Purpose

With subcontractors Rosov Consulting and Professor Steven M. Cohen to conduct the Cross Community Evaluation of the Community-based Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Initiative. Funds will be used to execute on a cross-grant evaluation of initiatives operating in up to ten communities. Key objectives will include:

• Assess the success of the collective initiative based on achievement of shared goals
• Ensure that findings from ongoing local evaluations are comparable across communities
• Identify and make accessible key learnings that emerge from evaluations of the local initiatives and additional data that will be collected as part of this evaluation
• Provide actionable feedback to strengthen national support structures
• Ensure ongoing shared learning over a four year period beginning in October of 2014.

Strategic Priority

Build a Strong Field of Jewish Education