New York, NY, May 1, 2008. Zeek, an online journal that has helped shape modern Jewish-American culture, today announced that it is joining forces with Jewcy.com, one of the web’s most innovative and rapidly-growing online communities. Beginning today, Zeek's online content will be published at www.jewcy.com/zeek. Zeek joins Jewcy as the first content partner in Jewcy’s initiative to create a publishing network of editorial sites serving the YoCo psychographic – young, culturally omnivorous Americans looking for meaning and community. "We are joining strength with strength," said Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, chief editor of Zeek and formerly the managing editor of Tikkun magazine. "We're a leader in Jewish intellectual, cultural, artistic, and spiritual life, and Jewcy is the largest and most … Continue Reading
Family Foundation Giving Up Sharply
America's family foundations gave away $16 billion in 2006, a 13 percent increase from the previous year, according to Key Facts on Family Foundations, released last week by the Foundation Center. Since 1998, the first year for which statistics on family foundations are available, giving by these grant-makers has more than doubled. Family foundations also accounted for the bulk of giving (59%) by independent foundations. According to Steven Lawrence, senior director of research, "Despite the economic fluctuations since the start of the 2000s, donors and donor families have continued to establish new foundations and build the endowments of their existing foundations. We expect these trends to continue to boost family foundation giving for the foreseeable future." Among the key findings: 67 … Continue Reading
In The Press
A selection of recent articles and posts you may find interesting. Philanthropy Can Be made To Measure Gara LaMarche, president of the Atlantic Philanthropies, is offering advice to donors about how to evaluate their philanthropy. In an opinion article in The Financial Times, Mr. LaMarche sets out guidelines for measuring charitable work. One piece of advice, "Measurement efforts should be a learning tool for both the beneficiary and donor. Salesforce.com + Google = Improved Productivity The above two organizations announced a new level of integration; both freely available to non-profits. Testing the Waters With Internships INTERNSHIPS, a rite of passage for job-hunting students, are attracting the attention of older adults who are eager to dip into new ventures, paid or … Continue Reading
Chol HaMoed in Review, II
from the world of philanthropy: eNonProfit Benchmarks Study In the for-profit dot.com world, the bottom line is easy to measure — it comes down to dollars and cents. For nonprofit organizations, success is more difficult to define. How many people were educated? Informed? Served? Engaged? Activated? How much money was raised? Did legislative policy change? Corporate policy? Public opinion? Gossip Influences Generosity A new study at an Irish university suggests that gossip influences generosity. Leadership Without A Safety Net The Spring issue of Non-Profit Quarterly is out; titled “Leadership Without a Safety Net”. Their focus in this issue is “to draw readers away from the emphasis on strategic career development and towards a focus on leading for impact and … Continue Reading
Chol HaMoed in Review
We hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable Pesach. Judging from both our Web traffic counts, and "out-of-office" automated replies, we know many of you took some time off last week. Here, hopefully in easy to read form, is a summary of the various posts added during Chol HaMoed. As you will notice, not much happened in our Jewish world, but a couple of significant studies were released in the broader American philanthropic community you might want to check out. In Our Global Jewish World: A New Capacity Building Grant for Birthright Israel The Birthright Israel Foundation will be the recipient of the largest grant ever provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation. The $17.5 million gift, to be distributed over the next five years, will provide $5 million in trip support, and an additional … Continue Reading
The Balloon Project
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh7Qpr8GtCY&feature=related[/youtube] Shabbat Shalom … Continue Reading
eNonProfit Benchmarks Study
Hot Off The Press - being released later today: In the for-profit dot.com world, the bottom line is easy to measure — it comes down to dollars and cents. For nonprofit organizations, success is more difficult to define. How many people were educated? Informed? Served? Engaged? Activated? How much money was raised? Did legislative policy change? Corporate policy? Public opinion? The eNonprofit Benchmarks Study is the first of its kind look at the effectiveness of major American nonprofit organizations using the Internet to raise money and influence public policy. The study is a tool that nonprofits can use to measure and compare their online performance to other organizations' online programs. What you will find: Return in Investment: Hallmarks of a Successful Program e-mail … Continue Reading
Rebranding The Weizmann
This year, Israel has kicked off a major re-branding campaign to encourage the world to look beyond Middle Eastern conflict and recognize Israel’s global contributions as a nation. Here's one example: The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science (ACWIS), a world-renowned scientific institute based in Israel, aims to help celebrate Israel’s important milestone. At the same time, ACWIS is preparing for the 60th Anniversary of the naming of the Weizmann Institute by enhancing its own branding efforts on behalf of Weizmann. Weizmann is recognized in the scientific research community as one of the world’s leading basic research institutes, regarded as highly as Rockefeller, MIT, Caltech are in the U.S. However due to its location, common misconceptions exist among the … Continue Reading
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