94th Grand Board and 74

Please answer all these questions completely (limit to 300 words per questions, please) and submit them online at azabbgic.bbyo.org/selfevaluation.

1. 
   What does it mean to be a Jewish leader? How will you employ Jewish values in your work on Grand/International Board?
   

2. 
   In your community, do you feel that your BBYO leadership is strong enough and will be able to successfully function without you as a key leader? How have you left your chapter, council/region, and country stronger than the way you found it?
   

3. 
   Does your family support you in your declaration and understand the impact this commitment will have on your time and other responsibilities next year?
   

4. 
   What is your relationship like with BBYO staff at home and at international/summer programs? Share an example of your positive working relationships with BBYO professionals.
   

5. 
   Serving on the Grand/International Board requires being a positive role model who sets an example to the tens of thousands of members worldwide. Please give an example of when you inspired others around you to follow your lead.
   

6. 
   Have you served on your council/regional/national Board? Have you ever been a position that is parallel to the one you are considering running for? How do you feel your performance was on that Board? If you have not served on this level, it is a significant disadvantage – how do you plan to make up for this lack of experience?
   

7. 
   You will be overseeing hundreds (for some of you, close to thousands) of chapter counterparts throughout the year. Have you ever served a term on chapter board for the position you are aspiring to? If so what did you bring to the position? How will you use that experience to help your chapter counterparts if elected? What is the most important lesson you can teach your counterparts?
   

8. 
   Have you been to the summer program that your position has the potential to coordinate? What are some lessons you learned? How did the experience impact you?
   

9. 
   Why do you want to run for Grand/International Board? What unique qualities will you bring to the Grand/International Board?
   

10. 
    Serving in these roles are more than doing the duties of the position – it’s about building a vision and direction for AZA, BBG and the Jewish community. What is your vision for the Jewish people? In 5 years? In 10 years?
    
    
    

1. 
   The Grand Aleph Godol and International Nʼsiah travel constantly. What could you do before, during, and after your visit to make it a valuable and meaningful experience for each community? How will you ensure that your boards are engaged in your visits? What will you do to follow up with a community?
   

2. 
   As the Godol and N’siah travel across our Movement, they are posed with the task of being able to consult members on all topics regardless of their background in the topics in order to strengthen chapters. Describe how you plan on serving as that universal consultant.
   

3. 
   A strong, expanding grassroots network of chapters will build a bolder, larger Order. How will you sustain and grow the focus of AZA and BBG’s International Order on the chapter as the foundation of our Movement?
   

4. 
   Provide some insight into how you set goals, work toward goals and achieve those goals. The year will be defined by metrics and tangible results that the Movement is working toward. How will you inspire AZA and BBG to reach and exceed the objectives that we work toward next year?
   

5. 
   What are your best practices for overseeing and utilizing the talents of your International Executives Body in addition to those of your International Board? How will you hold these teams accountable? What is your experience with project management? Do you have strong management skills?
   
   
   

1. 
   What defines a strong program? Why is strong programming integral to the success of AZA and BBG?
   

2. 
   The Grand Aleph Sʼgan/International Sʼganit is tasked with strengthening programming throughout BBYO across the world. How will you ensure that chapter program quality increases during your term?
   

3. 
   What experience do you have directly planning programs? Did you find those experiences challenging? How do you know if your program was a success?
   

4. 
   What is your vision for BBYO International Convention 2018? How will you manage your Steering Team?
   

5. 
   As IC continues to grow year after year, how will you maintain a meaningful, intimate experience for each individual?
   

1. 
   Which teen demographics could we be marketing membership to better? How would you do it?
   

2. 
   Statistics show that nearly half of Jewish teens view becoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah as an exit point from Jewish life. How would you leverage chapter Morim to better strengthen the prospect pipeline from B’nai Mitzvah through middle school to 8^th grade membership eligibility?
   

3. 
   What should the New Member Experience look like for an AIT or MIT? What experience do you have building out these experiences? What resources would you use?
   

4. 
   With the addition of the AZA BBG Membership Pass, we no longer must worry about registering lapsed members. The pressure has now shifted to retention and how we keep members actively engaged. What strategies are best in keeping a member engaged, from the beginning of their AZA and BBG journey until the end?
   

5. 
   How capable of adapting the MRIHA recruitment model to communities of varying size, strength and complexity? How does MRIHA tie into the calendaring, programming and year-round member experience?
   

1. 
   There has been incredible growth across BBYOʼs global network over the past few years. What are specific strategies you would employ to unite BBYO worldwide so that members everywhere understand the power of the movement of which they are a part? What is your experience working with teens from outside of your community? What is your current International Network like?
   

2. 
   It is the role of the International Mazkirim to ensure that chapters are fundraising to build their own bank accounts, so they have access to funds for scholarship, supplies, swag, etc. What experience do you have fundraising? How would you coach a chapter or regional counterpart to fundraise?
   

3. 
   The International Mazkirim are responsible for all of the Movement’s communication. What’s your comfort level with writing and editing legislation? Do you have templates for minutes? What should chapters be doing to document their history? How should they be sharing their story with the community? How do chapters get the word out?
   

4. 
   Summer programs are one of our Movement’s key opportunities for building leadership potential in our communities. What will be your strategy for summer program promotion and outreach? How will you mobilize your networks to maximize the attendance at our various summer immersives?
   

5. 
   The International Service Fund (ISF) is essentially the ‘treasury’ of the Movement. In times of crisis and to fund the experiences of Alephs and BBGs in all 42 of BBYO’s countries, we need to have a robust pool of resources that we can allocate from. Do you feel comfortable building a global campaign for fundraising? How will you make ISF something that chapters around the world want to fundraise for?
   

1. 
   What are the next steps for Stand UP and J-Serve within the global Jewish community? What is AZA and BBGʼs responsibility toward the world and how will that manifest itself in the coming year with our service, philanthropy, and advocacy efforts? Have you ever planned one of these campaigns that you’d be asking your counterparts to build?
   

2. 
   Jewish communities outside of Israel oftentimes struggle with providing programming on Israel that is meaningful, thought provoking and able to bring participants a genuine understanding of their relationship to the Jewish state.  How are the efforts to combat that trend reflected in our values and what’s next for our Speak UP for Israel campaign?
   

3. 
   BBYO is unique to other Jewish youth movements because we are pluralistic. How can we leverage Judaic programming to engage more Jewish teens and inspire them to join AZA and BBG? How many services have you planned during your time in AZA and BBG? How would you coach a counterpart to strengthen their Judaic programming and content?
   

4. 
   What should the message be of this year’s AZA BBG Global Shabbat? What are the opportunities that we have to bring our communities – both inside and outside of BBYO – closer?
   

5. 
   In this role, you are responsible for planning and coaching your counterparts through two major Movement Initiatives – J-Serve and Global Shabbat. Why do you think that you are uniquely qualified to manage your counterpart networks and the planning of these two events, in addition to the other campaigns you are responsible for? What experience do you have in managing projects?