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DIGITAL BULLETIN
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From the PresidentMessage from the President
The Next Time You RSVP
Our year is in full swing with great momentum. When you look at the monthly bulletin, the weekly e-mail blast or the flyers on the Shabbat Table, you can see that we have multiple events each week.
One of CBIīs great community-building events is our congregational dinners. Whether we are eating in the Sukkah, making latkes for Hanukkah, enjoying an evening with a Scholar in Residence, or just enjoying a nice Shabbat dinner, our dinners bring together a cross section of CBI members for food, friendship and learning.
What seems effortless on the outside takes many volunteer hours of work, not to mention many volunteers. There is a tremendous behind-the-scenes effort that goes into putting on a dinner, even the simplest one. The dinners are carefully planned based on the number of attendees, the amount of food that must be purchased and prepared, and the setup for the room.
The RSVP deadlines that are established for an event are set to allow attendees time to respond fairly close to the date of the event while still allowing organizers time to plan quantities appropriately. We need to make sure any member who has responded by the RSVP date gets the full benefit of enough food, drink and seating.
It is not fair to the people who devote hours and hours to making the event happen to not have a final count by a certain date. It is easy to say, "How can two more hurt?" But then it is another and another and before you know it, we have 20 people signing up the day of the dinner. This often means that a volunteer must rush out to the market the day of the event and buy more food and prepare it.
As a result, we are now instituting a new practice for all dinners and events that require an RSVP. There will be an absolute firm RSVP date that must and will be honored. Remember, we want to strive to keep our events as low pressure as possible for everyone.
We ask the congregation to please understand our reasoning for this and help us to keep events stress-free for the many volunteers who help make them enjoyable. Please help us to continue to have great events.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Gayle |
