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January 2012

ROI Community  /      01/31/12
From Innovation to Sustainability: A New Conversation
 

 by David Cygielman

Just a few years ago, being innovative was key to a new organization’s success. But, as time has gone on, debate has hatched over what can truly be defined as innovative and unfortunately, it has become clear that even with initial funding, it is difficult to keep an “innovative” program afloat. There have been a huge variety of conversations and articles dedicated to the conversation of innovation, both sharing its importance and questioning its long-term impact. However, recently much of the innovation buzz and discussion has dissipated, but fear not, it is has been replaced by our new friend, organizational sustainability!

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ROI Community  /      01/30/12
Can Birthright Israel Alone Reverse Young Adults’ Declining Support of Local Jewish Communities?
  

 by Joel Frankel

In my experience, it is rare to hear someone say something negative about Taglit-Birthright Israel (“Birthright”). How could they? It is an amazing program that sends hundreds of thousands of Jewish young adults to Israel each year for free. More importantly, beyond just physically sending people to visit Israel, the trips they fund have a significant psychological impact on the participants. Studies have found that almost 75% of all Birthright participants call their trip a life changing experience!(1) Around for just over a decade, Birthright is shaping an entire generation’s relationship with the State of Israel.

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Raquel Laniado  /      01/29/12
Fundación Metta Saade en el ROI Summit 2011, la cumbre internacional de judíos innovadores
Por: Raquel Laniado
Jue Sep 15 2011 (16 Elul, 5771) - Crossblogged by ROI from forojudio.com on 29 January 2012
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Elissa Krycer  /      01/29/12
Join the Pre Summit Buzz

Take a trip down memory-lane and while you're in Summit mood, write a blog or make a video that we can use in our recruitment campaign! Email your blog or video to Elissa.

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Gal Mor  /      01/29/12
World Hostel Conference is Coming To...
By Gal Mor, ROI Micro Grant recipient

While Israel is the largest exporter per capita of backpackers to various destinations around the world (mostly due to post army Israelis needing a break), it's still a very small market when it comes to incoming backpackers coming to tour the Holy Land.
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Elissa Krycer  /      01/27/12
Hazon Conference - More than Just Food
In my experience, ROI consistently achieves its goal to connect community innovators across the World.

Like Moishe House, it has a model that I hope other cultural, social and religious communities around the world learn from, empowering and enabling those who already have motivation.
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ROI Community  /      01/27/12
First Holocaust Exhibition has Opened in Cuba

An exhibition about the Holocaust has opened in Havana, Cuba, the country’s first, but so far it is attracting more foreign visitors than locals. Initiated by ORT Cuba National Director William Miller two years ago, “We Remember – The Holocaust and the Creation of a Living Community” combines text, photographs and video to enable the island’s resurgent Jewish community to better understand its roots and for the general public to learn about the nadir of modern civilization. Knowledge of the Holocaust is next to non-existent among Cuba’s non-Jewish population and the exhibition has yet to draw wide-scale attention locally.
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ROI Community  /      01/23/12
LA Jerusalem Mashup

 

 by Edoe Cohen

 

I was neither born nor raised in Israel. My Israeli parents moved to the States in the late 70s and I grew up in Los Angeles, where I never really felt very American. I also never appreciated or understood why my parents insisted on sending me to Hebrew school and summer programs in Israel. Looking back, I think I did understand that my family was different. That all of us Israeli transplants, my parents, their Israeli friends and all the kids, were different.

 
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ROI Community  /      01/19/12
Jewish Agency Set to Send Out Top Cadre of Young Israeli Emissaries
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The Israeli Government has tapped the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) to expand the number of young shlichim (emissaries) it sends abroad as a way to strengthen Diaspora Jewry’s connection to Israel and to counteract rising anti-Israel sentiment.
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ROI Community  /      01/19/12
The Largest Gifts in 2011: Missing Jewish Support
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Jewish philanthropists were well represented in a recent listing of last year’s top charitable gifts. According to ‘America’s Top Donors’, just released by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 513 gifts of at least $1 million or more were made by individuals to charitable institutions in 2011. This was a significant change from the 348 gifts of $1 million plus made in 2010.
 
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