Adina’s years of non-profit staff and freelance consultant experience (grant-writer, communications specialist, editor, researcher, and educator), combined with her graduate studies in non-profit management at New York University, make her well-suited to serve a variety of functions, including bookkeeping/accounting, communications, education, board relations, management, and more. She is fully committed to both requirements for organizational success: overarching philosophies or strategies, and the hands-on, detail-oriented work necessary for enacting them.
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Finance
Adina has loved working on non-profit finance since she first started scouring spreadsheets for potential pitfalls while working as a program officer at a foundation. Since then, she has expanded her work to include writing budgets for grant applications and much more! After taking non-profit accounting and financial management courses as part of her graduate studies at NYU, Adina served as a full-charge A/R and A/P bookkeeper at two separate non-profits. There, she conducted monthly reconciliations of bank, brokerage, and credit card accounts; created policies and procedures for handling receipts, invoices, and reimbursement requests; trained staff in using QuickBooks and FundEZ accounting software; prepared A/R invoices and applied payments to open A/R invoices; issued and deposited checks; reviewed A/P invoices for accuracy and contacted vendors to correct errors; maintained digital files of vendor invoices and paid receipts; prepared, reviewed, and posted journal entries; implemented new importing processes to speed up A/P and bi-monthly payroll entry; prepared accurate monthly and quarterly financial statements for the board; identified A/R payment errors and work with colleagues to correct them in a timely manner; created and implemented member payment plans; forecasted income and expenses for the approaching fiscal year; and more!
Writing
Adina is a passionate and expressive writer, but more than that, she is able to distill complex ideas into easily-read sentences and paragraphs. With extensive writing experience dating back to junior high when she won her first writing contest, Adina can explain comprehensive educational programs with three bullet-points for your mass mailings, interview and profile your star employees for an internal newsletter, or write about archaic biblical laws and their connection to modern social ills. She loves to sell great ideas and programs to the public through marketing and PR writing.
Editing
Meticulous and careful, Adina will sharpen and improve your words. She will work closely with you to make sure that she understands the goals of your written work, and then smooth and shape your words until they say exactly what you mean. Adina can also do things like make sure that your sentences aren’t run-ons, that you have complete verb-noun agreement, and that all of your footnotes and citations adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, or the style guide of your choice.
Teaching
Adina is an experienced, patient, and thoughtful Jewish educator of adults and children alike. She was trained as a Jewish adult educator through Kevah’s Teaching Fellowship (inaugural cohort in 2012-13), with additional coursework in adult pedagogy at HUC-JIR. She has taught adults at one-time classes at synagogues, retreats, Shabbatons, and conferences, as well as multiple-session, weekly courses. She specializes in text-based sessions that encourage participation from students regardless of their text or language background and teach something new to everyone present (herself included). She spent over a year teaching Judaic Studies to children in a day school setting, including working with young students who had learning differences and behavioral challenges. In addition, she has tutored children in Judaic studies one-on-one, taught Hebrew reading through the JCC of Manhattan’s Jewish Journey Project, and substitute-taught everything from Chumash (Bible) and Navi (Prophets) to Math and Literacy at a day school. She has also worked closely with individual students on Modern Hebrew and Bible at both SAR Academy and SAR High School. When working with children, Adina particularly enjoys incorporating multiple modalities and materials into study, including games, music, and crafts.
Research
Having conducted research in the Israel State Archives for a dissertation on British Mandate Palestinian education for girls, Harvard University’s Widener, Houghton, and Schlesinger Libraries, and the New York Public Library on topics ranging far and wide, Adina loves nothing more than hunting down the perfect fact or figure to meet your needs. She takes meticulous notes and keeps careful records, to enable you (or her) to hunt down more information later, should that be necessary.
Grant-writing
While working at a foundation for two years and clarifying their grant guidelines, Adina read hundreds of grant applications. She has learned as much from the unsuccessful ones as the successful ones, and relishes the opportunity to help good projects get funding. Among other successes, Adina wrote a three-year, $160,000 grant proposal for a start-up educational program in New England in 2006 and a three-year $130,000 grant proposal for an existing institution to continue and expand a Jewish education program in 2011.
Please e-mail adina@adinagerver.com to request a pricing estimate for your freelance bookkeeping, writing, editing, education, research, or grant-writing job.