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Partners Project-Incubator
Paideia is fortunate to have worked with the top organizations in the field over the course of the Project-Incubator’s 5-year history:
Center for Leadership Initiatives (CLI)
Project-Incubator 2009-2010
Founded in 2006 through the initial support of Lynn Schusterman, CLI is a private operating foundation dedicated to developing Jewish leaders and promoting managerial excellence throughout the Jewish community. CLI takes a multi-faceted approach to leadership development and professional growth, one that includes crafted gatherings, professional peer networks, fellowships and a host of online resources. All of these are carefully designed to help those who participate in CLI programs to translate the knowledge and skills they gain into greater impact in their communities. With a global reach that last year involved participants from over 30 countries, CLI works to support current and emerging leaders from diverse Jewish communities around the world.
Based out of offices in Vancouver, BC, Canada and Jerusalem, Israel, CLI works to help Jewish leaders create communities in their own image, with programs that will resonate with their generation. Braiding professional development training, innovative facilitation, networking opportunities and Jewish textual content, CLI seeks to contribute to greater effectiveness and dynamism in new and existing Jewish organizations.
ROI Community
Project-Incubator 2009-2010
Inspiring young leadership, empowering innovation, and creating a more vibrant Jewish community all over the world – that’s what ROI is all about.
Founded in Jerusalem in the summer of 2006, ROI is a global community of outstandingly creative individuals who have a personal vision about how to make the Jewish world a better place. Built around intensive networking and skill-building activities in Jerusalem and the Diaspora that are continued online, ROI enhances its members’ ability to re-create community in their own image. ROI embraces the diversity and dynamism of Jewish life, with a youthful energy that represents its best hope for the future.
The ROI Community for Young Jewish Innovators is a venture of the Center for Leadership Initiatives that was created by philanthropist Lynn Schusterman in partnership with Taglit-Birthright Israel.
Jumpstart
Project-Incubator 2009-2010
Jumpstart’s mission is to develop, strengthen, and learn from emerging nonprofit organizations that build community at the nexus of spirituality, learning, social activism, and culture. An incubator, catalyst, and think tank, Jumpstart provides infrastructure organizational capacity building for visionary next-generation leaders and groups; builds cross-sector peer networks of purpose; develops field-building strategies for communal and philanthropic support of emerging organizations; and offers analysis and assessment of key trends and exchange of best practices.
Jumpstart’s widely read report on the Jewish startup sector, The Innovation Ecosystem, developed in a collaborative partnership with The Natan Fund and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, urges support for innovation, new metrics for success, and collaboration to reduce costs.
The Jewish Social Action Hub
Project-Incubator 2009-2010
The JHub is a centre of creativity, energy, learning and innovation, providing office space, meeting rooms and a support network for innovative UK-based Jewish individuals, projects and organizations who are working to contribute meaningfully, in a variety of ways, to the Jewish and wider world.
The JHub works with the following aims:
- To energize the British Jewish community by encouraging social action, innovation and social entrepreneurship
- To help innovative emerging and existing organizations and projects to grow and develop by strengthening and providing support to build their capacity
- To facilitate networking and collaboration amongst organizations through Jewish learning, professional development and social events.
JHub is an operating program of The Pears Foundation
The Pradler NGO-Empowerment Program
Project-Incubator 2007-2008
The Pradler program was established as an initiative of the Pratt foundation in 2003 under the leadership of Richard and Jeanne Pratt and the Chair of the Foundation Heloise Waislitz (www.prattfoundation-israel.co.il). Their goal is to assist in building the capacity of Israeli NGOs in the field of resource development by giving them the knowledge, the insight, and the tools needed to secure their future operations.
The Pradler program is the first of its kind in Israel to offer organizations intensive instruction and mentoring; combining the attainment of knowledge and tools with active involvement in fundraising activities. Our intensive investment over time assists the organization in assimilating new professional capabilities and aids the organization in increasing their stability over the long term.
Jewish Agency for Israel
Project-Incubator 2007-2008
What will a Jewish future look like that is comprised of isolated individuals who acknowledge their Jewish cultural identity but have no connection and engagement on any level with Jewish community? That in no way feels part of a global Jewish family? How sustainable is the transcendent power of the Jewish people to move forward into the future without a belief in the value of peoplehood? And in the 21st century, what would Jewish peoplehood look like without a thriving Israel at its heart? Using the power of Israel itself to connect and engage, the Jewish Agency is leading to way to connect the Jewish world’s next generation through powerful, transformative experiences.
The Nachshonim Program
Project-Incubator 2009
The Nachshonim project was established in 2003 by the Fund for Support of Jewish Institutions or Projects outside Norway in an effort to help resuscitate Jewish life in the FSU. The program has two major goals: 1) to facilitate a new generation of Jewish community leaders and 2) to assist in the implementation of innovative initiatives in various spheres of Jewish community life.
Nachshonim targets young Jewish men and women from the FSU who wish to contribute to their communities. Based on the assumption that they know best what their community needs, we help them operate a project of their own choosing for a year. During this year they receive a project grant as well as a personal scholarship and personal mentoring. They also take part in a one-week preparatory seminar, held in Israel, where they learn project management skills.
Initiated in 2003/2004, there have been four project cycles. Among Nachshonim alumni are about 120 people from Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, the Caucasus and the eastern republics. Their personal projects have to do with many facets of Jewish lives – culture, history, the remembrance of the Holocaust, Jewish lore, relation between the old and the young in the community, mixed families, multi-national societies and so on. Many of these projects are still active.
This year, Nachshonim and Paideia are collaborating in offering Incubator alumni (from all over Europe) to apply for the Nachshonim program, which includes a project grant of $2,500, a personal scholarship of $1,200 and mentoring. Nachshonim is looking for participants with leadership and management skills and a keen interest in the Jewish community. Nachshonim does not support projects that are primarily welfare, research or documentation-related.
The Melton Centre – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Project-Incubator 2007
As part of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem the Melton Centre is a hub of learning open to the rich diversity of contemporary Jewish life. The Centre is named for Samuel Mendel Melton, the educational pioneer and philanthropist, who endowed it in perpetuity in 1978. Situated in Jerusalem, the heart of the Jewish world, the Melton Centre aspires to create a supportive community of learning where education professionals from both Israel and the Diaspora can grow and work together. The Melton Centre makes full use of the unique resources of Jewish scholarship that the Hebrew University offers, with over 100 faculty members specializing in fields covering the entire spectrum of Jewish culture from ancient literary texts, through medieval Jewish poetry, to Yiddish, the cinema and the fine arts.