An increasing number of Jewish organizations have participated in Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month since it launched in 2009.

The collaborations between IsraAID, Save a Child's Heart and Innovation: Africa were spurred by the Kirsh Foundation, which supports all three groups

Editor’s note: The following article is offered as a partnership between EJP and the Clergy Leadership Incubator program (CLI). CLI is a two-year program to support and encourage congregational rabbis and rabbinic entrepreneurs in the areas of innovative thinking, change management and institutional transformation. CLI is directed by Rabbi Sid Schwarz and is fiscally sponsored by Hazon. Each month CLI offers a Synagogue Innovation Blog. Past columns can be found at: http://www.cliforum.org/blog/.

What sets Jewish Changemakers apart from other leadership development programs is its ability to tap into the vast network and array of causes that federations support.

In the year and a half since Gideon Taylor took over as CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the large nonprofit has confronted rising antisemitism, dealt with a new mayor and City Council, and continued to navigate a city whose population and rhythms are in constant flux