anonymous donor, was brought into Federation following the summer of 2012. For the last several years, Chicago campers could receive $1,000 for the first summer of overnight camp, and $750 for the second summer of overnight camp. She said this program fits right into our mission statement of building Jewish identity, community and connection to Israel at a very formative time in a person’s life. It also serves on the continuum of family outreach and engagement as JUF has the largest number of PJ Library subscriptions and many JUF Right Start participants, this is a natural next step in Jewish family engagement. Federation believes that Jewish overnight camp is one of the most important Jewish identity-building experiences a child can have. To that end, we have been providing financial need scholarships for 10 Midwestern Jewish overnight camps for more than 20 years. For nearly a decade, we’ve also provided our own incentive grants called Camp Coupons, which were given to children participating in other Jewish educational opportunities, such as preschool, day school, and day camp. One Happy Camper is a natural fit, and when the original donor stepped back, JUF-Federation was the natural community partner. We are currently funding both programs, with Camp Coupons funding going to families who don’t qualify for One Happy Camper. There have been approximately 550 new campers each year for the past few years, a considerable investment. JUF-Federation has made several changes to make the program more affordable and sustainable. As of the 2013 summer, $1,000 grants are available to the first child in the family to attend Jewish overnight camp, and subsequent siblings will receive $500 grants. We expect this to result in approximately $100,000 in savings while still encouraging parents to choose overnight camp for all of their children. JUF-JF is also taking this initiative to the Russian speaking community, an untapped demographic that has incredible potential. In order to fund the program in FY13-15, Foundation for Jewish Camp is providing $200,000/year in matching funds. JUF-Federation has committed to $135,000/year in allocations plus an additional $150,000/year in fundraising. She was pleased to report that we have already secured $125,000/year, thanks to generous grants from the Crown and Arkes foundations.

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To fund One Happy Camper beyond FY15, she said we hope to build an $11 million endowment that will cover the cost of One Happy Camper and Camp Coupon incentives, significantly increase the amount of funding available for financial need scholarships, and provide additional funding for post-camp community engagement programs. By sharing this information with the Board, she said we are looking to leadership for potential opportunities within our community to build funding sources so that we can keep up with our community’s demand for camping incentives. Both short and long term the JUF-JF Camping Initiative will reach hundreds of children throughout Chicagoland and hopefully turn ONE happy camper into MANY happy campers.


RE: 2013 JUF Campaign Michael Zaransky, 2013 JUF Campaign Chairman, informed the Board that to date, the 2013 campaign stands at $45,892,221 from 8,214 donors. We are running $3.58 million ahead with a 3.3% gift-for-gift increase; and 981 gifts ahead. Pertinent information was distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit A. He then spoke about several campaign initiatives:

PACE – We are in the midst of JUF event season which culminates with Country Club Day on June 19th. We are at the same level as we were in 2008. He noted that post Country Club Day which marks the end of our heavy event season, approximately $23 million is consistently brought in through our End of Year efforts each year. Thus, the lead we have over the 2012 Campaign after Country Club Day is a strong indicator of where we will close. Conclusion – keep bringing in gifts as early as possible!

Donor Retention/New Gifts – As the Board discussed when the conclusion of the 2012 campaign was reviewed, needs in the community are growing each year, but the number of gifts to the JUF Annual Campaign has been in decline. We are working hard on executing a strategic Campaign-wide effort to reverse this trend. We retain an average of 78% of donors each year. For gifts at the lower end of our Campaign, under $50, we retain less than 45% of these gifts from one Campaign to the next. Spearheading this effort is the newly hired Director, New Gifts & Campaign Communications, Barbra Green who comes to us from the Toronto Federation. The challenge is not just the acquisition of new donors, but also working on donor retention and recovering lapsed donors. People come through our doors through various ways. To name a few – JUF outreach events, Federation programing, volunteering through TOV, and donating to our Relief Funds. We are working on interdepartmental efforts to turn these Jewish Federation participants into JUF Donors. We are also trying to bring in new donors through new gifts tied to our Israel@65 Celebration, Congregation Events, Trade Dinners, and YLD Big Event.

The annual Agency Board/Non-Profit Dinner was held on February 28th. Mr. Zaransky thanked everyone who attended, indicating that nearly 500 people were there and that we have officially outgrown the Standard Club for this event. Over $116,000 was raised from 216 gifts.

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Upcoming events include:

Standard Club Event on Tuesday, April 23rd at the Standard Club. Chairs are Melvin L. Katten, Lindsey P. Markus and Bruce A. Weininger. The guest speaker is Emmy Award-winning journalist, Bob Costas. He said there is a huge push to involve the Associate Members (35 and under). In fact YLD has already started putting together tables for the evening. In 2012 Standard Club Members represented $24 million of the Annual Campaign.

ISD – As Rabbi Wolkin reported last month the 2013 Israel Solidarity Day will be held on Sunday, April 28th from 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park. There will be a full presentation on this at next month’s Board meeting.

Women’s Division – Spring Event will be on May 9th. The guest speaker is Chelsea Clinton and there is a $365 minimum donation to attend. He said this is a wonderful event for new women donors and encouraged board members to think who from their family and friends should be there.

TIP, under the leadership of Keith J. Shapiro, has planned its dinners. 160 people attended the planning meetings.

Save the Date for Country Club Day – It will be June 19th this year with Women’s Days for Bryn Mawr & Green Acres on June 18th. The overall Chair is Jim Woldenberg, Overall Women’s Chair is Melissa Spellman. Mr. Zaransky said that Country Club members represented over $42 million of the 2012 Campaign.

Congregations, under the leadership of Jane Cadden Lederman, has raised $2 million to date.

Mr. Zaransky concluded asking that Board members go to the events that are germane and to bring with them friends, family and colleagues.

RE: The Centennial Campaign Jeffrey L. Cohen, Senior Vice President, Financial Resource Development and David Rosen, Senior Vice President, Legacies & Endowments were available to answer questions about The Centennial Campaign materials that had been distributed to the Board and are attached to these Minutes as Exhibit B. RE: Resource Development Policy Committee In the absence of Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chair, Stuart Spector, Associate Vice President, Campaign, was available to answer questions about the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit C.

7. REPORT OF STREAMS SUBCOMMITTEE Debbie L. Berman, Chair of the Israel & Overseas Commission, was available to answer questions about the Report of the Streams Subcommittee that was mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit D.

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Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, President, informed the Board of the following: At national meetings in February, Michael Tarnoff, Executive Vice President & Chief

Financial Officer, and David Brief, Chief Investment Officer, were involved in meetings regarding JFNA’s new initiative to establish the Jewish Endowment and Foundation Investment Institute (JEFII). Across the country, there are approximately $15 billion in Federation endowment funds, plus an additional $45 billion held by other Jewish organizations and Jewish Foundations, for a total of $60 billion in Jewish charitable investment pools. Dr. Nasatir said that going forward it seems likely that more of these organizations will pool their investments together into increasingly larger portfolios. Michael Tarnoff noted that in the field of investment portfolio management size is an important criteria, and increased investment returns can potentially generate hundreds of millions of dollars per year, as data indicates that larger portfolios earn higher returns than smaller portfolios – often as much as 50 to 100 basis points. As the JEFII concept expands, Chicago and other large city federation endowments will play a major role in managing the investment portfolios for other Jewish organizations and Foundations.

The April 22nd JUF-JF Board meeting will be held at the Jewish Federation Building, 30 S. Wells.

The prior evening, a very successful program was held with young, successful Orthodox members of the community. It was chaired by JUF-JF Board members Brian Levinson and Steve Schreiber and Avi Rothner, son of JUF-JF Board member Eric Rothner. The program included the importance of JUF within the Orthodox community, committee involvement and the Shimshon Mission. The latter will be held in November 2013 and there will be a minimum $2,500 gift to JUF required. 43 people attended the program at which $56,000 to JUF was announced, of which $10,000 was new money at a 25% increase.

Snowbird visits were recently held in Naples and Sarasota FL, Tucson and Phoenix AZ. The next snowbird event will be in Palm Springs, CA.

As the Board knows, JUF has joined The Bank of America Chicago Marathon as an official charity team with the formation of TeamJUF. To date, 23 runners had registered and 11 have registered for the lottery and are waiting for notification. Dr. Nasatir noted that David T. Brown, Suzanne Muchin and Consul General Roey Gilad will be among those on TeamJUF.

With regard to the coalition government in Israel, Dr. Nasatir said that final coalition agreements have been reached. The new government will only have 68 out of 120 seats in the Knesset and the ultra-Orthodox parties are not part of the government. He said with this new government, the “civil society” agenda is likely to move forward.

The new Pope, Francis, has significant experience with the Jewish community, all positive. Dr. Nasatir said that at the time of the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994, the Catholic Church stood in support of and with the Jewish community, saying “all of Argentina was

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attacked”. That statement was made by the new Pope Francis. In addition, the new Pope co-authored a book with a rabbi; and this past anniversary of Kristallnacht was marked by a special service in the Buenos Aires cathedral under the then Cardinal’s direction.

The Israeli embassy has extended an invitation, through JFNA, for Federation leaders to be briefed by Ambassador Michael Oren on President Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel. The Conference call will be held on Monday, March 18th at 1 pm Chicago-time. Details regarding the call will be sent to the Board.


Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein, Secretary, presented the Report that had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit E. She informed the Board that the Jewish United Fund had been advised of the following bequests:

JEWISH UNITED FUND Unrestricted Inge Burge $ 5,000 Stanley B. Weiss 20,000



By:

Assistant Secretary


M I N U T E S

OF THE


JEWISH UNITED FUND

OF


HELD ON APRIL 22, 2013

AT THE

JEWISH FEDERATION


CHICAGO, ILLINOIS



M I N U T E S Of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, held on Monday, April 22, 2013 at the Jewish Federation, 30 S. Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois. AGENDA & INDEX PAGE 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1

2. D’VAR TORAH 1

3. ISRAEL SOLIDARITY DAY 2

4. JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL 3

5. RUTH M. ROTHSTEIN 4


7. REPORT OF OVERALL PLANNING & ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE 6


9. JEWISH WOMEN’S FOUNDATION 7


11. REPORT OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE 9



JEWISH UNITED FUND

BOARD MEETING HELD ON APRIL 22, 2013

PRESENT: Caryn Rosen Adelman; Harvey J. Barnett; Jodie Berkman; Debbie L. Berman;

David T. Brown; Mark Chudacoff; Josh Daitch; Deanna Drucker; Linda S. Fisher; Jason Friedman; David Goldenberg; David Golder; Hilary Greenberg; Ellen Spira Hattenbach; Marcie B. Hemmelstein; Josh B. Herz; Dana Hirt; Andrew S. Hochberg; Bennett E. Kaplan; Penny Keeshin; Priscilla Kersten; Ann-Louise Kleper; Peter Kupferberg; Rabbi Vernon Kurtz; Jane Cadden Lederman; H. Debra Levin; Brian J. Levinson; Francine F. Levy; Miriam Lichstein; Barry A. Malkin; Stephen Malkin; Lee I. Miller; Steven N. Miller; Jodi Newmark; Sanford Perl; Theodore Perlman; Paula Resnick; Thomas Rivkin; Elliott Robinson; Marc Roth; Lisa Rubinstein; Jimmy Sarnoff; Skip Schrayer; Steve Schreiber; Harry Seigle; Midge Perlman Shafton; Keith J. Shapiro; Wendy Berger Shapiro; Bill Silverstein; Barbara Kaplan Slutsky; Alan P. Solow; Marc Spellman; Sara C. Star; Nina G. Stillman; Pam F. Szokol; Phyllis Tabachnick; Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein; Avrum Weinfeld; Adam Winick; James R. Woldenberg; Rabbi Carl Wolkin; Andrea R. Yablon; Michael Zaransky; and Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, Ex-Officio and Nathaniel Sack, Ex-Officio.

UNABLE TO ATTEND: David A. Baum; Ethan Budin; Scott I. Canel; Helene Diamond; Bruce Ettelson;

Robert Ferencz; Maury Fertig; Howard Friend; Richard C. Goodman; Arnie Harris; Stuart Hochwert; Cindy Kaplan; Deborah Schrayer Karmin; Dr. Jeffrey Kopin; Frances Krasnow; Steven H. Lavin; Jennifer Levine; Rabbi Steven S. Mason; James C. Mills; Eric Rothner; Marc Sacks; Kim Shwachman; Morris Silverman; and Ralph Wanger.

GUESTS: Misha Galperin; Sophie Fellman Rofalovitz; Ruth M. Rothstein; Jenna Shaw; Dr.

Laurie Gordon Shaw; and Jim Tisch. STAFF: Audra Berg; Aaron Cohen; Jeffrey L. Cohen; Merle Cohen; Deborah Covington;

Donna Kahan; Michael Kotzin; Louis Lazovsky; John Lowenstein; Elissa Polan; Stephanie Pritzker; David Prystowsky; Susan Rifas; David Rosen; Jim Rosenberg; David Rubovits; Joe Salcik; Hallie Shapiro; Stuart Spector; Sherryl Steinberg; Rachel Sternberg; Emily Sweet; Hillary Teven; Jay Tcath; Adina Torchman and Ariel Zipkin.


JEWISH UNITED FUND

ACTIONS TAKEN


April 22, 2013

1. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the Minutes of regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held on March 14, 2013, were approved.


It was Moved, Seconded and Carried that the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, held on March 14, 2013, be approved. (Motion No. 1)

2. D’VAR TORAH Skip Schrayer gave the D’var Torah. He said the Parsha was Emor – which he read several times. He said he marveled at how effortless it seems for our rabbis to find meaning in certain parshot- some seemingly clearer than others, e.g., the parsha about creation, or the exodus from Egypt, or the giving of the 10 commandments at Mount Sinai. But some, like this parsha, in his opinion require a stretch of the imagination to connect the Torah to modern times. This parsha is filled with directions for the Kohanim, and reminds us to celebrate the various Chagim and the Shabbat. It also explains how we count the 49 days of the Omer between Pesach and Shavuot. He believes it also reminds us how the two holidays are connected, that we cannot truly be free until we accept the 10 commandments. But what spoke most to him and perhaps would resonate with most everyone is the following verse: “When you reap the harvest of your Land, you shall not completely remove the corner of your field during your harvesting, and you shall not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. [Rather,] you shall leave these for the poor person and for the stranger.” He said what this means to him is that what you get is not all for you to consume – that you have to share your bounty with others. For those who are his Facebook friends, he said they will know that he traveled with his family to South Africa over Pesach. While in South Africa, they were privileged to visit an area called Khayelitsha. Khayelitsha was an area built during the last few years of apartheid to house the black and coloured populations. They believe that over 1 million people live in this shanty town which is plagued by high rates of HIV/Aids, illiteracy, unemployment. He said it is an awful place. In the midst of this hell hole they met Vivian Zilo, a woman short in stature but a giantess in his eyes. In a 2 bedroom home she has single-handedly created a federation - a system for communal fundraising and agencies that support her community. In one corner she raises funds, in the kitchen she feeds 250 people per day, in another corner she runs a day care program, in an adjacent shed- she runs a choir – and teaches woman to sew- (75% of which they keep). There is also a youth group and a garden. She is teaching them to garden so they have a job and a way to feed themselves. And then she told them – “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” so like ORT- she is building a community! He said this woman, with limited means, was sharing what she had, using her skills and spirit to bolster her community. He concluded saying we who have so much can learn a lot from Miss Vivian, as they call her. And with our resources - and our abilities – the sky is the limit.

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3. ISRAEL SOLIDARITY DAY

Mr. Brown called on Miriam Lichstein, JUF-JF Board member and Co-Chair of Israel Solidarity Day. He thanked her, and Rabbi Carl Wolkin, for co-chairing this year’s event. He also introduced Jenna Shaw, a teen who is a senior at Walter Payton High School. She is Regional Sch’licha, or Vice President of Judaism and Social Action, of BBYO, and a member of the Chicago Jewish Teen Leadership Committee. Her passion for change drives her commitment to bettering the lives of others. Jenna was recently admitted to American University’s class of 2017, where she plans to study International Relations. Mrs. Lichstein said she was thrilled to report on Israel Solidarity Day and very proud to be chairing this year’s exciting celebration alongside Rabbi Carl Wolkin. In honor of Israel’s 65th anniversary, a very festive day at Ravinia Festival has been planned on Sunday, April 28th. She said we hope to provide a spirited day with festivities and fun for all ages. The day’s highlights include young family programming from 11:00 – 1:00, the Walk with Israel, Israeli dancing at 2:00 and fabulous entertainment throughout the entire day featuring the King David Drummers, The Maccabeats and, the headliner, Matisyahu. And, of course, no JUF event would be complete without food! Garden Fresh will provide a wonderful menu during the entire day. She was pleased to share our success thus far. To date, there were 1,305 participants registered and over $55,000 raised through both individuals and organizational supporters for this year’s fundraising project, which provides Israeli children with school supplies to enrich their learning and literacy. She encouraged everyone to help increase the current fundraising total by giving generously to this special cause. In addition, each person under the age of 23 who raises $100 or more will receive a $100 JUF Israel Experience voucher, and each person over the age of 23 who raises $100 or more will receive a $100 voucher for a JUF mission. Mrs. Lichstein was also pleased to let everyone know that all of this year’s 200 volunteer spots have been filled! She gave a very special thanks to Susan Sacks, this year’s Israel Solidarity Day TOV Manager, for helping us achieve this great success. Organizational and synagogue response has been strong with 51 signed on as supporters. We added a higher level this year, offering reserved pavilion seating and we received 5 supporters at the $650 level. With one community event this year, she said we took the opportunity to expand our outreach efforts. This included a concerted effort to actively welcome the Israeli community into our JUF world to celebrate Israel’s 65th birthday at Israel Solidarity Day. We are working in full coordination and support from the Israeli Consul General and the Jewish Agency. And Jodi Newmark is coordinating participation of constituents from the Supported Community Living Initiative. Jenna Shaw, then spoke about this year’s Israel Solidarity Day teen component which will take place on site at Ravinia. She said that last year more than 500 people participated in the Teen Walk with Israel/J-Serve project, which she helped plan. It included a moving program at the

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Holocaust Museum, a one-mile “March of the Living” and a celebration of Israel at Meyer Kaplan JCC in Skokie. This year she said we are building on that success and once again holding a community J-Serve project in conjunction with the national day of Jewish teen service. From 10 am to noon, hundreds of teens from across Chicagoland will gather in the dining pavilion at Ravinia. On one level there will be an engaging Israel Advocacy program, led by our own Write On for Israel Senior Fellows. On the main level, the J-Serve project will follow the theme of ISD – literacy --and teens will be collecting, stickering and sorting books for at risk children in partnership with Bernie’s Book Bank. She said that she is proud that she has had a major role in planning this year’s program, especially the third component, the 8th grade engagement area that will introduce 8th graders to the world of Jewish activities they can do once they are in high school. Knowing that everyone wants to support Israel Solidarity Day and this year’s theme of literacy for at-risk children in Israel she asked Board member to please give generously using the cards provided.

4. JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL

Mr. Brown introduced Jim Tisch, Chair of the JAFI Board of Governors and Misha Galperin, CEO and President of the Jewish Agency International Development. He also noted the Chicagoans serving on the JAFI BOG: Caryn Rosen Adelman, Dr. Betsy R. Gidwitz, Charles H. Goodman, Rabbi Vernon Kurtz and Richard L. Wexler. In addition, Debbie L. Berman serves as a member of a BOG committee. Also at the meeting was Sophie Fellman Rafalovitz, the JAFI schlicha in Chicago. In his “real” life, Jim Tisch is President and Chief Executive Officer of Loews Corporation. He is past Chairman of the Board of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, past Chairman of the Board of United Jewish Communities, past President of UJA-Federation of New York, and a former director on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Brown said we are very pleased Mr. Tisch has accepted yet another major responsibility in our Jewish world and look forward to his report on activities at JAFI.

In his role at JAFI, Misha Galperin is responsible for the Jewish Agency for Israel’s External Affairs, Financial Resource Development, Marketing and Communications and many of its strategic initiatives worldwide. Before assuming this position, Dr. Galperin was CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington for 9 years and prior to that served as COO of UJA-Federation of New York.

Mr. Tisch then spoke about the Jewish Agency for Israel – it’s beginnings as the government of Israel prior to the creation of the State; how it has evolved over the years; that beginning with Sallai Meridor as Chairman of the Executive, the functions and budget of JAFI began to be more streamlined and focused; and under the leadership of Natan Sharansky as the Chairman of the Executive, JAFI continues its mission of Aliyah and connecting Jews around the world to Israel and strengthening the relationship with Israel.

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He thanked Chicago for its strong leadership and commitment to JAFI and to Israel. Mr. Tisch said how strong both JAFI and the Jewish world would be if more communities adopted how Chicago supports JAFI – not just financially but in terms of dependability and commitment. He concluded also noting the role that Natan Sharansky has played, at the request of the Prime Minister, in studying and developing recommendations regarding the Kotel and plaza. Mr. Brown thanked Mr. Tisch and Dr. Galperin for coming to Chicago and the time they spent in the community.

5. RUTH M. ROTHSTEIN

Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, President, said that in a way, his friend, Ruth Rothstein’s story is the quintessential American Jewish success story. She went from being a settlement house worker and grassroots union organizer to serving at the helm of some of our community’s most important institutions. She came of age during the Depression, and never had the opportunity for higher education. So Mrs. Rothstein was on-the-job trained and self-taught in every hospital position she ever held, from lab technician to hospital admissions clerk to administrative aide and finally CEO. She transformed Mount Sinai Hospital and transformed our Jewish community’s understanding of Mount Sinai’s importance as a Jewish institution during the time that she was CEO and as was Dr. Nasatir. Furthermore, she integrated Mount Sinai into the Latino and African-American communities, turning the hospital into both a pillar of the local community and a bridge between our community and the Latino and African-American communities. After retiring from Mount Sinai at age 68, she went on to head the Cook County Bureau of Health Services, the third largest system in the country – resuscitating Cook County Hospital and establishing 30 neighborhood outpatient clinics. Named after her, the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center of Cook County Health & Hospitals System provides high quality care for persons and families affected by infectious diseases. As a woman, she was a trailblazer. Her passion was so infectious and her professionalism so profound that she was elected chairman of the very same national association of Jewish hospital administrators that had originally shunned her when she burst onto the scene of what was their old boys club. And she is still going strong. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. She has been honored by countless organizations, including Rosalind Franklin University, the Chicago Foundation for Women, The Civic Federation, Chicago Neighborhood Development and the Illinois Humanities Council. She was named by Ms. Magazine as Woman of the Year. But perhaps most of all, Dr. Nasatir said that Ruth Rothstein is a Jew - a Jew who believes in social justice and community and has devoted her life’s work to that. She served on the JUF-JF Board for many years and was always involved in the JUF Campaign and she helped organize and chair the first JUF Professional Women’s outreach to engage more Jewish women professionals in our community. Dr. Nasatir said he always liked soliciting for JUF with Mrs. Rothstein – that he could be tough, but Mrs. Rothstein is tougher. Dr. Nasatir wished her happy birthday saying “We love you and are very proud of you.”

