Upstarter Network

UpStart’s network of bold leaders is creating the Jewish community of the future, one venture at a time.

The UpStarter Network is composed of some of the most cutting-edge organizations and individuals in the Jewish world today.

From coast to coast, and everywhere in between, these ventures are launching programs and creating vibrant pathways to connect with Jewish life.

UpStart has been consistently supportive, energizing, and has taught me so much about how to do the work I’m doing on a day-to-day basis. When I hit bumps in the road, my UpStart support system is one of the first places I look to as I figure out how to go forward.

— Beverly Socher-Lerner, Founding Director of Makom Community

UpSpring Cohort ‘25

  • Abrahamic House

  • Be’chol Lashon

  • Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues

  • Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California

  • Kabbalah Experience

  • The LUNAR Collective

  • TischPDX

  • Zera Cafe

Alumni

  • 30 Years After

  • 3GNY – Descendants of Holocaust Survivors

  • A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy

  • A Wider Bridge

  • Adamah (Previously known as Hazon)

  • Ammud: The Jews of Color Torah Academy

  • At The Well

  • Atiq: Jewish Maker Institute

  • Avodah

  • BaMidbar Therapy

  • Bela Farm @ Shoresh

  • Birds of a Feather

  • Bishulim SF

  • Black Mussar Va’ad

  • Bruchim

  • BuddyCheck

  • Career Up Now

  • Centro de Estudios Judios: Torat Emet

  • CharacTours

  • Chaya Community

  • ChiTribe

  • Citizen Film (New Jewish Filmmaking Project)

  • Civic Spirit

  • Community Calls

  • Converjent

  • Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action

  • Derech Haaretz Outdoor Yeshiva

  • Detroit Jews For Justice

  • Eden Village West

  • Ekar Farm

  • Embodied Jewish Learning

  • Embrace Harlem

  • Encounter Programs

  • Eshel

  • FED Social

  • Finding North

  • Footsteps

  • Fuente Latina

  • Gender Equity in Hiring Project

  • Girls In Trouble

  • GrowTorah

  • Haggadot.com

  • Hazon

  • Hebro

  • Human Rights Haggadah

  • I Was Supposed to Have a Baby

  • Institute for Jewish Enrichment

  • ish

  • Jewfolk, Inc.

  • Jewish Collaborative Of Orange County

  • Jewish Farmer Network

  • Jewish Fertility Foundation

  • Jewish Kids Groups

  • Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

  • Jewish Plays Project

  • Jewish Studio Project

  • Jews in All Hues

  • Jewtina y Co.

  • jGirls+ Magazine

  • JQ International

  • JQY

  • JTeach

  • Judaism Your Way

  • Kabbalah Experience

  • Kamochah

  • Kehilat Hadar

  • Keshet

  • Kinhood

  • Kirva (formerly known as The Inside Out Wisdom and Action Project)

  • Kol HaLev

  • Lab/Shul, Inc.

  • Lehrhaus

  • LEV Children’s Museum

  • Libenu

  • Lookstein Virtual Jewish Academy

  • Makom Community

  • Malchut

  • Matan

  • MaTovu

  • Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters

  • Mishkan Chicago

  • Mitsui Collective

  • Moishe House

  • Museum of Jewish Montreal

  • NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change

  • Nitzotzot

  • No Shame On U

  • Olive Tree Arts Network

  • Open Temple

  • Or HaLev

  • Orot

  • Pico Union Project

  • Pittsburgh Interfaith Evolution/2 For Seder

  • Project Shema

  • Rappers & Rabbis (Formerly Bible Raps)

  • Recustom

  • Remember US

  • Rhythm ‘n’ Ruach

  • Rosies Foundation

  • Sacred Spaces

  • Shabbatness

  • Sharsheret

  • Shefa

  • Shomer Collective

  • Sing Unto God

  • Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom

  • SketchPad

  • Strategic Hebrew

  • SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva

  • SVIVAH Inc.

  • Synagogue Village Project

  • Ta’amod: Stand Up!

  • Tech Tribe

  • The Advot Project

  • The Blue Dove Foundation

  • The Efshar Project

  • The Hadar Institute (Hadar)

  • The Idea Institute

  • The Illuminoshi

  • The InHEIRitance Theater Project

  • The Jewish Song Show

  • The Kavana Cooperative

  • The Kitchen SF

  • The Living Room

  • The LUNAR Collective

  • The Open Siddur Project

  • The Shefa School

  • The Workshop

  • theatre dybbuk

  • TheirStory

  • Tikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee

  • Tikkun HaBriet

  • TischPDX

  • Tivnu: Building Justice

  • Tkiya Music

  • Torahverse Inc.

  • Tzedek America

  • Unchained At Last

  • Unorthodox Celebrations

  • Urban Adamah

  • We Are Stardust

  • Wilderness Torah

  • Yad HaChazakah

  • Yesh Tikva

  • Yeshivat Maharat

  • Yiddish Farm

  • ZA’AKAH

  • ZABS Place