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- Leadership Training & Individual Growth Opportunities Our community has a need for lots of leaders. Yet, besides Freshmen Council there are not many leadership training initiatives. I believe it is necessary to encourage a culture at Hillel where it is normal for students to pursue outside fellowships. Whether these are Israel fellowships, or fellowships related to particular Jewish viewpoints they will provide individual students with the training necessary to be an effective Jewish leader. Leaving 213 Bay State Road
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STUDENT PLAN
We all know Hillel has a beautiful building. Too often we measure our success as how many people enter our building. But, our building is not our community. We can, and should encourage activities outside of the Hillel building. We should encourage students to have Shabbat dinner outside Hillel, invite new people, and we should fund it. Additionally we should move other activities outside of Hillel. For example Krav Maga should be in west campus at Fit Rec. By leaving 213 we will engage students who dont want to make the trek, and who dont feel comfortable venturing in the building yet.
I will not explain in detail peer engagement, but here are a few links: 1) http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/hillel-building-the-jewish-socialnetwork/?utm_source=Mon+Nov+19&utm_campaign=Mon+Nov+19&utm_medi um=email 2) http://www.hillel.org/about/news/2012/oct/Peer_Engagement_Jewish_Learnin g_Promote_Jewish_Growth.htm 3) http://www.campusinitiative.org/peer_network In order to accomplish this task I would like to change the Hillel Ambassador program into more of a peer engagement model. Hillel Ambassadors would be a year round activity. Each ambassador would be tasked with making 20 25 unique connections. With 45 ambassadors this would grow our community by 1,125 people. These ambassadors would receive funding to plan activities for their connections, and to simply take them out for coffee. This will create a hub and spoke model, where the ambassadors are the hubs. When they attend Hillel programs or events the peers they have engaged with, and built relationships with will be more likely to attend as well. ** This document is not complete. If you have suggestions or comments please email them to Joel Udwin at: judwin@bu.edu
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