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Mrs. Rothstein thanked everyone for celebrating this birthday (her 90th) with her. She was delighted to say that she had recently spent meaningful time with 25 members of her family – who came in from the east coast. She noted that Dr. Nasatir had really told the Board most everything about her. However, in addition to Mount Sinai Hospital as well as building the Cook County Health system being important to her, she said one of the most important and meaningful accomplishments was the breaking of the ceiling for women. She related several stories of what it was like to be the only woman in her profession and often in many of the positions she held. On behalf of the Board and community, Dr. Nasatir presented Mrs. Rothstein with a calligraphy: “Tzedek Tzedek Tirdor” with the inscription: With gratitude to Ruth Rothstein for extraordinary, trail-blazing leadership in our Jewish and General communities. JUF/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago April 22, 2013 - 12 Iyar, 5733.


RE: 2013 JUF Campaign Michael Zaransky, 2013 JUF General Campaign Chairman, reported that the 2013 Campaign stands at $49,230,072 from 11,084 donors. We are running about $4.75 million ahead with a 3.7% JUF gift for gift increase. We are also running 1,674 gifts ahead. This is the earliest the JUF Annual Campaign has broken $49 million since 2008 (April 11, 2008). He said we did not break $49 million in 2012 until May 22, 2012. Pertinent material had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit A.

We are in the midst of the heavy event season and referred the Board to the Campaign Highlights that had been distributed and are attached to these Minutes as Exhibit A. All of the Trade dinners will take place in the next 60 days; and congregation events continue full speed ahead. The Standard Club Event is April 23rd, Women’s Division Spring Event is May 9th; Country Club Day is June 19th. He said that Board members can assist by attending the up-coming events – be it their trade, congregation, women’s event; spread the word about all the events and recruit others to attend; and to reach out to their various social circles and bring others with them to the events. RE: The Centennial Campaign Midge Perlman Shafton presented the Report on The Centennial Campaign. Pertinent material had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit B. Mrs. Shafton reported that The Centennial Campaign has increased to $642,057,234 from 3,920 gifts. She was also pleased to announce some recent gifts to the Centennial Campaign. - Eric & Josi Rein have made a $100,000 Agency Endowment gift to the JCC

- An anonymous gift of a $100,000 Charitable Gift Annuity has been made to the Legacy fund

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- Max Tannenbaum has made his 15th Charitable Gift annuity bringing his total to $2.26

million dollars for the Legacy Fund

- Dr. & Mrs. Sam Gerber have made an outright gift of $505,000 as a charitable gift annuity to the Campaign Endowment Fund

For more information on how Board members can participate in The Centennial Campaign, she asked them to speak to her, David T. Brown, Steven Nasatir, Jeffrey L. Cohen, David Rosen or Dee Anthony.

7. REPORT OF OVERALL PLANNING & ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE Bill Silverstein, Chair, presented the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit B. RE: Development of New Innovation Fund During the last few years, Mr. Silverstein noted that we have phased out the Priority Grant program, as services and projects associated with JHELP were our clear priorities for additional funding and attention. We continued to recognize need for a ‘research and development’ function within our system. As planned for this year, staff developed a new structure and process to support this function which was reviewed at the OPAC meeting. Pertinent information regarding the new Innovation Fund was mailed to the Board and included in Exhibit B. He said that it is hoped that during the coming year, a version of this will be implemented.

8. REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

David T. Brown, Chairman, informed the Board of the following: He thanked the Committee Chairs, Co-chairs and all the committee members for the great

job they are doing. It is important work being done on behalf of the community and it also enables the Board to work so well.

Mazel Tov to Jimmy Sarnoff and his wife on the birth of their son; to Nick Sack on the birth of his granddaughter; and to Deanna Drucker whose granddaughter was a bat mitzvah the past week-end.

Mr. Brown spoke about the recent Israel@65 Mission, led by Ellen and Michael Steinberg

along with Rabbis Vernon Kurtz and Carl Wolkin. He said it was amazing and powerful to be in Israel during Yom Hazikaron, to participate in and witness how the entire country stopped to remember the Israeli soldiers who had fallen in battle. Then the very next day the exuberant celebration of Yom Ha’Atzmaut. It was a meaningful experience for all the participants.

The May 20th Board meeting is going to be held at CJE SeniorLife’s Lieberman Center in Skokie. Mr. Brown noted that there will be a tour of the facility, beginning at 4 pm; and the

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board meeting will begin at 5 pm. He asked that everyone please in order to let us know their plans in terms of both the tour and the board meeting.

9. JEWISH WOMEN’S FOUNDATION (JWF)

Dana Hirt, Chair of the Jewish Women’s Foundation, presented a report on the Foundation. Pertinent material had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit C. She began by thanking the Board for the recent vote that amended the By-laws to allow the sitting JWF chair to be a voting member of the Board. She was thrilled to represent JWF on the Board and excited to learn more about the Federation through her engagement on the Board. The Jewish Women’s Foundation of Chicago is the largest Jewish women’s foundation in the country. Established in 1997, JWF now has a pledged endowment of $8.6 million with $6.8 million collected. That means that its endowment and collected funds has grown by a ½ million dollars since the last presentation to the Board in January 2012. There are over 268 trustees which includes 37 Multigenerational families … including herself. She said it was extremely gratifying to bring her 16-year-old daughter Kalie to the JWF Annual Meeting this year! In 2012 JWF awarded $210,500 in total funding, which is the highest annual allocation to date. highlighted a few grants that went to JUF-JF affiliated agencies: $14,000 to Response for the Girls Speak Up Program, $20,000 to JCFS for a new Community Planning Grant to examine the unmet needs of tween girls (9-14) in our local Jewish community, and a $20,000 grant to Jewish vocational Services for the 2nd year of our multiyear support of their financial literacy education program. She said, having grown up essentially unaffiliated in Washington, DC, she moved to Chicago after college and knew nothing of JUF-JF. She was introduced to JWF and loved the hands-on approach that provided her with her own growth opportunities while enabling to make a difference with strategic grant making. Through her engagement with JWF she learned about JUF-JF and has come to understand and respect the role of the Federation in our community and beyond. She said she has been fortunate to be involved in her synagogue’s events, the Vanguard dinners, the most recent GA in Baltimore, and now is even getting to co-chair her first mission! She encouraged every woman in the room who isn’t already a trustee to consider joining. And to all of the men in this room … she said don’t forget your wives, your mothers, yours sisters and your daughters. We have clearly demonstrated that it isn’t an either/or proposition. We have much to offer each other and ours is a strategic partnership. She thanked Emily Muskovitz Sweet, Executive Director of the JWF, for her leadership, her commitment to excellence, her tireless advocacy for social justice for Jewish women and girls, and for her sense of humor ... much needed with me as Chair! She also thanked the JUF-JF staff for their continued support: Steve Nasatir, Jim Rosenberg, Rachel Sternberg, David Rosen, Rose Jagust, David Brief, Susan Rifas, Merle Cohen, Barbara Gold and Donna Kahn. (The last four of whom are also trustees)

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She also acknowledged current JUF-JF Board members who are also JWF trustees: Deanna Drucker, Linda Schottenstein Fisher, Marcie Hemmelstein, Jane Cadden Lederman, Lisa Rubinstein, Midge Perlman Shafton, Kim Shwachman, Sara Star, Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein and Andrea Yablon. In addition, the following trustees are wives of current Board members and JUF-JF executive staff: Nancy Fertig, Barbara Hochwert, Susan Sacks, Lynn Schrayer, Lori Ann Komisar, Carolyn Rosenberg and Eileen Tarnoff. Finally, she closed by sharing one more thing. Much research has been done to assess the efficacy of philanthropy when it comes to shifts in social change. And one interesting finding is that changing the status of women has tremendous implication in societal change. She said we all know the expression “if you give a man a fish he eats for one day, but if you teach a man to fish he eats forever.” Well, it seems that if you teach a woman to fish, she, her family and her community will eat forever. So we remain committed to our mission to enhance the status of Jewish women and girls locally, nationally and internationally.



Emily Briskman, Israel Education Center Director, Hillel, has been accepted as a Hartman Institute Fellow in the area of Campus Professionals.

We have been informed that our “36 Under 36” and Annual Report microsite have won awards from Publicity Club of Chicago. On May 30th, we will find out if they are Gold or Silver awards.

JUF News will be awarded two Simon Rockover Awards for Jewish Journalism at the June meeting of the American Press Association. Linda Haase, Senior Associate Vice President, Marketing Communications won for a series of blogs she wrote for the JUF News website; and Alyssa Zeller, Designer, Communications won for the JUF News cover she designed for the May 2012 issue depicting the lives of young Jewish Chicagoans.

Dr. Nasatir spoke about what he is calling “Home and Away” – Dr. Nasatir and 15 other colleagues from JUF-JF went to New York to meet with their counterparts at the UJA-Federation of New York. Next year, they will come to Chicago. He said everyone felt they could and did learn from one another in the two days spent together. It is recognized that our communities are different, but there were many opportunities to share information and best practices. This was partially funded by the Jane Perlman Fund for Special Purposes and he thanked Midge Perlman Shafton for that support.

Everyone received the newspaper publicity concerning the visit of the Knesset members who we hosted in Chicago. On very short notice, Steve Dishler, JUF Director of International Affairs, did an excellent job of putting together the program for them. Dr. Nasatir said it was important for the MK’s to know about Jewish poverty (they went to the JUF Uptown Café); he also said they were most impressed with what they saw at Schechter, especially the technology. In fact, the MK’s invited the 8th graders at Schechter to visit the Knesset when they are in Israel in May; and will be welcomed by the MK’s.

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11. REPORT OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Jodi Newmark, Chair, was available to answer questions about the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit D.


Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein, Secretary, presented the Report that had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit E. She informed the Board that the Jewish United Fund has been informed of the following bequests: JEWISH UNITED FUND Unrestricted Restricted

**Edwin H. Goldberger, Esq. $ 5,000 *Blanche Koffler $ 212,602 Seyfarth Shaw LLP

* Silver Circle ** Golden Giver The meeting adjourned at 7:10 pm.


By:

Assistant Secretary


M I N U T E S

OF THE


JEWISH UNITED FUND

OF


HELD ON MAY 20, 2013

AT THE

CJE SENIORLIFE LIEBERMAN CENTER

9700 GROSS POINT ROAD

SKOKIE, ILLINOIS



M I N U T E S Of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, held on Monday, May 20, 2013 at the CJE SeniorLife Lieberman Center, 9700 Gross Point Road, Skokie, Illinois. AGENDA & INDEX PAGE 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1

2. D’VAR TORAH 1

3. CJE SENIORLIFE 1

4. JFNA HUMAN SERVICES & PUBLIC POLICY 1

5. CJE SENIORLIFE – HSPP AND MORE 2

6. ISRAEL SOLIDARITY DAY 3



9. ELECTION OF OFFICERS 10





JEWISH UNITED FUND

BOARD MEETING HELD ON MAY 20, 2013

PRESENT: Caryn Rosen Adelman; Harvey J. Barnett; David A. Baum; Jodie Berkman; Debbie

L. Berman; David T. Brown; Ethan Budin; Mark Chudacoff; Deanna Drucker; David Goldenberg; David Golder; Maury Fertig; Hilary Greenberg; Marcie B. Hemmelstein; Dana Hirt; Stuart Hochwert; Bennett E. Kaplan; Deborah Schrayer Karmin; Ann-Louise Kleper; Frances Krasnow; Rabbi Vernon Kurtz; H. Debra Levin; Brian J. Levinson; Francine F. Levy; Stephen Malkin; Lee I. Miller; James C. Mills; Sanford Perl; Theodore Perlman; Paula Resnick; Elliott Robinson; Marc Roth; Eric Rothner; Lisa Rubinstein; Marc Sacks; Skip Schrayer; Steve Schreiber; Harry Seigle; Midge Perlman Shafton; Kim Shwachman; Bill Silverstein; Marc Spellman; Sara C. Star; Pam F. Szokol; Phyllis Tabachnick; Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein; Avrum Weinfeld; James R. Woldenberg; Michael Zaransky; and Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, Ex-Officio.

UNABLE TO ATTEND: Scott I. Canel; Josh Daitch; Helene Diamond; Bruce Ettelson; Robert Ferencz;

Linda S. Fisher; Jason Friedman; Howard Friend; Richard C. Goodman; Arnie Harris; Ellen Spira Hattenbach; Josh B. Herz; Andrew S. Hochberg; Cindy Kaplan; Penny Keeshin; Priscilla Kersten; Dr. Jeffrey Kopin; Peter Kupferberg; Steven H. Lavin; Jane Cadden Lederman; Jennifer Levine; Miriam Lichstein; Barry A. Malkin; Rabbi Steven S. Mason; Steven N. Miller; Jodi Newmark; Thomas Rivkin; Jimmy Sarnoff; Keith J. Shapiro; Wendy Berger Shapiro; Morris Silverman; Barbara Kaplan Slutsky; Alan P. Solow; Nina G. Stillman; Ralph Wanger; Adam Winick; Rabbi Carl Wolkin and Andrea R. Yablon.

GUESTS: Omer Givati; Bruce Lederman; Barry Rosenthal; Sanford Teplitzky; and Mark

Weiner. STAFF: Aaron Cohen; Jeffrey L. Cohen; Deborah Covington; Paula Harris; Donna Kahan;

Reis Kayser; Michael Kotzin; Louis Lazovsky; John Lowenstein; Elissa Polan; Stephanie Pritzker; David Prystowsky; Susan Rifas; David Rosen; Jim Rosenberg; David Rubovits; Stuart Spector; Sherryl Steinberg; Rachel Sternberg; Jay Tcath; Adina Torchman and Ariel Zipkin.


JEWISH UNITED FUND

ACTIONS TAKEN


May 20, 2013

1. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the Minutes of regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held on April 22, 2013, were approved.

2. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, a net operating budget for the Jewish United

Fund FY2013-14 Community Programs and Services in the amount of $6,145,583, was approved.

3. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the following were approved as officers of the

Jewish United Fund Board of Directors beginning September 2013:

Chairman: David T. Brown

Vice Chairmen: Jodie Berkman Ethan Budin Richard Goodman Cindy Kaplan Ann–Louise Kleper Jennifer Levine Lee Miller* Wendy Berger Shapiro Bill Silverstein Dr. Michele Sackheim-Wein Adam Winick Michael Zaransky* Treasurer: Thomas Rivkin

Assistant Treasurer: Sara Star

Secretary: Jodi Newmark

Assistant Secretary: Eric Rothner

President: Dr. Steven B. Nasatir

Assistant Secretaries (from Staff): S. Peter Chiswick

James Pinkston Susan Rifas David S. Rosen Jim Rosenberg Dr. David Rubovits Rachel Sternberg Michael B. Tarnoff Jay Tcath

* Per Article V, Section 1 of the By-laws, Michael Zaransky, 2013 JUF General Campaign Chairman and Lee Miller, 2014 General Campaign Chairman, shall be Vice Chairmen and do not require election to the office.


It was Moved, Seconded and Carried that the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, held on April 22, 2013, be approved. (Motion No. 1)

2. D’VAR TORAH Avrum Weinfeld gave the D’Var Torah. He said the parshos that we are now entering are not the most glorious as a nation. We have just finished building and dedicating the temple. We now read about the spies and we read about korach and then we read about the sins with Moav. Not the greatest thing to speak about at a JU-JF meeting. He then focused on one item, which he said would be a good lesson for everyone. In the week’s parsha we discuss the fact that the Jews complained about the lack of meat. They were then punished for this complaint. One should ask what happened, after receiving the tablets and finishing the temple, how could they have fallen so fast? Mr. Weinfeld said he thinks the answer is very obvious … the people got to use to the good life. They had so much, that they forgot all the work that needs to go into maintaining that wealth. That includes self-control and appreciating what one has. He said the question for our generation is how we can have all that we are given and still keep the right prospective. By Joining in the JUF-JF, we have all made the commitment to keep challenging ourselves and to always see the work that still needs to be done to help our fellow brothers and sisters. He said this is the way we can make sure that we are never asking for more but instead are asking what else we can give. May that always be our lot in life.

3. CJE SENIORLIFE

David T. Brown, Chairman of the Board, introduced Bruce Lederman, Chairman of the Board of CJE SeniorLIfe. He said that Mr. Lederman is probably known to many JUF-JF Board members as in addition to the many roles he has played in the community, Mr. Lederman is also a former JUF-JF Board member. Mr. Lederman welcomed everyone to CJE SeniorLife’s Lieberman Center. He said how pleased he was that the board meeting was being held there and thanked JUF-JF for doing so. Knowing that it was going to be a lengthy agenda, he said that Mark Weiner would tell the Board more about CJE SeniorLife a little later on the agenda.

4. JFNA HUMAN SERVICES & PUBLIC POLICY Mr. Brown introduced Sanford (Sandy) Teplitzky an attorney at Ober-Kaler in Baltimore. He co-chairs their Health Law Group, focusing on fraud and abuse issues. He has extensive experience in the development and implementation of corporate compliance programs, internal reviews and investigations. He is a former president of the American Health Lawyers Association; and prior to joining his current firm, he served as an attorney for the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education & Welfare and represented the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

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He has long been involved in the Associated: The Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, including serving as a member of its Regional Investment Committee; a member and past President of the Board of the Baltimore Jewish Council; and continues his involvement in JFNA, serving as a member of the Human Services & Public Policy (HSPP) group and co-chair of the Health & Long Term Care Committee.

He said Mr. Teplitzky was at the meeting as a member of the JFNA Ambassador team and to talk about domestic human service needs and trends. And before he began, Mr. Brown wished him a Mazel Tov as the prior his third granddaughter – Mila Jaye – was born here in Chicago.

Mr. Teplitzky then spoke about various domestic human service needs and trends (e.g., vulnerable populations such as those caring for aging parents, those with Alzheimer’s disease, parents with developmentally disabled children); vulnerable Jewish populations (the Jewish population over 65 is larger than the general population, there are about 120,000 Holocaust survivors). In doing so, he spoke about the financial constraints that exist and related the information to Jewish values (Tikkun Olam, Tzedakah, respect for the aged, welcoming the stranger) as well as to the metropolitan Chicago area. He noted that Chicago has the youngest Holocaust population in the country which means more years of serving them. He also addressed the role and work of the JFNA Washington Office and how, together, we can best serve those in need.

5. CJE SENIOR LIFE – HSPP AND MORE

David T. Brown, Chairman, introduced Mark Weiner, CEO and President of CJE SeniorLife. In addition to his professional role at CJE, Mr. Brown noted that in his prior life, Mr. Weiner had been a member of the JUF Young Leadership Division Board. Mr. Weiner also said how much he appreciated the Board meeting at Lieberman. He said he is very proud of the partnership with JUF-JF; that CJE SeniorLife serves over 19,000 older adults and family members every year – be they the poor, the near poor or private pay. And over its history, Lieberman has admitted more than 13,000 residents, almost exclusively from the Jewish community. He noted that Lieberman provides short-term rehabilitation, Alzheimer’s and long-term care programming. He said the three major market realities CJE is facing are the following and CJE is undertaking addressing each of them:

Growth of the 65+ market. Here in Chicago, the recent Federation Population Study tells us that 20% or 1 in 5 of the Jewish community is 65+ years of age. Declining funding sources for CJE, this is most striking from governmental sources which represent 50 % of our budget.

Challenging Health Care system. Dominant hospital systems, health care reform and new models of care.

The CJE Strategic Plan identifies four areas of attention:

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New revenue sources – CJE must continue to find new revenue sources New care models – Respond to national Health Care Reform, new Managed Care

environment in Illinois, new relationship with hospitals and new customer expectations

Enhanced messaging and branding Continued managerial and operational enhancements – on-going re-engineering of

all aspects of CJE from Board management to budgeting to information technology He concluded saying that though the challenges exist, CJE continues to be innovative and market responsive in the following ways:

Lieberman – modernization, physical facilities and new programming, Heart Center Expansion of Friend Center – four (4) new residences and expanded Adult Day

Services space Virtual Senior Center – Consumer Electronics Association – one of four (4) cities Parkinson Disease Caregiver Support - that includes Your Elder Care Consultants, support groups and

nationally recognized work in Elder Abuse

6. ISRAEL SOLIDARITY DAY Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, President, thanked Rabbi Carl Wolkin and Miriam Lichstein, co-chairs of the 2013 Israel Solidarity Day. Both provided valuable guidance during the planning and represented JUF exceedingly well during the event itself. Neither was able to attend the board meeting, so it was his pleasure to provide a brief report; and thanked Paula Harris, Hillary Tevin and their team for the wonderful job they did to make the day a success. H said one of the most exciting parts of April 28 was looking out on the lawn at Ravinia Festival and seeing the entire Chicago Jewish community represented. Synagogues, youth groups and day schools were there carrying banners and wearing t-shirts in support of Israel. Multi-generational families enjoying an afternoon of Jewish music and activities for young children. Teens enthusiastically supporting Israel with an advocacy program and collecting books for underserved youth right here in Chicago. Virtually every part of the Jewish community participated, including Israelis, Russian Jews, Joyfully Jewish families, special needs children and their families. The top notch entertainment was a draw and the variety of activities offered, including the traditional Walk for Israel engaged all who joined in the celebration of Israel’s 65th birthday.

Over 8,000 participants came throughout the day, donating $122,632 from 2,344 gifts. iDays last year raised $102,766 from 1,827 gifts. In addition, ISD participants had the opportunity to be screened as possible bone marrow donors through the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. While we do not know the total number screened that day, Dr. Nasatir said we were happy to be of assistance in this potential life-saving effort.

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Before showing a short video highlighting our celebration of ISD, he thanked Susan Sacks for her leadership of 150 enthusiastic volunteers who made the day run beautifully. Dr. Nasatir also noted that the tentative date for the 2014 Israel Solidarity Day is Sunday, May 4, 2014. He also commented that in the evening of April 28th this year, following ISD, there was a wonderful celebration of Rabbi Vernon Kurtz’ 25th anniversary at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El.


