Sponsored Projects

Jumpstart serves as the fiscal sponsor of a number of innovative projects.

Jumpstart sponsored projects

Adoption & Jewish Identity Project (AJIP) The Adoption & Jewish Identity Project supports Jewish adoptees and their families in creating healthy personal, family, and communal identities and advocates for an inclusive Jewish community that is fully welcoming to adoptees.
ChiTribe ChiTribe functions as a resource to connect young Jewish people with communities, events and organizations that fit their interests in Chicago. By aggregating and streamlining all things Jewish via central calendar and location, ChiTribe bridges the gap between those looking for a community and the communities looking for them.
Conejo Health Conejo Health is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free overdose training and free Naloxone along with other low-cost medical equipment and courses to communities in California.
Culinary Kids Academy Culinary Kids Academy brings together groups of Jewish young adults for a tremendously social and engaging experience where they cook delicious food. Culinary Kids Academy integrates grade level specific, standards-based, multi-discipline curricula into complex cooking classes.
Culver City Family Alliance Culver City Family Alliance’s empowers and supports the most vulnerable families of Culver City (focused on undocumented and mixed-status families) by bringing together CCFA staff, school district leaders, community members, local agencies, and volunteers to offer wrap-around services, recognizing that children cannot learn when they feel unsafe or they believe their family is in danger.
Curious Cardinals Curious Cardinals aims to ignite passions in our students with engaging, challenging materials and inspiring mentors, so they are empowered with the knowledge and mindset to take agency over their own educational journeys and enact positive change in the world.
Emergency Supply Donor Group ESDG is an entirely volunteer-run response toe COVID-19 that gets essential medical supplies to frontline responders quickly, with philanthropic dollars and private sector expertise.
European Union of Jewish Students The European Union of Jewish Students is the umbrella organization of 35 national Jewish student unions all across Europe.
Friday Night Lights Events Friday Night Lights is a series of sophisticated Shabbat and holiday dinners that addresses the need for quality, cultural events that appeal to professional, gay Jews.
Gender Equity in Hiring Project The Gender Equity in Hiring Project (GEiHP) works to remove gender bias from hiring processes within Jewish organizations in order to help women rise to positions of leadership by creating deep, substantive and sustainable changes in organizational culture, structure and processes.
The Good Deed Corps The Good Deed Corps is a nonpartisan civic engagement and voter education organization that creates out-of-the box, innovative campaigns to engage and educate voters.
Honeycake Magazine Honeycake Magazine sweetens families’ Jewish experience with stories, poems, songs, puzzles, recipes, and activities for two- to six-year-olds.
Jewish Communal Professionals of Southern California The Jewish Communal Professionals of Southern California (JCPSC) organization provides continuing education, professional development, mentoring, and networking.
Jewish Montessori Society The Jewish Montessori Society is the central agency for Jewish Montessori education around the world.
Jewish Women INVEST Education Projects Jewish Women INVEST educates and mobilizes women to activate their money and financial capital towards values-aligned and impact investing through small communities of women committed to increasing their personal knowledge of money, investing, and power.
JLens Investor Network JLens explores a Jewish lens on investing, and serves as the bridge between the Jewish community and the values-based impact investing movement.
LA Jewish Film Festival The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) builds community awareness, appreciation and pride in the diversity of the Jewish people through a cinematic experience.
The Living Room The Living Room creates unique community gatherings that celebrate Jewish ritual through food, music and dance in Los Angeles.
Mechon Hadar Mechon Hadar is an educational institution that empowers Jews to create and sustain vibrant, practicing, egalitarian communities of Torah learning, prayer, and service.
Muslim Jewish Conference The Muslim Jewish Conference (MJC) is a dialogue and leadership organization for students and young professionals, bringing together important representatives and young leadership from Muslim and Jewish communities and beyond.
My New Summer My New Summer is a virtual collective of camp people helping other camp people. My New Summer helps connect camp people to a job, internship, mentor or at minimum, a network to assist them through anything & everything they need to advance their career.
Not Free to Desist Not Free to Desist works to create an anti-racist Jewish community by raising awareness, providing education, targeted advocacy, and direct interventions into Jewish organizations, networks, and communities.
Project:Camp Project:Camp helps camp professionals to focus on what they do best: creating amazing experiences for people of all ages. We are life-long camp professionals motivated to help camps of all kinds maximize their positive impact through effective planning, programming, and operations.
Project Hayei Sarah Project Hayei Sarah is a group of emerging Jewish leaders reclaiming Judaism’s sacred text and supporting each other to speak out about the situation in Hebron.
Shamir Collective Shamir Collective advises spiritual leaders in renewing the Jewish relationship with the earth through creating and promoting creative ritual, mindfulness, and transformative experiential learning.
ShieldLA Shield LA organized to design, fabricate and distribute face shields at a reduced unit price by leveraging mass production methodologies.”
SoCal Jewish News SoCal Jewish News is a megaphone for Jewish news, highlighting achievements and shortcomings within the community, all filtered through a lens of ethics, objectivity and professionalism.
A Spatial Practice A Spatial Practice is a think tank, art collective, design studio, and networking platform dedicated to harnessing the untapped creative possibilities that exist at the nexus of Judaism and design.
TischPDX TischPDX seeks out Jewish “start-ups” on Portland’s east side and offers Jewish learning and professional mentoring to help our community’s emergent expressions of Judaism thrive.
Torah Trumps Hate Torah Trumps Hate is an organization for Torah-affiliated Jews to educate, empower, and mobilize themselves regarding current political issues.
UK Toremet UK Toremet Limited is a UK registered charity that encourages and simplifies donations to UK, Israeli and overseas charities. They help donors to support the causes that they believe in, according to UK charity law guidelines. UK Toremet’s secure online donation system enables rapid and cost-effective donation to qualifying local and overseas charities. UK Toremet’s partnership with Jumpstart allows UK donors to give to U.S. non-profits and U.S. donors to give to UK NGOs with the tax benefits that each country provides domestically.

