By Julie Finkelstein and Naomi Adland Slingshot was approached with what may seem like a simple question, “Do the organizations listed in the guide have minimum board giving guidelines?” Our answer was – “We have no idea, but let’s find out!” We reached out to a small group of innovative organizations listed in Slingshot…
Downton Abbey, the popular PBS drama, is a case study in estate planning gone wrong, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. “The whole plot is really about an enormous estate-planning problem,” Kenneth Brier, a lawyer in Needham, Mass, is quoted in the article saying. The show, which just wrapped up its…
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…
Walk into the office of Rafi Musher, a successful entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Stax Inc., a global strategy consulting firm, and you will be greeted by a gleaming red Moto Guzzi motorcycle – one of three motorcycles in his collection. He’s passionate about his bikes, and even more so about his…