This is our Moment: Strategic Visioning
Impact
Guiding Questions
- How can we expand Milken’s reach and influence?
- How can what happens at Milken change the Jewish community, Los Angeles, our country and our world?
What happens at Milken changes the world
Over the next 5 years, Milken's administration will prioritize deepening the school's impact: remaining meaningfully engaged with our alumni, serving as a resource for their professional, personal, and spiritual development, expanding our reach and sphere of influence in pursuit of our mission, and prioritizing affordability so that any family that wants a Jewish education can afford it for their child and ensure sustainability so that the school has the finances and resources to thrive in perpetuity.
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Strategic Goal 1:
Expand our reach and sphere of influence in pursuit of our mission.
Rationale
- To give more students and community members access to Milken educational programming.
- To fulfill the “think well” portion of the portrait of the graduate by giving our students increased exposure to other communities, accomplished professionals and diverse thinkers.
- To position Milken as a world-renowned model Jewish community school.
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Programmatic Needs
- Invest in developing the Global Beit Midrash program.
- Develop virtual learning student, parent, alumni parent, grandparent and alumni programs
- Connect world-wide scholars and artists-in-residence to expand offerings for students, faculty learning, and parent education.
- Create a Board of Regents made up of prominent professional individuals nationwide.
- Create a series of conferences for professionals and lay leaders, illustrating Milken's unique pedagogical applications in and out of the classroom.
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Facilities Needs
- Build a Beit Midrash and Israel center on the Upper School Campus.
- Consider the 405-facing portion of the building to optimize the 500,000 daily viewers.
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Strategic Goal 2:
To remain meaningfully engaged with our alumni, serving as a resource for their professional, personal, and spiritual development.
Rationale
- To address the gap in Jewish engagement between college graduation and starting a family.
- To deliver our commitment that Milken is a resource and community for life.
- To create a financial, enrollment, and intellectual endowment for Milken.
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Programmatic Needs:
- Transform college counseling to college counseling and career mentorship.
- Expand alumni relations to include internship and career support.
- Create programming to capture the post-college to early career alums.
- Launch a post-Milken Jewish learning initiative that engages and gathers alumni.
- Develop post-college courses (life-readiness class and class in the non-profits sector and philanthropy).
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Facilities Needs:
- Build a reimagined college and career counselling space on the Upper School Campus.
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Strategic Goal 3:
Prioritize affordability so that any family that wants a Jewish education can afford it for their child and ensure sustainability so that the school has the finances and resources to thrive in perpetuity.
Rationale
- To address the dual barriers of rising costs of education and the high costs of living in Los Angeles
- To secure the financial position of the school (reduce debt, increase reserves, and build endowment).
- To reach the swaths of the Jewish community in which we are underperforming (Jewish communal professionals, Jews of color, LGBTQ Jews, modern orthodox community).
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Programmatic Needs:
- Rebrand the tuition assistance program into a “communal fund”
- Investigate tuition and tuition assistance benchmarks and models (for example, flat tuition, indexed tuition).
- Develop a comprehensive 30th-anniversary campaign to fund capital improvement, support new programming, and build endowment.
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Facilities Needs:
- Develop prominent, consistent donor recognition signage.
- Invest in art to mark founders, donors, and school history while beautifying the campus.
At Milken Community School, we think education is more than what you know. Our School, founded on Jewish values, is about who our children can become and how they can help others become who they might be. Because the world our children will create tomorrow is born in the School we build today, our mission is to educate our children so they can surpass us.
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