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Reports & Studies
- Connected to Give
- Research report series based on the National Study of American Religious Giving and the
National Study of American Jewish Giving
Editorial team: Joshua Avedon, Shawn Landres
Jumpstart, 2013-14
- Impact Investing: Rabbinic Perspectives
- Julie Hammerman with Yitz Greenberg
Editorial team: Joshua Avedon, Julie Hammerman, Shawn Landres
Jumpstart (in cooperation with JLens), 2013
- LA 2013: The Jewish Future – Only Sooner
- Saba Soomekh with Andrés Spokoiny
Editorial team: Joshua Avedon, Shawn Landres, Saba Soomekh, Andrés Spokoiny
Jumpstart (in cooperation with the Jewish Funders Network), 2013
- The Jewish Innovation Economy: An Emerging Market for Knowledge and Social Capital
- General Editors: Joshua Avedon & Shawn Landres and Felicia Herman
Jumpstart, The Natan Fund, and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, 2011
- The Jewish Innovation Economy: An Emerging Market for Knowledge and Social Capital
- General Editors: Joshua Avedon & Shawn Landres and Felicia Herman
Jumpstart, The Natan Fund, and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, 2011
- Key Findings from the 2010 Survey of New Jewish Initiatives in Europe
- Shawn Landres with Joshua Avedon
General Editor: Shawn Landres
Editors: Joshua Avedon, Lisa Capelouto, Justin Korda and Amy Philip
Jumpstart, Pears Foundation and The ROI Community of Young Jewish Innovators, 2010
- Haskalah 2.0
- Caryn Aviv
Editorial team: Joshua Avedon, Nina Bruder, Shawn Landres, Andrea Fram Plotkin,
Jonathan Woocher
Jumpstart (in cooperation with JESNA and The Jewish Federations of North America), 2010
- The Innovation Ecosystem: Emergence of a New Jewish Landscape
- General Editors: Joshua Avedon & Shawn Landres
Jumpstart, The Natan Fund, and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, 2009
- Jumpstart Research Report 2.09: Key Findings from The 2008 Survey of New Jewish Organizations
- Shawn Landres and Joshua Avedon
Jumpstart, 2009
- Emergent Jewish Communities and Their
Participants: Preliminary Findings from the 2007 National Spiritual Communities Study
- Steven M. Cohen, J. Shawn Landres, Elie Kaunfer, and Michelle Shain
The S3K Synagogue Studies Institute (Synagogue 3000) and Mechon Hadar ©2007
- IKAR Rising: A Study of the First Year of a New Spiritual Community in Los Angeles
- Joshua H. Avedon ©2005
Essays & Articles
- LA 2013: The Jewish Future – Only Sooner
- Joshua Avedon, Shawn Landres, Saba Soomekh, and Andrés Spokoiny
eJewishPhilanthropy, April 29, 2013
- Three More “i” Words: Innovation in Isolation is Irrelevant
- Joshua Avedon
eJewishPhilanthropy, February 20, 2013
- The New “I” Word
- Joshua Avedon
eJewishPhilanthropy, December 6, 2012
- Arrested Jewish Development
- Joshua Avedon
Sh’ma, November 2012
- Emergence Unbound
- Shawn Landres
Sh’ma, October 2012
- Goodbye, Jewish Brands: Hello, Jewish Memes
- Joshua Avedon
Sh’ma, February 2012
- Increasing Supply, Not Only Demand
- Shawn Landres
ROI Community Blog, November 7, 2011
- From Giving to Impact Investing
- Shawn Landres
Sh’ma, October 2011
- Rededication in Jewish Europe
- Joshua Avedon
ROI Community Blog, December 3, 2010
- The Next Big New Idea is Neither Big Nor New. Discuss.
- Joshua Avedon & Shawn Landres
28 Days, 28 Ideas / eJewishPhilanthropy, February 3, 2010
- Tzimtzum for Organizations: How I Learned Everything I Really Needed to Know About Collaboration from a Group of Teenaged Jazz Prodigies
- Shawn Landres
Sh’ma, January, 2010
- Power to the people: investing in the people behind projects
- Dana Raucher & Shawn Landres
PresenTense Magazine, Issue 9, 2009
- A break in the pipeline
- Shawn Landres
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, August 27, 2009
- Viva PLP!
- Joshua Avedon & Shawn Landres
eJewishPhilanthropy, August 17, 2009
- The Jewish Innovation Pipeline: A Google Chrome OS for New Jewish Organizations?
- Joshua Avedon
eJewishPhilanthropy, August 3, 2009
- Let’s Bring Innovation Into the Fold
- Joshua Avedon & Shawn Landres
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, July 9, 2009
- The Art of Sustainable Innovation
- Joshua Avedon
ROI Community Blog/Jumpstart Blog, July 5, 2009
- Expand the Pathways to Community
- Shawn Landres
The Craig ‘N Co. Blog, July 2, 2009
- Cultivating Knowledge Capital for Jewish Innovation
- Joshua Avedon & Shawn Landres
HaYidion, Summer, 2009
- Seeding the Innovation Ecosystem
- Felicia Herman & Shawn Landres
Contact, Spring, 2009
- Public interest organizations don’t need a handout. We just need to join hands.