RE: 2013 JUF Campaign Michael Zaransky, 2013 JUF General Campaign Chairman, thanked everyone for all that they are doing to make the 2013 campaign a success. Pertinent material had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit A. Earlier in May, the Women’s Division held a most successful Spring Event – and he thanked Fran Levy, President, and Hilary Greenberg, Campaign Vice Chair for their leadership. He then called on Deborah Schrayer Karmin, Chair of the event. Mrs. Karmin said the amazing speaker, Chelsea Clinton, spoke to over 1,000 women who attended the May 9th event. She said fitting everyone into the ballroom at the Hilton was challenging, but it was warm, cozy and beautiful. The theme of the event was “Power of Caring” and the campaign pitch demonstrated how JUF cares for so many people in so many ways. Six women in the community gave their personal stories about how JUF cared for them and made a significant difference in their lives through the work of JVS, JCFS, HIAS, JCB, Keshet, birthright, Hillel and ORT. She said that there was silence in the room as everyone was engaged in the stories of how the JUF and the power of caring changed their worlds. She said that Chelsea Clinton was also inspired by the stories of caring. Mrs. Karmin said that Chelsea actually left her notes at the table and switched her remarks to tell a more personal and meaningful story. She began by saying “I’m so grateful to hear from someone like Agnes Schwartz who is many generations wiser and a couple of generations older than I am, who, in some ways, captures the mystery of caring. We never know what we give to the world … whether it is our stories, our dollars, our power, our energy … we never know what those gifts will yield in other people’s lives.” She talked about her work with the Clinton Global Initiative, which like JUF, works to help the most needy in the world. To date, the Women’s Division has raised over $600,000 from the event from approximately 550 gifts. This includes: 48 new givers, 132 increased gifts from the 2012 JUF Campaign, 116 additional gifts to the 2013 campaign from donors who had already made their 2013 gifts, 28 recovered prior givers and 17 recovered skips. She said the totals reflect a 32.1 gift-for-gift increase.

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Mr. Zaransky then called on David Goldenberg, YLD’s 2013 Campaign Vice President. Mr. Goldenberg said that at a high level YLD’s main efforts are bringing people into JUF and providing them with opportunities to give. He highlighted some of their past and current successes.

1) While YLD represents a small percentage of JUF dollars, it accounts for a much larger

percentage of JUF gifts. 2) The YLD campaign currently stands at $1,122,409 from 2,543 gifts representing a 25.9% JUF

gift for gift increase over last year. He said they are also up about 350 gifts from this time last year. There is a lot of opportunity to increase the spread of gifts and YLD is now focusing on PACE. May 22nd, the YLD Board is hosting a phonothon to ensure that we focus on gifts that were in this time last year.

3) Over the past several years YLD has increased the number of gifts annually (with a slight fall back in 2010). He reminded everyone that annually, they remove people who have aged out of YLD, so the increases are even greater achievements. Like everyone else, YLD is recovering from the economic recession and that the closing numbers in 2012 were slightly greater than in 2008.

4) They have identified YLD events and phonothons as the major ways to bring in gifts to the campaign and have become more focused on their approach to closing gifts this way. A large portion of the YLD money comes from its Major gift donors, and that is why more focus has recently been put on addressing the Ben Gurion Society community.

He said the YLD Board is committed to having a strategic approach to its efforts and is currently in the process of creating a three year strategic plan for YLD. One of the things also being worked on is evaluating the Big Event and redefining their goals and approach. YLD recently had their Board elections and Joe Seigle (JUF Board member Harry Seigle’s son) is President-Elect; Amy Kirsch is the Executive Vice President-elect; Scott Leiber is the 2014 Campaign Chair and Brandon Prosansky, the 2014 Campaign Vice Chair and Rebecca Nathan will be the BGS Chair. Some of the programs YLD is working on are:

1) The Second Annual Chicago's Jewish 36-under-36: Double Chai in the Chi list will debut later

this summer and feature people who are making a difference by giving back to the Jewish community. Presented in partnership with Oy!Chicago, this venture sheds light on the faces of Chicago's Jewish future and recognizes the contributions of this generation. Less than 24 hours after announcing last year’s list, the news went viral, garnering more than 100,000 page views. In the past year, he said we have also seen a tremendous growth in leadership involvement at JUF from this group. We are looking forward to this year’s 36-under-36 list and to highlighting the honorees at the annual WYLD party on August 8.

2) YLD has also been focusing on creating a brand and compelling opportunities for our Ben Gurion Society, which is for donors under the age of 45 who give $1,000 or more to the JUF Annual Campaign. In April, a luncheon was held featuring an interactive panel celebrating four honorees of Crain’s 2012 40 Under 40 list. There were over 70 attendees and he said the reactions to the event have been astounding.

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3) The Big Event is the premier fundraising event for the next generation of Chicago’s young Jewish community. The 2013 event was held in a ballroom the size of a football field, drew a crowd of more than 2,400 that included hundreds of first time donors and represents well over $300,000 to the campaign.

4) Finally, Mr. Goldenberg said that YLD is committed to providing leadership, outreach and volunteer opportunities to engage people of all backgrounds. LEADS is YLD’s most popular program and gives an introduction into the organized Jewish community to over 350 participants annually. Gesher is the leadership development program and has become a very sought after experience in the community. Attendance for Gesher is up 45% over last year. YLD’s charity sports leagues are a great way for people to meet one another and get introduced to JUF. Volunteerism is a critical piece of YLD’s work as it exposes potential donors to our work. In March, more than 130 young adults volunteered throughout the Chicago area and in just one day, more than 15 projects were completed at 13 different organizations and hundreds of lives were touched. He said that YLD also hosts a year long volunteer program and several one-time volunteer opportunities.

He thanked the Board for its support of YLD. Mr. Zaransky continued, saying that the TIP season is well underway. TIP is chaired by Keith Shapiro and on May 13th, the Physicians & Surgeons event was held and realized a 22% gift-for-gift increase. Upcoming events include Country Club Day on June 19th. Jim Woldenberg is the overall Chair and Melissa Spellman is the Women’s Chair. Mr. Zaransky said that Country Club members represented over $42 million of the 2012 campaign and he encourage board members who are members of country clubs to attend and involve other club members in the day. Lastly, Mr. Zaransky said the 2013 Campaign stands at $52,156,274 from 14,098 donors. He said we are running $3,562,123 ahead with a 4.2% gift-for-gift increase and 1,444 gifts ahead of last year at this time. RE: JUF Schneider Mission to Israel Dana Hirt and Andrew S. Hochberg co-chaired the recent mission to Israel, led by Congressman Brad Schneider. Mrs. Hirt said that 18 people participated, including JUF Board members Linda Fisher, David Golder, Arnie Harris and Elliott Robinson. She said the group was very diverse and included veteran mission participants and neophytes (such as her) and three people who had never been to Israel. Also participating were Cong. Schneider’s Legislative Director, Cara Toman, who was making her first trip to Israel. The group consisted of donors who represent over $764,000 to the 2013 JUF Annual campaign. Over $57,000 was raised in new money on the trip, which included an increase or additional money from nearly 100% of the participants.

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She said that about three weeks-worth of activities were packing into just the four days on the ground in Israel. A copy of the full itinerary was distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit B. She told the Board about three people who were to her, emblematic of the country and the values shared by the Board. The first was the morning spent with Col. Danny Tirza, a retired IDF commander who was the architect of the security fence that surrounds Jerusalem. He brought the group to various points along the fence and told how it was designed and how they decided where to build it. She said what was most striking to her were two things Col. Tirza said: not a single Palestinian home was damaged during the process (he walked the entire periphery of Jerusalem and made strategic decisions about the placement of the fence, including security concerns as well as the impact on neighborhoods and families); and was his final remark to the group – “I hope that I live to see the wall come down.” The second story was from their meeting with the Mayor of Sderot, which as everyone knows has been the target of thousands of rocket attacks over the past 12 years. When asked how is manages the pressure of living somewhere where you never know when the next attack will be, Mayor Bouskila said someone needs to be on the front line … and if not Sderot, it would be Ashdod, then Ashkelon and the Tel Aviv. She said most striking was his next sentence: “I go to be worried about my children and the children of Gaza.” The third was from the visit to the Iron Dome, where the group got to see the installation, watching soldiers set up in the field and hearing about the incredible technology that makes it work. At lunch, one of the people she sat with was an 18 year old soldier who was described as the best in the battalion based on number of missiles intercepted in the most recent airstrikes this past November. She said it was very strange sitting next to a boy – the same age as her oldest son – who was responsible for protecting the lives of the citizens of Israel. She said as she sat speechless next to him, he asked “Did you really come all the way from Chicago just to see us?” She told him that he and she, representing the Jews of Israel and the Diaspora, are two hands of the same body … he feels beholden to us for our support and we fell beholden to him for protecting our homeland. She concluded saying the trip provided many more examples of how and why Israel is a remarkable because of the people that live there and protect her; and that it provided many opportunities to meet so many dedicated men and women committed to serving their country in a myriad of ways. She thanked David Prystowsky, Stephanie Pritzker, Naomi Fox and Ofer Bavly for all they did to arrange and organize the trip. She also thanked Andrew Hochberg for his insightful leadership and Cong. Schneider as it was a great experience for everyone to see him in action. RE: The Centennial Campaign Midge Perlman Shafton presented the Report on The Centennial Campaign. Pertinent material had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit C. She said The Centennial Campaign had increased to $645,136,853 from 3,960 gifts.

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She was pleased to announce the recent gifts to The Centennial Campaign: Dr. Betsy R Gidwitz has made an outright gift of $1.2 million dollars for an agency

endowment gift to CJE.

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mesirow have made a $250,000 Campaign Endowment Gift to JUF.

Karen & Ethan Budin have made an endowment of $100,000 to the Legacy Fund and $100,000 to the Jewish Day School Guarantee Trust for Solomon Schechter.

A $100,000 Endowment was made from Larry Kreda for the Larry A. Kreda Scholarship for Environmental Studies.

As had been shared with the Board in February and March and in periodic reports the 14th Annual Snowbird Season was a great success. There are approximately 1,900 active Snowbird donors and these donors average almost 30% of the annual campaign. Anyone who has questions about the Snowbird program or Centennial Giving should contact Mrs. Shafton, Steve Nasatir, Jeffrey Cohen, David Rosen or Dee Anthony.

8. REPORT OF OVERALL PLANNING & ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE Bill Silverstein, Chair, presented the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit D. RE: FY2014 Community Programs & Services Budget Mr. Silverstein said that the OPAC met on May 1st for the purpose of reviewing, discussing and taking action on the 2013-14 Community Programs & Services budget. He said he hopes everyone had the opportunity to read the material as it provides a good understanding of how these various programs and services impact our system and the community; and that the Board takes action on these fiscal year functions like the rest of the agency and program allocations.

Campus Affairs & Student Engagement (Hillel) department are now part of this budget request – that budget used to be reviewed in June under the purview of the Community Building & Jewish Continuity Commission with the other agencies and day schools. The Campus Affairs budget materials reflect the increase to the department’s allocation recently approved by the Federation Board.

Also now included in this budget is the Community Outreach & Engagement Department that was created last year as part of an internal restructuring of JUF/JF departments that connect the Jewish community to various outreach programs. The programs included in this department reflect a common goal to create positive community-building outcomes. During the past year, more than 10,000 people were touched by the programming from this department. The department’s efforts are currently focused on five core demographics: volunteers, congregations, teens, young adults, and young families.

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The JUF/JF Israel Office, although included in the document, is funded separately by

Overseas Community-Designated Funds and hence requires no funding via the fiscal year budget.

Finally, also included in the budget document is information about the Legacies & Endowments (L&E) department. That department requires no funding via the fiscal year budget as the expenses of the department, after income, are netted against the income generated from the unrestricted endowment fund.

The “deduction” for Agency Support Services expenses, which is often shown as a “below the line” reduction in total expenses, is estimated at $585,811 for FY13/14 – 1% above the prior year. All of the activities conducted by the Agency Support Services, and all of the dollars required to support those activities, are already contained elsewhere within the approved budgets of JUF and JF operating departments and programs. As a result, all of the expenses and the allocated funds to pay for those expenses are presented in this document for information purposes only, in keeping with a prior request from the Board.

Capital expenditures for these fiscal year programs are considered each year in December, when the calendar year Office Budget departments are considered.

Mr. Silverstein said taking into consideration these changes and after adjusting the FY13 department and total figures for retroactive changes made in several departments mid-year the net operating request for FY 13/14 is $6,145,583, representing an increase of $107,041 or 1.77%

It is projected that these fiscal year programs will end 12/13 with expenditures of $5,854,876 which is $183,666 less than the FY12/13 approved budget of $6,038,542. The fiscal year 12/13 estimated outcome excludes the Newberger Hillel deficit of $205,979 because the Board previously approved funding this deficit from a debt refinancing of the Newberger Hillel building.

Staff and lay leadership made presentations and the OPAC reviewed and discussed each of the fifteen different areas under consideration for fiscal year allocations.

It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, that a net operating budget for the Jewish Federation/Jewish United Fund for FY2013-14 Community Programs and Services in the amount of $6,145,583, be approved. (Motion No. 2) Mr. Silverstein reminded everyone that the final OPAC meeting will be on Thursday, June 6th starting at 5 PM. All Board members are invited to this meeting and he encouraged them to attend. The primary agenda item is the 2013-14 allocations – and as noted in the memo for the meeting, the proposed budget may include potential increases and decreases and it is important as a Board member to gain understanding on these issues as well as provide thought and input on the decisions we need to make. RE: Kyiv-Kehilla Project Marc Spellman, Chair, was available to answer questions about the Report that was mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit E.

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9. ELECTION OF OFFICERS

In the absence of Alan P. Solow, Chair of the Nominating Committee on Officers, Ann-Louise Kleper presented the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit F.

Chairman: David T. Brown

Vice Chairmen: Jodie Berkman Ethan Budin Richard Goodman Cindy Kaplan Ann–Louise Kleper Jennifer Levine Lee Miller* Wendy Berger Shapiro Bill Silverstein Dr. Michele Sackheim-Wein Adam Winick Michael Zaransky* Treasurer: Thomas Rivkin

Assistant Treasurer: Sara Star

Secretary: Jodi Newmark

Assistant Secretary: Eric Rothner

President: Dr. Steven B. Nasatir

Assistant Secretaries (from Staff): S. Peter Chiswick

James Pinkston Susan Rifas David S. Rosen Jim Rosenberg Dr. David Rubovits Rachel Sternberg Michael B. Tarnoff Jay Tcath

* Per Article V, Section 1 of the By-laws, Michael Zaransky, 2013 JUF

General Campaign Chairman and Lee Miller, 2014 General Campaign Chairman, shall be Vice Chairmen and do not require election to the office.

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She noted that as required by the By-laws, notice had been given to the Board prior to the April meeting, specifying the as one of the purposes of the meeting and giving the slate of names. She asked if there were other nominations from the floor. There were none.

It was Moved, Seconded, and Unanimously Carried, that the slate of officers for the Jewish United Fund Board of Directors for the period of September 2013 – September 2014 or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, be elected. (Motion No. 3)



Mr. Brown welcomed and noted that Omer Givati, JAFI Regional Manager for the Chicago-Kiryat Gat-Lachish-Shafir Partnership was at the Board meeting.

He gave a Mazel Tov to Avrum and Voie Weinfeld who are being honored on June 17th by Arie Crown Hebrew Day School at their Annual Banquet.

Debbie L. Berman, Chair of the Chicago delegation to the JFNA General Assembly, reminded everyone that this year’s GA will take place in Jerusalem, November 10-12. Registration and hotel information is available on the JFNA website. Some people already have hotel reservations at the David Citadel, but there are many different options available. She also noted that on November 13, there will be an optional site visit to Kiryat Gat. She said there is already a terrific group going and we hope that all board members will consider going – that it would be wonderful if 65 Chicagoans go to the GA to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Israel. If anyone has questions, they should feel free to contact Mrs. Berman or Audra Berg.

The next Board meeting will be on Thursday, June 20th at the Federation building. Mr. Brown reminded everyone that this is an important meeting, capping off a year of very hard work by the Planning & Allocations Committees as this will be the meeting where we finalize allocations for fiscal 2013-14. All Board members were also invited to attend the June 6th OPAC meeting, at which we will be able to spend a good deal more time reviewing and discussing the allocations. He said he hopes that many of Board members will be able to attend.



Dr. Nasatir noted that the Schneider Mission, as reported on by Dana Hirt earlier in the meeting, was partially subsidized by the Shafton Israel Institute.

A memo was recently sent to the Board, attached to these Minutes as Exhibit G, which informed them of a significant development in Illinois law that states that gifts to JUF and other Illinois-based public charities through an annual gift, a bequest or similar gifts will not be used by the State in determining whether or not that donor is an Illinois resident. Dr.

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Nasatir said it was through the efforts of the JF Government Affairs (Suzanne Strassberger) and Legacies & Endowments (Bob Schuckman) working closely with the Illinois Department of Revenue that resulted in this legislation. There is a media plan underway to get this information to a number of people, including our snowbirds.


Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein, Secretary, presented the Report that had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit H. She informed the Board that the Jewish United Fund had been informed of the following bequests: JEWISH UNITED FUND Unrestricted Hanns and Edith Gutenstein $47,519 Letizia & Letizia, Ltd.

Jesse Welch 49,480 Trutner Law Offices



By:

Assistant Secretary


M I N U T E S

OF THE


JEWISH UNITED FUND

OF


HELD ON JUNE 20, 2013

AT THE

JEWISH FEDERATION


CHICAGO, ILLINOIS



M I N U T E S Of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, held on Thursday, June 20, 2013 at the Jewish Federation, 30 S. Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois. AGENDA & INDEX PAGE 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1

2. D’VAR TORAH 1

3. VOICES: THE CHICAGO JEWISH TEEN FOUNDATION 2



6. REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEE AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 11

7. POOLED ENDOWMENT PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE 12 8. REPORT OF PRESIDENT 13


M I N U T E S

OF THE

JEWISH UNITED FUND

BOARD MEETING HELD ON JUNE 20, 2013

PRESENT: Harvey J. Barnett; David A. Baum; Debbie L. Berman; David T. Brown; Scott I.

Canel; Maury Fertig; Linda S. Fisher; Jason Friedman; Howard Friend; David Goldenberg; David Golder; Hilary Greenberg; Ellen Spira Hattenbach; Marcie B. Hemmelstein; Josh B. Herz; Dana Hirt; Andrew S. Hochberg; Bennett E. Kaplan; Deborah Schrayer Karmin; Ann-Louise Kleper; Steven H. Lavin; H. Debra Levin; Brian Levinson; Francine F. Levy; Miriam Lichstein; Lee I. Miller; Steven N. Miller; James C. Mills; Jodi Newmark; Theodore Perlman; Paula Resnick; Marc Roth; Eric Rothner; Jimmy Sarnoff; Skip Schrayer; Steve Schreiber; Midge Perlman Shafton; Keith J. Shapiro; Wendy Berger Shapiro; Kim Shwachman; Bill Silverstein; Barbara Kaplan Slutsky; Alan P. Solow; Marc Spellman; Phyllis Tabachnick; Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein; Adam Winick; James R. Woldenberg; Rabbi Carl Wolkin; Andrea R. Yablon; Michael Zaransky; and Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, Ex-Officio and Nathaniel Sack, Ex-Officio.

UNABLE TO ATTEND: Caryn Rosen Adelman; Jodie Berkman; Ethan Budin; Mark Chudacoff; Josh

Daitch; Helene Diamond; Deanna Drucker; Bruce Ettelson; Robert Ferencz; Richard C. Goodman; Arnie Harris; Stuart Hochwert; Cindy Kaplan; Penny Keeshin; Priscilla L. Kersten; Dr. Jeffrey Kopin; Frances H. Krasnow; Peter Kupferberg; Rabbi Vernon Kurtz; Jane Cadden Lederman; Jennifer Levine; Barry A. Malkin; Stephen Malkin; Rabbi Steven S. Mason; Sanford Perl; Tom Rivkin; Elliott Robinson; Lisa Rubinstein; Marc Sacks; Harry Seigle; Morris Silverman; Sara C. Star; Nina G. Stillman; Pam F. Szokol; Ralph Wanger; and Avrum Weinfeld.

STAFF: Audra Berg; Jeffrey L. Cohen; Deborah Covington; Shirley Dvorin; Rose Jagust;

Donna Kahan; Reis Kayser; Michael Kotzin; Michelle Lawner; Louis Lazovsky; Elissa Polan; Stephanie Pritzker; David Prystowsky; Susan Rifas; David Rosen; Jim Rosenberg; David Rubovits; Joe Salcik; Hallie Shapiro; Stuart Spector; Sherryl Steinberg; Rachel Sternberg; Michael B. Tarnoff; Jay Tcath; and Adina Torchman.


JEWISH UNITED FUND

ACTIONS TAKEN


June 20, 2013

1. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the Minutes of regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held on May 20, 2013, were approved.

2. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, grants totaling $222,500 from FY14 allocations, were approved, for the following programs: UANI ($25,000), Israel Studies Program ($85,000), Jewish Women’s Foundation ($25,000) and Israel Action Network ($87,500), were approved.

3. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, approval was granted to allocate up to $31,179,051 from the anticipated 2013 JUF Campaign receipts to the Jewish Federation for utilization toward the approved Jewish Federation 2013-2014 local and national agencies’ allocations, with the understanding that such amounts from the JUF Campaign will be reduced by all funds contributed directly during the campaign year to the Jewish Federation for local purposes and also includes all funds contributed to the Jewish United Fund for local purposes only.

4. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, a 2013-14 allocation of $618,924 to the Jewish Community Relations Council, $682,798 for the Electronic Media, and $684,807 for JUF Birthright Israel, was approved.

5. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, 2013-14 allocations for the following were approved, which includes all monies raised by the 2013 Walk with Israel and all monies received from bequests, legacies and contributions designated for overseas purposes or to the IEF or similar wording. The allocations assume a 2013 regular JUF-IEF campaign achievement of $80,000,000, including undesignated contributions as well as sufficient undesignated distributions from other revenue sources:

ISRAEL AND OVERSEAS:

JFNA-CORE FOR JAFI AND JDC $22,917,325

Designated Community Funds 2,739,030 Partnership Together 900,000 JDC Special Grant 671,330 Streams Allocations 300,000 Kyiv Kehillah Project 150,000 The Jewish People Policy Institute 25,000 Israel Sports Center for the Disabled 20,000 JDC: Interagency Taskforce 1,000 Overseas/Israel Admin 592,000 Not yet Designated 79,700

Special Grants: JAFI, JDC, and others 4,487,139

SUB-TOTAL: ISRAEL AND OVERSEAS $30,143,494

EXPENDITURES:

JUF Regular Campaign Shrinkage $ 3,304,000 Credit Card Fees 535,000 Agency Support Services 2,538,319 CY JUF/JF Office Budget 16,013,303

SUB-TOTAL EXPENDITURES $22,390,622

TOTAL ISRAEL AND OVERSEAS ALLOCATONS AND EXPENDITURES $52,534,116

6. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, that the following additions to the 2013-14 Resource Development Policy (RDP) Guidelines, were approved:

RE: End of Year Appeals - Memo

Memo

To: Agency/ Day School Development Staff

From: Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, JUF Resource Development Policy (RDP) Committee Chairman,

Stuart Spector, JUF RDP Professional and Associate Vice President, Campaign

CC: David T. Brown, Chairman of the Board, Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, President

Date: 7/1/2013

Re: Year End Appeals

Several years ago we noticed an extremely high number of Year End Appeals that were not listed on the Community Funding Schedules (CFS) and/or not approved prior to distribution by JUF RDP Professionals. This produced some confusion and donor fatigue in the community, two of the principle outcomes we all work to avoid through a single community annual campaign at JUF. Per the 2013-2014 Community Funding Schedules (CFS), we know of and have approved the following End of Year Appeals:

[Insert approved plans here] If your Agency or Day School is not listed above, the sending of a Year End Appeal (or any appeal not already approved) will be in violation of the JUF Resource Development Policy (RDP) Guidelines and will run the risk of diminishing the effectiveness of the largest single source of revenue we all depend upon.

