Venezuela – Shoham

Partnership

2 Cheshvan 5776

2015 October 15th

Strategic Planning Day

Our Goals and Outcomes for Today • Summarizing the Budapest experience as well as extracting the

central ideas and thoughts that came up during the tour

• Gathering the many perspectives from all participants and pooling these together thus creating a joint commitment and sense of success

• Extracting key themes from each community’s needs and challenges, opportunities and strengths

• Forging a joint vision statement based upon the Partnership unit’s vision

• Agreeing upon the central programmatic areas for the Partnership and their respective goals (as direct derivatives of the vision statement)

• Creating a set of criteria for project selection (as derivatives of the vision statement)

• Laying down initial benchmarks for a Partnership work plan

Today’s Timetable 9:30 Opening – Our Goals and Outcomes for Today – Mayor Gil, Anabella and Cheryl

9:45 From Values to Vision – Elan and Noga

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Partners’ Needs, Opportunities and Challenges – Mayor Gil and Anabella

Choosing Focus Areas for Partnership Activities and their Goals – Yahal and Noga

1:00 Lunch

2:15 Criteria for Project Selection – Yahal and Noga

3:00 Main Benchmarks for our Next Year’s Work-plan – Yahal and Noga

3:45 “Parking Lot” – Yahal

4:00 Seminar Summary – Elan and Yahal

Our Partnership’s Vision

What?

Why?

How?

A Vision Statement

Vision is the ability to create a

mental image of a desired future

Visions That Have Been Realized

Partnership Without a Vision

Volunteers

Budgets

Region

in Israel Jewish

Community

Living

Bridge Community

Development

Delegations

Education

Partnership with Compelling Vision

Partnership

Vision

שותפות ביחד מגלמת את השינויים כולם

Partnership embodies all of

the changes

שינויים בעולם

Global changes

שינויים בעולם היהודי

Changes in the Jewish world

שינויים בישראל

Changes in Israel

שינויים בסוכנות ובפדרציות היהודית

היהודיות

Changes in the Jewish Agency and the

Jewish Federations

Why a New Partnership Vision?

Adapting to a Changing Environment

The value of a vision for a partnership

• Provides a “compass” – an updated and agreeable

direction for the Partnership to strive towards;

provides clarity and focus for stakeholders

• Defines “borders” – what belongs to Partnership

and what does not; helps balance between

different agendas.

• Empowers and motivates all people involved;

evokes emotion and spreads enthusiasm

• Contributes to Partnership effectiveness &

efficiency - clarifies decision making; provides a

basis for prioritizing projects.

Shoham “City Without Violence” Project Vision

• A global & united Jewish people made up of a rich tapestry of strong, vital flourishing, interconnected Jewish individuals, families & communities which enriches Jewish continuity & identity with Israel at its heart.

Vision

• To develop & strengthen Jewish communities in Israel & overseas by creating revitalized, ongoing & meaningful engagement between members of these communities, based on mutual endeavor & shared Jewish identity.

Mission

• To be the central platform for the promotion, empowerment & development of cohesion among Jewish communities.

Purpose

Partnership2Gether Vision & Mission

community partnership “A light onto

all nations" family Judaism

friends business live

connections

People to

People Community

development

identity leadership Social

responsibility education culture

entrepreneurship immigration mutuality mega

community social capital

roots togetherness volunteers religion resilience

nonperishable fundraising reciprocity the chosen

people tradition

standardization community

building

fate

covenant heritage assimilation

give in order

to belong

belong in

order to give

Second generation

leadership community

enterprise regulation

cooperation partnership A call future “tikun olam”

peoplehood

Jewish

consciousness

ethnicity

philanthropy

diaspora

solidarity

history

pluralism

a birth-right

unify

diversity

Community

Of

Purpose

“open

tent”

Collective

Identity coherency

mutual

responsibility

Mutual responsibility

Extended family

Peoplehood

Solidarity

Collective (Jewish) Identity

Education

Our Partnership Chosen Core Values

A global & united Jewish people made up of a rich tapestry of strong,

vital flourishing, interconnected Jewish individuals, families &

communities which enriches Jewish continuity & identity with Israel at its

heart.

Partnership2Gether Vision

Vision

Mutual responsibility

Extended family

Peoplehood

Solidarity

Collective (Jewish) Identity

Education

The Similarities of Our Partnership’s Core Values

Interpersonal relations

Strengthening Israel

Klal Yisrael

Strengthening the communities

Collective (Jewish) Identity

Our Chosen Core Values, Budapest Exercise

P2G Core Values, Extracted from Vision Statement

Our Partnership Vision

• Please envision a world where the Partnership between Venezuela and Shoham is an incredible success

• What does this world look like? Feel like? Behave like?

