Happy Birthday, Chicago!
Dear UpStart Community Member, Happy birthday to...YOU! Just one year ago, we launched UpStart Chicago with high hopes. We dreamt of building a community of innovators, one that would [...]
A Year in Chicagoland
A Year of Acceleration: Supporting Chicago's boldest Jewish entrepreneurs Jewish Enrichment Center's fall installation of childrens' artwork. [...]
25 Years Since NJPS: Did We Make it?
January 19, 2016 By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman eJewish Philanthropy It has been 25 years since the National Jewish Population Survey was [...]
Leading Change Through Adaptive Design
Excerpt from "Leading Change through Adaptive Design," published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2016) Read the original article [...]
School Change – It IS Possible
January 6, 2016 By Maya Bernstein and Bryna Leider in eJewish Philanthropy If you believe that a changing world and [...]
Los Angeles Federation Teen Accelerator
UpStart Tapped to Power Los Angeles Federation Teen Accelerator "If I had had the tools the Accelerator provides before this [...]
Day School Collaboration Network
“We really want [students] who can collaborate, take initiative, be creative, think outside the box. It’s really the skills that [...]
Innovator Spotlight: Jewish Plays Project
Innovator Spotlight: David Winitsky & the Jewish Plays Project David Winitsky calls himself a "late in life Jew." Raised in [...]
UpStarter Spotlight: JLens Lands $5 Million Investment
Three years ago, Julie Hammerman launched JLens as a channel for Jews to apply a Jewish values lens to investing. [...]
Enabling a Culture of Innovating
How might we change our robust Jewish communal landscape by changing our innovation culture as well?
Living and working in Silicon Valley, I hear the word innovation on a daily basis at the grocery store, at the gym, even at Friday night services. Companies are hiring Chief Innovation Officers and foundations are creating new grants specifically for innovation. The word is used so much, but Im not sure we all define it in the same way. Is it innovative because its new? Not necessarily. Is it innovative because it utilizes technology? Im not so sure. The overuse of the word, perhaps, is a product of the misuse of the word. As all educators know, its not about the destination; its about the journey. And, in this case, its not about innovation a product or outcome; its about innovating a process of building, measuring, and learning.