If your appeal is listed above, JUF RDP Professionals still need to see and approve all materials prior to printing and/or distributing. Also, the approval of an appeal indicates that you may send the one letter and/or e-mail listed above. It is not a blanket approval for multiple direct response efforts in November or December.

If you intended to send a Year End Appeal and did not include one on your 2013-2014 Community Funding Schedule, please remember to include this when filling out your 2014-2015 CFS.

If you have any questions, please contact Stuart Spector at 312-444-2834 or at [email protected].

RE: Email Signatures and Taglines

Agency/Day School employees’ e-signatures that have an option to donate to the agency or a link to the agency website should add the JUF partnership language to their e-signature: A partner in serving our community, supported by the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation. This expression of partnership with JUF should be mutually beneficial, as it lends greater credibility to the agency and helps brand JUF to those who might not know the connection.

RE: Ads in non-JUF Publications

Agency/Day School advertisements, regardless of where they are published, should contain the JUF partnership language: A partner in serving our community, supported by the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation.

This expression of partnership with JUF should be mutually beneficial, as it lends greater credibility to the agency and helps brand JUF to those who might not know the connection.

RE: Raffle Tickets

All raffle ticket prices above $500 may not be listed unless cleared by the JUF RDP Committee.

mailto:[email protected]


It was Moved, Seconded and Carried that the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, held on June 20, 2013, be approved. (Motion No. 1)

2. D’VAR TORAH David Goldenberg gave the D’Var Torah. He said the week’s Parsha, Balak, features the story about the prophet Balaam who is summoned by Balak, the King of Moab, to curse the Israelite people. Balak believed the Israelites had grown too big and powerful – and posed a threat to his regime and kingdom. Two different envoys are sent by Balak to persuade Balaam to curse the Israelites. When the first group arrives, G-d commands Balaam not to go because he will not allow the Israelites to be cursed, for they are blessed. When the second envoy arrives, G-d tests Balaam’s loyalty, telling him he can go with Balak’s men if that is what he wants to do, but he will have to say what G-d tells him to say. Balaam fails the test, agreeing to leave with the men, only to encounter G-d’s anger when an angel appears during the journey. Balaam apologizes and pledges his loyalty to G-d who tells him to continue to Moab to deliver his words. As Balak calls on the prophet Balaam to curse the Israelites on three separate occasions, each time Balaam delivers G-d’s blessings instead. The third time, the blessing begins with the words Jewish children learn at a young age and help begin the Shacharit service every morning.

How goodly are your tents O Jacob, your dwelling places, O Israel.

On its surface, Mr. Goldenberg said the blessing is simple. Balaam stood in awe of the physical beauty of the Israelites’ tents and sheer magnitude of the community. But Rashi believed the words hold a deeper meaning. Back then, the tents of the Israelites were set up so that none of the openings faced one another, meaning you could not see from your tent into another. For a prophet like Balaam – who saw things through his eyes as well as G-d’s – this subtlety provided enormous insight on the values and morality of the Israelites. This was a community that respected the individuality, modesty and personal privacy of its members while also being deeply dependent on one another as a broader community for protection and survival. The same type of morality, he believes, is central to our success today, as an organization and as Jews. And the same values of modesty and privacy remain critical components of the approach we take in helping the most vulnerable in our community through anonymous zedekah.

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He said the true goodliness in our community is not that we raise millions in the annual campaign. It is the principles that ground us, fuel our activities, and drive our commitment to our community’s core values: Tikkun olam, klal Yisrael, gemilut chasadim, and for him and many others in YLD, l’dor v’dor.

He concluded saying these are the values with which he and his wife were raised – and are working hard to pass along to their two-year-old daughter. May we, and all of us, be successful, so on the day the moshiach arrives, he (or she) will look down at our tents in awe of their beauty and goodliness.

3. VOICES: THE CHICAGO JEWISH TEEN FOUNDATION

David T. Brown, Chairman of the Board, introduced Hallie Shapiro, Assistant Vice President, Israel Experience & Youth Initiatives. Ms. Shapiro began by saying that she had hoped that Stephanie Goldfarb, the program officer for Voices, and Toby Klein, the high school aged Philanthropy Intern this summer, could have been at the meeting but they were on their way back from Camp Chi, where they did a philanthropy boot camp for campers and counselors, kicking off the Camp Chi summer youth philanthropy program. Toby in particular would have done a spectacular job of articulating the impact of her participation in Voices: The Chicago Jewish Teen Foundation and this year, the Voices Alumni Foundation. She encouraged everyone, if they had not yet had the chance, to watch the May episode of Sanctuary, which highlights JUF-JF’s tikkun olam programs for youth and which features Toby and Stephanie. On June 9th approximately 60 people attended the final event for the 9th cohort of Voices: The Chicago Jewish Teen Foundation and the 2nd cohort of the Voices Alumni Foundation. She gave a special thank you to Dana Hirt, current Chair of the Jewish Women’s Foundation, and Skip Schrayer, former Chairman of the JUF-JF Board, who each gave inspiring remarks. This event was the culmination of a year-long process that begins with a day-long retreat and continues with the teens learning to articulate their own philanthropic goals, conducting needs research, designing and sending out requests for proposals, and eventually reviewing a combined 44 grant proposals totaling more than $282,000 in requests. They must then form consensus to make their grants, and this year they allocated a total of $41,828. She said that Voices has served 201 individual participants over the past 9 years, including a number of teens who have participated more than once. For the past two years, the alumni foundation has enabled teens who want to stay engaged to take their participation to the next level, rather than just being in the “101” foundation for a second year. Each year the teens form committees based on their areas of interest, and these committees make recommendations to the larger group about what grant proposals to fund. A total of 66 grants have been awarded between the 101 and Alumni foundations, with grants totaling $283,629.

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Some organizations have received multiple grants, either in one year or over the course of several years, though usually the teens make grants for different programs within a particular organization. The organizations receiving the most grants include Camp KOBY, for scholarships to help victims of terror attend summer camp in Israel, EZRA, for a variety of programs including funding for meals at the Uptown Café, JCFS and the ARK. The foundation’s participants change from year to year, so the group may fund very different organizations and projects from year to year. The teens make their own decisions, though staff works to educate them on local needs. In 6 of the 9 years, the teens spent the largest portion of their money locally. In the last two years alone, that has resulted in more than $60,000 going to local organizations and agencies. She was pleased to announce this year’s grants: From Voices 101:

$1,000 to JUF-Annual Campaign

$6,000 to Hand in Hand- High School Civics and Education for Democracy and Citizenship Program

$5,000 to EZRA- Uptown Café and Food Pantry

$5,000 to The Ark- Medical Clinic

$5,431 to Chai Lifeline- Camp Simcha Express

$5,000 to The Gan Project- General Operating Funds

And from the Voices Alumni Foundation:

$1,000 to JUF- Annual Campaign

$3,600 to Namaste Charter School- Academic Intervention Team

$7,000 to The Jaffa Institute- Arab and Jewish Women’s Empowerment Group

$2,797 to The Ark- Intensive Day Program

She closed by saying that applications for the 10th cohort of Voices: The Chicago Jewish Teen Foundation are now being accepted, so if Board members know any teens who might enjoy this type of work—because it is work, though everyone strives to make it fun—the application is on the JUF teens website.

4. REPORT OF OVERALL PLANNING & ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE Bill Silverstein, Chair, presented the Report. Pertinent materials had been mailed and distributed to the Board and are attached to these Minutes as Exhibit A. He said the focus at the Board meeting would be upon summaries of the Commission’s work including summarizing some of the important allocation items; and then voting on the total allocations. Israel & Overseas: Debbie L. Berman, Chair, reported that the Israel and Overseas Allocation is a “same-as allocation” as in FY 13. She said that in total $30,143,494 was allocated which is divided into three categories:

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1. Core allocation - $22,917,325 2. Community Designated Funds - $2,739,030 3. Special Pass-Through Grants - $4,487,139

The core allocation is undesignated support for our partner agencies the Jewish Agency for Israel, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and World ORT.

The community designated funds support a number of different programs:

Two I/O subcommittees meet to designate resources to streams programs ($300,000) and for Global Jewish Needs programs (GJN) for $79,700.

As part of the community designated dollars JUF continues to support programs in our Partnership region in Israel, Kiryat Gat-Lachish-Shafir and also programs in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Other programs which receive support include Jewish People Policy Institute and Israel Sport Center for the Disabled.

It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, grants totaling $222,500 from FY14 allocations, were approved, for the following programs: UANI ($25,000), Israel Studies Program ($85,000), Jewish Women’s Foundation ($25,000) and Israel Action Network ($87,500) be approved. (Motion No. 2) It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, that approval be granted to allocate up to $31,179,051 from the anticipated 2013 JUF Campaign receipts to the Jewish Federation for utilization toward the approved Jewish Federation 2013-2014 local and national agencies’ allocations, with the understanding that such amounts from the JUF Campaign will be reduced by all funds contributed directly during the campaign year to the Jewish Federation for local purposes and also includes all funds contributed to the Jewish United Fund for local purposes only. (Motion No. 3) It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, that a 2013-14 allocation of $618,924 to the Jewish Community Relations Council, $682,798 for the Electronic Media, and $684,807 for JUF Birthright Israel, be approved. (Motion No. 4)

It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, that 2013-14 allocations for the following be approved, which includes all monies raised by the 2013 Walk with Israel and all monies received from bequests, legacies and contributions designated for overseas purposes or to the IEF or similar wording. The allocations assume a 2013 regular JUF-IEF campaign achievement of $80,000,000, including undesignated contributions as well as sufficient undesignated distributions from other revenue sources: (Motion No. 5)

ISRAEL AND OVERSEAS:

JFNA-CORE FOR JAFI AND JDC $22,917,325

Designated Community Funds 2,739,030 Partnership Together 900,000 JDC Special Grant 671,330 Streams Allocations 300,000

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Kyiv Kehillah Project 150,000 The Jewish People Policy Institute 25,000 Israel Sports Center for the Disabled 20,000 JDC: Interagency Taskforce 1,000 Overseas/Israel Admin 592,000 Not yet Designated 79,700

Special Grants: JAFI, JDC, and others 4,487,139

SUB-TOTAL: ISRAEL AND OVERSEAS $30,143,494

EXPENDITURES:

JUF Regular Campaign Shrinkage $ 3,304,000 Credit Card Fees 535,000 Agency Support Services 2,538,319 CY JUF/JF Office Budget 16,013,303

SUB-TOTAL EXPENDITURES $22,390,622

TOTAL ISRAEL AND OVERSEAS ALLOCATONS AND EXPENDITURES $52,534,116

Mr. Silverstein thanked the OPAC members and Debbie L. Berman, Chair of the Israel & Overseas Commission for their hard work and diligence.

RE: Partnership Together

Paula Resnick, Chair, presented a Report on the Partnership Together trip. Pertinent material was distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit B. Eight members of JUF’s Partnership Together Committee traveled to Israel two weeks prior to participate in the spring site visit. She said it is during the spring visit that the joint steering committee (Israelis and Chicagoans) decide how to allocate the funds approved by the JUF/JF Board of Directors. The Chart distributed shows all of the allocations - $900,000 in total. The allocations are divided into three categories:

o Chicago Project – A new project described, below o P2P (Living Bridge) which are all of the projects that have some type of personal

interchange. It includes our school exchanges with Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School and Solomon Schechter Day School. It includes a visit of Ta’am Yisrael to the Partnership region. It includes our English speaking summer camp – where we send college age counselors to live and work in the region for 4 weeks and a handful of other programs. (Important to mention that the Diller Teen Fellows Program will be offered in Chicago and in the Partnership next year with the support of a generous local family foundation. It does not come from this allocation, but it is year-long leadership opportunity for our teens at home and in the Partnership region with plans for joint activities between the two groups in Israel and in Chicago.)

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o Third category - Vulnerable Populations – supports activities which focus primarily on at-

risk children and teens.

Of the 23 approved projects – nine of them are new projects and 14 are continuing projects. She said one of the very exciting programs is a new educational intervention program coordinated by JUF staff in Israel called the Chicago Project. The steering committee approved an allocation of $250,000 to launch a pilot in our Partnership region which will positively impact student performance in 9 of the 17 elementary schools in the region by providing needed academic and social enrichment. For years we have been hearing about the problems in the educational system and the committee decided to make that a major focus of our allocations in the years to come. When fully funded and fully implemented, each of the 17 elementary schools will receive a package of services and programs that is tailored to the specific needs of the particular school and student body. The project would bring together for the first time a number of agencies—governmental, non-profit, educational, philanthropic, and corporate—to work together on improving the educational system and reach over 8,500 students in grades 1 through 6 on an annual basis. Additional support is being sought in Israel and in Chicago.

A video was then shown of a new program JUF is supporting called Krembo Wings. She said for those who have spent a lot of time in Israel, they might be familiar with a favorite Israeli children’s dessert called Krembo. The organization Krembo Wings is a national organization, and with our funding of $28,833 they are going to introduce and offer this youth group activity for special needs and normative kids in our partnership region. Mrs. Resnick said during the trip, they met with members of its professional staff and felt strongly about providing this opportunity for kids in our region. She concluded on a personal note some personal reflection. This was her last Partnership steering committee as its chair. She said she has been privileged to serve in this capacity for three years. This JUF committee has been so fulfilling because and she appreciated the opportunity to serve our community in this capacity. She encouraged everyone to think about getting involved in the Partnership committee next year.


RE: 2013 JUF Campaign Michael Zaransky, 2013 JUF General Campaign Chairman, reported that the 2013 campaign stands at $55,636,338 from 16,103 donors. He said we are running $3,686,780 ahead with a 4.7% JUF gift-for-gift increase. We are also running 1,099 gifts ahead. Pertinent information had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit C. He then spoke about our strategy of stressing the Why and asking for increases in all pitches and solicitations. He said it has been most successful and then called on Keith Shapiro, TIP Chairman, to report on the 2013 TIP season. Mr. Shapiro said we have had a highly successful dinner season contributing to the overall success of the increased 2013 Campaign. There were major increases in both gross dollars achieved as well as extremely high gift for gift increases by those that attended the events.

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In new money to the 2013 Campaign, the three TIP Dinners contributed a total of $ 1,925,841 in pledges and exceed last year’s totals. That increased was achieved while eliminating one of the Dinners, the Suburban TIP Dinner which was not held this year because it was unproductive. Last year over 400 people attended the eliminated Suburban Dinner A total of 2,943 people attend the TIP Dinners this year as compared to 3,475 in 2012 and still raised more money in total. In addition, he said there were major increases in gift amounts this year with an incredible 29.38 % Gift for Gift increase at the combined TIP Dinners. In addition, our Corporate Sponsorships exceeded the 2102 total by over 12 % and we raised an additional $ 1.1 million in Corporate Sponsorships to help underwrite the cost of the Dinners. Mr. Shapiro concluded thanking the JUF professional TIP staff led by Robyn Gottlieb and the JUF Events department led by Bonnie Eckstein who he said did a tremendous job this year in executing highly successful seamless events. Mr. Zaransky continued by reporting on Country Club Day – held the prior day. He said that attendance was outstanding and the message delivered was excellent. Numbers and statistics on the day were still being calculated. However, the statistics leading into Country Club Day, which had us with a tremendous lead over last year, bode well. And our stats run counter to national trends which he attributed to the excellent execution of the Chicago campaign – in terms of volunteers, staff and our working together. We are now entering the End-of-Year campaign and he said that further strategies for new and increased gifts, in addition to the EOY cycle and close of open gifts, will be implemented. RE: The Centennial Campaign Jeffrey L. Cohen, Senior Vice President FRD and David Rosen, Senior Vice President, Endowments, were available to answer questions about The Centennial Campaign material that had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit D. RE: Report of Resource Development Policy Committee In the absence of Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chair, Steve Schreiber presented the Report that had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit E. Mr. Schreiber reported that the purpose of the meeting was to review agency Community Fund Raising Schedules and update the Resource Development Policy (RDP) Guidelines. The Committee recommended several updates to the Guidelines, as follows.

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A. End of Year Appeals – the Committee recommended that a memo be added to the RDP

Guidelines:

Memo





Date: 7/1/2013


Several years ago we noticed an extremely high number of Year End Appeals that were not listed on the Community Funding Schedules (CFS) and/or not approved prior to distribution by JUF RDP Professionals. This produced some confusion and donor fatigue in the community, two of the principle outcomes we all work to avoid through a single community annual campaign at JUF.

Per the 2013-2014 Community Funding Schedules (CFS), we know of and have approved the following End of Year Appeals:





B. RE: Email Signatures and Taglines – the Committee recommended that when Agency/Day

School employees’ signatures include an option to donate to the agency or a link to the agency website, the JUF “tagline”, an expression of partnership, should be added.


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C. RE: Ads in non-JUF Publications – the Committee recommended that just as the partnership

tagline is required in JUF publications, in the spirit of mutually beneficial partnerships, agencies should be required to include the tagline in all non-JUF publications.

D. Raffle Tickets – the Committee recommended revising the current language, which states that raffle tickets must submitted for approval prior to printing and distribution, to: all raffle ticket prices above $500 may not be listed unless cleared by the JUF RDP Committee.

There was consensus of the Board regarding items A, C and D. Concern was expressed about item B. In response to questions, the Board was informed that there had not yet been discussions with the agencies about the proposed update. The Board was also informed that currently, the tagline is required on all agency print materials, e.g., stationery, brochures, etc. Some Board members felt that the suggested update was merely an extension of what was already required; others felt that implementing the change without discussion might be viewed as an “edict” without opportunity for discussion with the agencies. The suggestion was made that perhaps before taking action on this item, there be small meetings with the agencies to apprise them of what was being proposed and why. Others felt that it is the responsibility of the Board to set policy and following that, it becomes a matter of how it is communicated. A motion to table item B was not seconded. Individual votes were taken on items A, B, C and D. Each was approved, and a single action was taken, as follows: It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, that the following additions to the 2013-14 Resource Development Policy (RDP) Guidelines, were approved: (Motion No. 6)

RE: End of Year Appeals - Memo

Memo





Date: 7/1/2013


Several years ago we noticed an extremely high number of Year End Appeals that were not listed on the Community Funding Schedules (CFS) and/or not approved prior to distribution by JUF RDP Professionals. This produced some confusion and donor fatigue in the community, two of the principle outcomes we all work to avoid through a single community annual campaign at JUF.

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Per the 2013-2014 Community Funding Schedules (CFS), we know of and have approved the following End of Year Appeals:





RE: Email Signatures and Taglines

Agency/Day School employees’ e-signatures that have an option to donate to the agency or a link to the agency website should add the JUF partnership language to their e-signature: A partner in serving our community, supported by the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation. This expression of partnership with JUF should be mutually beneficial, as it lends greater credibility to the agency and helps brand JUF to those who might not know the connection.

RE: Ads in non-JUF Publications

Agency/Day School advertisements, regardless of where they are published, should contain the JUF partnership language: A partner in serving our community, supported by the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation.

This expression of partnership with JUF should be mutually beneficial, as it lends greater credibility to the agency and helps brand JUF to those who might not know the connection.

RE: Raffle Tickets

All raffle ticket prices above $500 may not be listed unless cleared by the JUF RDP Committee.


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RE: Report of Contributor Account Relations Committee Jim Rosenberg, Chief of Staff, was available to answer questions about the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit F.

6. REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND CHAIRMAN OF BOARD

RE: Meeting of the Executive Committee David T. Brown called on David A. Baum to report on the conference call meeting of the Executive Committee. Mr. Baum said that no meeting summary was mailed to the Board because the topics discussed and reviewed included confidential information regarding the upcoming union negotiations. He then provided brief comments on the Executive Committee meeting. RE: Chairman of the Board David T. Brown, Chairman, informed the Board of the following:

He acknowledged and thanked those members of the Board who were attending their final Board meeting. Appropriate recognition of their service will be given at the September 12th Annual Meeting: Deanna Drucker, Arnie Harris, Ellen Spira Hattenbach, Bennett E. Kaplan, Priscilla Kersten, Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Miriam Lichstein, Barry A. Malkin, Harry Seigle, Phyllis Tabachnick and Ralph Wanger. Mr. Brown said this is quite a distinguished group who have and will continue to do much for our JUF-Federation community. In addition, Jimmy Sarnoff (YLD President), David Goldenberg (YLD Campaign Chair), Hilary Greenberg (WB Vice President, Campaign), Helene Diamond (Young Women’s Board President) and Rabbi Steven Mason (past President of the Chicago Board of Rabbis) will be going off the Board. He also thanked Jim Mills (CJE SeniorLife), Stuart Hochwert (JCC), H. Debra Levin (JCFS) and Robert Ferencz (JVS) -- each of whom had been serving as their agency’s representative on our Board. While some of them may not be returning next year, he wanted to thank them at this time. Mr. Brown noted, however, that even though some of people will be going off the Board, should the need arise during the summer for any special Board meetings, they, along with the other members of the Board are the duly constituted members of the Board until after the September 12th Annual Meeting. He also said that their collective years of service provided much to Federation and the community and on behalf of their fellow directors he thanked them and said we know that Federation can continue to count on them. The Board recently received an email asking them to indicate, electronically, which committees they wish to serve on for 2013-2014; and to indicate if they are interested in giving a brief D’Var Torah at a future Board meeting. Both the staff and Mr. Brown would appreciate it if they would please complete the form as soon as possible.

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He also thanked each and every one who served as a Chair or Co-Chair of a Board committee or commission this past year. It has been a wonderful season and their hard work and commitment was instrumental in making our processes work so well.

Mazel Tov to Ethan Budin whose daughter recently celebrated her bat mitzvah; to Jim Rosenberg who daughter also recently celebrated her bat mitzvah; and to Karen Rosenthal and Stacy Rosenthal, wife and daughter-in-law of Barry Rosenthal – who both just celebrated their adult bat mitzvah.

For the coming year, the following children of JUF-JF Board members and staff will be serving as members of the YLD Board of Directors: Joseph Seigle – son of Harry – who will be YLD President for 2013-14; Ben Torchman – son of Adina; Charlie Friend – son of Howard; and Jacob Shapiro – son of Keith. Mr. Brown noted that the same week, Jacob Shapiro also got married to Jenna.

As the Board knows from the memo sent recently, the 2013 recipient of the Julius Rosenwald Award is Lawrence E. Glick. Mr. Brown said this is a signal honor for Mr. Glick and that we look forward to seeing everyone at the September 12th Annual Meeting, at which time he will receive the award. Mr. Brown said he knows everyone joins him in congratulating Mr. Glick.

