Celebrate Chanukah by devoting at least one night out of eight to giving back to those in need New York, NY – December 3, 2014 – Jewish Communal Fund (JCF), the leading Jewish donor advised fund in the United States, has announced the debut of Clink!: Making Change by Giving, a new app to help…
The Jewish Communal Fund (JCF) and Slingshot today released “Funding Jewish Innovation: A Resource Guide.” The guide offers a crash-course in funding Jewish innovation. It answers common questions around funding innovation in Jewish life, offers reflections from funders in the field, and provides practical next steps for individual donors to select innovative projects and organizations…
Jewish Communal Fund President Karen Adler participated in a thoughtful conversation about innovation with her nephew, Jonathan Raiffe, Chair of Slingshot, at Slingshot Day, held earlier this month at the Kimmel Center at NYU. Listen to the entire talk below: The two spoke of how they came to be interested in innovation in Jewish life,…
This article originally appeared on eJewishphilanthropy and is reprinted with permission. A recent article on this site (“Innovation Isn’t Dead, It’s Working”) raised concerns that last year’s merger of Hazon with the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center has sparked casual conversations about the end of the innovation era. The authors of that post, my colleagues Lisa…
When Jumpstart published The Jewish Innovation Economy, the landmark survey of the Jewish innovation space, the editors, Joshua Avedon and Shawn Landres, included any organization founded between 2000-2010 in the survey. Their intent was not to capture all manifestations of Jewish innovation, or to assert that innovation as a phenomenon was or should be confined to…