- Joshua Avedon
Huffington Post, February 11, 2009
- Philanthropy’s New Ice Age: Will Social Innovation Survive the Freeze?
- Shawn Landres, Joshua Avedon, and Lee Meyerhoff Hendler
Huffington Post, December 11, 2008
- Where Would Darwin Daven?
- Joshua Avedon
The Foward, December 4, 2008
- Don’t cut support to innovative nonprofits
- Shawn Landres, Martin Kaminer, and Toby Rubin
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 13, 2008
- The Urge to Emerge: New Communities Blossom
- Joshua Avedon and Shawn Landres
PresenTense Magazine, Issue Four, 2008
- Recentering the Kehilah: Gender and Sexual Identity in Jewish Emergent Communities
- J. Shawn Landres
Sh’ma January 2008
- Breaking the Code of Ritual Observance
- by Shawn Landres
The Jewish Daily Foward, December 5, 2007
- The Emerging Spiritual Paradigm
- J. Shawn Landres
Sh’ma, June 2006
Written about . . .
Articles
- Recent articles coming soon….
- Jewish Community Foundation Hosts Grant Recipient Reception
- Danielle Berrin
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, June 15, 2010
- A White House Family Reunion
- Eli Winkelman
Huffington Post, June 13, 2010
- Young Jews urged to becomestakeholders in Judaism
- Suzanne Kurtz
The Washington Jewish Week, June 2, 2010
- L.A. Jews on their Obama schmooze
- Danielle Berrin
Hollywood Jew blog, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, May 28, 2010
- White House party will fete Jewish culture
- Jocelyn Noveck
The Associated Press, May 26, 2010
- New survey on innovation landscape
- Jacob Berkman
The Fundermentalist, March 9, 2010
- Expanded Survey of New Jewish Initiatives Launched
- eJewishPhilanthropy, March 4, 2010
- 2010 Survey of New Jewish Initiatives
- Jacob Berkman
The Fundermentalist, March 3, 2010
- 2010 Survey of New Jewish Initiatives Will Expand to Europe
- eJewishPhilanthropy, February 17, 2010
- Jewish Culture in a Crossover World
- Bob Goldfarb
eJewishPhilanthropy, February 19, 2010
- Can Jay Sanderson Transform L.A. Jewish Life?
- Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, February 3, 2010
- NADAV Foundation awards grants to North American NGOs
- Ynet News, January 26, 2010
- Toronto hosts think tank on social entrepreneurship
- Francis Kraft
The Canadian Jewish News, December 24, 2009
- ‘Emergent’ Trend: Folks Find a Home, Unconventionally
- Bryan Schwartzman
Jewish Exponent, December 24, 2009
- Grantmaking: The Heart of What We Do
- Marvin Schotland
Jewish Community Foundation of LA, Fall 2009
- Innovation Forum Supports Social Entrepreneurship
- Emily Kaplan
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, November 25, 2009
- Innovation, By the Loaf
- Eli Winkelman
eJewishPhilanthropy, November 18, 2009
- The Push-And-Pull Within Jewish Philanthropy
- Gary Rosenblatt
The Jewish Week, November 17, 2009
- Newcomers Top Annual List of Influential Jews
- Beliefnet, November 16, 2009
- A Moment in Time: Sunday Night at the GA
- Seth Cohen
Boundless Drama of Creation, November 15, 2009
- Jumpstart Nurtures Innovation, Focused on Social Entrepreneurs
- Emily Kaplan
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, November 15, 2009
- Forward 50, 2009: The New Faces Of Leadership
- Jane Eisner
The Forward, November 12, 2009
- Doing More With Less, and Doing Better
- Dana Raucher
The Forward, November 12, 2009
- Eyes to The Future
- Aharon Horwitz and Ariel Beery
eJewishPhilanthropy, November 6, 2009
- Joshua Venture Stages A Second Act
- Tamar Snyder
The Jewish Week, November 3, 2009
- ‘New Jews’ stake claim to faith, culture
- Jessica Ravitz
CNN, October 30, 2009
- Jewish Community Foundation Awards $250,000 To Jumpstart
- Beverly Hills Courier, October 23, 2009
- Jumpstart L.A. Receives Grant
- Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, October 20, 2009
- Samuel Bronfman Foundation Hosts Seminar for JCS Students
- What’s New at Wurzweiler, October 20, 2009
- What good are you: a guide for the perplexed establishment
- Sarah Eisenman
PresenTense Magazine, Issue 9, 2009
- Choice Awards For Jewish Nonprofits
- Tamar Synder
JTA, October 13, 2009
- Rate your Jewish nonprofits
- Jacob Berkman
The Fundermentalist, October 6, 2009
- Alumni Venture Funds Catching On
- Tamar Snyder
The Jewish Week, August 18, 2009
- Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden
- Joel Stanley
ROI Community blog, August 18, 2009
- For young Europeans discovering roots, Jewishness is about culture, not religion
- Ben Harris
JTA, August 18, 2009
- Muslims and Jews: Fostering Respect, Bridging Cultural Differences
- Alison Cies
The Forward, August 12, 2009
- Raising the Bar: Examining the Increased Value in Foundation Grantee Partnerships Part III: Leadership and Strategic Planning
- Benjamin Greene
eJewish Philanthropy, July 20, 2009
- The Unfolding Economic Crisis: Its Devastating Implications for American Jewry
- Steven Windmueller
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, July 2009
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Key Questions on Jewish Innovation, Interruption, and Sustainability
- Seth Cohen
eJewish Philanthropy, June 29, 2009
- Re-Imagining the Jewish Philanthropic Landscape
- eJewish Philanthropy, June 21, 2009
- To the White House, and beyond!
