Hillel of Silicon Valley is a small organization with a very limited number of transactions, donations and vendor base. The current annual budget is approximately $500K. We are looking for a review of our financial statements, transactions and processes.
Past Opportunities
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Congregation Sha’ar Zahav seeks marketing, social media, and publishing advice to expand sales of its one-of-a-kind, inclusive Siddur.
Estimated Time
Approximately 20+ hoursFilled
The San Francisco Hillel seeks a consultant to help plan a high-end luncheon event celebrating one of our community members. The Hilel needs help with high-level planning (timeline, major implementation steps, venue selection, etc.) and implementation.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Be'chol Lashon seeks a seasoned business strategist to help us identify and test opportunities to monetize our unique programs and intellectual capital. For over a decade, Be'chol Lashon has been the sole professional organization developing and running programs (e.g. educational, training and travel) focused on the racial and ethnic diversity of the Jewish people.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS) is a national initiative promoting accurate K-12 education on Jewish history. ICS is establishing a National Advisory Council of Jewish leaders from around the country to advance its work and impact. ICS's director seeks a coach to give advice on building the Council and ensuring its effectiveness.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Are you an excel spreadsheet ninja? Jewish Kids Groups, a ridiculously cool new Hebrew school model in Atlanta Georgia, seeks assistance to improve our current pro-forma so that it will reflect the nuances of our business and our ambitious growth plan.
Estimated Time
Two to four hours per month Filled
Help build a Jewish fair trade movement, linking consumer choices with Jewish values! We are seeking at least five new Advisory Board members, expanding our leadership capacity to grow our programs and achieve financial sustainability.
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To be determinedFilled
Jamestown Community Center provides low-income youth in SF’s Mission district with learning opportunities and safe space. We are seeking guidance to map out a process for reconfiguring our Salesforce database to align with our newly revised evaluation framework.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
Wilderness Torah is applying to trademark the names of its programs. We are seeking a pro bono legal expert to review our trademark applications and guide us through the process.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Jewish Gateways is designing a responsive, low-barrier model for engaging Jews and their families who have not found satisfying, personally meaningful ways to connect with Jewish tradition. We need help communicating this clearly and effectively to local and national audiences.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
SF Hillel's Operations and Office Manager, who has tremendous talent and potential, is new to the position. She is seeking a coach to build and improve skills, and advise her as she takes on her first professional role.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
Hasidah receives applications for grants and loans to help pay for in vitro fertilization. We need people to review the applicants' financial data and provide analysis and summary information to the full application committee to help them determine eligibility for funding.
Estimated Time
Ten to twenty hours, but fewer is still helpful.Filled
BlueStar, a nonprofit that humanizes perceptions about Israel, seeks one or more consultants to advise us in the design and dissemination of an online survey, in-person focus groups, and evaluation of findings. This work will inform the creation and launch of new resources to support the needs of progressive Jews who wish to engage and lead their progressive and pro-Israel peers.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Camp Tawonga is looking for a branding expert to provide help developing naming conventions for expanded programs and creating an organizational tagline.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
B'nai Israel Jewish Center of Petaluma is a small, active and energetic community that offers a value-added approach to being part of a Jewish community. B’nai Israel seeks a professional to lead us through a process to renew our position in the community.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
The Jewish Community Free Clinic provides free medical care to anyone in need, regardless of ethnicity, race or religion. To support its free medical services, the Clinic seeks an event planner to advise it on two exciting and important fundraising events.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Camp Tawonga is looking for a marketing expert to guide us in refining our marketing strategies and to mentor our new, talented marketing director on best practice regarding messaging, marketing tactics and marketing evaluation.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Fair Trade Judaica, a young growing nonprofit building a fair trade movement in the Jewish community, seeks assistance to evaluate our current marketing for online store sales and determine how we can increase sales.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
J., the Jewish News Weekly of Northern CA, seeks marketing advice to promote the forthcoming launch of our new website—a pivotal organizational milestone.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
This is My Earth (TiME) is an environmental startup led by two Israeli ecologists who have built an innovative crowdsourcing platform to preserve biodiversity and reduce habitat destruction. This international team of preeminent environmental scientists and activists is looking for PR professionals to help them develop a publicity plan, write press releases, and make media contacts and story placements.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
This is My Earth (TiME) is an environmental startup led by two Israeli ecologists who have built an innovative crowdsourcing platform to preserve biodiversity and reduce habitat destruction. This international team of preeminent environmental scientists and activists is looking for consultants to help craft and execute a social media strategy.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
St. John Coltrane Church, a religious, cultural, and political force in San Francisco for over 48 years seeks help to develop a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo and a social media presence to support the campaign.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
The Jewish Circle Theatre (JCT) is a vibrant community theatre production company producing highly-regarded Jewish-themed live performances throughout the Bay Area. JCT seeks a consultant to help us craft and execute a social media strategy. We have hundreds of audience members who we would like to engage on an ongoing basis through social media.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
Congregation Etz Chayim, independent spiritual community of about 300 households, is updating its by-laws. We are looking for an attorney to review our proposed by-law revisions for consistency with legal requirements associated with our non-profit status.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Jewish New Teacher Project seeks financial advice and hands-on support to re-examine our business model, which is currently 20% fee-for-service and 80% philanthropy. The pro bono consultant would help us conduct a financial analysis to explore our options for pricing, sliding scale fees, and other possible sources of earned-revenue.
