Founders
Joshua Avedon MBA | CEO | Los Angeles |
Shawn Landres PhD | Co-Chair, Board of Directors; Senior Fellow | Santa Monica |
Board of Directors*
Joshua H. Avedon | Co-founder, Jumpstart | Los Angeles |
Rachel Cohen Gerrol, Co-Chair | Executive Director, PVBLIC Foundation; Co-founder & Director, Nexus Youth Summit | Washington, DC |
Rabbi Yechiel Hoffman | Director. of Youth Learning and Engagement, Temple Beth Am | Los Angeles |
J. Shawn Landres, Co-Chair | Co-founder, Jumpstart | Santa Monica |
Russell D. Sacks | Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP | New York |
Rhoda Weisman | Dean, American Jewish University – Graduate School of Nonprofit Management | Los Angeles |
Advisors*
Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld | Hebrew College | Boston |
Caryn Aviv | University of Colorado; Judaism Your Way | Boulder |
Michael Berenbaum | American Jewish University | Los Angeles |
Elise Bernhardt | New York | |
Rabbi Sharon Brous | IKAR | Los Angeles |
Nina Bruder | Jewish New Teacher Project | New York |
Jeremy Burton | Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston | Boston |
Brent Cohen | Ybrant Digital | Beijing |
Seth A. Cohen | Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation | Atlanta |
Gali Cooks | Union for Reform Judaism | New York |
Beryl Geber | Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles |
Rabbi Steve Greenberg | CLAL | New York |
Julie Hermelin | REBOOT | Los Angeles |
Rani Jaeger | Shalom Hartman Institute School for Israeli Culture | Jerusalem |
Tony Jones | Author; Theologian-in-Residence, Solomon’s Porch | Edina, MN |
Janice Kamenir-Reznik | Jewish World Watch | Los Angeles |
Martin Kaminer | Kaminer Family Foundation/Bikkurim | New York |
Robin Kramer | REBOOT | Los Angeles |
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer | Mechon Hadar | New York |
Daniel Libenson | Institute for the Next Jewish Future, jUChicago | Chicago |
Jane Levikow | Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors | San Francisco |
Rabbi David Lazar | RIKMA | Stockholm; Tel Aviv |
Rabbi Asher Lopatin | Yeshivat Chovevei Torah | New York |
Richard Marker | Marker Goldsmith Advisors | New York |
Joanne Moore | Washington, DC | |
Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum | Kavana Cooperative | Seattle |
Andrea Fram Plotkin | Jewish Home Lifecare | New York |
Marcella Kanfer Rolnick | GOJO Industries; Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation | New York |
Toby Rubin | UpStart Bay Area | San Francisco |
Nigel Savage | Hazon | New York |
Ed Serotta | Centropa | Vienna, Austria |
Daniel Sokatch | New Israel Fund | San Francisco |
Jonathan Spack | Third Sector New England | Boston |
Amy Tobin | Berkeley | |
Ari Wallach | synthesis corp. | New York |
Adlai Wertman | Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles |
Jonathan Woocher | Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah | New York |
Founders & Directors Emeriti*
David A. Alpern | Varsity Healthcare Partners | Los Angeles |
Jami Bachrad (Founding Chair emerita) |
IKAR | Los Angeles |
Cynthia Freeman (Chair emerita, Co-chair emerita) |
Senior Program Director, Community Partners | Los Angeles |
Rabbi Dara Frimmer | Temple Isaiah | Los Angeles |
Daniel A. Inlender | Private Wealth Management Consultant | Los Angeles |
Pam Kaizer (Co-chair emerita) |
Philanthropic Advisor | Los Angeles |
Lydia Kukoff | Author; Founding President, Chatham Synagogue Netivot Torah | New York |
Emily Leventhal | Managing Director & CEO, Laurel Investment Strategies LLC | Boston |
Ari E. Moss | Law Offices of Ari E. Moss | Los Angeles |
Zev Nagel | Asset Manager & Analyst, Decron Properties | Los Angeles |
Richard A. Siegel | Director, School of Jewish Nonprofit Management, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | Los Angeles |
Daniel Price | President & CEO, OneTitle Holdings, LLC | New York |
Eileen Snow Price | Executive Director, In the City Camp | Atlanta |
Gloria Salick | Bernard and Gloria Salick Foundation | Los Angeles |
Rabbi Daniel Smokler | Hillel International and Bronfman Center, New York University | New York |
David Umansky | CEO/Co-Founder, Civic Builders | New York |
Adam J. Weiss | General Counsel, Cornerstone OnDemand | Santa Monica |
*current as of May 15, 2016; affiliations provided for informational purposes only