Project Partnership projects (sponsored via Jumpstart’s joint venture with Community Partners)

Fair Trade Judaica

Fair Trade Judaica promotes fair trade as a Jewish value through educating the Jewish community, and expanding the production, distribution, and sale of fair trade Judaica products.

Jewish Artists Initiative

The Jewish Artists Initiative (JAI) is an artist-run organization committed to fostering visual art by Jewish artists and promoting dialogue about Jewish identity and related issues among members of the arts community.

Jewish Gateways

Jewish Gateways helps participants explore the riches of Jewish life, make choices that are right for them, and find their place in the Jewish community.

New Ground: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change

NewGround creates connections between Jews and Muslims by building partnerships, relationships and trust that can bridge differences and develop positive engagement between both groups.

Projects Emeriti

Jumpstart is pleased to have assisted the following projects.

Agrigate (Smart Agriculture Analytics)

AgriGate/SAA brings attention to the incredible opportunity for Israel’s businesses, scientists and government to enter China’s agritech market, and to educate readers on how to actually do so.

Bat Kol

Bat Kol fosters both a supportive community and a framework of mutual trust for religious lesbians and their family members.

Building Chatter Bridges

Building Chatter Bridges was a book project on the idea of creating a global consultative body serving to improve channels of communication between Israel and the Diaspora.

Career Up Now

Career Up Now’s mission is to empower Jewish professionals to advance their careers while incorporating Jewish values into their lives, through innovative networking and educational gatherings with Jewish industry leaders.

Haggadot.com

Haggadot.com is a resource for Jews of all backgrounds to make the Haggadah that finally feels meaningful for a contemporary seder, with unique perspectives gathered from individuals worldwide.

ImmerseNYC

ImmerseNYC is a project to create a community mikveh in New York City welcoming all Jews, for conversion & traditional monthly immersion, and for powerfully marking life’s transitions.

Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development

The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development (ICSD) unites faith communities, teachers and leaders to promote co-existence, peace, and sustainability through advocacy, education and action-oriented projects.

Jewish Center for Justice (JCJ)

The Jewish Center for Justice is a social justice and equality organization that provides education, leadership development and advocacy from a progressive, non-denominational Jewish platform.

Jewish Without Walls (JWOW)

Jewish Without Walls (JWOW) is a grassroots independent initiative to bring Jewish families in Suffolk County together in vibrant Jewish communities.

Jewrnalism

Jewrnalism is a multimedia info-activism platform which provides young citizen journalists with training, ideas and inspiration to dedicate their work to Jewish life in Europe.

Jews United for Democracy and Justice (JUDJ)

Jews United for Democracy and Justice (JUDJ) is a broad cross-section of Los Angeles Jews who stand with our community and others to assert a Jewish voice to safeguard the principles and foundations of our constitutional democracy.

Mitzvah Learning Fund

The Mitzvah Learning Fund is a non-profit committed to supporting initiatives in personalized Jewish education. Grant applicants can apply for funds to be applied to any type of personalized learning.

Sefaria

Sefaria offers a free repository of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation.

Sandra Caplan Community Bet Din of Southern California

The mission of the Sandra Caplan Community Bet Din of Southern California is threefold: to increase the numbers Jews-by-choice; to offer a pluralistic conversion process; and to facilitate conversion that adheres to firm standards, and is directed by a professional rabbinate that welcomes conversion candidates with sensitivity and gentleness.

Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom

SoSS grows relationships between Muslim and Jewish women to build bridges and fight hate, negative stereotyping and prejudice.

TorahTrek

TorahTrek explores the connection between inner and outer geography, between the journey into the wilderness and the path of the soul.

Tzedek America

Tzedek America is a gap year program that encourages and teaches graduating high school students how to focus their energy on learning to be social change agents in order to make the United States a better place.

Yahel

Yahel is an educational organization offering service learning & social action programs in Israel.

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