Estimated Time
To be determined Filled
The Jewish Community Center Sonoma County is undergoing a period of change and growth. It recently hired a new Executive Director who was promoted to the position after serving as organization’s Film Festival Director. The executive coaching would focus on: change management, priority setting, partnership building, and leadership development.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Zero Breast Cancer focuses on breast cancer prevention and the environmental causes of breast cancer. Zero Breast Cancer seeks an attorney to revise and update its by-laws.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
The South Peninsula Hebrew Day School is looking for an employment attorney to review and provide guidance on existing and future employment contracts.
Estimated Time
Four hoursFilled
Brand strategy consultant to lead brainstorming session on brand position.
Estimated Time
More than 20 hoursFilled
RememberUs.org is dedicated to raising awareness and commemorating the lesser-known events of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, primarily in Ukraine. We are working closely with local officials, researchers, and educators in Ukraine to create online Holocaust museums to show the history of the shtetls. We are seeking a web developer to help us to develop these innovative and important virtual museums.
Estimated Time
To be determined Filled
With over 130 campers already registered, Camp Ramah in Northern California, an innovative new Jewish summer overnight camp in Monterey Bay with specialty tracks in ocean exploration, performing arts and adventure sports, seeks consultants with finance, HR, or legal expertise to review established operational protocols and systems to ensure best practices, and if possible, advise as new scenarios arise with the launch of the exciting camp this June. This is an exciting opportunity to help a new venture thrive.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
Jewish LearningWorks seeks legal advice to better understand and protect its intellectual property.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
In a highly competitive process, Wilderness Torah was just awarded multiple-year seed funding to execute its plan to launch a training and consulting business based on its successful nonprofit model, designed to disseminate its community-building and educational model while creating financial sustainability. Wilderness Torah seeks to assemble a team of start-up, marketing, finance, HR and legal advisors to support it in operationalizing this new social venture.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
The Russian-Speaking Jews Program of the Jewish Community Federation will hold a major event commemorating Jews who served in the Russian Army in World War II. We seek a consultant to make a short video for the event from existing digital interviews with Jews who fought in the Russian Army. Russian fluency required.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
ZMANIM seeks a consultant to help us streamline our SquareSpace based website and to make the user interface as clear and beautiful as possible.
Estimated Time
To be determined Filled
With seed capital from the Jewish Community Federation, Wilderness Torah is launching a (for-profit) training and consulting business based on its successful nonprofit model. Wilderness Torah seeks an experienced entrepreneur who has started and scaled training/consulting businesses to lead the business model development for this exciting new social venture.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Reboot, incubator of Jewish arts/culture and inventive network, is building the first seamless digital to real life web platform for a meaningful life lived Jewishly, for the roughly 1.2 million emerging adults in their 20s and 30s who navigate Jewishness principally through culture. Reboot seeks one or more advisors to help us strengthen our draft business and marketing plans for the web platform and its digital components, and to build our own capacity in these areas.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
To adapt to changing consumer preferences for viewing live theater, the Jewish Circle Theatre is interested in exploring new business opportunities and strategies that bring in new audiences and generate earned-income for the young nonprofit production company.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Celebrated as the builder of the nation’s most innovative-inclusive playground, the Magical Bridge Foundation just incorporated as a nonprofit organization with the purpose of igniting a global movement to build socially inclusive spaces for the disabled. We now seek business advisors to help design our start-up strategy and business model and to think through Board development and recruitment.
