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                Eighteen Ways to Acknowledge, Recognize, and Thank Donors <br>
                Adapted from Lorne S. Miller's Ensuring the Future.
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                	<li>Enclose a personal thank-you letter from the fundraising chair with all donation receipts.</li>
                
                	<li>Send a second personal letter of thanks from the rabbi or educational director.</li>
                
                	<li>Have a member of the board call up a donor and say "Thank you."</li>
                
                	<li>Send donors High Holy Day and Passover greetings annually.</li>
                
                	<li>Acknowledge the gift in the synagogue or school bulletin.</li>
                
                	<li>Acknowledge donors at the annual meeting.</li>
                
                	<li>Publish the names of all of the donors in the local Jewish newspaper.</li>
                
                	<li>Write to donors at the end of the year and describe how their donations were used and how the congregation benefited from them.</li>
                
                	<li>Honor donors at a special annual Shabbat service.  For more liturgical ideas click here.</li>
                
                	<li>Invite donors to take a personal tour of the school or synagogue by the educational director or other senior staff member.</li>
                
                	<li>Invite donors to a thank-you reception at the rabbi's home or at the home of a prominent member.</li>
                
                	<li>Invite donors to a Sunday brunch to listen to an interesting speaker and meeting with senior staff and lay leaders.</li>
                
                	<li>Invite a donor to talk to a religious school class to talk about the subject of tzedakah.  </li>
                
                	<li>Install a plaque in a prominent public area acknowledging donors' gifts.</li>
                
                	<li>Give donors a piece of artwork to display in their homes of places of business.</li>
                
                	<li>Invite donors to public events and reserve favorable seats for them.</li>
                
                	<li>Ask a religious school class, i.e. b'nai mitzvah class or confirmation to thank a donor of a large gift.</li>
                
                	<li>As donors why they chose to make a particular gift to the synagogue.</li>
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                (Developed By: Lisa Delson, HUC-JIR, Cincinnati)
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