• Please utilize some of the core values the group has chosen to better describe this world

Our Partnership’s Chosen Vision

Vibrant community friendships based on mutual responsibility

between Shoham and Venezuela

Making the best out of being Jewish in order to create

vibrant community friendships based on

mutual responsibility

Between Shoham and Venezuela

An enhanced version of the vision statement as suggested by some

committee members.

This statement could serve as a basis for future discussions

Mapping Our Communities Needs, Strengths and Opportunities

Shoham Mapping Needs • A desire to develop relations with

Diaspora Jewry • Need for investments in facilities

and infrastructure of Shoham • Deepen the values of the youth in

the area of mutual responsibility • Need for business investments

Trends • Population growth

Challenges • Median age younger than average

Opportunities & Strengths

• Sense of community • High level of voluntarism • Young population • Young town • Quality education; educated population • Good relations between religious and secular • Growing / developing community • Strong and supportive political leadership • Good ties with central government • A site for business investments • Volunteers

Venezuela Mapping Needs • Teachers; Shlihim; Training, Hebrew; • Developing Zionist education • Inter-generational projects • Focus on youth and young adults • Help in promoting and supporting Aliya

and Olim • Special needs skills • Teen trip to Israel with extension in

Shoham • Teens to teens connections; school

twinnings

Trends • Chabbad student growth • Less activities on Shabbat

Challenges • Aging community and community

organizations • Religious polarity • Growing poverty • Young adults leaving • Community decreasing in numbers • Political situation

Opportunities & Strengths

• Sense of community • The “Hebraica” model • Philosophy and culture of giving • Volunteering • Mutual responsibility ערבות הדדית

• Co-existence between Sephardi and Ashkenazi

• Entrepreneurial spirit

Meeting Needs, Utilizing Strengths

Shoham- Venezuela Mapping Needs • A desire to develop

relations with Diaspora Jewry

• Need for investments in facilities and infrastructure of Shoham

• Deepen the values of the youth in the area of mutual responsibility

• Need for business investments

Needs • Teachers; Shlihim; Training,

Hebrew; • Developing Zionist education • Inter-generational projects • Focus on youth and young

adults • Help in promoting and

supporting Aliya and Olim • Special needs skills • Teen trip to Israel with

extension in Shoham • Teens to teens connections;

school twinnings

How Can Partnership Meet Some of the Needs, Trends and

Challenges

Shoham- Venezuela Mapping

Initial Thoughts Towards Choosing Focus Areas Needs • A desire to

develop relations with Diaspora Jewry

• Need for investments in facilities and infrastructure of Shoham

• Deepen the values of the youth in the area of mutual responsibility

• Need for business investments

Opportunities & Strengths

• Sense of community • High level of

voluntarism • Young population • Young town • Quality education;

educated population • Good relations

between religious and secular

• Growing / developing community

• Strong and supportive political leadership

• Good ties with central government

• A site for business investments

• Volunteers

Needs • Teachers; Shlichim;

Training, Hebrew; • Developing Zionist

education • Inter-generational

projects • Focus on youth and

young adults • Help in promoting

and supporting Aliya and Olim

• Special needs skills • Teen trip to Israel

with extension in Shoham

• Teens to teens connections; school twinnings

Opportunities & Strengths

• Sense of community

• The “Hebraica” model

• Philosophy and culture of giving

• Volunteering • Mutual

responsibility ערבות הדדית

• Co-existence between Sephardi and Ashkenazi

• Entrepreneurial spirit

Shoham Venezuela

Defining Partnership Focus Areas

Partnership Meeting the Trends and Challenges

Bringing our own additional perspectives of the needs, trends, opportunities,

strengths and challenges, please choose two areas in which you believe Partnership

can make a difference

Please refer to the Partnership Vision

Please write each area on a separate Post It note

Our Chosen Partnership Focus Areas

• Education (with an emphasis on Hebrew)

• Entrepreneurship and investment (some as a first step towards making Aliyah)

• Making Shoham a “home away from home” for Venezuelan program participants, visitors, volunteers, etc.

