The Genesis Prize Foundation and the Jewish Funders Network launched a $3 million matching grant program to fund an initiative to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in Jewish life.
There was plenty of sophisticated thinking that infused the annual Jewish Funders Network (JFN) Conference, which I attended this past weekend in San Diego.
The Genesis Prize Foundation and the Jewish Funders Network launched a $3.3 million matching grant program to fund an intermarried outreach initiative.
The state of funding innovation in the Jewish community presents encouraging and discouraging realities at the same time.
Rabbi David Wolpe and Elon Gold speak at the 2013 Jewish Funders Network Conference.
As the CEO of a public foundation, a woman married to a Jewish man, raising our kids in the reform tradition and member of a social justice-oriented temple that welcomes interfaith families like mine, I was asked to share my thoughts on why funding social change is so important.
“Philanthropy is what you’ll be remembered for,” Jewish Funders Network (JFN) President Andrés Spokoiny told the 400 attendees at the Beverly Hilton on March 18, the first full day of the group’s annual conference. “Philanthropy is your legacy.”
A conference on inclusion of people with disabilities may mark the beginning of a new era in Jewish communal attitudes.
The MATCH program will hold its fourth launch this August to encourage expanding the donor base for Jewish day schools.
There was a time when Jewish philanthropists would crack open their checkbooks at least once a year and make a big contribution to Jewish federations and other Jewish agencies. That was just how it was done.No more.
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