Getting the Jewish Workforce Out of ‘the Red Zone’
Our people have been in the Red Zone for over five months; this is damaging to the Jewish community and the people who make it function.
Our people have been in the Red Zone for over five months; this is damaging to the Jewish community and the people who make it function.
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In the spirit of looking ahead, I'm also very pleased to share some exciting news — after an exhaustive national search for a new Foundation board member, we soon will be adding two new members to our board.
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With the new year approaching, many of us will both reflect on the year that was and think about what we hope to accomplish in the year, or years, to come. In other words, we will do some type of planning.
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For an organization to reflect upon and convey its impact effectively, its leaders must be willing to accept and admit its imperfections.
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One of our favorite thinkers, Buckminster Fuller, once said, “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.”
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Moishe House offers mindfulness retreats a few times a year to their residents and Moishe House Without Walls participants.
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This six-month fellowship for Jewish high-school students sparks innovation through entrepreneurial training and mentorship.
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Technology is spreading at ever increasing speeds. It took the smartphone ten years to become a cultural norm, less than a third of the time that it took other everyday technologies to hit the mainstream.
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25 years lies in between my first and second visits to Israel. The second came last summer when I participated in a Birthright Israel trip along with 40 other Jewish young adults from the Bay Area.
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Who is a leader? We hear a lot about leadership these days. More tactically, what is leadership comprised of? What experiences help shape leaders and leadership? And what traits and characteristics do those leaders have?
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Retaining and training early childhood educators is a serious and major challenge, and funders are beginning to be creative about their investment models to increase professional development and compensation for these educators.
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There’s nothing new about the Jim Joseph Foundation investing in Jewish educators and in educator professional development (PD) specifically.
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Midway through the Jim Joseph Foundation’s September fall meeting, members of the professional team stepped outside to call representatives from 21 different organizations who were receiving grants following their submissions to the Foundation’s Requests…