Estimated Time
More than 20 hours per yearFilled
BimBam (formerly G-dcast) produces online videos and mobile apps to make basic Jewish literacy fun and accessible. We are seeking three board members to help take our new media production company to the next stage of development.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Educating for Excellence (E4E), an Israeli non-profit, seeks a Public Relations Consultant to help the organization build awareness within the United States of its successful programs, which create educational opportunities for children living in poverty in Israel.
Estimated Time
Several hours per monthFilled
Shalom Bayit is the Bay Area's hub for organizing domestic violence prevention and response through a Jewish lens. This year, our Board of Directors is seeking new candidates for our current five-member, all-women Board.
Estimated Time
Over 20 hours per year. Filled
Zero Breast Cancer focuses on breast cancer prevention and the environmental causes of breast cancer. We are seeking new board members who will support this work because they want to play a role reducing the burden of breast cancer on our community.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
New Spirit, an Israeli nonprofit, is launching an exciting partnership with the Mayor of Jerusalem to invigorate the City’s cultural economy. New Spirit seeks a copy writer to redo its primary marketing brochure used for English-speaking audiences around the world to feature this innovative partnership along with its other initiatives that harness the creative talent of young people.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
National Council of Jewish Women San Francisco Section (NCJW SF) seeks a copywriter to help develop donor packets, marketing materials, social media messages and other outreach materials.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
JCC Maccabi Sports Camp seeks the support of a marketing expert to help us refine our marketing strategy and implement innovative ways to engage the community via traditional, digital and contemporary marketing methods.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Swords to Plowshares seeks law firms to partner with to expand our capacity to represent low-income and homeless veterans in the Bay Area with their VA disability benefits claims and military discharge upgrades. Swords to Plowshares provides needed legal training.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Yom Rishon School, a newly established 501c3 organization, seeks help implementing QuickBooks to manage the school’s finances. The school provides Jewish studies in Russian for families with children 2–15 years old.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
Yom Rishon School just received its 501c3 status and seeks advice on accounting practices to comply with CA requirements for non-profit organizations. The school provides Jewish studies in Russian for families with children 2–15 years old.
Estimated Time
Ten to fifteen hoursFilled
The South Peninsula Hebrew Day School is looking for an attorney to review and provide guidance on existing and potential future leases.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Hillel of Chico’s Executive Director seeks training in fiscal management, budgeting and financial reporting and assistance setting up the requisite financial systems. The Executive Director, who has newly taken on this responsibility, is fun, smart, easy to work with and eager to learn!
Estimated Time
Less than tenFilled
Friendship Circle seeks assistance in presenting our financial data to clearly and concisely reflect the organization and operations.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
The Institute for Curriculum Services seeks a consultant to help analyze our needs and make database recommendations. The consultant would help create a list of affordable vendors who can meet our needs.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
BlueStarPR seeks an evaluation of our current Google AdWords and YouTube advertising campaigns and training on how to optimize our reach, effectiveness and impact to take advantage of up to $40,000 in free advertising awards.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
Kevah, currently subleases desks to several small Jewish non-profits (Moishe House, Hasidah and Wilderness Torah). We have other open desks and would like assistance finding more tenants (nonprofits or individuals) to share our co-working space.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
The American Jewish World Service seeks training in public speaking for its four San Francisco-based staff.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Wilderness Torah seeks a consultant to assess our current compensation package against the Bay Area baseline and recommend changes to be a competitive employer as we prepare for substantial growth. Also, we seek a review of contract positions to assess if any should be classified as an employee.
Estimated Time
More than 20 hoursFilled
Wilderness Torah seeks a consultant to help us produce a comprehensive employee handbook, documenting basic employment policies: benefits, management (reviews, telecommuting, etc.), property, employee conduct, wages, safety and health, and termination.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Jewish LearningWorks seeks help figuring out the most cost-effective method to support the IT needs of its staff and operations.
