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Share Your Expertise!

Minds Matter is a program for WHC members who want to Share Your Expertise. Participants work on short term projects that last approximately 4-6 months to help non profits achieve their missions more effectively.

Minds Matter is completing its second year of activity and is looking to you to broaden its volunteer base. The projects provide several avenues to Share Your Expertise. For example, one avenue is consulting with non-profit organizations in the Washington metropolitan region on one of the following service lines: board development, strategic planning, fundraising or restructuring of the non-profit organization. A team of 4-6 volunteers are usually involved in each project.

The time commitment for volunteers is about 3-5 hours per month. Individuals with business and/or non-profit background and experience would be ideal, but this is not required. No previous experience is necessary as training will be provided. Our current projects include board development for The ARC of NOVA, lawyers working with the Legal Clinic for the Homeless on a 6-month rotation and a data base project for WHC. Volunteers in our group report tremendous satisfaction, ease of participating and are grateful to be involved in building our community in a positive manner. Most volunteers state that meeting and making new friends among their fellow congregants has been particularly rewarding!

Please join us in this exciting, fulfilling and worthwhile endeavor. Your commitment may be for just one project or whatever fits your schedule. There is no long term obligation.

For more information,
please contact one of the Minds Matter coordinators,
Joan Greenbaum at 301-320-2435 or jsgrnbm@verizon.net
or Bobby Lipnick at 202-223-1080 x105 or at RNLipnick@aol.com.

Summer Havdalah Program
Saturday, August 7, 2010
6-9PM at Temple

It's time for our second annual Summertime EmptyNester Havdalah program...and the entire congregation is invited.

Last year, we focused on the Supreme Court and had a huge turnout of 145 members and friends. This year, our focus is on healthcare - something that's important to everybody.

We will gather at 6pm at the Temple, have a glass of wine and do a little schmoozing! Our Havdalah service with Cantor Manevich will start around 6:30pm followed by a catered BBQ dinner. Jonathan Westin, our speaker, will start around 8pm and will have time for some Q&A. Tonight's presentation is: Reading the Tea Leaves: The Future of Health & Long-Term Care in the Jewish Community.

If you think healthcare is "done and settled"...think again. Parts of the new healthcare bill are just rolling-out and more will be coming soon. With the November election, you can be sure that healthcare will be a topic of conversation. What's the impact of all this on you and the Jewish community?

Our special speaker is Jonathan Westin. Jon's areas of expertise are legislative strategy and advocacy related to health delivery, long-term care, and aging including Medicare and Medicaid. In addition, Jon concentrates on initiatives that will prepare the nation for the health needs of the Baby Boom generation, the first wave of which turns 65 in January, 2011.

The entire congregation is invited so if healthcare is a concern, please  join us for a terrific evening.

RSVP Today! Send a check for $18 per person (made out to WHC) to:
WHC EmptyNester BBQ
c/o Carolyne Ojwang
Washington Hebrew Congregation
3935 Macomb Street NW
Washington, DC 20016

For more information,
please contact Joan Adoff
at StanJoan@aol.com

Havdalah in the Sand
Saturday, August 7 at 7:15PM
Delaware Beach

Going to the Delaware Beaches? Join Rabbi Hessel for Havdalah in the Sand! This event will be on the beach at the home of a WHC member so contact Marsha Humphries for further details. We need to know if you are coming...please RSVP today

For more information or to RSVP,
please contact Marsha Humphries
at 202-895-6303 or MHumphries@whctemple.org