We are dedicated to infusing all aspects of congregational life with intentional relationship-building and Jewish community. To achieve this, we will:

• Map and continuously refine TBE’s engagement opportunities, approaches, and processes.
• Create a congregation-wide communication strategy to nurture connections, encourage engagement, and increase members’ sense of belonging.
• Incorporate relationship-building elements into all TBE initiatives through intentional design and training.
• Align staff and lay resources to meet growing congregational needs for pastoral care.
• Build a comprehensive new member welcome program that develops both engagement and relationships.
• Invest in tools, programs, and staff that facilitate member-to-member relationship building and internal bonds.

Our clergy, staff, and lay leaders are at the heart of our community. We are investing deeply in their care, retention, and development by:

• Identify strategic staffing needs and implement a multi-year clergy and staff hiring plan.
• Elevate TBE to a leader in compensation and benefits, enabling the retention of extraordinary clergy and staff.
• Invest in expanded professional growth for clergy and staff, including training, coaching, career planning, and advancement opportunities.
• Establish a clear lay leadership development process, rooted in a shared congregational responsibility for the future of the temple.
• Clarify and communicate the roles, responsibilities, and boundaries of staff, clergy, and lay leaders.

Cultivate a culture of reflection, imagination, and innovation to ensure that TBE’s programs and services align with our mission and vision.

• Create and implement a formal program planning system that rigorously evaluates current TBE offerings while nurturing innovation and experimentation.
• Expand programming that leverages congregational and community talents to reduce time required from staff and clergy.
• Invest in improved technology (communication, administrative, audio/visual, etc.) and higher-caliber data management.

Embrace and enhance TBE’s leadership role in serving Charlotte’s evolving Jewish community on and beyond Shalom Park.

• Convene synagogues and partners to explore new approaches for serving Jews across the region.
• Explore satellite programming and partnerships beyond Shalom Park to better serve and engage the Jewish community.
• Upgrade TBE’s digital capacity to increase accessibility.
• Leverage member data to connect TBE members who live far from Shalom Park.
• Invest in marketing to newly relocated Jewish people and families across our region.

Increase TBE’s financial strength to support growth and sustainability

• Engage external professional expertise to design a five-year fundraising plan that strengthens and evolves the TBE financial model.
• Launch an endowment campaign to ensure the long-term sustainability of TBE’s mission, community, and impact.