The Heart of Grantmaking: Relationships, Empathy, and Trust
Insights from One of the Foundation’s Newest Team Members
Insights from One of the Foundation’s Newest Team Members
From the Foundation Team
Since the Jim Joseph Foundation’s inception nine years ago, bridge funding has been a part of the Foundation’s grantmaking strategy. While usually defined by shorter grant periods, a bridge funding grant can have a significant catalyzing impact on…
Guest Blog
Maurice Matiz is Director of the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). This blog originally appeared on the CCNMTL website. Last week, CCNMTL reached two important milestones: the center completed its 15th year of operations,…
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Against the backdrop of substantial changes—and many challenges—for American Jewish life, one of the areas of significant growth in the last dozen years has been the JOFEE field – Jewish Outdoor, Food & Environmental Education. Organizations…
From the Foundation Team
In 2011, social-sector thought leader Mario Morino released a book entitled Leap of Reason. In essence, Morino argued that the social-sector could be vastly improved by relentlessly measuring results for which organizations held themselves accountable…
Partners in the News
The Jim Joseph Foundation in San Francisco has announced two rounds of grants totaling nearly $24 million in support of Jewish education. Grant recipients include the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which was awarded $3 million to expand…
Partners in the News
It hasn’t achieved Starbucks-level growth, with a franchise on every corner. Not yet. But Moishe House, which offers subsidized housing to young adults who agree to live and work together on promoting Jewish life to their peers, has expanded at a dizzying…
From the Foundation Team
In the Foundation’s ongoing efforts to identify and analyze best grantmaking strategies, we have seen grantees achieve outcomes that both strengthen organizational capacity and position organizations for future growth. By virtue of grantees’ strong…
Partners in the News
ATLANTA (JTA) — Over 3,000 teenagers from multiple Jewish youth groups gathered in Atlanta for a series of events aimed at strengthening Jewish identity among teens and rallying philanthropic support for such programs. The main attractions were the…
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Partners in the News
George Rohr’s op-ed provides us with a salient and powerful message: Day schools help ensure a vibrant Jewish future (“Tackling The Day School Affordability Crisis,” Education Supplement, Jan. 30). And in order for day schools to survive and…
Partners in the News
NEW YORK (JTA) — A new $9.2 million initiative will attempt to expand and improve Jewish summer programming for New York-area teens. The New York Teen Initiative for Immersive Summer Experiences for Jewish Teens, a project of New York’s Jewish Education…
From the Foundation Team
This week, more than 3,000 Jewish teens from around the country and across the globe will join together in Atlanta for three days of service, learning and celebration as part of BBYO and NFTY’s International Conventions. They will come from cities near…