What do rabbis think about impact investing? We’re pleased to share with you Impact Investing: Rabbinic Perspectives, based on the JLens Rabbinic Survey on Jewish Values and Impact Investing, which was sponsored and conducted by JLens, a nonprofit association exploring Jewish values-aligned investing strategies. As Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg observes in the preface, published today […]
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Three More “i” Words: Innovation in Isolation is Irrelevant
20 February, 2013
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/ By Joshua
(This item by Joshua Avedon is cross-posted from the blog at eJewish Philanthropy.) A recent article on the eJewishPhilanthropy site, (Innovation Isn’t Dead, It’s Working February 5, 2013) raised concerns that last year’s merger of Hazon with the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center has sparked casual conversations about the end of the innovation era. The […]
Read MoreThe New “I” Word
(This item by Joshua Avedon is cross-posted from the blog at eJewish Philanthropy.) Two announcements in my inbox this week confirmed what I’ve suspected for a while: the next phase of 21st century Jewish re-invention is upon us. In those emails Hazon and Isabella Freedman proclaimed their merger, and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation revealed the […]
Read MoreJumpstart at the White House
18 July, 2012
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/ By Joshua
Jumpstart Co-founder Shawn Landres speaks to White House gathering of faith-based social entrepreneurs Jumpstart presented a Jewish perspective on social entrepreneurship at the July 11th White House Faith-Based Social Innovators Conference. The afternoon’s discussions offered new insights about the important role that faith-based social innovators play in expanding opportunity and addressing social issues. Senior White […]
Read MoreA White House Family Reunion
By Eli Winkelman cross-posted at The Huffington Post Two weeks ago, I went to the White House for its first
Read MoreThe Next Big New Idea is Neither Big Nor New. Discuss.
09 March, 2010
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/ By Joshua
This item by Joshua Avedon and Shawn Landres was originally posted on eJewishPhilanthropy as part of the 28 Days, 28 Ideas series. “Apple is regularly voted the most innovative company in the world,” writes The Economist in its January 30 edition, “but …rather than developing entirely new product categories, it excels at taking existing, half-baked […]
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