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.
20th Anniversary Feature
As the Foundation marks our 20th anniversary in 2025, we are pleased to elevate some of the individuals, organizations, and research that have left an indelible mark on the field over the last two decades.
Guest Blog
The story of the Jewish Emergent Network echoes the story of Jewish tradition and innovation, in which new forms of community emerge in response to the needs and desires of the people we serve, informed by the past but fundamentally oriented to the present…
From the Foundation Team
Insights from One of the Foundation’s Newest Team Members
Guest Blog
Physical spaces should serve your goals and your people, not become an end in and of themselves.
From the Foundation Team
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
From the Foundation Team
The Foundation has also integrated cross-portfolio evaluation into more of our work to learn about shared outcomes across different sets of grantee-partners.
Featured Partner
IYUN helps young Jewish adults explore big questions about life through Torah study in a cohort setting.
Featured Partner
The Shalom Hartman Institute’s Beit Midrash for New North American Rabbis (Rabbanut North America) is training visionary leaders in the Jewish texts, ideas, and skills they need to lead the North American Jewish community as cutting-edge rabbis.
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…
Partners in the News
The goal of the three-year pilot program is to ultimately train an additional 300 early childhood educators — 30 in each community — in an effort to address the national shortage of well-trained preschool teachers.
Guest Blog
We believe our survey instrument and similar tools can be adapted for use by Jewish engagement leaders to gain insight into connectedness, belonging and well-being in support of their program goals and constituent needs.
Guest Blog
We’re scaling our work to offer more opportunities for mid-career Jewish communal professionals to learn, grow, and support one another in trusted cohorts of colleagues.