The Heart of Grantmaking: Relationships, Empathy, and Trust
Insights from One of the Foundation’s Newest Team Members
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Insights from One of the Foundation’s Newest Team Members
Guest Blog
It is possible to create a virtual graduation ceremony or rite-of-passage event where teenagers can showcase their accomplishments to their community and experience an important sense of closure.
Blog
Counting Inconsistencies is a meta-analysis of 25 prior demographic and population surveys, which some of us have funded. The report sheds light on the numerous inconsistencies these studies have had in collecting data and identified four ways in which…
Featured Partner
CANVAS, a partnership of five Jewish foundations working with Jewish Funders Network, is awarding grants to five Jewish arts and culture networks
Partners in the News
Many Jewish community professionals who work with teens say that the crucial element of their work now isn’t so much the content of one particular program or another but connecting with teens during this time of social isolation.
Guest Blog
HUC-JIR's guest blog series, Stories from the Field, offers a unique window into the world of Jewish educators and education right now.
Featured Partner
This May, the Jewish community is bringing the power of ‘Collective Compassion’ to National Mental Health Awareness Month
Partners in the News
Seven Jewish foundations joined together to announce on Monday the launch of the Jewish Community Response and Impact Fund (JCRIF), which will provide more than $80 million in interest-free loans and grants as thousands of Jewish nonprofit organizations…
Guest Blog
Like almost all Jewish educators, Jewish early childhood educators have worked with tremendous speed, diligence, and focus to master new technologies and pivot during this crisis.
Featured Partner
Sefaria's new two-way Linker is the latest major development for anyone interested in learning and exploring these sacred texts.
Partners in the News
As foundations and funders committed to klal yisrael, we have a responsibility to support our community and to help your organizations and the people who are part of your teams during this challenging period.
Guest Blog
Bonimot Tzedek is a program intended to create leaders within Habonim Dror and the larger Jewish community, which we achieve not by identifying young people who already have all of the characteristics we expect in a leader, but by giving all sorts of…
From the Foundation Team
As a philanthropic foundation professional for over eight years, I see long-term donor investment and long-term organizational planning (certainly these two actions are related) as an aspiration that is not always implemented in meaningful ways.