• Developing young leadership (20-40 years old)

• Community building projects

Creating Project Ideas for Our Partnership Focus Areas

Workgroups

Venture Group Ideas for Projects:

Some base assumptions: • It is challenging to mix Zionism, Judaism,

partnership and business • The project ideas are based on the hunch that

every kid (in Israel and Venezuela) wants to be a rich person when they grow up

• Perhaps we can utilize trends of ecological and healthy life

• The “side effects” or added values of these projects will possibly be Zionist love and “kosher” matchmaking

Venture Group Ideas for Projects:

Project Ideas: 1. Build an incubator or for-profit “start up” connecting

young populations in Shoham and Venezuela. The online project and communication of the group will include mentoring, sharing ideas, bringing each other up to date and showcasing the projects

2. Marketing and advertising investing channels in Shoham to Venezuelan investors. Some investment ideas: • A radio station • A convention center including a mall, hotel etc.

Education Group Ideas for Projects: Some base assumptions and thoughts: • Many already existing projects in Israel can be duplicated in Venezuela Project Ideas:

1. Jira – Venezuelan students coming over to Israel, will extend their stay and spend time in Shoham. Since these are Madrichim, they will enjoy home hospitality as well as one on one meetings with the Madrichim in Shoham from different groups The Venezuelans will learn some of the existing projects and will go back home with ideas to implement in their community; possibly even building joint program together with Israeli peers

2. “Short term” communal programs – interested people from the two communities will form a joint committee to design projects together. We are about the building process. An example: communications to form KESHER

3. Education Group Ideas for Projects:

Project Ideas – cont’d: 3. Creating connections between kindergartens and kindergarten

teachers 4. Enhancing Hebrew language studies in venezuela through

“school twinning” programs 5. Community development / Leisure project ideas: – gardening,

arts, sports, sculpture garden, 3rd age club, communal cooking book, Jewish festival book, sell books for revenue, and give away to community members

6. Celebrating together holidays like “leil Haseder” 7. International competitions 8. Utilizing local experts for exchange delegations and building

programs together

Developing Criteria for Effective Project

Selection and Evaluation

• Make sure we are achieving the partnership's goals

• Choose & evaluate programs

• Better decision-making

• Transparency and accountability

• Build consensus

• Build basis for a learning organization

Why Do We Need Pre-Determined Criteria for Selecting Programs?

Strategic & Operational Criteria

Strategic Criteria

• Relevance • Impact

• Scope

Operational Criteria

• Work structure

• Management

• Resources

Partnership Chosen Criteria for Project Selection

Strategic / Operational

Criteria

Strategic

Program is aligned with the Goals, focal areas and target populations of the Partnership

Strategic

The program address a real need in one or more of the communities

Strategic Program strengthens Jewish identity and Peoplehood

Operational

The program has effective professional and volunteer leadership.

Operational

The program has realistic goals and a high probability of meeting them

Looking Into the Crystal Ball

What are the 2-3 goals that would be important

for this committee to achieve one year from

now?

Practical steps and

comments

Who will

make this

happen?

Success

Indicators

Achieved

by when

Our Goal

Start by expanding the communal knowledge of Partnership: • Advertise through the communal channels

and media • Create events that interest the media • Advertise the Partnership projects

Needs to be determined

• The people of both communities will know more than they do now about each other and the potential of the other community

One year Making Shoham a “home away from home” for Venezuelans – to visit, create friendships and to build

• Create a communication structure /channels – possibly a committee (or another structure) of professionals and volunteers

• Create an online site housing information about Partnership its activities and projects

• Make a conscious attempt to relate everything to do with Israel in Venezuela to Partnership

• Define and agree upon a decision making body and work processes – how will project decisions be made

• Decide on coordinators for each Partnership project– possibly 2 coordinators (1 from each community). Get more people from the community on board to assist and enhance.

• Openly publicize ideas and decisions to everyone

Needs to be determined

• Completion of a first joint project

• Creation of a joint blog / Facebook

• Clear decision making and work processes in place

One year More and better communication between the members of the committee

Let’s Make it Happen!

Suggested Next Steps

• Convene volunteer workgroups by focus area: Venture group volunteers: Gil Admoni, Henry, Nelson, Gabby, Morris. Professional guide: Dina

Education group volunteers: Ronit, Avi, Yael, Anita Professional guides: Cheryl and Michal

Overarching professional overview of focus areas: Anabella and Peleg Reshef

Each volunteer group will:

– Create goals for the focus area

– Further develop the ideas discussed (and others) into detailed project cards

Suggested Next Steps – Cont’d

• Convene a (virtual) committee meeting to:

– Share the project ideas developed by the volunteer teams

– Apply the chosen criteria to determine project priorities

– Agree on chosen projects

– Decide on next major steps and a timetable

Parking Lot

Parking Lot • Completion of mission statement based on the vision

exercise and the core values chosen by the group

October 2015 Cheshvan 5776

Venezuela – Shoham

Committee

Thank You!