The Goldsmith Committee again this year selected two very fine awardees: Rachel Schwartz, Early Childhood Program & Social Services Manager at JCC Chicago; and Emily Sweet, Executive Director of our Jewish Women’s Foundation. The Samuel A. Goldsmith Awards are presented each year to young Jewish community professionals who exemplify the dedication and devotion that marked the career of the late Federation chief executive. Both will also be honored at our September 12th Annual Meeting … now even more reasons to attend!

In looking to the future, Mr. Brown said that when we look at our “seasoned” leadership and wonder how/what will happen in the future, he was tremendously reassured after attending this year’s YLD Annual Meeting. It was one of the most uplifting events he has attended and commented on the outstanding work done by outgoing YLD President Jimmy Sarnoff and outgoing YLD Campaign Chair, David Goldenberg. Given the quality of the YLD Board, the number of children of JUF-JF Board members, other active members of our community and staff, Mr. Brown said we are in good hands.

7. POOLED ENDOWMENT PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE

Phyllis Tabachnick, Chair, was available to answer questions about the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit G.

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Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, President, reported to the Board on the following:

As most know, there are fiscal challenges that the Government of Israel is facing and as a result, it has had to make cuts in its budget. Yet $100 to $300 million is being discussed for joint projects with the Diaspora through the Jewish Agency. Dr. Nasatir said that the Prime Minister feels it important and that the next generation in the Diaspora becomes engaged with the State of Israel and vis a versa. Dr. Nasatir has been asked to serve on a committee that will work on more programs regarding Aliyah, professional opportunities, more MASA (Israel experience) programs as well as more immersive programs. Hopefully, this will become the primary part of the JFNA Signature Initiative concept. In addition, he noted that the Chicago Project (through Partnership Together) and the immersive programs, writ large, will be good for both Israel and Federations.

One of the items approved in the budget that night was $50,000 for the Fund for Innovation. Dr. Nasatir said it is hoped that the fund will be built up and become a multi-million dollar fund. While we have done some R&D, he said more needs to be done. At the September board meeting, he and Lee Miller, 2014 Campaign Chairman, will talk about plans for the 2014 campaign and reminded the Board that we will be losing $6 million of J-Help money. However, they feel there are some areas for special giving opportunities, one being the Fund for Innovation. In the future, a few individuals would be sought to endow the Fund.

With regard to the tornado in Oklahoma, Dr. Nasatir reported that we implemented an electronic process for raising funds. To date, over $101,000 has been raised from 53 donors. He said that our efforts continue to speak to people who want to give through the Chicago Jewish Federation; that they trust us. A small committee is deciding on how to allocate the dollars raised -- $50,000 has been sent to the Jewish Federation Oklahoma Disaster Fund and $20,000 has been sent to IsraAID. He said the balance is being held in reserve at this time but it is likely that $30,000 will be awarded to NECHAMA. Our TOV group has been working with both IsraAID and NECHAMA to develop volunteer efforts in Oklahoma City.

Former JUF-JF Board member Dr. Betsy R. Gidwitz has made a gift of $1.5 for a Young Adult Engagement program. He thanked her for her continuing generosity and forward thinking in terms of young adult programming. He said that it good to provide opportunities in addition to YLD as there are those, for whatever reason, do not wish to participate in YLD.

Dr. Nasatir concluded saying it has been a wonderful year: over 8,000 people participated at this year’s ISD; the 2013 campaign has been doing very well and participation and involvement, be in TIP, WD, YLD has been excellent; we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Washington DC March for Soviet Jewry; Israel advocacy efforts; growth and development of professional staff; continued growth of our Centennial campaign; the consolidation of JVS and JCFS; the transitioning of CFJE. He said he hopes the Board feels as

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proud if this year’s accomplishments as he does and he thanked everyone for their time, commitment and leadership.


Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein, Secretary, presented the Report that had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit H. She informed the Board that the Jewish United Fund had been informed of the following bequests: JEWISH UNITED FUND Unrestricted **Blanche Baim $ 7,500 **Shirley Leibow 100,000 **Mary Oppenheim 175,000 Veverka, Rosen and Haugh

Leonard Weitzman 5,000 ** Golden Giver The meeting adjourned at 7:45 pm.


By:

Assistant Secretary


M I N U T E S

OF THE


JEWISH UNITED FUND

OF


HELD ON OCTOBER 7, 2013

AT THE

JEWISH FEDERATION


CHICAGO, ILLINOIS



M I N U T E S Of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, held on October 7, 2013 at the Jewish Federation, 30 S. Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois. AGENDA & INDEX PAGE 1. RESPECT FOR MEMORY OF STEWART GRILL, PAUL ROSENBERG

AND RUTH M. ROTHSTEIN 1


3. D’VAR TORAH 1

4. 2014 JUF CAMPAIGN 3

5. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT 6 6. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 7

7. ELECTION OF ADDITIONAL DIRECTORS 9

8. PEW REPORT 10

9. REPORT OF AUDIT COMMITTEE 12


11. REPORT OF TREASURER 13



JEWISH UNITED FUND

BOARD MEETING HELD ON OCTOBER 7, 2013

PRESENT: Caryn Rosen Adelman; Harvey J. Barnett; David A. Baum; Gita Berk; Debbie L.

Berman; David T. Brown; Ethan Budin; Josh Daitch; Bruce Ettelson; Maury Fertig; Kyle Freimuth; Jason Friedman; Linda Ginsburg; David Golder; Dana Gordon; Andrea Grostern; Marcie B. Hemmelstein; Joshua B. Herz; Scott Heyman; Andrew S. Hochberg; Cindy Kaplan; Deborah Schrayer Karmin; Penny Keeshin; Ann-Louise Kleper; Adrienne Kriezelman; Peter Kupferberg; Rabbi Vernon Kurtz; Steven H. Lavin; Bruce Lederman; Jane Cadden Lederman; H. Debra Levin; Brian J. Levinson; Francine F. Levy; Scott Lieber; Stephen Malkin; Lee I. Miller; Jodi Newmark; Sanford Perl; Theodore Perlman; Paula Resnick; Eric Rothner; Lisa Rubinstein; Charlene Sales; Skip Schrayer; Steve Schreiber; Joseph Seigle; Midge Perlman Shafton; Keith J. Shapiro; Wendy Berger Shapiro; David A. Sherman; Devra Resnick Shutan; Bill Silverstein; Marc Spellman; Nina G. Stillman; Pam F. Szokol; Marilyn Vender; Avrum Weinfeld; Adam Winick; Joseph Wolf; Rabbi Carl Wolkin; Andrea R. Yablon; Michael Zaransky; and Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, Ex-Officio and Nathaniel Sack, Ex-Officio.

UNABLE TO ATTEND: Jodie Berkman; Scott I. Canel; Rabbi Paul F. Cohen; Marc Chudacoff; Linda S.

Fisher; Howard Friend; Richard C. Goodman; Dana Hirt; Frances Krasnow; Jennifer Levine; Hon. Sidney Mathias; Steven N. Miller; Thomas Rivkin; Elliott Robinson; Marc Roth; Marc Sacks; Michael J. Sacks; Kim Shwachman; Morris Silverman; Barbara Kaplan Slutsky; Alan P. Solow; Sara C. Star; Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein and James Woldenberg.

STAFF: Audra Berg; David Brief; Aaron Cohen; Deborah Covington; Barb Gold; Paula

Harris; Donna Kahan; David Prystowsky; Susan Rifas; David Rosen; Jim Rosenberg; David Rubovits; Julie Ann Sklaver; Stuart Spector; Sherryl Steinberg; Rachel Sternberg; Jay Tcath; Adina Torchman and Ariel Zipkin.


JEWISH UNITED FUND

ACTIONS TAKEN


October 7, 2013

1. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held on June 20, 2013, were approved.

2. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, in keeping with Article 5.3 of the By-laws, the election of the following individuals to serve on the 2013-14 Executive Committee, was approved: Caryn Rosen Adelman, Stephen Malkin and Alan P. Solow.

3. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, in keeping with Article 3.2 of the By-Laws, the

following individuals were elected to serve as Additional Directors on the Jewish United Fund Board of Directors for terms which expire in September 2014: Rabbi Paul F. Cohen and Rabbi Carl Wolkin, Kyle Freimuth, Bruce Lederman and H. Debra Levin.

4. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the Annual Treasurer’s Resolutions (attached

to these Minutes as Exhibit G) to authorize appropriate officers to purchase, sell or otherwise deal in securities, real property and services; to establish accounts at depository banks; to borrow or guarantee repayment of borrowed funds on a secured or unsecured basis; and to accept gifts, grants and bequests, were approved.

DISCUSSION

1. RESPECT FOR THE MEMORY OF STEWART GRILL, PAUL ROSENBERG AND RUTH ROTHSTEIN

David T. Brown, Chairman of the Board, noted that since the last board meeting, our good friends and former JUF-JF Board members Stewart Grill, Paul Rosenberg and Ruth Rothstein, passed away. Mr. Grill served on the JUF-JF Board for a number of years. He was active in the JUF Campaign Real Estate Division and served as 1978 Special Gifts Chair. He traveled often to Israel, including on the JUF Jerusalem 3000 Mission and care deeply about the IDF soldiers, visiting them whenever he went. More recently he also was involved with The ARK. He was a good, generous and caring man. Mr. Rosenberg served on the Board for many years, was a JUF Campaign Special Advisor and JUF Golden Giver. He was a former member of the then JF Jewish Education Committee. He served as Chair, JUF Congregations Division as well as having served as Chair of the JUF event at Congregation Ezras Israel. He was Honorary President of Congregation Ezras Israel. He is a former chair, JUF Miami Snowbirds. He was also a Past President of the Associated Talmud Torahs. He was deeply committed and involved in the Jewish community and was supporter of numerous Jewish educational institutions in Chicago and Israel. Dr. Steven B. Nasatir spoke extensively about Ruth Rothstein at the April board meeting, when we had the honor and privilege to have her join us to celebrate her 90th birthday. He said she was someone who profoundly had an impact on the lives of thousands of people – as the CEO of Mt. Sinai and as the CEO of the Cook County Bureau of Health Systems. During her tenure as CEO of Mt. Sinai, she transformed Mount Sinai Hospital and transformed our Jewish community’s understanding of Mount Sinai’s importance as a Jewish institution; and during her tenure as CEO of Cook County Bureau of Health Systems, she resuscitated Cook County Hospital and established 30 neighborhood outpatient clinics. As a woman, she was a trailblazer but perhaps most of all, Ruth Rothstein was a Jew -- a Jew who believed in social justice and community and who devoted her life’s work to that. The Board then stood to observe silence in respect for the memory of Stewart Grill, Paul Rosenberg and Ruth Rothstein.

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES It was Moved, Seconded and Carried that the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, held on June 20, 2013, be approved. (Motion No. 1)

3. D’VAR TORAH Jodi Newmark gave the D’var Torah on Parsha Noah. She said that despicable acts of violence by the governing regime in Syria, Russia’s meddling in Iran’s foreign policy … and in our own country, congressional stalemates around budgets and healthcare, our own state’s inability to address the pension crisis, and our city’s inability to put a stop to gun violence. She said it is all

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enough to make her think that what we really need is … a rainbow. In this week’s Parsha the story of Noah from the book of Genesis, G-d makes a covenant, promising to never again destroy the earth with a flood, and to symbolize that promise, G-d creates the rainbow. This week’s parsha is both simple and complex. As children, we learn that people were behaving badly so G-d brought a flood, but first asked Noah to build an ark and to bring the animals 2 by 2 aboard. We learn that a dove brought an olive branch to Noah as a sign that the flood was ending, and finally, that to show compassion and love, G-d created the rainbow. A nice story, great imagery to illustrate children’s storybooks, and to adorn their bedroom’s wallpaper. But, there is so much more, there are so many hard questions. First of all, why Noah? And, what do we think of Noah, was he just, perfect, a good leader, or was he just good enough? Why didn’t Noah question G-d, or stand up for humanity? And why did he behave so badly after the flood? There are competing Torah commentaries as to why Noah and about what kind of a man Noah was—and again, both a simple answer and a more complex understanding are available. Noah was considered the most just and perfect of his generation. That sounds pretty good, but, she said, remember it is the unacceptable behavior of his generation that leads to G-d’s decision to destroy earth with the flood—in short it’s a low bar at the time it was set, and it becomes even more unimpressive with the passage of time. In fact it takes only ten generations—a relatively short period of time in biblical history—for the commentary to take a turn, and as it turns out, that while he was the best of his time, Noah was no Abraham. Later and more critical commentary notes that Noah didn’t question G-d, he merely and simply followed G-d’s instructions to the letter, and once he and his family survived, once he had saved his own skin, Noah went on a bender, and from then on, lived an unremarkable life. So much for rainbows. Or is it? Ever the optimist, she said she would argue that there is much that we can take from this portion to inform our work on behalf of the community. First, what does it mean to be “just” or “perfect”? After all we live in a world of injustices and imperfections, and no one is perfect. But can’t we strive to be just by bringing injustice to light, demanding and advocating for change? Isn’t that what we have done when we led release and resettlement efforts on behalf of Soviet, Yemenite and Ethiopian Jews? And can’t we strive for perfection by measuring how we respond to imperfection? Isn’t that what we do when we seek to stay on the cutting edge of providing services to people with disabilities, when we feed the hungry, provide job training and job opportunities for the unemployed and when we reach out to the unaffiliated and provide connection? And what about doing the most Jewish of them all—asking questions? As Board members and community leaders, she said we need to be better than Noah. We can and should ask questions of one another and of ourselves, and they should be hard and honest questions. This is important work—we are fiduciaries—allocating our community’s precious resources, that while impressive and a proud reflection of this community’s strength and generosity, are not enough to solve all the problems or provide all the services that are needed. That is a stark and challenging reality, but one she believes we must approach more like Abraham than Noah—like Abraham, we must question and challenge, take action, and lead this

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Jewish community toward greater connection to Israel and to one another, to better lives for those who are vulnerable, to a community that is whole and inclusive, and most of all, let’s always keep our eyes, hearts and minds open to seeing G-d’s love and compassion, you just never know when you’ll see another rainbow.

Sticky notes and rainbows. You may never ask yourself what these two things have in common, but that was exactly my question after reading my Torah portion. She uses sticky notes all the time to remind herself of things such as what time soccer practice starts or to put her textbook in her backpack before school. It turns out that G-d uses a sticky note too. However G-d’s sticky note is not a mere piece of paper, it is something much more meaningful and beautiful; a rainbow. She concluded saying that like her, maybe everyone would expect a rainbow to symbolize something beautiful or passionate such as love or joy or hope or chocolate. But in reality, it is really just a reminder, a sticky note, for G-d to keep G-d’s covenant with all of the descendants of Noah.

4. 2014 JUF CAMPAIGN Lee I. Miller, 2014 JUF General Campaign Chairman and Rachel Sternberg, Senior Vice President, Campaign, presented to the Board the plans for the 2014 JUF Campaign. Mr. Miller began by reminding the Board that when the recession began in 2008, JUF/Federation launched a very successful J-HELP initiative to grow our agencies’ capacity to provide essential human services and to ensure continued access to Jewish life for those hit hardest by the downturn. As it became clear that the economy would require a more prolonged period to recover, the J-HELP initiative was broadened and extended. J-HELP continues to raise significant dollars to provide high-priority funding for those in need and to bolster our community’s infrastructure coming out of the recession. Over these few years, J-HELP has made a tremendous human impact, ensuring more families have food on the table, a place to sleep, and access to the health and human services they need to regain stability in their lives. He said this community owes a debt of gratitude to our J-HELP contributors – many of whom are members of the Board - who made supplemental gifts to make this possible. To date, in the aggregate, J-HELP has raised more than $25.7 million and helped provide services to thousands of people. Through the J-HELP partners – JCFS, JVS, CJE SeniorLife, JCC, EZRA Multi-Service Center, The ARK, Maot Chitim, Touhy Health Center and Rabbinic Discretionary Fund – J-HELP dollars continue to deliver much-needed human services to tens of thousands of people—including basic needs such as food and financial assistance. Our work continues, and JUF’s network of social service agencies continue to sustain our community with essential services. Because of the over $25.7m raised through J-HELP, we were able to do the following in 2012 alone:

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• 18,551 people were provided Healthcare • 490,191 Meals, 19,562 Food Packages and 12,861 Grocery Cards were provided • 4,999 Seniors were able to Stay in their Homes • 4,032 local households received Emergency Cash • 1,209 Unemployed professionals got Assistance • 1,053 Disabled adults found/retained Jobs • 298 individuals helped with Affordable Housing • 650 Holocaust Survivors received Support • 637 Low-Income families received Legal Assistance • 591 Children with Disabilities received Services Rachel Sternberg continued saying that while there are no J-HELP dollars in 2014, the need for service continues. After four years of J-HELP, our significant challenge is to sustain our campaign at the same levels without J-HELP as with it. This chart shows the impact of J-HELP on the Annual Campaign:

As can be seen, she said J-HELP has made the Annual Campaign “whole” over these last four years and it’s expected to have the same effect in 2013. As an example, without J-HELP our 2012 campaign would have closed at $73.3 million, rather than the $79.4 it closed at. While we need to replace J-HELP dollars in our 2014 Campaign, the dollars are just a means to an end. What 2014 is really about is our future. With an all-time high of $83.5 million in 2008, she said we have spent the past 5 years slowly building back our campaign base. 2014 needs to be the year we stabilize the campaign and begin another several decades of steady growth. She said the 2014 Annual Campaign strategy consists of the following: 1. Replacing J-HELP Dollars with Annual Campaign Dollars

All J-HELP donors are being asked to sustain their J-HELP giving by adding that gift to their 2014 Annual Campaign gift. Campaign leadership is in the midst of meeting with these donors, and so far the results have been quite positive. Major donors who did not contribute to J-HELP will be asked to significantly increase their 2014 gifts. While we anticipate asking for at least 20% increases at a minimum, the exact asks are being

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determined on a case-by-case basis and we are doing some pretty bold asking. In 2012, the Campaign added $1.2 million from new donors. She said we feel we can significantly increase that in 2014, thanks in part to the 2014 Match Fund.

2. The JUF 2014 Match Fund As an added incentive for increased gifts, and based on the success and results of the “Israel at 60” match in 2008, we are fortunate to have the 2014 Match Fund. Dollars contributed to the “Match Fund” will be used to incentivize donors to increase their gifts up to $65,000 (Major Gifts level), up to $25,000 (the King David Society level), and up to $5,000 (Lion of Judah or Vanguard level), or make new gifts of $5,000 and above. The Match will allow donors to double the value—and the impact—of their increased contributions to the 2014 Campaign. In addition to targeted asks to specific donors, the Match has been publicized through the Major Gifts events and will continue to do so, if there is enough money in the fund, at The Standard Club event, the Trades Dinners, the King David Society event, and Country Club events. We currently have $1.25 million in the Match Fund. To date, $119,000 of the Match has been realized before the Vanguard and Crown events.

3. The Breakthrough Fund

2014 will mark the launch of The Breakthrough Fund which will allocate dollars to innovative projects in the community, ensuring that Federation is nimble and responding effectively to current and emerging needs. As there will be a presentation to the Board, she did not go into detail other than to say that the Fund is already at $580,000 from just 3 gifts. The goal for the Breakthrough Fund is $1 million.

She concluded with a few words about the 2013 Campaign: The 2013 Campaign is currently ahead by $3.1 million. While it is not anticipated finishing this far ahead, we are budgeting for an $80m campaign finish, which would increase our base $650,000 from 2012, or by whatever additional dollars over $80 million we raise in 2013. Given that our campaign has not been this far ahead since 2008 as well as reports that we are finally emerging from the recession, she said we are confident that we will see a significant increase in the base of the campaign from 2012. Mr. Miller said that we have some exciting plans for the 2014 Campaign. As everyone knows, October 28th is a big day for JUF. During lunch, Hillary Clinton will headline our Vanguard event for donors who make a minimum gift of $5,000 to the 2014 campaign. We are expecting a huge crowd and to date, already have 900 reservations. That evening the $65,000 and over donors will hear Hillary Clinton speak at the Advance & Major Gifts dinner at the Ritz Carlton. To date, there are over 350 reservations, which is almost double the number that attended last year. He concluded saying that there are some really exciting new missions this year, including two to the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and Israel, one to Morocco, a Mission to Poland and Israel, a Women’s Mission to Rome and Israel, Nachshon, which is going to St. Petersburg and Israel, Rosh Gadol, and many VIP Missions throughout the year.

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RE: 2013 JUF Campaign

Michael Zaransky, 2013 JUF Campaign Chairman, said that the 2013 Campaign stands at $66,976,236 from 21,165 donors. We are running $3,078,513 ahead with a 5.4% JUF gift for gift increase. We are also running 467 gifts ahead. Pertinent information had been distributed and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit A.

He thanked those Board members who attended this evening’s pre-Board meeting Phonothon. In just 90 minutes, $116,000 in new gifts was raised. He invited Board members to sign up for the two remaining pre-Board meeting phonothons to be held from 3:30-5 on November 19 and December 17. It is amazing the impact we can make when we get in a room and work together. There was a sign-up sheet where Board members could also volunteer to be a guest “celebrity” at one of the staff phonothons as well as sign up for the End of Year Phonothon.

Also distributed was a 2 page list of donors who have not yet made a gift to the JUF 2013 campaign. He asked everyone to please take a moment to review the list, write their name on it, and circle anybody that either they could contact or they know who would be the best contact to close the gift.

Finally, he drew attention to our “New Contact” Lead Referral Card. We all have contacts, colleagues, neighbors, family, and/or friends who we would love to be involved with JUF. HE asked everyone to take a moment to think of ONE person we could reach out to. Collectively, we can make this community even stronger. They do not necessarily have to reach out, nor does their name have to be mentioned.

He then called on Julie Ann Sklaver, Director, Corporate Engagement, to give a report on JUF’s participation in the Bank of America Marathon. She said TeamJUF debuts at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon the coming Sunday, October 13th. There are 32 runners on the team including David Brown, Suzanne Muchin, Dana Hirt, Consul General Roey Gilad, and 5 JUF staff members. Highlights include:

o Pre-race dinner hosted by the Consul General and his family o meeting with an elite Israeli-Ethiopian runner o Pre-race minyan

To date, $46,000 from personal networks from personal networks and more is expected to be raised. She also noted that TeamJUF has engaged some young members of the community who were not previously involved in JUF including Tiger Nigamatzyanov whose fundraising video went viral and landed him as a guest speaker at the Lion Luncheon the prior week. She said this is an important presence for JUF-JF as we are the largest Jewish philanthropy, largest provider of human services and it enhances our relationship with Bank of America, an important funder of the JUF Campaign.

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She concluded saying that even if not running, anyone can still be a part of TeamJUF … by sponsoring a fellow board member, staff, TeamJUF and/or to cheer on the Team at the Charity Block Party at Adams & Loomis near Whitney Young High School. RE: The Centennial Campaign As Midge Perlman Shafton came to the podium, Mr. Brown was very pleased and excited to announce that Mrs. Shafton recently generously increased her own Centennial commitment to the $2 million level, which includes additional resources for the Midge Perlman Shafton Non-Jewish Influentials Israel Missions Fund. He thanked Mrs. Shafton for her continued generosity. A Report of The Centennial Campaign Executive Committee Meeting was mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit B.