Estimated Time
Filled
G-dcast is eager to maximize its use of Salesforce and take greater advantage of the opportunities Salesforce offers. It seeks a small amount of training/coaching to better understand the wealth of customization options available, and guidance on how to make small adjustments to better suit its needs.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Fair Trade Judaica seeks short-term advice on planning and facilitating the organization’s first-ever retreat for its national Advsiory Board.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
As SF Hillel expands our presence to other San Francisco college campuses (USF, Hastings, Golden Gate, UCSF, etc.), we need to gather expert assessments of the optimal locations for our office, our student and event spaces at San Francisco State, as well as our services for other San Francisco campuses.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Congregation Rodef Sholom would like to engage a consultant to help us look at our current communication plan and then advise us on how we might choose to make it better. We want to create as an end product a strategic communications plan for the synagogue.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Friendship Circle is in need of advice and guidance to better understand the duties and responsibilities of the existing board and to develop board guidelines and responsibilities to ensure effective governance and support as well as help us determine how to recruit new Board members based on the guidelines and job descriptions developed.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
ZMANIM (SEASONS) is seeking legal advice on how to begin the process of incorporating as a non-profit, most likely a religious non-profit. It plans to pursue fiscal sponsorship, and thus seeks advice on the most basic level of incorporation as well as on basic liability issues.
Estimated Time
10-15 hoursFilled
The Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS) is looking to clarify its brand framework, including branding message and development of a tagline, which will enable ICS to do away with its lengthy subtitle. ICS will then launch its design refresh process, developing a new logo and visual package.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
The Hillel of Silicon Valley seeks a graphic designer to design a tri-fold educational brochure to inform students, faculty, community and parents about its activities. The designer will be responsible for the look, font, photo selection, etc.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
Kevah seeks an attorney to review a 16-page contract with a software development firm and recommend changes to ensure that Kevah's needs are met.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
The Jewish Coalition for Literacy (JCL) recently launched a new website; however, it was not optimized for mobile. With the growing popularity of iPads and iPhones, the JCL seeks a pro bono consultant to optimize its site for use with mobile devices.
Estimated Time
Ten to 15 hoursFilled
The San Francisco Hillel seeks a consultant to help plan a high-end luncheon event celebrating one of our senior board members. The Hilel needs help with high-level planning (timeline, major implementation steps, venue selection, etc.) and implementation.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Hebrew Free Loan is undergoing a period of change and growth. It recently hired a new Executive Director, who as a first-time Executive, seeks to strengthen her management and leadership skills.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
G-dcast stands at a branding crossroads. It is time to split our brand and our web presence into two new presences. We seek a consultant to advise us about branding splits and mergers and how to navigate a big transition with our fan base, plan our marketing effectively, and think through budgeting decisions.
Estimated Time
15 hoursFilled
Fair Trade Judaica (FTJ) is interested in identifying new relevant on-line venues for selling its FTJ-label and wholesale rep products (e.g. Jewish Blessing Flags, women's kippot, soda can kippot, wire and bead menorahs, matzah boxes, and more). FTJ currently sells these products on its website (www.fairtradejudaica.org) and is interested in increasing sales through new channels.
Estimated Time
15-30 hoursFilled
Fair Trade Judaica seeks short-term and on-going advice on financial planning and business development. It needs to: 1) develop realistic three-year financial projections for its income-generating activities, and 2) assemble advisors to help monitor its strategies and consult on needed adjustments going forward.
Estimated Time
Three to four hours per monthFilled
Brandeis Hillel Day School seeks a consultant to advise its senior leadership team on the school’s organizational transition from one independent organization to two separate organizations. The consultant would meet with the leadership team to review progress and plan “best next steps” to a successful launch of two independent schools in July of 2015.
Estimated Time
Five to ten hoursFilled
Kevah seeks review and guidance on a new lease and subtenancy agreements. Optional: continued legal advice for Kevah if/when lease-related questions arise in the near future.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
The San Francisco Hillel seeks an accountant to help prepare its year-end taxes. It is looking to find a new accountant who would be willing to work pro bono for part or all of this year, with the expectation of establishing a long-term paid relationship going forward. The Hillel's budget is approximately $400K.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
The Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS) is looking to rebrand, including developing a new logo and tagline that seeks to modernize ICS’s image and align our brand with the cutting edge work we do.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Jewish LearningWorks (JLWs) seeks pro bono legal advice regarding its compliance with San Francisco’s welfare exemption and property taxes. The attorney would support and train JLWs’ Chief Operating Officer in filing its 2014 welfare exemption and property taxes.
