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Insight: Findings from the Gender Equity and Leadership Initiative

Posted 06/19/2019

The Gender Equity and Leadership Initiative (from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson School of JTS) has released its findings from its extensive, two-pronged approach to explore and understand the landscape of gender equity and Jewish educational leadership. Aliza Mazor, UpStart’s Chief Field-Building Officer, connected many of UpStart’s alumni to the convenings from which […]

Bright Spots: Where Genius Comes From

Posted 05/14/2019

by Aaron Katler, UpStart’s CEO “Talent hits a target nobody else can hit. Genius hits a target nobody else can see.” —Arthur Schopenhauer This quote was a poignant line in one of my new favorite books, Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric […]

Los Angeles: Community Workshop “Who’s Your Who”

Posted 05/10/2019

Want to broaden your organization’s reach and better meet the needs of your community? Learn how to gain insight into the people you seek to serve. Participants will: Explore who is not currently connected to your work and how you might intentionally engage them Practice ways of “immersing with empathy” to illuminate gaps in your […]

Bay Area: Community Workshops “Who’s Your Who”

Posted 05/09/2019

Want to broaden your organization’s reach and better meet the needs of your community? Learn how to gain insight into the people you seek to serve. Participants will: Explore who is not currently connected to your work and how you might intentionally engage them Practice ways of “immersing with empathy” to illuminate gaps in your […]

Upcoming Webinar “How We Built This: Designing Organizational Culture”

Posted 05/06/2019

Join UpStart and eJewishPhilanthropy for a webinar following up on our recent article, “How We Built This: Designing the UpStart Culture Deck.” Register here. When you’re a growing organization and hiring quickly, it may seem less important or too time-consuming to delve into seemingly aspirational issues like culture. But in order to scale a new […]

Introducing the West Coast Entrepreneur Sprint

Posted 04/18/2019

We are excited to announce the launch of our UpStart Entrepreneur Sprints beginning on the West Coast! Join us in welcoming the 11 bold Jewish ventures invited to participate in our West Coast Entrepreneur Sprint, beginning this week. The Advot Project Atiq: Jewish Maker Institute Bishulim SF Synagogue Village Project Derech HaAretz Outdoor Yeshiva Families of […]

How We Built This: What We Learned from Designing the UpStart Culture Deck

Posted 04/15/2019

Originally posted in eJP. By Taylor Epstein, Jenny Kibrit Smith and Jaime Rapaport Barry This is the first in a two-part series – stay tuned for Part 2 in late summer 2019. UpStart’s Culture Deck from CarolineKessler5 Dream with purpose. That aspiration is part of UpStart’s team philosophy, and it was our guiding principle as […]

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