Advancing Special Needs Programs: Start Where the Funder Is At

By Michelle K. Wolf
Published on April 26, 2013

Engineered serendipity: Creating space for innovation and risk-taking

Published on April 22, 2013

The state of funding innovation in the Jewish community presents encouraging and discouraging realities at the same time.

Seeking impact, Jewish funders convene in L.A.

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 19, 2013

“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.”

Rabbi David Wolpe and Elon Gold at JFN 2013 [VIDEO]

Published on March 19, 2013

Rabbi David Wolpe and Elon Gold speak at the 2013 Jewish Funders Network Conference.

JFN: Funding social change

Published on March 19, 2013

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.

The sound of the breaking dam

Published on November 20, 2012

A conference on inclusion of people with disabilities may mark the beginning of a new era in Jewish communal attitudes.

MATCH to donate $9M to Jewish day schools

Published on July 11, 2012

The MATCH program will hold its fourth launch this August to encourage expanding the donor base for Jewish day schools.

Family foundations pave new philanthropic path

By Marc Ballon
Published on November 30, 2006

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.

Who Causes Anti-Semitism?

By Leonard Fein
Published on January 8, 2004

There is a gathering hysteria in the American Jewish community that is dangerously self-destructive. Life as a Jew these days may not be -- is not -- a bed of roses, but neither is it a bed of thorns. Yet to hear some in our community tell it, thorns are all there are.

Consider: George Soros, the multibillionaire and philanthropist, spoke on Nov. 5 to a meeting of the Jewish Funders Network. In response to a question about the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, he responded that "the policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that."

Can there be any doubt that he is right?