Mrs. Shafton informed that Board that The Centennial Campaign has increased to almost $650 million from 4,053 gifts. She was pleased to announce the following recent gifts to The Centennial Campaign: Harry Seigle has made an outright capital gift of $4 million to the Mount Sinai Hospital

Medical Center of Chicago. Mr. Leonard Shraiberg established The Miriam Shraiberg Memorial Fund with a $150,000

endowment gift. The income is designated for Right Start and The Camping Initiative for Camp Chi and Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute.

Plans are under way for the 2014 Snowbird season. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the program. As soon as all the events are finalized, the information will be shared with the Board. If anyone has questions about the Snowbird program or Centennial Giving she said they should please free to contact her, Steven Nasatir, David Rosen or Dee Anthony. RE: Legacies & Endowments David Rosen, Senior Vice President, Legacies & Endowments, was available to answer questions about the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit C.

6. REPORT OF CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD David T. Brown, Chairman, began by welcoming and introducing the new members of the Board who were just elected/appointed to the Board:

Gita Berk Linda Ginsburg Dana Gordon Andrea Grostern Scott Heyman

Adrienne Kriezelman David A. Sherman Marilyn Vender Joseph Wolf

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He noted that Dana Gordon, Scott Heyman, Sidney Mathias and David Sherman were not “new” to the board but were just re-elected after being off for at least a year. He also welcomed Devra Resnick Shutan, President of the Young Women's Board; Joe Seigle, President of the Young Leadership Division; Charlene Sales, WD Campaign Chair, Scott Lieber, Campaign Vice President of YLD; Bruce Lederman, the CJE SeniorLife representative; and Kyle Freimuth, the JCC representative. He then informed the Board of the following: As the Board may recall, the Executive Committee is comprised of the Officers, who were

just elected by the Board this past June, plus the past Presidents of the Federation, JUF and/or Welfare Fund who are presently serving on the Board – Harvey J. Barnett, Skip Schrayer, Midge Perlman Shafton and David A. Sherman -- as well as the President of the Women’s Board and the President of YLD. Therefore, the total number serving on the 2013-2014 Executive Committee will be 22 -- PLUS, as permitted by the By-laws, up to three additional members who are elected by the Board. In keeping with Article 5.3 of the By-laws, his recommendations to fill the three positions were: Caryn Rosen Adelman, Stephen Malkin and Alan P. Solow. It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, that in keeping with Article 5.3 of the By-laws, the election of the following individuals to serve on the 2013-14 Executive Committee, be approved: Caryn Rosen Adelman, Stephen Malkin and Alan P. Solow. (Motion No. 2)

He wished a Mazel Tov to Avrum Weinfeld – his son Efraim just got engaged and his daughter Ariella also got engaged a few days later. And Mazel Tov to Keith Shapiro who is receiving the American Jewish Committee’s Judge Learned Hand Human Relations Award on November 4th.

Board members were sent the memo about the necessity of getting their new ID and being scanned into the biometric system. Anyone not able to do so that night should contact Susan Rifas to make the necessary arrangements. Board members are able to purchase a 10-ticket packet for parking, at a reduced rate of $147.50, for the garage just north of the building. The JF/JUF photo badge will be required in order to make the purchase; and the purchase can be made by going to the office located on the second floor of the parking garage.

Everyone was sent a Disclosure Statement and a Board Member Data Form. Mr. Brown asked that everyone please complete these forms as our By-laws require that this information be completed and that we have on file signed forms from EVERY board member EACH and EVERY year.

A list of the 2013-2014 JUF/JF Board of Directors will be sent shortly. Please review it and if there any revisions concerning the information listed, Board members were asked please contact Susan Rifas.

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Mr. Brown called on Debbie L. Berman who is chairing the Chicago Delegation to the JFNA

General Assembly in Jerusalem. She reminded everyone that the GA is fast approaching but that there was still time to sign up. As always, there will be the Chicago dinner; and at the lunch on Monday at the GA, there will be a special program regarding Takdim, the program that JUF has been working with in Israel. The Partnership Together Commission will begin its site visit on Wednesday, November 13th.

The next Board meeting will be on Tuesday, November 19th at the Federation Building. In keeping with past practice, two of the upcoming board meetings (both in the spring) will be held at an agency site.

Mr. Brown informed the Board that recently, he and Dr. Nasatir went to New York where they heard from Prime Minister Netanyahu who was speaking to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and Counsels General. He noted that PM Netanyahu was well received by some at the United Nations; that he was emphatic about the needs for sanctions on Iran and that through the organized Jewish community, efforts need to continue regarding Iran. The Prime Minister also spoke about negotiations with the Palestinians; issues related to working with the Diaspora and the Prime Minister’s Initiative; and security issues related to the cyber world. Mr. Brown also said that locally, we rely on government funding, both federal and state and given the state of affairs in both arenas, it makes our ability to serve those in need that much more difficult. He spoke about the importance of the work being done by our Government Affairs offices and encouraged board members to participate, if possible, on the trips to Springfield and Washington, DC. Throughout the year, be in in campaign, planning and allocations, etc., we will stress the need to be prepared for the future. The Pew Report, which Dr. Nasatir will speak about later on the agenda, will assist in doing that.

7. ELECTION OF ADDITIONAL DIRECTORS

In keeping with the Report of the 2013 Nominating Committee and in keeping with Article 3.2 of the By-laws, the following are to be elected as Additional Directors: Rabbi Paul F. Cohen, President and Rabbi Carl Wolkin, immediate President of the Chicago Board of Rabbis; and agency representatives Bruce Lederman, CJE SeniorLife; Kyle Freimuth, Jewish Community Center of Chicago; H. Debra Levin, Jewish Child & Family Services for terms which expire in September, 2014. It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, that in keeping with Article 3.2 of the By-Laws, the following individuals be elected to serve as Additional Directors on the Jewish Federation Board of Directors for terms which expire in September 2014: Rabbi Paul F. Cohen and Rabbi Carl Wolkin, Bruce Lederman, Kyle Freimuth and H. Debra Levin. (Motion No. 3)

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8. PEW REPORT

Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, President, spoke about the recent Pew Report. Pertinent material had been mailed and distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit D. He said that because of the content of the report and the corresponding buzz, he and Mr. Brown thought it would be worthwhile to spend some time about the report. Included in Exhibit D were the October 1st New York Times article and the October 3rd Donniel Hartman article regarding the study. Dr. Nasatir said that the Hartman piece does a good job of placing things in a context; and that placing in context was his goal that evening along with sharing a few observations. He began with the good news. The Pew Study estimates the American Jewish population as 6.6 million broken out as 5.3 million Jewish adults and 1.3 million children being raised at least partly Jewish. That number compares to the 2013 Brandeis Study of 6.8 million Jews. Both studies suggest that as many thought the 2000 National Jewish Population Study (NJPS) projection of 5.2 million was way off. Apparently, it was. As the Board will recall, in the Chicago 2010 population study we estimated our number at 290,000 up from approximately 270,000 in 2000. So, good for Pew and good for Brandeis. The American Jewish community is larger than some thought, and by the way, still represent the largest Jewish community in the world. In Israel the number of Jews is 6.0 million. So our Israeli brothers and sisters, he said, will have to wait another decade or two before they become the single largest Jewish community. Clearly, while demographics are important, the Pew Study as does past NJPS studies go way beyond population numbers and draw the reader to issues pertaining to identity in connection to the Jewish community. A major thrust of the study is affirmation of what previous studies have concluded although highlighted to a greater degree in the results; namely, the Jewish connection for Jews living in America is overall weakening. First, about one in five Jews identifies as a cultural/ancestral Jew, not a Jew by religion (what the study and press call “nones”). Incidentally, this phenomenon is not restricted to the Jewish community but is also evident in the general community as well. Americans are becoming more secular. In any case, the difference between religious and non-religious Jews are predictable — the latter tend to have less identification with formal expressions of Judaism and Jewish communal life, more prone to intermarriage and not raising their kids Jewishly … all things that have been raised before. Second, they tend to be an ever-growing cohort among the younger generation, of course giving rise to fears about the future of the Jewish community.

Specifically, as regards intermarriage:

Among non-Orthodox Jews, Pew says the intermarriage rate is 71%

Overall they peg the intermarriage rate at 58% up from 45% in 1990 and 17% in 1970

45% of intermarried Jews are raising their children as Jews compared with 96% of in-married Jews.

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As regards attitudes toward Israel:

69% feel attached or very attached to Israel

He then said … How does the Pew Study compare to Chicago’s 2010 Jewish population study? In short, not surprisingly, there are some serious differences:

Lower proportion of Jews who would be classified as “nones” -- closer to 7% in Chicago rather than 22%.

Increasing intermarriage. 37% v. the 58% stated in the Pew Study. Also, slightly higher proportion of intermarried families raising kids as Jewish, 49% in Chicago.

In Chicago, 77% identify strongly with Israel. 41% are very emotionally attached to Israel v. 30% and 50% have traveled there v. 43% nationally.

He said we also show a higher synagogue affiliation -- 37% v. 31% national. Nevertheless, the Chicago synagogue affiliation figure has declined greatly. In 1980, in Chicago, we were over 50%. Locally, less than 20% don’t identify with a denomination, nationally the figure is 30%.

In both studies, identification with the Holocaust is high — 81% in Chicago v. 71% nationally.

Of special interest to an organization like ours, is that the Pew data clearly demonstrated that philanthropic pursuits are one of the most popular ways for Jews to express their Jewishness. 56% of the surveys participants said they made a donation to a Jewish charity or cause in 2012. In Chicago, the number was 64%. When you look at households with incomes of $150,000 and above, Pew says 64%. In Chicago, the number was 82%. All these indicators of giving represent major standard deviations from the overall American population. He said it seems to him and he suspects most Board members that Jewish philanthropy in itself, when executed for maximum impact is a very positive way of reinforcing Jewish identity. And in that area of Jewish identity, our JUF Chicago brand is uniquely positioned to attain maximum impact. For decades, we talked about our annual campaign being a community building activity — to be sure, it is that and that is important for the future as well.

Based upon the Pew Study as many responded to the NJPS Study of 1990 and 2000, it is easy to think the worst—bemoan the present and future. What is clear in all studies of this sort is that the social norms of American society have strong influence on all communities, including the American Jewish and Chicago Jewish communities. Also, notwithstanding the great work this Federation and our agencies and schools and synagogues have done, the strongest predictor of Jewish behavior in young adults is the behavior of their parents.

How to influence parental behavior is a great challenge. This Federation’s emphasis on early childhood, after school education, Jewish day school, Jewish camp local and away, travel programs to Israel like Ta’am, Birthright, Masa, Hillel programs, Israel education programs like Voices, Diller, Write On, etc. can and will make a difference in the behavior of those children when they become young adults and then become parents. The suggestion was made that the marketing consultant should review the Pew Report and offer what parts of it JUF-JF can or should address.

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9. REPORT OF AUDIT COMMITTEE In the absence of Harvey J. Barnett, Chair, Michael B. Tarnoff, Executive Vice President, was available to answer questions about the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit E.


Dr. Steven B. Nasatir also reported to the Board on the following: With regard to the 2014 campaign, Dr. Nasatir said that no other Federation in the country

raises money the way our JUF Women’s Division does, as exemplified by the recent Lion of Judah Luncheon. $3,228,766 was raised and 294 people attended the event and card calling was conducted.

JUF’s Israel Solidarity Day at Ravinia last April garnered broad support across the community, bringing more than 8,000 people out in celebration of Israel. Dr. Nasatir that while we tentatively had planned to hold next year’s Israel Solidarity Day at Ravinia, the only available date at Ravinia conflicts with the commemoration of Yom Hazikaron that evening.

Unfortunately there are no other available Sundays in April or May due to Yom HaShoah, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day or Ravinia not being available. Other possible sites have similar problems. Out of respect for the deep solemnity of Yom Hazikaron, especially for our Israeli friends and neighbors, and given the fact that the calendar next spring presents no other options that can work, JUF will not hold a singular community event next spring.

Instead of one large event, staff is exploring options for community members to celebrate Israel in other appropriate ways next spring. Among those are:

Yom Ha’Atzmaut Celebration at Daley Plaza on May 6 -- the goal is to increase

attendance at the Israeli flag raising making a strong statement of solidarity with Israel in a very public place

The Second Israel Jazz Festival will be held the week of Yom Ha’Atzmaut. Last year’s festival brought a diverse audience together and our objective is to expand upon its success

The annual YLD Blue & White Night, May 6 brings together hundreds of young adults while raising funds for Israel

JUF staff and the organizers of the Greater Chicago Jewish Festival are discussing options to enhance Israel programming at the Festival. This allows us to capitalize on the traditional large turnout that the Festival attracts, averaging 20,000 every two years. The Federation has been a Festival sponsor for over a dozen years utilizing it as an excellent community outreach opportunity. It is scheduled for Sunday June 8, 2014

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One issue raised by not sponsoring a singular Israel Solidarity Day/Walk with Israel is that our fundraising efforts will be impacted. Staff is currently working on alternative scenarios to allow members of the community to express their support for Israel through special gifts. Information will be forthcoming once we have a more developed plan for 2014. We are also simultaneously seeking to secure a date at Ravinia for 2015.

During the summer, the last Ethiopians – approximately 450 immigrants from Ethiopia left

and arrived in Israel. Over the years, about 90,000 were brought to Israel. There may be other Falash Mura in Ethiopia who don’t already have family in Israel or who don’t qualify under the Law of Return. An appeals committee has been set up by Israel’s Interior Ministry, housed in the Jewish Agency, which will hear appeals. The compound has been closed.

Also during the summer, the Jewish Agency quietly brought 17 Yemenite Jews to safety in Israel. Since 2009, 151 have come to Israel.

Dr. Nasatir said that $110,000 has been raised for the Oklahoma Relief Fund from nearly 600 donors. Approximately $10,000 has been raised for Colorado Flood Relief.

Kristallnacht is November 9th and the Board was sent a letter from Al Gruen, Program Chair of Kristallnacht 75. A copy is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit F. The event is being funded by the Manny & Fern Steinfeld Charitable Fund and Al & Marion Gruen.

On October 14th there will be an opportunity to celebrate Jeffrey Cohen and his wife Zenia’s Aliyah. Jeffrey and his family will be making Aliyah early next year. Jeffrey is not retiring and will continue his professional involvement in a variety of ways.

11. REPORT OF TREASURER

In the absence of Thomas Rivkin, Treasurer and Sara C. Star, Assistant Treasurer, Michael B. Tarnoff, Executive Vice President, presented the Report that was mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit G. The annual Treasurers Report authorizes appropriate Officers of the JUF and Federation to conduct business in the areas of Securities, Banking, Borrowing, and Acceptance of Gifts. These Resolutions are reviewed and approved each year by our outside legal counsel. There are no changes since last year’s Resolutions – except, of course, for the names of the Officers. It was Moved, Seconded, and Carried, that the Annual Treasurer’s Resolutions (attached to these Minutes as Exhibit G) to authorize appropriate officers to purchase, sell or otherwise deal in securities, real property and services; to establish accounts at depository banks; to borrow or guarantee repayment of borrowed funds on a secured or unsecured basis; and to accept gifts, grants and bequests, be approved. (Motion No. 4)

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12. REPORT OF SECRETARY Jodi Newmark, Secretary, presented the Report that had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit H. She informed the Board that the Jewish Federation/Jewish United Fund had been informed of the following bequests: JEWISH UNITED FUND Unrestricted Julie Baer $ 10,000 Rothman Law Group

Harold Stern 257,664 The meeting adjourned at 7:45 pm.


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M I N U T E S

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JEWISH FEDERATION


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M I N U T E S Of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, held on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at the Jewish Federation, 30 S. Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois. AGENDA & INDEX PAGE 1. RESPECT FOR MEMORY OF BURTON E. GLAZOV 1


3. D’VAR TORAH 1


5. AMERICAN-EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY 4 6. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 5

7. REPORT ON JEWISH LEADERS INSTITUTE 7

8. REPORT ON MARKET RESEARCH 8

9. REPORT ON MISSIONS 10




JEWISH UNITED FUND

BOARD MEETING HELD ON NOVEMBER 19, 2013

PRESENT: Caryn Rosen Adelman; Gita Berk; Jodie Berkman; Debbie L. Berman; David T.

Brown; Ethan Budin; Scott I. Canel; Rabbi Paul F. Cohen; Josh Daitch; Maury Fertig; Linda S. Fisher; Jason Friedman; Linda Ginsburg; Andrea Grostern; Marcie B. Hemmelstein; Joshua B. Herz; Ann-Louise Kleper; Frances Krasnow; Adrienne Kriezelman; Peter Kupferberg; Rabbi Vernon Kurtz; Jennifer Levine; Francine F. Levy; Scott Lieber; Hon. Sidney Mathias; Lee I. Miller; Steven N. Miller; Theodore Perlman; Paula Resnick; Thomas Rivkin; Elliott Robinson; Marc Roth; Eric Rothner; Lisa Rubinstein; Charlene Sales; Skip Schrayer; Joseph Seigle; Midge Perlman Shafton; Keith J. Shapiro; Wendy Berger Shapiro; David A. Sherman; Kim Shwachman; Bill Silverstein; Barbara Kaplan Slutsky; Alan P. Solow; Marilyn Vender; Adam Winick; Joseph Wolf; Rabbi Carl Wolkin; Andrea R. Yablon; Michael Zaransky; and Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, Ex-Officio and Nathaniel Sack, Ex-Officio.

UNABLE TO ATTEND: Harvey J. Barnett; David A. Baum; Marc Chudacoff; Bruce Ettelson; Kyle

Freimuth; Howard Friend; David Golder; Richard C. Goodman; Dana Gordon; Scott Heyman; Dana Hirt; Andrew S. Hochberg; Cindy Kaplan; Penny Keeshin; Steven H. Lavin; Bruce Lederman; Jane Cadden Lederman; H. Debra Levin; Brian J. Levinson; Stephen Malkin; Sanford Perl; Marc Sacks; Michael J. Sacks; Steve Schreiber; Devra Resnick Shutan; Morris Silverman; Marc Spellman; Sara C. Star; Nina G. Stillman; Pam F. Szokol; Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein; Avrum Weinfeld; and James Woldenberg.

GUEST: Barry Rosenthal. STAFF: Audra Berg; Aaron Cohen; Deborah Covington; Patti Frazin; Donna Kahan; Reis

Kayser; Louis Lazovsky; John Lowenstein; Caryn Peretz; Rabbi Yehiel Poupko; David Prystowsky; Susan Rifas; David Rosen; Jim Rosenberg; David Rubovits; Stuart Spector; Sherryl Steinberg; Rachel Sternberg; Michael Tarnoff; Jay Tcath; Adina Torchman and Ariel Zipkin.


JEWISH UNITED FUND

ACTIONS TAKEN


November 19, 2013

1. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held on October 7, 2013, were approved.

2. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the resignation of Jodi Newmark from the Jewish United Fund Board of Directors, was accepted with regret.

3. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, and in keeping with Article 3.4 of the By-laws,

Julie Dann was elected to fill the vacancy on the Jewish United Fund Board of Directors that expires in September 2014.

DISCUSSION

1. RESPECT FOR THE MEMORY OF BURTON E. GLAZOV

Mr. Brown said that as everyone knows, since the October Board meeting, our good friend and colleague, Burton E. Glazov, passed away. He called on Dr. Steven B. Nasatir to speak about Mr. Glazov. Dr. Nasatir said that from 1983-1997, Mr. Glazov served on the JUF-JF Board, and served as a Vice Chairman. In 1989, he was the JUF General Campaign Chairman and helped us achieve a record-breaking campaign. People always wanted to be with Burt – he was much like a Pied Piper including when he led a mission to Eastern Europe. He was a multiple figure donor to The Centennial Campaign and among the projects that he and his wife, Adrienne, funded through Centennial was Migdal Oz. When asked about putting up a plaque, Mr. Glazov said “No, this is a home and you don’t put up plaques in homes.” The funeral was a celebration of Mr. Glazov’s life. Those who knew him knew that he was smart and funny. David Sherman told a concluding vignette illustrating how direct and humorous Mr. Glazov was. The Board then stood to observe silence in respect for the memory of Burton E. Glazov.

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES It was Moved, Seconded and Carried that the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, held on October 7, 2013, be approved. (Motion No. 1)

3. D’VAR TORAH Josh Daitch gave the D’Var Torah. He said in one week Hanukkah, the festival of lights, begins. The story of Hanukkah recalls Greek oppression of traditional Jewish beliefs and the rebellion led by Matisyahu and his family who overcame the odds and the armies of Antiochus to prevail and defend the established practice of Judaism. This is a wonderful story that has been relished by Jews for thousands of years and has become probably the most celebrated Jewish holiday of the year among our people today.

In the 4th century BCE, under the rule of Alexander the Great, Judea lived in a period of universal culture that peacefully blended Greek religions and Eastern philosophy known as Hellenism. Many Jews eagerly embraced Hellenism, which permeated many levels of the Jewish community. To these Jews, known as the Hellenists or Mityanim, Greek culture represented the future and success. They cherished the intellectual rigor of Plato, Aristotle and Socrates and enjoyed the culture of theatre and poetry and the great Olympics. Many of them spoke Greek, especially those in the higher classes, and even translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek.

However, not all Jews bought into this more secular evolution of Judaism, and fought for a more traditional view of what it meant to “be a Jew”. It wasn’t until after the death of Alexander the Great that a new power, King Antiochus started to turn this universal culture more exclusively Greek. Antiochus enacted a series of harsh decrees against the Jews. Jewish worship was forbidden; Torah scrolls were confiscated and burned. Sabbath rest, circumcision and the

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dietary laws were prohibited under penalty of death. As the story goes, Antiochus commanded a Hellenistic Jew to desecrate the Temple by sacrificing a pig. Matisyahu, slayed the Jew and the legendary rebellion began. Mr. Daitch said that while he always knew this story to be the quintessential example of the fight against religious persecution, he more recently appreciated a more subtle sub-plot – the battle for Jewish relevance.

Fast forward about 2,350 years. The Pew report’s latest findings echo the gradual Hellinization of Judaism. Those know him well have heard him say many times how lucky we are as Jews today in North America. We have been relatively successful, (25% of surveyed Jews by Pew report a HHI of >$150,000 versus 8% for the national average). We live in an era of relatively mild anti-Semitism. There are few barriers for Jews in the highest levels of modern society. Just look at Chicago, where we have a Jewish mayor and coach of our NFL football team. However, this “success” has an insidious side-effect. Societal Acceptance – a status that we have strived for over centuries creates apathy - and today, being Jewish is a choice not a label. The mere fact that we can assimilate is a bi-product of our success in preaching tolerance and acceptance.

