Supported | Jewish Federation of Winnipeg

SUPPORTED WITH INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPACITY BUILDING

Engage in the strategic planning and capacity building that enables all of the above.

Strategic Goals and Action Areas

STRATEGIC THINKING

Youth Engagement and Continuity Strategy

Coordinated Volunteer Empowerment

Affordability Funding Strategy

Cross Communal Fundraising and Sustainability Strategy

CENTRAL COORDINATION

Cross Communal Leadership and Board Development Opportunities

Cross Communal Communications Strategy

Inventory:

- Community Forward Community Planning process!

Plans for Community Forward process - 2022-23 Plans:

- Comparing to the latest census. Each time data is made available from the Canadian census, the data can be combines with other community information to assess needs and gaps as they exist almost in real time.

For instance comparing the number of PJ Library subscriptions with the number of eligible children who existed when the census was taken provides a rate for market penetration while the PJ Library survey data provided by the Grinspoon Foundation assesses effectiveness for that population.

- Ongoing planning cycle – Prepare for broad based community consultations in 2024. Stages could include:

Developing broad community survey on needs
Population based surveys on engagement
Assessing community impact with short one and two question surveys sent by organizations broadly or after events.
Comparing available data from census and surveys opposite goals for engagement in community.

Highlights – new in 2021/22:

What’s Up in Jewish Winnipeg continued to expand and refresh.

Level up Leadership initiatives were launched for board development and cross communal staff and leadership development. The planned Leadership course did not attract registration and will be re-invented in 2022-23. The Board Development workshop on Board Culture was also too low in registration to run in 2022 though there was enthusiastic interest expressed by most organizations.

Lunches with Love crossed the 6000 lunches threshold and gathered the volunteers tocelebrate and renew their commitment.

2016-2021 Actions & 2022 Plans:

Youth Engagement See Vibrant Jewish Life – Action Area: Outreach

- “Youth Concierge” - In the fall of 2021, staff and lay leaders are re-engaging in plans for collaborative youth (teen) outreach. Planners recommend using the new Senior Concierge program as a model for developing this collaborative.

Coordinated Volunteer Empowerment - 2022-23 Plans:

Begin cross communal planning in 2022 to focus on the goal of empowering volunteers at the intersection of Jewish life and social action. Lunches with Love modelled achieved during the pandemic proved the value of empowering volunteers to take on community projects.

Lunches with Love: launched in October 2020. By the end of its second year, 30 volunteers produced more than 6000 lunch bags with tuna sandwiches, juice, box, fruit, and cookies. They were made in their homes, picked up by two volunteer drivers and delivered two Mondays per month to 1 Just City, an average of 146 lunch bags each time. In 2022, a third volunteer driver came on board to deliver 3 Mondays per month. In November 2022, coordination was taken over by one of the volunteers.

- Consider more Peer to peer program models to empower volunteers and fill gaps, e.g. Active Aging peer networks.

4,100

Lunch Bags

Were prepared by 30 volunteers and delivered to 1 Just City by February 2022, addressing food insecurity in Winnipeg during the pandemic.

Affordability Funding Strategy

The committee changed its name to Accessibility and commissioned survey of applicants for subsidies regarding process and value of a central assessment. Creating a central process was not generally favoured.

Cross Communal Fundraising and Sustainability Strategy

While no specific discussion has taken place on this issue, the Affordability Committee was hoping to address this matter. Some of the interesting data and questions include:

35%

of 2015

Community budget revenue come from Government sources. What if government funding policies change?

46%

of 2017

Beneficiary agency budget revenue comes from user fees (membership, tuition, program fees, etc.). Up from 42% in 2010. What will be affordable in 10 years?

Cross Communal Leadership & Board Development Opportunities

- Level Up leadership – 3 levels of programming for Young Leadership development, Board development, Staff development were planned based on a grant approved from the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba.

Board and staff development were launched with a JEDI (Jewish Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) seminar with the JFNA lead in their new department, who trained 34 participants from 14 organizations to begin the conversation.
The Education and Engagement Committee hosted a webinar with Gather Inc on the Hearbeat Model of relational engagement.

- Hillel Leadership development opportunities for students provides ongoing access to local, national and international opportunities, which will hopefully resume in 2023.

Cross Communal Communications

- What's Up In Jewish Winnipeg – 30% open rate through it’s first year, can adapt and follow up based on “click rates” for certain options – e.g. “What’s on for seniors” is a big hit, as well as the Jewish Holiday Events calendar

- 4600 subscribers as of fall 2022 with 40-45% open rate.

- PJ Library Newsletter – 1400 people with 45-50% open rate

- Social media effectiveness in 2022:

PJ Facebook page achieve 720 likes reaching 620,
PJ Instagram achieves 823 followers reaching 460 people
My Shabbat, Welcome Wednesday, and other popular features are helping to highlight all the programming and community opportunities available on Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms.
Website chat and Facebook inquiries were instituted as online referral service

- In the future, the Engagement Committee can reconsider an information kiosk and volunteer staffed referral service to complement Federation website and social media as central sources for community information.

In the Inventory as a result of Strategic Initiatives:

The Community Forward Community Planning process! Now established as ongoing with partners and community members involved in each step, the process included a checkpoint in August of 2022 to determine what is left on the agenda and how the new cycle might act on the commitment to consult – through surveys, focus groups, etc. in the coming years.

GrowWinnipeg - starting in 2001

Impact of Grow Winnipeg – 30% of Everyone – As of 2021, those immigrants who come to Winnipeg through the GrowWinnipeg strategy are reflected in every aspect of community life, including: dayschool population; community celebrations like Yom Ha’atzmaut, Chanukah candle lighting, and Jewish family activities at the RJCC, through PJ Library, etc.; staff of Jewish community organizations; board and volunteer leaders in Jewish organizations; and life cycle events like bar/bat mitzvah, marriages, births, etc.

GrowWinnipeg 2021/22 by the numbers:

- 33 families plus 2 individuals arrived from Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Ukraine Russia, Ukraine
- 15 exploratory visitors from 5 countries
- 28 candidates scheduling the in-person exploratory visits.
- 32 candidates waiting to schedule their visits as the challenges of travel haven't been solved, including visitor's visas, flight distortion, and for many retaking IELTS.
- More than 300 people are in different stages of document collection and application.
- 50 promotional individual meetings with new prospects Welcoming event in person greeted 52 participants
- 120 volunteers connected with immigration candidates and their families

The Asper Jewish Community Campus – opened in 1997 The revitalization of our community facilities with the opening of the campus strengthened the community and its organizations, enabling outreach and collaboration at new heights. Having a secure central home allows organizations to reach out with programming in different neighbourhoods.