- July 29, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The Kaiserman JCC in Wynnewood (Courtesy of Janine Nelson)
In the era of a gym in every shopping center, where does that leave Jewish Community Centers?
The Kaiserman JCC’s board of directors hired Alan Scher to answer that question.
But the CEO doesn’t have an answer just yet.
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Three-plus weeks into his new role, Scher said he needs to meet with the board in person and talk to more community members before he comes up with a plan.
Scher’s Wynnewood facility is the last JCC in Southeastern Pennsylvania, a region with one of the largest Jewish populations in the country. His mission is to figure out how to build the three-part business model that is supposed to sustain a JCC.
He thinks that Kaiserman already has two solid business entities upon which to build.
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