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    Statement of Volunteering Principles

    The statement of volunteering principles at Kol HaLev which we display below was approved by our Board of Trustees at their meeting in January 2005. Its preamble makes explicit what has been implicit since our founding: “Kol HaLev is a participatory community.” It also spells out volunteer rights and responsibilities as a way of creating a climate where volunteers are treated with respect, courtesy and dignity by all.
    We should all read it and keep it in mind as we volunteer and work with other volunteers in our community.
     
    Volunteering at Kol HaLev: Making Our Community Work
    Kol HaLev is a participatory community. We value the range and depth of expertise that our members bring. Each year, our members volunteer their time, energy and talents to meet the many needs of our community and help it thrive and grow. This volunteer work takes many forms—serving on committees, organizing services and programs, leading us in worship, handling administrative details, opening homes for events and contributing to the onegs and potlucks that bring us together in celebration.

    As a spiritual community that seeks to balance the needs of the community and the needs of the individual, we believe that there are certain rights and responsibilities for all who give. These rights and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

    Volunteer Rights:

    I have the right to ...
    • be treated with respect, courtesy and dignity
    • clear and appropriate direction
    • meaningful participation and an appropriate workload
    • communicate with leaders of my committee and leaders of the community using appropriate channels of communication
    • support from committee chairs and leaders of the community
    • have my work recognized publicly
    Volunteer Responsibilities:
    I have the responsibility to ...
    • treat others with respect, courtesy and dignity
    • only accept a position I feel I have the time to accept, is within my skills, meets my needs, and meets the needs of the community
    • be on time for meetings to the best of my ability
    • complete my tasks on time to the best of my ability
    • ask for help when I need it
    • use my creativity, enthusiasm and talent to enhance the loving and familial feel of Kol HaLev
     
    “It is only a true and close community that develops associations, traditions and memories that go to make up its soul. To mingle one’s personality with that soul becomes a natural longing. In such a community one experiences that mystic divine grace which illumines our lives when joyous and heals them when wounded or stricken. Then all questions about saying this or that become trivial, for the real purpose is attained in having each one feel with the Psalmist: ‘One thing I ask of God that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of God all the days of my life, to behold the graciousness of God.’"

    Mordecai Kaplan

     

     


     

    Services and Programs: The Lillian and Betty Ratner School . 27575 Shaker Boulevard . Pepper Pike, OH 44124

    Office: 2245 Warrensville Center Road, Suite 215 . University Heights, OH 44118 . (216) 320-1498

    Kol HaLev is affiliated with the Jewish Reconstructionist Communities and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

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