Insights

In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week, UpStart is highlighting inspirational stories of impact from our network. Raised in a rural California community and in an interfaith home, Eleyna Fugman grew up with a strong sense of social justice, but a weaker sense of what it means to be Jewish. Her family would celebrate Hanukkah, but […]

UpStart is committed to ensuring that the Jewish future advances along the pre-COVID-19 trajectory of creativity, expansion, inclusion, and relevancy…with even greater urgency and determination. Recognizing the potentially dire implications of COVID-19 on this sector, UpStart took swift action and immediately launched a series of interventions. We built out operational support and created the Jewish […]

The Jews of Color Career Development Program supports and fosters the growth of young Jews of Color (JOCs), giving them the entrepreneurial tools, mindsets, and experience to create systems-level change in the Jewish innovation sector and beyond. We are thrilled to announce the 8 bold JOC leaders selected to participate in the inaugural Jews of Color […]

Today’s unprecedented crisis has strained resources, challenged revenue models, and revealed emerging needs that many organizations are not equipped to meet. At the same time, the virtual world is opening up new opportunities for collaboration that didn’t seem possible in our pre-crisis worldview. This moment calls for strategic partnerships and alliances: an unparalleled resource for […]

by Taylor Epstein, Managing Director, Learning & Design   We’re thrilled to release a brand-new guide called “Facilitating in the Virtual World: 26 interactive exercises to engage participants at all stages of the learning journey.” As so many ventures in the UpStart network began to pivot their programs to the virtual realm at the beginning […]

At UpStart, our vision is a more just, vibrant, and inclusive future. That vision means a future that is safer and more equitable, and that illuminates everyone’s potential–particularly those who have been systematically disenfranchised both within and outside of Jewish communal life. As the pandemic disproportionately impacts people of color, and as we witness consistent […]