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Adam Simon
March 29th, 2012
The Jewish New Media Innovation Fund: One Year Later

Cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy. This article is co-authored by Rachel Levin of the Righteous Persons Foundation and Josh Miller of the Jim Joseph Foundation.

Back in 2010, when Facebook had but a meager 300 million users and the concepts of Google Plus and Pinterest were not yet on the horizon, there was a desire bubbling up within the Jewish community to capitalize on the new media and technological innovations happening across so many facets of our lives.

How could we channel all of these new platforms to strengthen innovation within the Jewish community? How could these tools enable Jewish communities spread all over the world to reach, teach, learn, create and affiliate in unprecedented ways? Read More »

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Lisa Eisen
March 22nd, 2012
People of the Book, Community of Action: The Case for Jewish Service-Learning

What is Jewish service-learning? Why is it important? How can it help strengthen our community while also deepening our impact on the world?

This week, Repair the World and the Jewish Communal Service Association released People of the Book, Community of Action: Exploring Jewish Service-Learning to look at these questions and many more through the lens of experts from organizations like American Jewish World Service, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish Agency for Israel and countless others who have been working to advance the field everyday.

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Team Schusterman
March 21st, 2012
What We’re Reading: Any Given Child: A Progress Report

Cross-posted from The Huffington Post. Michael Kaiser is the President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

I have written before about the Kennedy Center’s comprehensive arts education program: Any Given Child. This program assesses the arts education opportunities in a given community (offered by schools, arts organizations, community groups and others) and designs a comprehensive kindergarten through eighth grade sequence that utilizes all of these opportunities in a format consistent with the school curriculum in that community. It is a new approach that is affordable and gives each student (any given child) a less haphazard arts education than is available in most communities.

This is a relatively new program. I developed the concept in 2008, with support from the Ford Foundation, and executives from my able Education Department—Darrell Ayers and Barbara Shepherd—took the concept and ran with it. They began implementation in Sacramento, California just two years ago. Since Kevin Johnson, the dynamic mayor of Sacramento, agreed to make his city the first Any Given Child site, six other communities have adopted the program: Springfield, Missouri; Portland, Oregon; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada and Sarasota, Florida.

Read the full article from The Huffington Post

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Sandy Cardin
March 19th, 2012
The Best of Both Worlds: Back to the Future of Philanthropy

Cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy and the Council on Foundation’s Re:Philanthropy blog.

As part of eJewishPhilanthropy’s crowdsourced conversation, What is Jewish Philanthropy?, I share why I am more optimistic than ever about the future of Jewish philanthropy. I invite you to comment below. Do you agree that the future of Jewish philanthropy looks brights? Do you believe that the greatest philanthropists are those who give both time and money?

Ask anyone to name the greatest philanthropists of all time—Jewish or otherwise—and they will invariably identify people known for giving away huge sums of money. From Rockefeller to Rothschild, from Buffet to Blaustein, from Morgan to Montefiore, most of us have come to equate philanthropy with the charitable contributions of people of immense wealth. Read More »

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Team Schusterman
March 16th, 2012
Gatherings & Events: Itamar Rabinovich Public Lecture “From Waging Peace to Lingering Conflict”

As events continue to unfold across the Middle East, with particular focus on Syria, we are excited to be co-hosting this event with NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies!

Itamar Rabinovich, who served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States and chief negotiator with Syria during the Rabin government, will deliver a public lecture “From Waging Peace to Lingering Conflict” on Monday, April 2, 5:30-7 p.m. at NYU School of Law’s Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South (between Sullivan and MacDougal Sts.).

The lecture, sponsored by NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies and the Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, is free but an RSVP is required to fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu or 212.998.8981. Subway Lines: A, B, C, D, E, F, M (West 4th Street).

Reporters interested in attending the event must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu. Read More »

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Team Schusterman
March 8th, 2012
Opportunity: UJA-Federation of New York Offering Micro Grants

Have a great idea for how to engage Jewish young adults in the New York area?

The UJA-Federation of New York’s Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal wants to hear about it. The commission  is seeking applications for micro grants from emerging Jewish organizations that are developing innovative Jewish identity-building experiences for post-college, pre-family young adults in their 20s and 30s in the New York area.

The funding is meant to support organizations that are looking to test new program models, attract wider audiences and/or pursue strategies for strengthening organizational effectiveness. Applications are due Monday April 2!

To find out more information about the grants, and to apply visit the UJA-Federation of New York website. For more information, email Ariella Goldfein at goldfeina@ujafedny.org.

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Lisa Eisen
March 6th, 2012
Peoplehood Papers: Putting the People Back in Peoplehood

The term Jewish Peoplehood may be a modern formulation, but the belief in an underlying unity that makes an individual part of a Jewish people dates back millennia. As the Haggadah will remind us in a few short weeks, “In each generation every individual should feel as though he or she had actually been redeemed from Egypt.”

In the 21st century, however, the challenges the Jewish community faces in ensuring we remain a group of people bound together by a common set of values and beliefs—and in finding agreement on the question at the heart of it, why be Jewish—have become increasingly complex. Read More »

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Lisa Eisen
March 2nd, 2012
Seizing the Moment for Israel Education

Lisa Eisen is the National Director of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation

The moment is ripe to make Israel education a key priority of our community.

It was thrilling to see the great interest in this field of study demonstrated by the 80-plus participants at The iCenter’s iThink event this week and those who joined in virtually. Now it is time to bring innovation, inspiration and resources to creating a vibrant field and to helping build generations of young Jews with nuanced understanding of and meaningful personal connections to Israel.

Finding creative, resonant ways to educate our children—our younger generations and future leaders—about Israel is one of the most important and urgent tasks we have as a community. It is vital to cultivating rich Jewish identities in our young people, to forging in them a sense of global Jewish Peoplehood and to ensuring they will have a real and enduring commitment to Israel as our Jewish homeland and as a centerpiece of the collective Jewish experience. Read More »

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Seth Cohen
February 24th, 2012
#jnets: Social Media Junkies

My take on the What People Think I Do / What I Really Do meme … Share your thoughts—did I get it right? Read More »

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Lynn Schusterman
February 24th, 2012
Symposium on International Giving

As part of Philanthropy Magazine’s Winter 2012 issue on global giving, 13 of America’s leading international donors and development experts responded to a series questions:

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