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Using Philanthropy ‘To Solve Problems’
Mark Charendoff, the departing Jewish Funders Network president, looks back, and ahead. Tamar Snyder Staff Writer Tue, 10/12/2010When Mark Charendoff publicly announced his decision to step down as...
View ArticleBombing Puts Crisis Fundraising In The Spotlight
Stewart Ain Staff Writer AIPAC seen trying to capitalize on Jerusalem attack.Within hours of last week’s bus bombing in Jerusalem, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee sent an e-mail blast to...
View ArticleTraining Teens To Give
Helen Chernikoff Staff Writer On Long Island, the b’nai mitzvah project has found an older sibling: philanthropy. Decades after community service became a standard part of the American bar and bat...
View ArticleSpecial Needs At Summer Camp To Receive Formal Study
Julie Wiener Associate Editor Foundation for Jewish Camp will map what's available and what needs to be done. The Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) is launching what is believed to be the first-ever...
View ArticleJewish Teen Giving Up By 52 Percent
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Jewish teens in the United States who take part in the Jewish Teen Funders Network are making more charitable contributions, and they are giving mostly to Jewish causes.read...
View ArticleL.A. As A Model For The Jewish Future
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher Jewish Funders Network conference highlights efforts to reinvent Jewish life by challenging the status quo. Los Angeles — “This is the most exciting and...
View ArticleL.A. Film Director Having A Jewish Impact
Jill Soloway, a hip Hollywood writer/director/producer (“Six Feet Under,” “The United States of Tara”), has become a Jewish activist in the last several years and is having quite an impact on the L.A....
View ArticleInclusion Means More Kids At Camp -- Not One Kind Of Camp
My colleagues and I at the Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) have been following with interest the special needs dialogue and debate that has emerged in recent months and weeks online.read more
View ArticleYoung Donors Give In New Ways
Robert Goldblum Managing Editor Major new report reveals that affluent young Jews are still committed to Jewish causes, and want a 'seat at the table.' In a major new report on “next-gen” Jewish...
View ArticleJFN Launches Social Change Matching Fund
Helen Chernikoff Staff Writer The Jewish Funders Network, a service organization for philanthropists, announced today the launch of a “Jewish Social Change Matching Fund” that will offer $1 million to...
View ArticleWhere Funders Go To Collaborate
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher 'We haven’t adapted. New communities need to be created and re-invented.' Miami Beach, Fla. — “This room has the key to solve the crises” facing the Jewish...
View ArticleMove Over, Millennials
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher Engaging young adults is important, but what about everyone else? Financial advisers agree that we should diversify our investments. “Spread the money around,”...
View ArticleQuestions Over Outpouring Of Gaza War Philanthropy
Hannah Dreyfus Staff Writer As U.S. donations to Israel soar, are other causes at risk? The outpouring of money seemed extraordinary, even by Hamptons’ standards. It was Shabbos morning, Aug. 9, the...
View ArticleMoving Charedim Into Israeli Workforce
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher In conference here, funders grapple with crisis over lack of employment. Israel has “an existential problem.” No, it’s not a nuclear Iran, or ISIS at the northern...
View ArticleTop Funders Target ‘Uneven’ Anti-Abuse Policies
Steve Lipman Staff Writer New effort aimed at Jewish camps, day schools as survey calls for ‘best practices.’ A Los Angeles-based Jewish think tank will unveil an innovative approach next week to help...
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