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 and leaders who are the backbone of Jewish communal life.”
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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.
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To bring an idea or program model that has worked in one place somewhere new, sometimes adapting the idea to meet local needs, effective scaling is essential.
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With information at your fingertips, and distractions only a click away, it is more important than ever to understand the “best” ways to get and hold people’s attention.
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The word ‘innovation’ often conjures images of a lightbulb above a head — an instant spark of an idea that has the power to change the world. Yet real progress — forward motion, sustainable change — also requires the effective implementation…
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We thank everyone who made Career Trajectories possible. And, after learning so much about their aspirations, needs and professional goals, we express sincere thanks to Jewish educators.
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The initial ten teen initiatives will live on well past the grant period and learnings about their successes and challenges will be shared widely–both developments that are core principles for the Foundation.
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Evaluation work with ten very different programs over a three-year period also revealed the extent to which powerful professional development involves designing experiences that take shape around a series of productive tensions:
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Funders need to provide grantees with multiyear general operating support in order to help them achieve their missions.
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Bahya Ibn Pakuda, an eleventh century Spanish Jewish philosopher and rabbi, wrote the first treatise on Jewish ethics called Duties of the Heart (Chovot HaLevavot).