By Ayo Oppenheimer, Founder and Editor of Jewrotica.org. With the help of an ROI Micro Grant Ayo was able to build the Jewrotica website and start their North American kickoff tour.
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Philanthropic Network (CLSPN) and ROI Community congratulate Jeremy Balkin, an ROI Community member from Sydney, Australia, on his selection for The World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Class of 2013. Other honorees include Chelsea Clinton, Randi Zuckerberg, William James Adams (aka will.i.am) and Nate Silver.
Meet Marcus Frieze, the newest staff member to join ROI Community's headquarters in Jerusalem, Israel! Marcus is Program Manager for ROI and we've asked him some questions to help you get to know this new (but also "not-so-new") kid on the block!
The ‘Community Lover's Guide’ is a global project highlighting and celebrating people-led initiatives. This global project aims to tell the stories of the people and organizations that are shaping communities.
Magda Koralewska was written up in the Intermountain Jewish News about her amazing work in turning Crakow into a new epicenter of European Jewish life.
ROI is partnering with Australian Jewish Funders (AJF) to host a gathering in the presence of Sandy Cardin, President of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Philanthropic Network, in Melbourne, Australia. The upcoming day-long event is attracting widespread interest. Here are two articles published in the Australian Jewish News, July 12, 2012.
Samuel Dressel, a Latin American ROI member, created a project giving high school students (and the greater population) an opportunity to learn about contemporary issues in human rights injustices through the historic lens of the Holocaust.
Yaniv Rivlin is currently studying at Harvard Kennedy School. In this article, he explains that when he started his second degree there, he didn't plan on also being spokesperson for Israel. But, as it turns out, Yaniv's college experience is far from that of any other ordinary student. With events like One State Conference, Yaniv and his colleague, Yael, find themselves advocating for Israel but they aren't under any illusions; they don't expect to convince some of Israel's strong critics, to love Israel. They do, however, desperately want to present a second voice. Read more in the Maariv article below (published on 28 March 2012).
Weeks later, the ROI Ibero-American Gathering that took place in November, 2011, is still receiving media attention and generating buzz. Surf the last couple of weeks worth of articles:
Meet Marcus Frieze, the newest staff member to join ROI Community's headquarters in Jerusalem, Israel! Marcus is Program Manager for ROI and we've asked him some questions to help you get to know this new (but also "not-so-new") kid on the block!
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