Widening the Frame: Rethinking How We Understand Impact in Jewish Learning
The same experience that might feel like a light touch to one person may open an entirely new possibility of connection or meaning for someone else.
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The same experience that might feel like a light touch to one person may open an entirely new possibility of connection or meaning for someone else.
From the Foundation Team
The same experience that might feel like a light touch to one person may open an entirely new possibility of connection or meaning for someone else.
From the Foundation Team
We ask people to work in a storm that’s battering all of us from every angle. If we don’t start protecting and replenishing them now, there won’t be enough of them left to rebuild whatever comes next.
From the Foundation Team
Part of my onboarding is to increase my understanding of the multifaceted American Jewish community while using my experience from Mexico (and other countries where I’ve had the privilege to live and study) to enhance my work.
From the Foundation Team
I urge us to pour more and more resources into camps, day schools, trips to Israel, youth groups and the many other experiences that all have significant data proving strong outcomes.
From the Foundation Team
Our team is adopting a shift to more nuanced language that builds on prior research and focuses on the many diverse and divergent ways Jewish people orient themselves to their Jewishness and to formal Jewish community.
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Insights from One of the Foundation’s Newest Team Members
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As part of our Emergent Strategy at the Jim Joseph Foundation, we have a desire to explore new and more effective pathways in understanding and practicing Jewish education
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The Foundation has also integrated cross-portfolio evaluation into more of our work to learn about shared outcomes across different sets of grantee-partners.
From the Foundation Team
As the Foundation’s grants to these communities conclude, we are eager to advance this work in different ways. While our local partners on the ground continue to cultivate important relationships with an eye on sustainability, we want to share learnings…
From the Foundation Team
Instead of reacting to emergencies and then waiting to “get back to normal,” we must recognize that we are living in a new normal.
From the Foundation Team
In the Jewish professional world, the need for this intentional gathering space feels more important than ever.
From the Foundation Team
Our people have been in the Red Zone for over five months; this is damaging to the Jewish community and the people who make it function.