Today, over 1 in 5 Jews now describe themselves as having no religion but rather identify as Jewish on the basis of ancestry, ethnicity or culture. And this trend is highly correlated with age. Like radiation, Judaism seems to dissipate more rapidly over time. 7% of Jews born before 1927 say they do not identify with religion. 19% for baby boomers and 32% for Millennials born after 1980 - these are our peers … our children … and grandchildren. He said this trend is frightening and it is we on the Board and Boards like it around the country and the world who have to form the new rebellion against hellenization. We need to be our own Maccabees, an acronym composed of the initial letters of the four Hebrew words Mi Kamocha Ba’eilim Hashem, "Who is like You, O G-d." We have been losing this war of relevance for decades if not longer, just look at the demographics in the Pew report. He said he learned a long time ago, that to be a leader, you should not identify problems, but rather identify solutions. We know the problem, but how do we fix it? He commended this Federation for taking steps in regard to the new market research study that was discussed at the last meeting. That inward looking analysis should help to identify some of the areas where we can do a better job, but he proposed three ideas to start.

1) Education – he knows that he is NOT the only product of over 10 years of Jewish education

who is not comfortable with his own Jewish literacy. Day schools are a great option, but in the Hellenistic society of today, many parents want their children to be exposed to a more diversified group of children. We need to make Jewish education much more impactful and accessible especially for young families who are perhaps lost the opportunity to learn Jewishly in their schooling years – but who have a strong desire to be able to teach their children at home. He and his wife now have a 14 month old son and are expecting a daughter in April. He said he wants them to learn of the beauties of Judaism. The question is how to ensure that this happens. He said what he can do is educate himself (which he has been doing) to fill his knowledge gap as a product of the secular nature of his generation. He said he wants to be able to teach lessons, to answer questions, to expose his children to the beauty of Judaism. And that practice makes him feel more Jewish.

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2) Missions – the best tool that we have in the Jewish toolbox is outside this country. Not just

in Israel either - experiential learning and walking in the footsteps of our ancestors in other countries creates connections and bonds that are difficult to break. We need to make these missions more impactful, more affordable and with more organized follow-up post mission to keep people involved instead of letting their passions dissipate after they get home.

3) Campaign – We need to continue to develop our Next-Gen strategy to match needs with benefits and speak to the potential donors in new language that they cave not the old language because that’s the way it has always been. For those at the Big Event the past weekend – YLD completely turned the “ask” on its head and, he said, as a relative alte kaker in that crowd, he thought that it resonated. That video would have never aired at a JUF five years ago. And those are the kinds of tactics and risks that we need to take.

He concluded saying that when the Maccabees re-consecrated the Temple, they only found enough oil for one day. Miraculously, it burned for eight until new supplies were found. We are in our third or fourth day of our 1 day oil supply. The Pew report should be a shofar blast of warning to all of us. This Federation is on the forefront of almost every issue facing global Jewry and we should be and are on the forefront here, but we all need to be engaged, individually. Matisyahu was just one man, but he took action and changed the world. We now all have to be Maccabees to keep the menorah burning.

4. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT RE: 2014 JUF Campaign Lee I. Miller, 2014 JUF General Campaign Chairman, said that we have now had all of our Major gifts events for the 2014 Campaign. We started off with a very successful Lion Luncheon that was reported on at our last meeting. Next we had our Vanguard Luncheon and our Advance & Major Gifts Dinner on October 28th. Most Board members were at one or the other event and know that both our attendance and fundraising were record breaking. The Advance and Major Gifts dinner raised $31,998,231 with a 7.8% gift for gift increase; and Vanguard raised over $5 million dollars with a 12% gift for gift increase. One very successful part of our fundraising efforts at all of our major gifts events was the 2014 Match Fund. He was pleased to report that we have used $958,954 of the $1,250,000 in match dollars. This consists of 19 gifts increased to $65,000, 18 gifts increased to $25,000 and 60 gifts increased to $5,000. The 2014 campaign currently stands at $38,711,757 - $1,789,914 ahead of where we were after the Advance & Major Gifts and Vanguard Dinners last year – and a 12.3% gift for gift that’s compared to a 4.2% increase gift for gift at this time last year. He said that is an extraordinary achievement that we can all be very proud of. Everything is being done to ensure that our campaign remains at the $80 million dollar + level that it will close at in 2013 – despite the loss of $5.8 million in J-Help dollars. This was an outstanding start.

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Mr. Miller said we are fortunate to have an impactful and vibrant Young Leadership Division. They demonstrate this regularly with their strong board of directors, their fundraising, their leadership development and their outreach efforts. Saturday night they held their signature “Big Event” – where 2,100 young adults came out for the 2014 Campaign. One thing that YLD is very good at is knowing their audience and adapting JUF’s message so they will hear it – which is not easy in a crowd that size. This year they created a very unique video. It is part of a Campaign-wide effort to message JUF appropriately to different audiences. It was made in-house and you will recognize a lot of the actors. The Board then viewed the video.

There will be a full report on this event as well but one highlight from the event is that they received 806 brand new 2014 gifts. There was a giving component built in to the ticket price but what we are most excited about is the number of new donors who made additional gifts at the event. A full report will be made at the next Board meeting. Mr. Miller reminded everyone that the board caucus would be held that evening. The majority of us have already made our gifts to the 2014 campaign but for those of you who haven’t, he asked that they do so that night. Publicly announcing our gifts tonight is a show of commitment to our community as well as a sign of the incredible strength and generosity of this Board. He also asked that if anyone had already made a 2014 gift but it wasn’t an increased gift, they consider increasing it during the caucus. He thanked everyone in advance for their incredible generosity. The Board caucus was then held. RE: 2013 JUF Campaign Michael Zaransky, 2013 JUF General Campaign Chairman, reported that the 2013 Campaign stands at $70,115,726 from 24,911 donors. He said we are running $3,492,857ahead with a 5.3% JUF gift for gift increase. We are also running 1,793 gifts ahead. Pertinent material had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit A.

At the phonothon prior to the Board meeting, $204,000 was raised. He thanked all those who came early to make the calls. He gave special thanks to Adam and Debbie Winick, EOY Co-Chairs. The statistics for 2013 are outstanding. Not only do we need a strong finish to meet our budgeted goal of $80,000,000 but we also have the opportunity to significantly boost our campaign base which will help to fill the J-Help gap in 2014. He asked everyone to do all they could, including attending one of the End-of-Year phonothons, to help close the 2013 campaign. He said their efforts make a difference and are greatly appreciated.

5. AMERICAN-EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

Rabbi Yehiel Poupko, JUF-JF Judaic Scholar, presented comments regarding the American-Evangelical Christian Community. Pertinent material was mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit B.

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He said that this Federation has long assumed various responsibilities for the national American Jewish community. Further, the Chicago Federation is uniquely positioned to do so in the matter of Jewish national relations with a variety of Christian churches because of the presence of significant Christian institutions, churches, and seminaries and colleges in the metropolitan Chicago area. In addition, the JUF Jewish Community Relations Council has a long and honorable record of interfaith work. The focus of his report was the American Jewish community’s relations with all that is the Evangelical Christian community. The leadership magazine of the Evangelical community in America is, Christianity Today, whose headquarters are in the Chicago metropolitan area. In our interfaith work we ask of Christians to please talk with us before talking about us. Relations with Evangelicals are new to the American Jewish community largely because they do not live in or near major Jewish population centers, though that is beginning to change. One out of every four American adults is an Evangelical Christian. One out of every four people who vote in the presidential election is an Evangelical. The conveners of the national Evangelical-Jewish conversation are the JCPA, Christianity Today, and the Jewish Federation; or, to be more precise, their key staff. Rabbi Poupko said that this is the only interfaith setting in which the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform synagogue and rabbinic leadership are represented, as well as the key national Jewish agencies, including JFNA, ADL, AJC, and URJ. He also noted that the Chicago Federation was responsible for bringing the immediate past and the current editor of Christianity Today to Israel. At a time when the mainline Protestants have declined in the past thirty-five years from forty million to fifteen million and have not displayed friendship for Israel, the growth in the Evangelical population to about sixty million is significant. Evangelicals have an innate respect and affection for all that is Israel and the Jewish experience. He concluded saying that the Evangelical-Jewish conversation focuses largely on Israel and on the development of better relations.


David T. Brown, Chairman, informed the Board of the following: Mr. Brown welcomed and introduced the new members of the Board who were just

elected/appointed to the Board: Hon. Sidney Mathias and Rabbi Paul F. Cohen, new President of the Chicago Board of Rabbis.

He wished a mazel tov to Michael Zaransky on the birth of his grandson – Eli; and to Rabbi

Vernon Kurtz whose daughter, Shira, just got engaged. And to Sara Star who is co-producing an off-Broadway play in New York – “Handle with Care” – a romantic comedy about a young Israeli woman who reluctantly travels with her grandmother to Israel.

It was with mixed feelings that he informed the Board that Jodi Newmark has resigned as a Director. The mixed feelings are, of course, that she will no longer be a member of the

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Board and she will be missed; the other part is that she is resigning because she has accepted serving as the Director of our new Supported Community Living Initiative. Mrs. Newmark will be staying as Co-Chair of our Community Outreach & Engagement this year and he was delighted to say that Deborah Schrayer Karmin has accepted being Co-Chair with Jodi.

It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, that the resignation of Jodi Newmark from the Jewish United Fund Board of Directors, be accepted with regret. (Motion No. 2)

In keeping with our By-laws, Mr. Brown was pleased to recommend that Julie Dann fill the

vacancy. While most everyone knows her, in terms of JUF-JF, she is a former member of National Young Leadership Cabinet and the JUF Young Women's Board. She has been active in JUF Campaign, including Women’s Board Lion Luncheon and Spring Event, JUF Vanguard and the Financial Services Division. She is a former member of the JUF Partnership 2000 Committee and was a leader on the 2007 JUF Summer Family Mission, a co-leader on 2006 Summer Family Mission and 1998 JUF Yom Ha'Atzmaut Mission to Israel. Julie was a participant on the 2006 National Operation Promise Mission to Ethiopia and is a former member of the then UJA Young Leadership Cabinet. She is a member of Moriah Congregation. It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, and in keeping with Article 3.4 of the By-laws, Julie Dann was elected to fill the vacancy on the Jewish United Fund Board of Directors that expires in September 2014. (Motion No. 3)

Debbie L. Berman, Chair of the Chicago delegation to the 2014 JFNA General Assembly was

pleased to report that several historic events took place during the GA: at the end of the GA, everyone marched to the Kotel and to the egalitarian prayer area. It was the Federations that urged the Government of Israel to find a resolution to the strife that had occurred over women praying at the Kotel while wearing religious garments. The Prime Minister appointed Natan Sharansky who proposed a resolution which led to the creation of the Azarat Israel. A second highlight was the site visit to Chicago’s Partnership Together Region which included visiting programs that through the Partnership allocation, we support: Etagrim (outdoor adventure activities for children with disabilities), Heneini (community garden for Ethiopian seniors), Sahi at Neve Hana (a social intervention for at-risk teens who take responsibility for their neighbors and deliver weekly food packages) and Project Chicago (the major new educational intervention aimed at reaching all 17 elementary schools in the Partnership which the Board has learned about at prior Board meetings). Mrs. Berman said that Project Chicago is making a significant impact on the youth in our region. Mr. Brown added that another highlight was the visit to the Knesset and meeting with Nachman Shai. He also thanked the JUF-JF professional staff who attended and participated at the GA: Jeffrey L. Cohen, Elissa Polan, David Rubovits, Stuart Spector and Jay Tcath.

Each year we are required to make the JUF 990 available to the full JUF Board of Directors

Michael Tarnoff, Executive Vice President, informed the Board that the most recent 990 was available and any Board member wishing to review it could do so that night or contact him.

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As has been done for the past several years, the Board has been invited to the OPAC meeting at which our proposed Office budget will be discussed in great detail. This year, that OPAC meeting will be held at noon on December 3rd and Mr. Brown encouraged everyone to attend as that meeting allows for an in-depth review and discussion of the office budget; and the office budget is really our strategic plan and map for the coming year.

A list of the 2013-14 JUF-JF Committees, their chairs and the lead staff for each was

distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit C.

An up-dated chart regarding The Centennial Campaign and an up-dated list of the Snowbird events was distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit D. He noted that some of the dates for Snowbird have changed.

The next Board meeting will be on Tuesday, December 17th at the Federation building.

7. REPORT ON JEWISH LEADERS INSTITUTE

Wendy Berger Shapiro, on behalf of the Leadership Development Advisory Committee, presented a report on the Jewish Leaders Institute (JLI). Pertinent material had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit E. She said that Inaugural JLI class was very successful, graduates matriculated to number of successful leadership positions, including serving as members of the JUF-JF Board. Based on the success of that program, JLI II was developed. The 25 lay leaders were chosen to participate by a nominating committee The second cohort began in October with retreat at Westin in Wheeling. The program and retreat were developed in conjunction with Leadership Development Advisory Committee. The curriculum will focus on three major areas:

- JUF/JF and the System - North American Jewish Life - Leadership Skills

Dr. Hal Lewis, President and CEO of Spertus, is serving as the scholar-in-residence to add continuity and insight to the program. Each class will have a different presenter – and be the best in field. For example, the November class had Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Harman Institute of North America.

The cohort will meet every four weeks for the next 18-months, ending in April 2015. The Program Goals include:

o Gaining a deeper knowledge and deeper commitment to the Chicago Jewish community, JUF/JF and its agencies

o Having a better understanding of effective community leadership

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o Understanding the role of Jewish history and thought in forming a communal

agenda o Becoming familiar with issues facing the Jewish people now and in the future, in

Chicago, throughout the United States and in Israel o Building a strong group dynamic among participants; to leverage in their community

work for the future o Increasing giving level

8. REPORT ON MARKET RESEARCH

Andrea Grostern, Chair of the Communications & Marketing Committee, provided a status report on the Market Research Project that was approved by the Board at the October Board meeting. Steve Yastrow, a brand and marketing consultant, has been engaged for this project. The project is being coordinated by the Federation’s Marketing and Communications Department, led by Aaron Cohen, Vice President, in partnership with other internal departments (especially campaign), and with the active involvement of the Chief of Staff, Jim Rosenberg. In her role as Chair of the Marketing and Communications Committee, she will be directly involved with this project in supporting the work of the professionals and will report back to the Board on its progress. Before saying more about the project, she provided the following information:

First, she reminded everyone that our Federation is known as one of the top, if not the top, Federation in the system. We have a rising and innovative annual campaign, loyal donors, committed volunteers and an effective network of program and agency services.

But we also know that raising money is not going to get easier for us as there are interesting and viable options for donors in our community.

She said if we want to maintain and grow our market share and figure out what we need to do to connect emotionally with members of our community, we need to conduct this project, understand what is really out there as far as beliefs, and adjust our marketing and communications efforts as needed.

This project is not about those of in the room or other insiders. This is about everyone else out there, especially the younger generation, for they are the ones who will carry our Federation forward into the future.

Secondly, this is more than just a market research project. It is about positioning the JUF brand for future growth and success.

As a result, this brand strategy work is something that she supports wholeheartedly and believes can have a tremendous positive impact.

The goals of the JUF branding project are to: clarify and refine JUF’s brand story, and develop a well-articulated brand strategy for creating powerful, inspiring and motivational beliefs about JUF in the minds of our community

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Why should we care about and invest in branding? Because successful branding efforts will:

o Strengthen our relevance to key constituents in the community o Inspire people to connect and engage with us, and o Improve our ability to raise funds to help more people in need.

She asked, does it seem strange to think of JUF as a brand? After all, we’re not a product one buys in the store. Yet, JUF is as much a brand as Starbucks, Target, or Susan G. Komen. So a fundamental question is: What is a brand?

A brand is the sum total of all the experiences that a person has had with a product or service or organization over time. Put simply, a brand is what people think of when they hear your name. An easy example of branding to bring this to life – Apple.

What do people think of when hearing the word Apple? Products, obviously. Maybe the Apple store. But do you get a feeling about it too? Do you like it? Dislike it? Does the brand have a personality? What are its values?

She said what is amazing about the Apple story is the number of people who are brand ambassadors and preach the gospel about Apple. They are loyal and feel emotionally connected to the brand. And, importantly, they share their love of the brand with others. This loyalty is what makes the Apple story relevant to us at JUF.

Before moving on to the Brand Project, added one more thing about branding. A brand is more than a logo, like the red color and shape of Coca-Cola. It’s more than just a tagline, like the “Snap, Crackle, Pop” of Rice Krispies. It is more than just a spokesperson, like Michael Jordan for Nike. It is more than an advertising campaign, like the Dos Equis “most interesting man in the world” ads. The brand is what remains after the marketing campaign is over. And strengthening the JUF brand is what this project is all about. With regard to the details of the project plan, she said the project consists of two phases.

Phase 1 is the data gathering & market research phase o Specifically, our consultant, working closely with professional leadership, will

evaluate existing JUF data to better understand the make-up of our current donor base.

o In addition, our consultant will conduct focus groups to understand perceptions of the JUF brand in our community today. She said while we are still in the process of determining the specific groups, we expect to talk to a range of demographics and levels of involvement including donors and non-donors.

o Finally, our consultant will conduct a limited number of internal interviews with JUF professional and lay leadership and other key constituents. The key deliverable from Phase 1 is a research summary presentation from Yastrow & Company.

Phase 2 of the project is focused on refining the JUF brand story o During Phase 2, our consultant will help us think about the brand strategy needed to

encourage even stronger engagement and support from the community. o The output of Phase 2 will be a codified, well-articulated brand strategy.

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o Some examples of brand strategy elements that will be developed include:

The brand essence which is a concise statement of the JUF brand’s DNA The brand story which will be a concise narrative that describes what JUF

does as well as the culture and context in which we do it

The project will take place over the next several months, with focus groups in the winter and the brand refinement stage later in the spring. Mrs. Grostern plans to report back to the Board after Phase 1 of the project is completed. Coming out of this work, the Marketing and Communications department and other Federation departments, especially Campaign, will have the tools necessary to take JUF’s communications to the next level of relevance.

She concluded saying that this is an exciting activity for JUF to be undertaking at this time and has the potential for a significant positive impact. If anyone has questions, they should contact Mrs. Grostern, Jim Rosenberg, or Aaron Cohen.

9. REPORT ON MISSIONS

Kim Shwachman, Chair of the Missions Committee, began by thanking Sanford Perl, the immediate past Chair of the Committee for his important contributions to the overall strategy of missions the past year. She said that having just returned from an extraordinary mission to Poland and Israel with Rabbi Poupko, Naomi Fox and a group of 8 women, the timing could not have been better for her personally as she steps into this position. She and Ms. Fox shared ideas and observations about what makes JUF missions successful--much of which is the incredible staff in Chicago of Bonnie Eckstein, Naomi Fox, Jenna Koehler and Katie Feld who work closely with our donors and the Israel office to create unique and special experiences for our donors that they would normally not have knowledge of or access to. We know the power of what happens when people get to Israel. She said the goal this year is to more actively reach out to our community and promote smaller tailored VIP missions versus larger community wide missions. A list of the missions already on the calendar for the coming year had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit F. She drew to their attention two particular missions: The Women’s Division will be leading a mission to Rome and Israel from February 5th-14th. When they arrive in Israel they will join the national Heart to Heart Mission. Our Scholar in Residence Rabbi Poupko will be leading the group. Fran Levy, Women’s Board President, Charlene Sales, VP of Campaign, are the Mission Co-Chairs and Donna Weichselbaum and Myrna Shaw are the Women’s Division Chicago Recruitment Chairs. She encouraged all women on JUF-JF board to participate as well as the spouses of the board members. Rabbi Poupko will be leading a study session in the evening on December 12th. There is a $1,000 minimum gift requirement to participate and it promises to be an exciting mission. The second Mission is The National KDS Mission to Morocco. She and her husband Perry along with Marilyn and Michael Vender are fortunate to be the Chicago Co-Chairs for this national mission. Most exciting is that Marilyn and Terry Diamond are the National King David Society Co-Chairs. Marilyn is the Honorary Consul General to Morocco from Chicago and has been to Morocco over 2 dozen times. She is spearheading the design of itinerary. Not only is she

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incredibly knowledgeable, but we are certain her relationships will afford us very special access to key government and business leaders. The dates for the Mission are April 27-May 4th, with an optional two day add on to include Fez. A King David Society Mission requires a minimum $25,000 gift to the 2014 campaign to attend. During the 2013 campaign year, we have sent twelve JUF Missions and have coordinated seventeen private VIP trips to Israel and overseas. There are still two congregational missions traveling in December through JUF to Israel with a strong potential to raise additional dollars for the 2013 Campaign, as well as the 2014 Campaign. In total, over $1 million was raised towards the 2013 Annual Campaign from these missions. To date for the 2014 campaign year, we have sent five JUF Missions and have coordinated ten private VIP trips to Israel and overseas. We have eight more JUF Missions scheduled and expect additional missions to be added to the calendar. In addition we already have four JUF Missions on the calendar for the 2015 Campaign year. As the year progresses she hopes to have the opportunity to speak again to report on the success of JUF Missions in term of the number of new gifts and increased gifts on Missions. For now she reported that the group of 8 women on the Poland and Israel Mission raised over $33,000 with a 39.7% gift for gift increase. She was also pleased to report on the UAE/Jordan/Israel Mission that came back a couple of weeks ago led by Lee Miller and David Sherman:

1) 20 went to UAE, Amman, Ramallah and Israel 2) This was the first ever JUF-JF group to travel to UAE 3) Amazing sites, fascinating business, religious, academic and political meetings 4) They were joined by Sen. George Mitchell of DLA Piper 5) The purpose was outreach to under-engaged donors, mixed with just enough JUF

leaders – Lee Miller, Sanford Perl, Bill Silverstein, and David Sherman – to help us talk about JUF and solicit gifts and do follow-ups.

6) The trip was very successful raised over $600,000 for the 2014 Annual Campaign and over $70,000 for the 2013 Annual Campaign


Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, President, reported to the Board on the following:

As of the Board meeting, $205,000 had been raised from 895 people for the JF Philippines Disaster Relief Fund. A small committee of volunteer leadership and staff met and $130,000 has already been sent to IsraAid and JDC. Dr. Nasatir said we expect more will be raised. He also said that the IDF is doing extraordinary work in the Philippines – they immediately set up a field hospital and have already treated more than 300 patients.

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With regard to the recent tornadoes in Illinois, rather than establishing a relief fund, we are

providing a link to the Peoria Jewish Federation for those who want to make a contribution. He said we have sent $5,000 from disaster funds that have been carried over; and there will be opportunity, through TOV, to do volunteer work in Washington, Illinois.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently issued its Philanthropy 400 which ranks U.S. charities according to the amount of private support received in the previous year. Dr. Nasatir said that if you factor our Fidelity and Vanguard and institutions of higher learning, JUF-JF is ranked as #130. Only eight philanthropies in Illinois made the list and JUF-JF is the largest social welfare agency in Illinois.

