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Toby Rubin is the Founder of UpStart, where she recently completed her ten-year tenure as CEO. In that role, Toby […]
January 26, 2017 | Jeff Kasowitz UpStarter Jeff Kasowitz is co-founder of the Jewish Studio Project. JSP activates creativity in individuals […]
December 14, 2016 | Boulder Jewish News Leading engine of Jewish innovation seeks 10th Cohort of Game-Changing Organizations Applications opened on […]
November 29, 2016 | Oregon Jewish Voice Bikkurim, Joshua Venture Group and UpStart are consolidating into a single organization – […]
November 23, 2016 | The Jewish Voice On Thursday, November 10, UpStart, Bikkurim, and Joshua Venture Group announced that they are […]
November 22, 2016 | The NY Jewish Week When Rabbi Sara Luria founded ImmerseNYC, which aims to make the mikvah […]
November 21, 2016| Medium Aliza Kline, CEO of OneTable, first learned about the transformational power of design thinking when […]
November 10, 2016| JTS Given the myriad of complex challenges and opportunities facing the Jewish community today, what actions are […]
November 10, 2016| jWeekly.com Three Jewish nonprofit incubators, including San Francisco-based UpStart, have joined in an entity to be called […]
November 10, 2016| JTA Four Jewish organizations will combine to form a single organization to be a central resource for […]
November 10, 2016| eJewish Philanthropy UpStart, Bikkurim, Joshua Venture Group, and U.S. based–programs of PresenTense consolidate to be central resource for […]
Four Organizations Merge Programs and Operations to Lead Next Stage of Jewish Innovation UpStart, Bikkurim, Joshua Venture Group, and U.S. […]
October 21, 2016 | eJewish Philanthropy By Jaime Rapaport Barry Just a week after Yom Kippur, many of us still have […]
UpStart Unbound is the first-ever collaborative podcast episode of UpStart and Judaism Unbound. Created as part of the UpStart Lab […]
September 8 | JUF News Creativity and innovation come naturally to some. But they also are skills that can be […]
By Rebecca Minkus-Lieberman Orot: Center for New Jewish Learning, Chicago Accelerator Cohort 8 It was early on a winter Sunday morning – […]
By Dana Prottas Yachad, Minneapolis Accelerator Cohort 9 Remember the popular phrase from the film Field of Dreams heard from the […]
September 1, 2016 | JFNA Ideas in Jewish Education and Engagement By Taylor Epstein “When one person takes one step […]
August 5 | JWeekly.com Name: Jan L. Holmgren Age: 67 City: Oakland Position: Education consultant, UpStart board chair J: You […]
In celebration of Pride and in the wake of the Orlando shooting, we asked three UpStart innovators for reflections on […]
When Rabbi Benay Lappe came out, as a teen in the mid ‘70’s, she knew two things: “One, that they […]
June 21, 2016 | Lubavitch.com In the market for a designer wedding dress? A piano? Travel books, children’s toys, vintage […]
A Wider Bridge Arthur Slepian, CEO UpStart Accelerator Alumnus In August 2009, Arthur Slepian heard about a shooting at the […]
JQ International Anna Goodman, Program Director Los Angeles Federation Teen Program Accelerator At the tender age of 17, Anna Goodman […]