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December 6, 2012 By eJP

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Filed Under: Readers Forum, The American Jewish Scene Tagged With: Samuel Bronfman Foundation

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  1. Aliza Kline says

    December 6, 2012 at 7:52 pm

    Josh, thank you for this article -I appreciate the issues it raises and the acknowledgment of both how far we’ve come and how far there is still to go. The mergers lauded in your article range from two start-ups (Keshet and Mosaic) to one start-up and one “legacy” (Hazon and Isabella Freedman Retreat Center), what other models are there for integration or collaboration? How might we re-envision the Jewish eco-system so that legacy organizations welcome “start-ups” and made space for them to thrive? How might start-up founders think differently about what the established Jewish community can offer in terms of deepening their impact, reaching more people and creating more meaning?

  2. Aharon Horwitz says

    December 10, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    Josh, out of curiosity what was the size of each “second stage” Samuel Bronfman Grant?

  3. richard skeen says

    December 10, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    Interesting take, and invoking the open market economic elements (resource distribution, merger efficiencies and leadership value) that nurture or crush start-ups in the real marketplace among investors is useful. However, you sidestep one other factor too often missing in the “Jewish start-up” discussion: what is the “marketplace” mechanism that decides which ideas (given the very real limited resources you point out) move on? Hazon, Keshet and Mechon Hadar succeed in any metric – participation, mission, influence, leadership – the Jewish investing community measures. Creating a Jewish start-up has never been easier or more popular (like the for profit world), meaning the supply of available for donor and institutional support far outpaces the available support (or using comic theory, demand). Without an agreed upon series of metrics to measure the value-add of these start-ups, we have a from efficient marketplace distribution of support, and a lot of good ideas. leaders and organizations left unrealized.

  4. EstherK says

    December 11, 2012 at 12:54 am

    Interesting concept, very important (those are two more “i”s for you…), and very challenging to integrate because it often involves a contraction of egoes away from a tightly held center and into an embrace with something that may seem risky. Remember our “withinnovation” session at LimmudLA? Looking forward to continuing this conversation…

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