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Lynn Schusterman: Making it possible for Jewish innovators to create
Esther D. Kustanowitz
December 4, 2015
Lynn Schusterman has been at every ROI Summit (see main article) since 2006 and at dozens of other Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation programs year round, to see for herself how her considerable investment in the Jewish future is yielding fruit.
ROI local: The SoCal community members
Esther D. Kustanowitz
December 4, 2015
If you’re involved in the Los Angeles Jewish community, you’ve probably already encountered the work of local ROI Community members: They’re artists, communicators, community-builders, innovators and entrepreneurs working at many of our community programs and organizations, and on behalf of their own projects, all over the city.
The ROI Community: Connecting and creating to shape the Jewish future
Esther D. Kustanowitz
December 4, 2015
Innovation has become one of those buzzwords applied to ventures ranging from an educational technique to an iPhone app, from an environmental startup to an unusual approach to arts and culture.
ROI Community Summit links new leaders
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2013
In 2010, Judith Prays, a 26-year-old multimedia expert from Long Beach, created a great deal of buzz (CNN, Time, “The Colbert Report”) by inventing Pheromone Parties, a matchmaking experiment based on scent.
South African confab brings together Jewish innovators
Jewish Journal
February 13, 2012
A conference in South Africa brought together young Jewish innovators from across the country. More than 60 leading innovators from an array of business and social enterprises attended the first South African Young Jewish Innovators Gathering in Johannesburg on Feb. 11-12.
ROI youth magnet for global change
Jewish Journal
June 16, 2011
“Jewish Summer.” Young, remarkable and ready to change the world. “I was 25 and never had spoken to a Pakistani delegation before. Mustafa came over to me and said, ‘Would you mind if I sit down next to you and speak?’ We were struck by the fact we were so-called intellectuals — well read — and yet our attitudes in dealing with people were as though we never opened a book.”
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