GAMCO’s Mario Gabelli addressed a standing-room only crowd at JCF’s Advisors Breakfast on April 18 at the Omni Berkshire Place Hotel in Manhattan. He spoke about the topic: “Value Investing – is it Still the Way to Go?” Attendees included Trust & Estate attorneys, financial advisors and family office professionals. If you haven’t already, check…
Did you know that an estimated 20% of the Jewish population in the United States is affected by some type of disability? Learn more about funding inclusively by attending ADVANCE: The Ruderman Jewish Disabilities Funding Conference, the premier gathering of funders from around the Jewish world who are passionate about the field of disabilities. Come together to…
Jewish Communal Fund is delighted to welcome Teena Lerner to our Board of Trustees. Teena, a former bio-tech analyst and hedge fund manager, holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from The Rockefeller University. She currently serves as Chair of the Development Committee at Salanter Akiba Riverdale (SAR) Academy, a Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School in…
Few TED talks have created as long a trail as Dan Pallotta’s recent one. But the issues he recently raised about the role of the NFP sector and funding overhead are not new at all. Those of us who teach and advise funders address this question all the time. And thankfully, despite the suggestion to…
Alexandra Kukoff, a ninth grader at Thousand Oaks in California, regularly blogged for Babaganewz as a companion piece to her book, “A Jewish Girl’s Guide to a Bat Mitzvah Project,” which interviews girls of all ages about their Bat Mitzvah Projects. Last year, she won Seventeen Magazine’s 2011 Fiction Contest through Scholastic. Read her winning entry…