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.
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As we sunset the partnership (the fellowship will continue as a Wexner Foundation initiative) it’s worth elevating key learnings from our experience, namely the value of a diverse cohort, the impact of coaching, how a program like this helps retain…
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We are now planning for new issues of the CASJE Research Digest and, importantly, defining the topics they will cover.
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Steven Green, who was with the Foundation for 13 years, highlights 13 individuals, and specific lessons they offer, who have guided his path of learning. He shares these individuals and lessons with the hope they inform and inspire others' work as they…
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Students survey pre and post Oct. 7th say they pay social penalties for being Jewish and supporting Israel; data also show how non-Jewish anti-Israel and antisemitic statements breakdown by political ideology
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Investing in mifgash frameworks, as we know from summer camp cross-cultural encounters or from programs like Birthright, creates pathways that stimulate interest in Jewish learning, Jewish ideas, and our expansive Jewish cultural milieu.
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The Jim Joseph Foundation is committed to strategic learning and informed decision-making. We have a diverse array of research and evaluation studies that currently shape our approach to investments.
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Research Team Will Follow Study Participants Over Five Years to Understand Impact of Programs
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More diverse families are an increasingly higher proportion of Jewish communities and may, at times, feel marginalized in Jewish communal settings.
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As we look toward the next five years, it is clear that funders have a critical role to play in prioritizing and advancing efforts to build safe, respectful and equitable Jewish workplaces, JCCs, camps, synagogues and other communal spaces.
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As two funder representatives in the nonprofit sector, we have seen the negative impact of high inflation in recent years on the charitable organizations we hold dear.
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Our ultimate aim is to understand how we might greatly expand and democratize–to make accessible and more affordable–“the cohort-based professional development experiences in the Jewish communal ecosystem, to support and nourish the Jewish educators…
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Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, both of our organizations, Jim Joseph Foundation and Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, had been taking gradual steps to improve our grantmaking processes.