Making Space for Jewish Thought Leadership
What might it look like to be more intentional about cultivating Jewish thought leadership to strengthen our capacity for learning, meaning-making, connection and dialogue?
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What might it look like to be more intentional about cultivating Jewish thought leadership to strengthen our capacity for learning, meaning-making, connection and dialogue?
Partners in the News
Modern Jewish families are shaped by social trends including increased cultural diversity, economic precarity, geographic mobility and political polarization, according to a new report by Crown Family Philanthropies, the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and…
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.
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.