Bikkurim’s Idea Lab

Do you have an idea for the Jewish community that you may want to develop into a project or an organization? Do you wonder if your idea is feasible? Should you form a non-profit or a for-profit corporation? What would»

NewsBits: The Jewish Web

The following are items appearing on other Web sites of interest to our world of Jewish philanthropy.

A correction:

Could the economic downturn kill Jewish innovation?

We first brought this link from the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle to you»

MediaWatch: Our Jewish World

Following are items on other Web sites that are of interest to our philanthropic world.

from The Australian Jewish News:

Financial instability may hit Yom Kippur fund-raising

WITH a fluctuating stock market and uncertainty about the future of investments and»

Links In A Chain

Over the past several years a handful of programs have graduated from the ‘Jewish incubator world’ as they have reached sustainability. One such organization is Sharsheret, an early incubated project»

Jerusalem Innovation; Three for Three

Four incredible weeks of innovation, Jerusalem style. Two brand-new ventures, Amuta 2.0 and Tachlis 2 Point Oh!, premired to packed opening programs. Both in their own way focused on providing cutting edge resources to our communal»

lsrael’s 60th Anniversary Commemorated by the JBlogosphere: 60Bloggers.com is Live!

Well, after many emails and endless phone calls and the crunching of many, many pixels, 60Bloggers.com is up. What’s that site all about? Well, May 8th is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the modern State of»

How Would You Like Your Grandchildren Educated?

Most of our readers — and possibly you reading this — don’t have children, let alone grandchildren…and that means we have time, and obligation, to build the world we’d like them to live in.

As such,

A Web 2.0 Educational Innovation

Herzl famously wrote, “If you will it, it is no fable.” This quote, made into a cliche over the long century since it was uttered, succinctly expresses the fundamental credo of a pioneer:

pioneers will the future into reality.»

On Emerging Communities

Our community is thriving.
And who you may ask is this community?

from our ‘about’ section:
To some, they represent the MTV generation; to others Millenials or Generation Y. To the UJC, they are simply NextGen. They number»

First Jewish Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Awarded

Imagine working passionately and tirelessly in the uphill trek towards fulfilling your life’s mission, only to have someone say to you, “I am going to fast-forward your career 20 years.”

That is what Harold Grinspoon, known as one of the»

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