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This Spring, Linda Gerard joined the UpStart team as Chief Program and Innovation Officer with the purpose of fueling Jewish […]
June 19, 2016 | Peoplehood Papers 17: Engaging Millennials with Jewish Peoplehood By Aaron Katler and Taylor Epstein Robert Hunter, […]
June 6, 2016 | Charlotte Jewish News ZABS Place – a North Carolina-based organization – is one of nine selected […]
Congrats to our new Bay Area UpStarters! Earlier this month we announced #UpStartCohort9, our new Accelerator cohort of bold Jewish […]
Imagine you’re a new college graduate and you’re playing around with the idea of becoming a Jewish Educator. You have […]
May 15, 2016 | eJewishPhilanthropy More than 200 Jewish innovators and visionary leaders will come together in Chicago today for […]
May 12, 2016 | HUC-JIR News Makom, Temple Sholom of Chicago’s 20s/30s community, has been selected to participate in the […]
May 12, 2016 | JUF News Three Chicago-based Jewish organizations — Libenu Foundation, Makom, and Pushing the Envelope Farm — […]
May 11, 2016 | HUC-JIR Yachad, the Jewish Educational Platform for Teens, has been selected to participate in the UpStart […]
May 10, 2016 | eJewish Philanthropy Who will be the next cohort of innovators to transform Jewish life? The UpStart Accelerator […]
By Aaron Katler This past week my inbox was filled with wishes for a healthy, joyous, and Kosher Passover with […]
March 21, 2016 | eJewish Philanthropy By Maya Bernstein A recent article in The New York Times Magazine entitled “Group Study” […]
eJewish Philanthropy | March 14, 2016 By Aaron Katler Last week, UpStart closed applications for our 2016 Accelerator program, which […]
Stanford Social Innovation Review Blog | Mar. 11, 2016 By Maya Bernstein, UpStart Associate The structures and philosophy of the art […]
“The question isn’t – ‘how can we get people to come?’ It’s ‘what do we need to offer so that […]
Mazel tov to all of the UpStarters, alum, and other innovative organizations included in this year’s #Slingshot16 guides! Slingshot, A Resource […]
What does the word Berakhah (Blessing) mean to you? For nine year-old Eli, it is a flowing and dynamic presence […]
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 of Acceleration: Supporting Chicago’s boldest Jewish entrepreneurs These are some of the many successes achieved by UpStart Accelerator […]
January 19, 2016 By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman eJewish Philanthropy It has been 25 years since the National Jewish Population Survey was […]
Excerpt from “Leading Change through Adaptive Design,” published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2016) Read the original article […]
January 6, 2016 By Maya Bernstein and Bryna Leider in eJewish Philanthropy If you believe that a changing world and […]
UpStart Tapped to Power Los Angeles Federation Teen Accelerator “If I had had the tools the Accelerator provides before this […]
“We really want [students] who can collaborate, take initiative, be creative, think outside the box. It’s really the skills that […]
