This revised program of consultancy to affiliated congregations in the Conservative Movement rests on the foundation established in the early 1980's by NAASE's PALS Program, through which consulting services were provided to synagogues in need of administrative guidance and review. The original program has given affiliated congregations access to the combined expertise and experience of hundreds of professional synagogue administrators throughout North America, typically assisting between 30 and 50 congregations each year.

The CCS is a dynamic joint program of the North American Association of Synagogue Executives and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. It offers professional and lay help to synagogues that have a need to consult with someone knowledgable in the operation and functioning of today's modern synagogue. These areas of need usually occur in membership, finances, property management, fundraising, organizational structure, technology, programming and development. Many of the CCS liaisons are twenty-plus year veterans of the field of synagogue management, who have developed skills that make their services highly sought after.

A very helpful brochure has been developed jointly by NAASE and the USCJ, and is available to all synagogue presidents upon request. The CCS program coordinator is Michael Simmons, FSA, ATz, who will gladly answer your leadership's questions about the scope of this program, and will assist you in determining if CCS can help you at this time.