Estimated Time
Phase 1: Ten to 20 hours. Phase 2: Ten hoursFilled
Hasidah, a nonprofit start-up, recently wrote a full strategic planning document, mission and visions statements, and elevator speeches. We are in need of concise, persuasive written text and a "look" to convey our message succinctly to partners, the public, and donors in order to build awareness of our purpose, the people we are serving and the issues we are addressing.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
UC Berkeley Hillel uses Salesforce to track student attendance and student data. Currently, student attendance data is collected in an excel document. We are seeking a programmer to automate the process of uploading that content into our database.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
The San Francisco Hillel seeks an accountant to help prepare its year-end taxes. It is looking to find an accountant who would be willing to work pro bono for part or all of this year, with the expectation of establishing a long-term paid relationship going forward. The Hillel's budget is approximately $400K.
Estimated Time
Within three monthsFilled
Hasidah, a nonprofit start-up, seeks help setting up an accounting software package. It seeks guidance with: 1) choosing appropriate non-profit accounting software and 2) accurately setting up a chart of accounts and contribution/donor tracking, creating reports and linking it to our budget.
Estimated Time
Within six monthsFilled
Hasidah, a nonprofit start-up, seeks a web developer to modify its donor page to accept dedications and related information for contributions and to register for monthly payments. A couple other website modifications are needed as well to allow for dynamic information sharing. It also seeks the development of an online application form for clients to fill out to receive its services.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
The Rimon Club needs help making its website more user-friendly on the back-end and editable by a layperson. The site is built in Wordpress. It was created by a non-professional and has mistakes/glitches, which make it difficult for a layperson to navigate.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
Kevah's website is being accessed by an increasing number of mobile users. As of March 2014 almost 20% of our site's visitors were using a mobile device. We would like to work with a pro bono consultant to evaluate our current website, built in SilverStripe CMS, and identify short-term changes in navigation, content, and layout that would make our website more mobile friendly.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
Congregation Beth Jacob seeks advice on its liability, multi-peril, and directors/officers policies (excluding workers compensation). The advice it seeks is on: 1) its policy language and whether the language may result in claims being unexpectedly questioned or denied, and; 2) coverage gaps that it may not have considered.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
The California Israel Chamber of Commerce is currently a 501(c)(6) organization. The Executive Director seeks legal advice regarding what is required to establish the organization as a 501(c)(3), and the pros and cons of obtaining this status vs. its current 501(c)(6) status.
Estimated Time
Less than ten hoursFilled
Magain David is looking for advice from a consultant with expertise in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to help the synagogue come up higher in the search rankings when visitors to the Bay Area use a search engine (google, bing, yahoo, etc.) for inquires about Orthodox services in San Francisco.
Estimated Time
Approximately 10 hoursFilled
The Hillel of Silicon Valley seeks a consultant to work with the Executive Director to develop the content for a tri-fold educational brochure that would inform the Hillel's constituents (students, faculty, community and parents) about its activities.
Estimated Time
Four - eight hoursFilled
As a small school with limited resources, Gan Israel Preschool seeks advice on the most effective and affordable ways to change people’s perceptions of the school and to grow our enrollment to full capacity (30 children). Identity? Messaging? Advertising? Social media?
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Adath Israel seeks a consultant to help it build its brand and market its programs to the young families who are the synagogue's primary audience. To engage with young and mostly secular Jews, Adath Israel need to master the tools of social media, web and email-based communications.
Estimated Time
To be determinedFilled
Beth Ami Community Nursery School seeks a consultant to design an effective marketing strategy and campaign complete with all that is needed to attract Jewish working families: such as social and print media, new brochure, functional and timely webpages -- an exciting campaign to alert the Jewish community to the significant changes at the school.
Estimated Time
Ten to 20 hoursFilled
Shalom Bayit seeks to add new talent to its finance leadership team. The position would augment the organization's Board Budget Committee, which consults on board-level budget decisions, and would serve as a financial advisor to the executive director.
