I. Reasons for coming to KB

A. Why are you a member of KB? (agree or disagree)

        - 87%               Cultural/Ethnic

                    - 75%-86%             Adult Learning
                                                      Sunday school
                                                      Social

                    - 60%-74%             Spiritual
                                                      Intercultural
                                                Affordable

If looking at “strongest agree” vs. “agree” key reasons are Cultural/Ethnic and Sunday school

           B. Prioritize Importance

            I. Importance
                        - HIGHEST PRIORITY (greatest # 1’s and 2’s)
                           •Cultural/Ethnic
                           •Sunday School


II. How important is it for KB to fill these roles? (Ranked by very important/important)

Childhood Education 97%

Holiday 90%

Learning/Practicing Judaism 86%

Young Adult 85%

Adult Education 84%

Jewish Culture/Life 82%

Social Action 75%

Intercultural 68%

Spirituality 60%

Education & Outreach 40%

Shabbat 30%

III. How well is KB currently fulfilling these roles? (Ranked by good/excellent)

Holiday 95%

Childhood Education 85%

Social Action 75%

Young Adult 70%

Jewish Culture 70%

Intercultural 70%

IV. Payment

•Affordability not driving reason for belonging

•No one wants to pay less and give up

•Willingness to pay more dependent upon factors

V. How likely is it that you will be a member of KB in 5 years?

•79%

VI.               Demographics

A. Age
      80%            Ages 40-59
      6.5%            Under 40
      7.0%        Over 70

B. Time/Membership
       50% have joined in the last 5 years

C. Intercultural
       45% have one adult member not raised in some form of Judaism

OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS

Messages

1. What people like most:

•People/Community

2. Priorities:

            •With respect to spirituality:
                        →Some felt a strong need for KB to address spiritual concerns

                      →Others felt strongly that they didn’t care or didn’t want KB to address spiritual concerns

                                    →Strong desire for adult programs

                          →Strong indication of need for programs to help keep adults with children who are beyond
                                        Bar/Bat Mitzvah age involved in KB

3. Changes Needed:

     •Want better/different Sunday programs

      •Leadership/Governance/Organizational Effectiveness

         →Leadership needs to be bolstered

         →Better defined roles

         →Committee participation needs to be improved

       →Need to develop a process for leader selection

         →Need constant pipelines into Sunday School

                                                           SUNDAY SERVICE QUESTIONS

1. How important is the Service portion of our Sunday morning?

       81%            Important
       19%            Not Important

2. How long should the Sunday Service be?

       3-20 minutes 37%
       20-30 minutes 37%
       31-60 minutes 21%

3. Do you feel that our Services should be conducted by a trained leader?

Yes 28%

No 38%

Not sure 27%

Sometimes 7%

4. The current Service is divided roughly in half-with half for readings, music, reflection and the other half for discussion.

Do you feel the time @ reflection/music/reading:

Right 72%
Too short 17%

Too long 11%

Do you feel the time for discussion is:

       Right                     45%
       Too short             33%
       Too long                22%

5. For the current components of the Sunday Service, indicate for each component how often it should be part of the Service.

        Always: (Highest) Healing and Memorial            70%
                       Silence                                                 65%

                       (Lowest) Sh’ma                          50%
                        Discussions                                           50%
                        Readings                                              42%

       Never:    (Highest) Sh’ma                          10%
                       (Lowest): Reading/Memorial                    0%

Readings and discussion were very interesting-they are clearly not preferred every meeting, yet it had one of the highest scores including “sometimes”.

6. Discussion preferences possible subjects for discussion. For each topic, indicate whether you would like it to be something we discuss at KB and how often.

     Including “once in a while” sometimes and frequently topics ranking:

        a. ethics
        b. history
        c. modern Jewish writers/thinkers
        d. literature
        e. Torah
        f. current events
        g. spirituality (had highest number of “never” responses – 12)

      Strongest opinions “frequently” rankings

        a. ethics
        b. modern Jewish writers/thinkers
        c. history
        d. literature
        e. current events
        f. Torah
        g. spirituality

7. 74% of the Congregation responses want to know the topic in advance and 46% want to have the reading (focus of discussion) in advance.

8. What would you like more of in the Sunday Service portion?
      Highest number of responses were:

       a. Music and
       b. Readings from modern Jewish sources

      Lowest number of responses were for poetry.

KB SURVEY RESULTS

How Do We Deal With Items Identified?

1. Need to take these issues further

2. Needs active involvement of entire congregation

3. Leadership from ? for next steps?

→Committee

→Long Range Planning

→Executive

→Entire Congregation