Dr. Nasatir had the privilege of addressing the Diller Teen Fellows Professional and Lay Conference, which was held in Chicago in mid-October and included professionals and lay leadership from 20 communities. Chicago is the 10th North American cohort to join this highly competitive international leadership development program for teens, along with our Partnership region, Kiryat Gat/Lachish/Shafir, which is the 10th Israeli cohort. Twenty sophomores and juniors in each city participate in 12 intensive workshops, multiple weekend retreats, and two mifgashim (meetings) between the Israelis and Americans: a 10-day North American Seminar and a 3-week Israel Summer Seminar. The Diller program directly reflects JUF’s values, focusing on four “pillars”: Leadership Development, Judaism and Jewish Identity, Israel, and Tikkun Olam.

A 2½-day conference on “The Zionist Ideal in Israeli Culture” wrapped up at Northwestern University the day of the Board meeting. The conference was the inaugural event for the recently renamed Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern. At a Sunday evening dinner at his home celebrating the rollout of this Israel Studies initiative, Morton Schapiro, the university’s president, noted the Federation’s support for related programming at Northwestern, carried out primarily through a postdoctoral fellowship program established by the Federation’s Israel Studies Project. The postdoc program was introduced there in 2005; other Israel Studies programs supported by the Federation are maintained at the University of Chicago (since 2008), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (since 2005), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (since 2007). In his report, Dr. Nasatir said that these programs provide an opportunity for non-Jewish and Jewish students to see Israel through the prism of culture, history, arts, literature, etc. and not about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Also in November, the Israel Action Network, led by David Sherman, had great success in that it helped to defeat a divestment resolution presented to the American Public Health Association.

Recently, a group of 25 donors from the Toronto Federation came to Chicago for a two-day Campaign Fly-In. While here, they met with a number of Jewish business leaders in the community, and kicked off their visit with a lunch here at Federation with David Brown and Steve Nasatir, in which they discussed the challenges and opportunities facing North American Jewry, the Federation movement and what we’re trying to accomplish here in Chicago. Board member Alan Solow, former Chair of the Conference of Presidents, also met with the group during their visit.

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Dr. Nasatir said that following meetings he had in Israel before the GA began, he is optimistic and excited about the potential success and impact of the Prime Minister’s Initiative, a massive program to fortify the connections of young Jews to Israel. The initiative, which has been taken on by JAFI is envisioned as a partnership between the Israel Government and the Federation system that includes JDC, JAFI and other institutions. When ramped up, it could be a $300 million per year program with the focus being Israel education, Israel experiences, Israel Engagement on College Campuses and Aliyah of Young Adults.

Finally, Dr. Nasatir commented that it would be difficult to look at the Agenda for the evening’s board meeting and not take a moment to reflect on how much we are doing in terms of breadth, depth and quality; and that we should feel good about our output and our desire to always improve even more.


Mr. Brown informed that Board that as Jodi Newmark had resigned from the Board (and she had been Secretary), Eric Rothner, former Assistant Secretary would now be Secretary and that Marcie Hemmelstein agreed to serve as Assistant Secretary. Mr. Rothner presented the Report of the Secretary which had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit G. He informed the Board that the Jewish United Fund had been informed of the following bequests: JEWISH UNITED FUND Unrestricted *Joan Canel $ 100,000 Ann Myerson 5,000 *Morris and Emma Secemsky 15,155

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M I N U T E S Of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, held on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at the Jewish Federation, 30 S. Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois. AGENDA & INDEX PAGE 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1

2. D’VAR TORAH 1

3. ISRAEL ACTION NETWORK 2


5. REPORT OF OVERALL PLANNING & ALLOCATIONS COMM ITTEE 5 6. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 6

7. REPORT OF ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE CHAIR 7

8. REPORT OF COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING COMMITTEE 7




JEWISH UNITED FUND

BOARD MEETING HELD ON DECEMBER 17, 2013

PRESENT: Caryn Rosen Adelman; David A. Baum; Gita Berk; David T. Brown; Mark

Chudacoff; Josh Daitch; Julie Dann; Bruce Ettelson; Linda S. Fisher; Kyle Freimuth; Jason Friedman; David Golder; Dana Gordon; Andrea Grostern; Marcie B. Hemmelstein; Joshua B. Herz; Scott Heyman; Dana Hirt; Ann-Louise Kleper; Frances Krasnow; Adrienne Kriezelman; Rabbi Vernon Kurtz; Jane Cadden Lederman; H. Debra Levin; Jennifer Levine; Brian J. Levinson; Francine F. Levy; Scott Lieber; Lee I. Miller; Steven Miller; Sanford Perl; Theodore Perlman; Paula Resnick; Thomas Rivkin; Elliott Robinson; Eric Rothner; Skip Schrayer; Steve Schreiber; Joseph Seigle; Midge Perlman Shafton; Wendy Berger Shapiro; David A. Sherman; Bill Silverstein; Alan P. Solow; Marc Spellman; Sara C. Star; Nina G. Stillman; Dr. Michele Sackheim Wein; Adam Winick; James Woldenberg; Rabbi Carol Wolkin; Andrea R. Yablon; Michael Zaransky; and Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, Ex-Officio and Nathaniel Sack, Ex-Officio.

UNABLE TO ATTEND: Harvey J. Barnett; Jodie Berkman; Debbie L. Berman; Ethan Budin; Scott I. Canel;

Rabbi Paul Cohen; Maury Fertig; Howard Friend; Linda Ginsburg; Richard C. Goodman; Andrew S. Hochberg; Cindy Kaplan; Deborah Schrayer Karmin; Penny Keeshin; Peter Kupferberg; Steven H. Lavin; Bruce Lederman; Stephen Malkin; Hon. Sidney Mathias; Marc Roth; Lisa Rubinstein; Mark Sacks; Michael J. Sacks; Charlene Sales; Keith J. Shapiro; Devra Resnick Shutan; Morris Silverman; Kim Shwachman; Barbara Kaplan Slutsky; Pam F. Szokol; Marilyn Vender; Avrum Weinfeld; and Joseph Wolf.

STAFF: Audra Berg; Aaron Cohen; Jeffrey L. Cohen; Deborah Covington; Shirley Dvorin;

Patti Frazin; Barb Gold; Donna Kahan; Michael Kotzin; Louis Lazovsky; Caryn Peretz; David Prystowsky; Susan Rifas; David Rosen; David Rubovits; Joe Salcik; Cindy Sher; Stuart Spector; Rachel Sternberg; Michael B. Tarnoff; Jay Tcath; Ariel Weiss.


JEWISH UNITED FUND

ACTIONS TAKEN


December 17, 2013

1. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors held on November 19, 2013, were approved.

2. Upon Motion Duly Made, Seconded and Carried, the 2014 Combined JUF-JF Office Budget in the

amount of $16,092,165 net of Agency support Services for a total of $18,702,959 and the net capital expenditures budget of $678,415, were approved.

DISCUSSION

1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

It was Moved, Seconded and Carried that the Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors, held on November 19, 2013, be approved. (Motion No. 1)

2. D’VAR TORAH Dana Hirt gave the D’var Torah. She said that in the week’s parsha, Va’yechi, we learn about the events leading up to Jacob’s death. He gathers his sons around him and blesses or rebukes them all. He rebukes his first-born Reuben for interfering in his marital life, he blesses his son Dan with the ability to judge, he blesses Judah with wine and milk … he blesses Isachar with the perseverance needed for Torah study. He rebukes Shimon and Levi for the massacre of Shechem and their role in Joseph’s sale. When reading Jacob’s final words to his sons and grandsons it occurred to her that we often wait too long to say things to the important people in our lives. We have all heard beautiful eulogies and wondered if the person being so lovingly described had the pleasure of hearing those thoughts articulated to them during their lifetime. And in contrast, she said she often heard from friends who are loathe to criticize a child for fear of ‘hurting their feelings’ who then regret failing to make their values understood or sharing their expectations. Her overall takeaway from the week’s reading was to recognize the importance of seizing the moment to say what is on our minds: To take advantage of every opportunity to communicate our values to our children and to tell people in our lives that they are loved and appreciated. She said, think about how you feel when someone recognizes you for a job well done or acknowledges the significant role you have had in their lives. She remembers hearing about the passing of one of her favorite high school teachers and writing to his sister to share her condolences and her gratitude for what she had taken from her experience with him. When she finished that letter, she said she took out a second sheet of paper to write a letter to another teacher who had made a profound difference in her life -- a teacher who saw value in her when she didn’t recognize it in herself. She did not want to wait to hear about her passing and tell her surviving family … she wanted her to know how she felt. She said if you are blessed to experience your child’s bar/bat mitzvah or wedding and you get to toast them in public … please don’t squander the opportunity. Take advantage of the moment and share the sense of wonder we parents feel when we watch our children grow and achieve and stumble and persevere and love … When you send that birthday note to a college friend or a colleague … or your mother … take an extra minute to share something about your relationship or an observation about them as a person. Don’t be afraid to take a stand. She said her 19-year-old son may not enjoy her repeated conversations with him about her position on drinking and drugs, but that doesn’t stop her from having them. He may not always listen to what she says, but, she said, he will know how she feels and understand when his actions are divergent with the values she has taught and the expectations she has shared.

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Jacob was lucky in the end to have the opportunity to sit with his sons and offer his blessings and admonishments … but we don’t have to wait. Fortunately, sharing our values and ensuring our legacy is central to our mission here at Federation and at the Jewish Women’s Foundation. We understand the significance of being models for our children and creating opportunities for their engagement. Philanthropy is one of those values that we must share with our children if we intend for our Federation to continue to be able to protect our community. She asked that everyone share their thoughts with their loved ones while they have the time to do it and G-d willing the time to enjoy the deeper relationship they will have created with their openness. Finally, do not misinterpret her words to grant permission for meanness hidden in the guise of honesty or full disclosure. Share your admiration, your love, your values, and your beliefs, and be mindful to be constructive in your criticisms and fair in your judgments. She concluded saying she hoped that everyone leaves the meeting committed to speaking now … to making that call, to writing that letter, or to sending that text … or perhaps even to opening that JUF donor advised fund for their children!

3. ISRAEL ACTION NETWORK

David A. Sherman, JUF Board member and Chair of the national Israel Action Network reported on the recent vote by the American Studies Association (ASA) to boycott Israeli universities from participating in ASA sponsored programs. He reminded the board that the Israel Action Network (IAN) was created and funded in part by the Jewish United Fund, in partnership with JFNA and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), to develop strategies to engage the Federation system and other national Jewish organizational partners in the fight against the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement. IAN has been monitoring the growing trend of academic associations developing resolutions of the type the ASA recently passed and, while IAN was not able to defeat the resolution head on, they were able to identify and cultivate key partners in the process, many of them non-Jewish. More importantly, shortly after the resolution passed the IAN, in coordination with local communities across the country, assembled a long list of prominent university Presidents who went on record to speak out against the ASA and the notion of an academic boycott of Israel. That list is still growing. He also discussed the upcoming Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference that would be held in Chicago in early January. While the MLA has yet to introduce a boycott resolution, the IAN and JUF are monitoring the conference closely and developing a multi-pronged approach of engagement that includes having a presence at the conference, a communications plan, and coordination with other Jewish organizations. That will be reported on at the January board meeting.

4. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT RE: 2013 and 2014 JUF Campaign Michael Zaransky. 2013 JUF General Campaign Chairman began with good news about the 2014 Campaign. It stands at $40,137,339 from 3,085 donors. We are running $3,011,818 ahead with a 12.8% gift for gift increase. We are also running 539 gifts ahead. Pertinent material regarding

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the 2013 and 2014 Campaigns was distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit A. He said that Brian J. Levinson and Steve Schreiber led a very successful mission to Israel and asked Mr. Levinson to report on it. Mr. Levinson said the Shimshon Mission was designed for men within the Orthodox community to see Israel in a way that they had never seen it before. He said he was pleased to chair the mission with Steve Schreiber and Avi Rothner. The mission was from Tuesday, November 12 – Tuesday November 19. Although many of the participants are seasoned travelers to Israel, most of the activities had never been done before by this group, specifically, meeting with representatives from both JAFI and the JDC. They also met with various politicians, Rabbis, and officers in the military. There were a total of 19 individuals on the mission, and everyone’s background was very diverse from both a religious and JUF involvement standpoint. The trip was a tremendous success. $116,910 was raised for the 2014 Annual Campaign and an additional $2,480 for the 2013 Annual Campaign. He said there is great buzz throughout the Orthodox community, as both lay leadership and professional staff members have heard from many who have expressed an interest in going on the trip next year. We are now in the process of meeting with each of the participants to see how they can get more involved with the JUF/JF (Boards, Committees, etc.). He said we are already building on the success from this mission, and it will ultimately help bridge what appears at times to be a gap between the Orthodox community and the JUF. There will be a mission reunion on Monday, January 6th. Shimshon II is now tentatively scheduled for Sunday, November 16 – Monday, November 24, 2014, and he was pleased to say that he and his co-chairs and will be leading the mission again next year. He concluded giving a special thanks to Rabbi Mordechai Raizman from the ATT for all his efforts in engaging the Orthodox community, and specifically his help and participation on this mission; and to Rabbi Yaakov Robinson, the rabbinic scholar on the mission. Rabbi Robinson was tremendous throughout the trip. Whenever Rabbi Robinson addressed the group, he always touched on the important role the JUF/JF plays within the Orthodox community. Adam Winick, Year-End co-chair, thanked the Board members who attended the pre-Board meeting phonothon. In just 90 minutes, $83,100 was raised. He invited everyone to sign up for the End-of-Year Phonothon on Sunday, January 5th at the Weinger JCC from 10 am-2pm. He said this is truly a Leadership phonothon and the last chance to make calls together to close the 2013 Campaign spectacularly. He also asked Board members to review the list of donors who had not yet made a gift to the 2013 Campaign and to mark who they, or someone they know, would be the best contact to close the gift. He said that as the end of the campaign approaches, everyone should think of one person they know who does not give to JUF and see if the person could be encouraged to make their first gift of any amount before we close the 2013 campaign. If everyone did that, approximately 100 new donors would be added to the annual campaign.

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Mr. Zaransky said the 2013 Campaign stands at $75,112,408 from 28,386 donors. We are running almost $3.5 million ahead with a 5.5% gift-for-gift increase; and 1,500 gifts ahead. He thanked the volunteer and professional leadership for all of their efforts. He noted that last month, the campaign stood at approximately $70 million so over $5 million was raised in one month; and that no events were held during the month. He said he expects the campaign will reach $80 which will be the first time in 5 years that we’ve been able to do that. He said that Chicago is an extraordinary Jewish community but we still need everyone’s participation to finish a successful 2013 campaign. RE: The Centennial Campaign Midge Perlman Shafton presented the Report on The Centennial Campaign. Pertinent material had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit B. She said that The Centennial Campaign has increased to $652,428,598 from 4,084 gifts. She was pleased to announce some recent gifts to the Centennial Campaign.

The Martin & Mary Boyer Foundation has made an endowment gift of $250,000 to the

Jewish Federation for the Center for Jewish Genetics, increasing their total support of The Centennial Campaign to $290,000.

Devra Resnick Shutan, Young Women’s Board President and JUF-JF Board member, and Leslie Apter, Women’s Board member, have signed Declarations of Intent for $100,000 for Campaign Continuity gifts to endow their Lion of Judah gift and become LOJE’s.

Brandon Prosansky, YLD Board member, has also signed a Declaration of Intent for a Campaign Continuity gift in the amount of $100,000.

She said that at the January Board meeting, there will be a special update on the success and continuation of the Jewish Day School Guarantee Trust Fund. For more information on how Board members can participate in The Centennial Campaign, they should talk with her, David T. Brown, Steven Nasatir, Jeffrey Cohen, David Rosen or Dee Anthony. RE: Legacies & Endowments Jane Cadden Lederman, Chair, was available to answer questions about the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit C. RE: Standing Committee on Supporting Foundations Mr. Brown presented the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit D. He said that The Standing Committee was established by resolution of the Board of Directors in 1985 and is authorized to oversee the operations and policies of the Supporting Foundation Program. The annual meeting of the Committee was convened on November 11th to receive an

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update on the fiscal year 2013 status of the family supporting foundation programs, the Day School Endowment Program and the Agency Endowment Program.

At June 30th, there were 36 supporting foundations of the Jewish Federation with aggregated assets of $512.2 million, the most assets in the history of the supporting foundation program. In FY2013, a total of $34.7 million in grants were distributed from supporting foundations; also the most grants ever given during a single year from the supporting foundation program. 76% of these grant dollars went to Jewish charities.

The Committee voted to accept the Covenant Foundation, as a new foundation. Its mission is to recognize and inspire excellence and innovation within the field of Jewish education in North America.

The Federation oversees six Day School Endowment Foundations with aggregate assets of $5.1 million which distributed a total of $308,500 to participating day schools in FY2013; the eight Agency Endowment Foundations currently have assets totaling $54 million and made distributions totaling $5.7 million to Federation agencies. For additional information, I would urge you to review the detailed report

As a result of cost recovery efforts, the Federation recovered $146,000 in tax preparation and audit expenses from its supporting foundations.

Just as a reminder, a supporting foundation is an excellent vehicle for families of wealth to organize their philanthropy from one generation to another with the guidance and assistance of our Federation. Our minimum asset base to establish a supporting foundation is $2 million. Because the IRS classifies supporting foundations differently than private foundations, these foundations can be quite beneficial for a number of reasons for donors looking to maximize their giving and minimize the expense and administrative burdens that accompany a private foundation. In addition, the Federation benefits from building an enhanced and often multi-generation relationship with the family. Anyone interested in more information about these vehicles should contact David Rosen.

5. REPORT OF OVERALL PLANNING & ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE Bill Silverstein, Chair, presented the Report of the Overall Planning & Allocations Committee. Pertinent material had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit E. He said that Committee met on December 3rd, to consider and act on the following items: the combined JUF-JF Office Budget for 2014, the first round of Breakthrough Fund proposals and a request for a mid-year budget increase for the Community Program Development Department.

RE: 2014 Combined JUF-JF Office Budget A copy of the proposed 2014 calendar year combined JUF/JF Office Budget was mailed to the Board and is attached in Exhibit E. He was pleased to report that there was very good attendance and discussion at the OPAC meeting as we continued our practice of inviting Board members who are not members of OPAC to attend.

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He then reviewed some of the key elements. Budget planning began with department staff and senior staff. The next step was a meeting involving David Brown, himself and JUF-JF professional leadership to review the budget in detail. The OPAC was then convened and every department was reviewed with appropriate staff providing details of their department. Members took advantage of the opportunity for questions and discussion.

Several institutional factors shaped the planning of this budget and JUF-JF priorities, recognizing prevailing circumstances and our fiduciary responsibilities, including the following detailed in specific department narratives: Annual Campaign that continues to rebound for the fourth consecutive year; Development of the JUF-JF Breakthrough Fund, which will support innovative efforts to

meet human needs and engage community members Jewishly throughout their lifespans; Ongoing consolidation and synthesis of the work of our agencies to ensure that Federation

allocations are focused on the achievement of essential outcomes; Advancing our own outreach efforts that build connection and identification with the Jewish

community, develop future leadership, and expand our donor base; JUF continuing to be one of the strongest leaders among North American federated

communities in the national and international system in the development of new initiatives, providing support to the pluralistic religious streams in Israel and commitment to the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI).

Intensifying market research and data analysis, which will help the development of a brand strategy for JUF that centers on answering the question, “What do we want people to believe about us that, if they believed it, they would want to be more involved with and supportive of us?”

Mr. Silverstein then presented a Power Point on the Office Budget, which included combined Revenues, a budget history – beginning in 2008 when the combined budget was $16,704,162, reduced to $14,764,526 in 2010 and which gradually increased to the proposed $16,092,165 net of Agency Support Services. He also noted that over the course of the same years, FTE’s went from 171.7 to 153.6 in the proposed 2014 budget – which is still lower than total FTE’s in 2008. He said the OPAC did not make any changes in the recommended budget though there excellent discussions about components of the budget. The OPAC recommends approval of the 2014 Office Budget of $16,092,165 net of Agency Support Services and total expenditures of $18,702,959; and, the net capital expenditures budget of $678,415 for JUF-JF.

It was Moved, Seconded and Carried, that the 2014 Combined JUF-JF Office Budget in the amount of $16,092,165 net of Agency support Services for a total of $18,702,959 and the net capital expenditures budget of $678,415, be approved. (Motion No. 2)


David T. Brown, Chairman, informed the Board of the following: Mr. Brown wished a Mazel Tov to Avrum Weinfeld whose daughter and son each got

married recently; to Andrew Hochberg on his 25th wedding anniversary; to Adrienne

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Kriezelman whose son Matthew just got engaged; and to Andrea Yablon who was celebrating her birthday.

The next Board meeting will be on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at the Federation building. He asked that everyone mark on their calendars, in keeping with our practice of holding one or more JUF-JF Board meetings at an agency location, the March 19th meeting will be held at Spertus; and the May 22nd meeting will be held at the Weinger JCC. Pertinent material and information will be sent in advance.

7. REPORT OF ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE CHAIR

David A. Baum, Chair of the Administration Committee, and Michael B. Tarnoff, Executive Vice President, presented a report on the conclusion of union negotiations.

8. REPORT OF COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING COMMITTEE

Andrea Grostern, Chair, was available to answer questions about the Report that had been mailed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit F.


Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, President, reported to the Board on the following: Dr. Nasatir reported on developments in Ukraine. There have been a growing number of

demonstrators in the streets of Kiev, calling for the resignation of President Yankovich. The trigger for the demonstrations was President Yankovich’s failure to sign a Free Trade agreement with the EU at a summit in Vilnius. It is believed that approximately 67,000 Jews live in Ukraine and it is increasingly problematic for the Jewish community living there. Dr. Nasatir said our agencies - JDC, JAFI and NCSJ – are watching the events carefully and are preparing plans for any risks to the following: public transportation limitations, shortage of food and supplies. And as banks may face problems selling foreign currency, JDC sold its entire US dollars in Kiev and are sending funds in local currency to the Hesed organizations. JDC also reports that it did not receive the Ukrainian Government Humanitarian Committee’s approval recognizing JDC as a tax-free operation. JDC is working in partnership with many individuals and organizations to solve this issue.

Dr. Nasatir referenced the October 14th event honoring Jeffrey Cohen and said that this was

Jeffrey’s last Board meeting as a full-time executive. He thanked Mr. Cohen for all his achievements over the years and wished him all good things going forward as he fulfills the mitzvah of making Aliyah.

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Mr. Brown informed that Board that as Jodi Newmark had resigned from the Board (and she had been Secretary), Eric Rothner, former Assistant Secretary would now be Secretary and that Marcie Hemmelstein agreed to serve as Assistant Secretary. Mr. Rothner presented the Report of the Secretary which had been distributed to the Board and is attached to these Minutes as Exhibit G. He informed the Board that the Jewish United Fund had been informed of the following bequests: JEWISH UNITED FUND Unrestricted Billie Dale Delevitt $ 578,985 Matlin & Associates, P.C.

*Robert J. Goldsmith $ 5,000 * Silver Circle The meeting adjourned at 7:20 pm.


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