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Maccabi Victoria - President’s Report cont.

Thank you to Sam and Janine who will both continue to be involved in the
organisation

I thank Sharon Roseman, Sheiny New and Caryn Kave for re nominating to the
Board to continue the work. Thank you to ongoing Board members, Vice President
Dean Mohr and Treasurer Jeremy Davis.

We have a small but passionate Board that I know will achieve amazing things as
the next generation of leaders step up.
Carnival 2021:
Unfortunately, a National Carnival could not be held this year and each State held
a “Carnival @ Home”.
Melbourne, under the leadership of Lior Rauchberger and a wonderful team
staged a fantastic event which took place at Bialik College.
Over 200 kids attended a 4 day sports focused daytime program and an incredible
social program in the evenings.

Thank you to our Carnival Patron Cr.Sam Parasol OAM and to our sponsor
Caulfield Park-Bendigo Bank

Maccabi COVID Hardship Relief Fund:
This fund was established by the Maccabi Sports Foundation to support any
families going through hardship, and to ensure that no Jewish child misses out on
playing sport with Maccabi. The fund has helped many families continue to have
their kids keep active and maintain important social connections through our clubs.
applied for and received many smaller Government grants for our clubs.
Giving Day:
When it became clear we could not operate a volunteer call centre, our annual
campaign had to adapt.
The office team, with the help of Efraim Taranto from ChaIT worked furiously to
develop a software program to integrate with our Salesforce database to allow us
to run a remote campaign.
Over 100 volunteers connected from their homes, and we held an incredibly
successful campaign with most of the money raised being tagged for clubs or
programs.
Prior to the campaign day, Dale Smorgon and the Foundation Board raised the
Matcher money that underpinned the campaign.