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Reflecting Back to Look Ahead: Relaunching UpStart’s Venture Accelerator

Posted 11/21/2018

by Taylor Epstein Originally published on eJewish Philanthropy It’s that time of year, when so many individuals and organizations are reflecting on what came before, renewing commitments, and realigning priorities. Over the past six months, the UpStart team has been doing just that by envisioning the future of one of our flagship programs, The UpStart […]

Major new teen initiative launches in Bay Area

Posted 05/22/2018

May 18, 2018 | J-Weekly, The Jewish News of Northern California In the early 1990s, Debra Sagan Massey was a young adult working as a youth director at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, and Mike Friedman was one of her teen charges. Today, 25 years later, Massey and Friedman are all grown up, […]

Anshe Emet: Our CHIdush Team in Action

Posted 05/15/2018

by Rabbi D’ror Chankin-Gould This piece was originally published in Anshe Emet’s newsletter, December 2017 If Moses begged Pharaoh to let the Jewish people go one time, and then walked away after he didn’t succeed, we would still be in Egypt. After the first set of tablets were broken, if we had shrugged our shoulders and given up, we would have no […]

Sharing the Impact of PresenTense Colorado-UpStart

Posted 05/07/2018

May 6, 2018 | eJewish Philanthropy By Lisa Farber Miller and Jeff Tiell My participation in PresenTense Colorado has had a large impact on my Jewish identity. Before, I had little idea of any engagement for Jewish teens outside of my synagogue, and the only other Jewish kids I knew were from my B’nai Mitzvah class. […]

Denver and Boulder Teens Initiative Receives New Funding

Posted 04/03/2018

March 13, 2018 | eJewish Philanthropy The multi-faceted Denver/Boulder Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Initiative (Initiative) is involving more teens in Jewish life, offering them new programs they find relevant, and helping them develop leadership skills – says a new evaluation on the Initiative. The Initiative, funded by Rose Community Foundation, with additional funding from […]

Bay Area Federation Launches Multi-Year $7.6m Teen Initiative

Posted 04/03/2018

March 15, 2018 | eJewish Philanthropy The Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties (the Federation) has launched its Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Initiative, a five-year, $7.6 million endeavor. The Initiative was designed with 1:1 match funding by the Jim Joseph Foundation, in the context of the national Jewish […]

Hackathon, Jewish-Style

Posted 01/09/2018

December 29, 2017 | The Covenant Foundation Tamir Barzilai is beta-testing an app so people with dietary restrictions can find restaurants in Vancouver offering dishes free of taboo ingredients. So far, the app has 500 subscribers, has earned extensive media coverage, and will soon go wider in Vancouver, and to other cities in Canada and the […]