- Margie Klein
Moishe House Blog, June 4, 2009
- My Trip to the White House
- Jacob Harris
Jewcy, May 21, 2009
- Resetting – An Unprecedented Meeting of Philanthropists
- eJewish Philanthropy, May 19, 2009
- The Innovation Ecosystem: Emergence of a New Jewish Landscape
- JewPoint0, The Darim Online Blog, May 3, 2009
- The Importance of Innovation for the Jewish Future
- Jewish Outreach Institute blog, April 29, 2009
- Jewish Donors Urged To Aid Small Charities
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 28, 2009
- The Innovation Ecosystem: Emergence of a New Jewish Landscape
- eJewish Philanthropy, April 29, 2009
- Shared Future, Shared Resources
- Jason Brzoska, Adam Gaynor and Becky Voorwinde
eJewishPhilanthropy/Mixed Multitudes, April 28, 2009
- Invest in innovation
- Felicia Herman and Dana Raucher
JTA, April 27, 2009
- Start of something big?: New S.F. nonprofit to incubate first batch of entrepreneurs
- Stacey Palevsky
Jweekly.com, April 2, 2009
- J Street stats on jewish giving
- Jacob Berkman
The Fundermentalist Blog at JTA, March 25, 2009
- Scrap ‘Pet Projects,’ Philanthropists Urged
- Gary Rosenblatt
The Jewish Week, March 24, 2009
- Our Newest UpStarters
- UpStart Bay Area blog, March 23, 2009
- Mixed Sunshine and Clouds
- eJewish Philanthropy, March 22, 2009
- Keeping Innovation Alive In These Dark Times
- Charles Bronfman
The Jewish Week, March 18, 2009
- Cost Sharing and Sustainability
- eJewish Philanthropy, March 19, 2009
- A time to innovate
- Edgar Bronfman
JTA, March 13, 2009
- State of the Jewnion
- Jewlicious/eJewish Philanthropy, March 9, 2009
- Madoff and the recession is God’s way of telling us to kill the dinosaurs
- Kung Fu Jew
Jewschool, March 9, 2009
- It’s a new Jewish world – and North Jersey may lead the way
- Dan Silna
The Jewish Standard, March 6, 2009
- Jewish LA in the Spotlight
- eJewish Philanthropy, February 25, 2009
- New Jewish Charities Have Attracted Diverse Clients, Study Finds
- Ben Gose
The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 23, 2009
- A Snapshot of Jewish Start-Ups
- eJewish Philanthropy, February 18, 2009
- Start And Stop For Jewish Startups?
- Tamar Snyder
The Jewish Week, February 18, 2009
- Fundermentalvision: The Lean Years Part II
- The Fundermentalist Blog at JTA, February 17, 2009
- Transforming our Communal Landscape
- eJewish Philanthropy, February 16, 2009
- Jewish Start-Ups: LA’s Increasing Role
- eJewish Philanthropy, February 11, 2009
- Leaders of Indie Prayer Groups Get Grants, Become Mainstream Darlings
- Rebecca Spence
The Forward, October 8, 2008
- High Holy Days Go Online: Jews Repent Over Internet
- Rebecca Spence
The Forward, September 18, 2008
- ‘Wake-Up Call’ For The Denominations
- Steve Lipman
The Jewish Week, December 12, 2008
- First study of independent minyans: Young Jews praying on own terms
- Sue Fishkoff
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 30, 2007
- Getting Hip to Religion
- Dave Shiflett
February 24, 2006, Wall Street Journal
- Emerging Jewish leaders meet to reenergize young Bostonians
- Jacob Sugerman
Jewish Advocate, February 17, 2006
- Emergent Jews: Worshippers create unconventional communities unbound by tradition to reinvigorate
Judaism.
- Sarah Price Brown
January 26, 2006, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
- Dissatisfied Jews, Christians Share Ideas on ‘Emergent’ Faith Movements
- Gillian Flaccus
Associated Press, January 18, 2006
Press Releases
- Jumpstart & Rimona Consulting Announce Knowledge Management & Jewish Crowdfunding Partnership
- eJewishPhilanthropy, May 7, 2013
- 2010 Survey of New Jewish Initiatives Will Expand to Europe
- eJewishPhilanthropy, February 17, 2010
- Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Awards $250,000 Cutting Edge Grant to Jewish Jumpstart
- BusinessWire, October 7, 2009
- First-ever survey of Jewish start-ups finds thriving, dynamic organizations at financial risk
- Religion News Service, February 13, 2009