and we're joined by rabbi marvin goodman. and with him is elliott lavein. they help organizations do fundraising through the state of california. marvin and elliott, welcome. so the community legacy project is a long phrase for what? >> it's a project that we started in the bay area about a year ago, a little over a year ago. and it is funded by a national group as well as the federation, a group called the ravine partners that provide funding to start innovative projects around the country in the jewish community. they're funding fives communities to start a legacy program within each of the communities. and they've helped that happen by doing a lot of funding themselves. so it is a project, as you said, to help institutions learn how to raise money in different ways. >> and it is to encourage supporters of organization to actually name that organization in their estate plan? >> right. it's an opportunity for people that have been making donations to organizations and supporting organizations with their time and financial resources for years. it's an opport

we're joined by reverend marvin goodman. and welcome irene odis.er of the congregation's legacy league. >> this is a time to ask you, how do you work in your congregation on the particular issue and what does a coach do? where are you in the process? >> the coach came to us around the middle of last year. i think it was probably around april or so. it seemed that in order to launch our project, there were a lot of administrative things we had to do. we had to create a case statement. it took a long time. we had a lot of participation from our members and we dug into the history and came up with a case statement that then, eventually got edited by dozens of people. that was a big project and then, we had to create a letter of intent and set up sort of systems for how to launch this project. we had to announce it and get the board to approve it. the coach was there along the way saying, have you done this and set up your flowchart and have you done your project plan? have you done your letter of intent. the coach was there to administratively launch