A new, innovative, donor-focused initiative that:

• Provides donors with a wide variety of clearly defined Jewish philanthropic products.
• Allows donors to support the broad Jewish community as well as to customize their individual gifts to specific areas of philanthropic interest.
• Helps donors create a balanced Jewish philanthropic investment portfolio.
• Offers donors "one-stop" philanthropic shopping.
• Affords donors the opportunity to be recognized for their total community giving.
• Allocates funds based on identified needs and priorities in Colorado, Israel and around the world.
• Shifts funding from the traditional beneficiary-agency model to one based on priority service areas and best-practice service providers.

GOALS

• Raise more money to address local and global Jewish needs.
• Increase the number of people who are financially committed to supporting Jewish life.
• Give donors more choice, control and flexibility with their giving in order to maximize their philanthropic investment.
• Ensure that community needs and priorities are identified and addressed.
• Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of dollars supporting the Jewish community by reducing service duplication and rewarding service provider excellence.
• Reduce the dollars spent on infrastructure; increase the dollars spent on services.
• Forge a more collaborative relationship between the Federation and the organizations that provide services.

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