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 […]
Read MoreJewnovations joins the Jumpstart platform to become the global Jewish innovation database Los Angeles (May 6, 2013) — Jumpstart, the global research & design laboratory for Jewish innovation, announced today that it has partnered with Rimona Consulting, creators of the Jewish startup wiki-map Jewnovations and the leading Jewish crowdfunding platform, Jewcer. Jewnovations has become a […]
Read More(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 More(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 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 MoreVideo and excerpts from Shawn Landres's remarks from the White House Faith-Based Social Innovators Conference – July 11, 2012 I am here because my personal and professional journeys as a human being and as a citizen are profoundly shaped by faith and covenant. Judaism stands for dignity, opportunity, freedom, and responsibility. It calls us to […]
Read Moreby Jumpstart co-founder Joshua Avedon. This item is crossposted on the ROI Community blog. Rededication – the act of restoring something to holiness – is a defining element of Jewish life. More often than not, Jews lose the first round with an adversary, only to persevere and ultimately thrive. Not long ago, the Jewish narrative […]
Read MoreAlthough the use of the terms “ecosystem” and “innovation ecosystem” to describe Jewish organizational dynamics are relatively recent, the concept of a “system of innovation” has been circulating in the global world of business for more than two decades. The application of biological and ecological metaphors to economic systems dates to the mid‐1990s, and the […]
Read MoreBy Eli Winkelman cross-posted at The Huffington Post Two weeks ago, I went to the White House for its first
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