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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

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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