2007 Metro Denver/Boulder Jewish Community Study
Shalom,
Thank you for your support thus far to the 2007 Metro Denver/Boulder
Jewish Community Study. Many of you have supported the study by attending
the input sessions in November and December, by helping to market the
study through your organizations' newsletters and e-newsletters, and
sharing your membership lists which are being used to randomly select
households for the telephone survey.
In this brief email, I want to keep you updated about the progress
of the study. If you have any questions or comments about any
of this information, please don't hesitate to contact me by email
(maggiemiller1@comcast.net - please note the "1") or phone 303-886-5116.
- The survey instrument is complete, and the phones have started to
ring across the 7-county area. If your phone rings, please participate
in the survey. Please tell your friends, colleagues and members to do
the same. The more people who answer the phone and participate in the
interviews, the more efficient the survey.
- Some of you have offered to put a link to the web-page about the
survey on your website. Thank you! If you are willing to do so, please
reply and let me know, and I will follow up with you. That would be
tremendously helpful.
- If someone gets a call from an interviewer and is suspicious of it,
they can call this number to find out more about the survey: 303-316-6340.
- FYI, the survey contains questions about: where people live and
have lived... in what ways they consider themselves Jewish... who lives in
their household... their employment and education... how their children
are being raised and educated... what they do for fun... what they do
that's Jewish... what obstacles have prevented them from engaging in
Jewish activities... what support resources they use or seek... how they
give... and more. The survey represents the input that was received from
you last fall, and months of work by the Steering Committee. (A full
copy of the survey will be made public this fall.)
- As we mentioned last fall, research-into-action is a top priority
of this study. Three R&D teams will be launching in the next three
months. Their foci are: (a) Young Adults: Jewish Connections/Engagement
(b) Boomers: Jewish Connections/Engagement and Social Support Needs (c)
Growth and Dispersion: Implications for Jewish Communal Life in Colorado.
The tasks of each team will include: developing a research plan, analyzing
survey data, researching models of best practices locally and nationally,
identifying areas for qualitative research and overseeing that research,
meeting with relevant community and agency leaders to discuss ways to
use the data to implement programs, and developing an implementation and
action plan. This work will begin now, and extend through the rest of
the year. I will keep you updated about that. In the meantime, if you
and your organization have particular interest in any of these areas,
please let me know.
- Some of you mentioned that you have updated your boards about
the Study. I really appreciate it. I hope others will consider
that idea. It would be most helpful to put the word out. Please use
this email for your speaking points, and if you have any questions or
clarifications, please contact me by email maggie@maggiemiller.org or
phone at 303-886-5116.
Thank you again for your support of the Community Study. I look
forward to further contact with you as we continue to progress.
-Maggie Miller
Project Manager
303-886-5116
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