RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS AND NEXT STEPS

Through the collective efforts, strengths, and support of everyone who is part of the “Jewish Home community” and its community partners, the organization will undoubtedly succeed in creating a new future of care, services, and programs for older adults based on new needs and new realities.

Ribbon-cutting at the June 2007 community-wide celebration of the Home’s construction project and infrastructure enhancements.

Recent achievements include:

• Board and staff alignment on vision and mission, as well as operating values and principles
• Creation of Jewish Home & Senior Living Foundation
• Successful completion of $55-million “Fulfilling Our Promise” Comprehensive Campaign
• Successful completion of Jewish Home’s new construction project and infrastructure enhancements
• Development of Moldaw Family Residences at 899 Charleston and the first foray into regionalization
• Development of community collaborations in education
• Inauguration of first annual board retreat
• Implementation of board self-assessment tool
• Development of clearly-defined board roles and responsibilities and its relationship to senior management
• Development and implementation of new board orientation program
• Development and implementation of conflict of interest guidelines
• Creation of a Governance Restructuring Committee
• Analysis and evaluation of the Jewish Home’s current capital structure and financial profile

Strategic goals for the next five years include:

• Create and develop a network of affiliated, regionalized senior living offerings to better serve current residents and to extend services to
  new and emerging clients.
• Restructure the organization and associated governance to match the needs, and more effectively manage today and into the future.
• Refine the Jewish Home of San Francisco’s master site plan to realign the Home’s national reputation for quality and innovation into modern centers of excellence.
• Create an organizational culture that embraces change, enriches the quality of life for its clients, staff, and volunteers, and is committed to excellence.
• Explore, capture, and create opportunities for new sources of human
  and financial resources to achieve these goals.

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