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  /      03/24/13
Jewrotica
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. 
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Caylee Talpert  /      08/14/12
What is Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise All About?


Last year I wrote an article for the American Jewish Committee’s Global Voices Blog, where I shared some of my disenchantment with NGO’s in Nepal. While I believed the organisation I volunteered with was doing some very important work, I felt that many of the traditional NGO’s I encountered where largely inefficient, unaccountable to their recipients and more concerned with keeping donor money flowing than making a sustainable impact.
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ROI Community  /      08/02/12
New, Free Tzedakah Curriculum Available


American Jewish World Service has released its first-ever school curriculum, called Where Do You Give? A Tzedakah Curriculum. Their goal is to get 100 schools to commit to using the curriculum this year.
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Justin Korda  /      07/06/12
Peoplehood Papers: No Pain, No Gain

By Justin Korda, ROI Community Executive Director

Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky once said, “You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” What is true in sports is also true for our efforts to build Jewish community in the 21st century.

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ROI Community  /      06/03/12
Moishe House to Open in Jerusalem


Moishe House, in partnership with the Carlsbad, CA based Leichtag Foundation, is set to open a house in Jerusalem. This visionary funding plays a key role in enabling the first Moishe House house in Israel.
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ROI Community  /      04/19/12
The Samuel Bronfman Foundation Second Stage Growth Fund

The Samuel Bronfman Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a Second Stage Growth Fund. This fund will offer an opportunity for organizations in the post start-up phase of development to apply for general operating funding, which will help them successfully adapt their organizational structure to fit shifting and expanding needs.
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ROI Community  /      03/25/12
South By SouthWest, With a Twist of ROI

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by Rebecca Youngerman


This past week in Austin, Texas, 20 young Jews from cities as diverse as San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and Berlin wrote a new chapter of the ROI Community story, introducing the 2012 South By SouthWest (SXSW) conference attendees to a different meaning of ROI Community. As part of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation’s pilot initiative in Austin, ROIers traded falafel stands for food trailers, setting out to create, connect, learn, and innovate our way through the Interactive, Film, and Music components of the annual conference.

 
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ROI Community  /      03/22/12
Natan Fund 2013 Grant Application Process Open

March 22, 2012 by  
 

Natan is proud to announce that the application process for Natan’s 2013 grants is now open! We’ve made several changes to our grant areas for the 2013 Grants, all of which are explained below.


Now Open for Applications:
Natan is now accepting initial Letters of Inquiry (LOI) from new applicants in two program areas: Emerging Models of Jewish Connection in North America and Jewish Peoplehood. All of the necessary information (and a new FAQ page) can be found on the Grants pages of our website. Organizations may apply for grants of up to $50,000; LOIs are due by noon ET on Monday, April 23, 2012. Following a multi-stage application process, grantees will be notified of their awards by January 31, 2013.

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ROI Community  /      03/14/12
Funders and Recipients: In Whose Best Interest Are Contracts?
 
 

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Recently, I received an interesting phone call from a client who works for an Israeli based nonprofit organization who asked me the following question, “We just received a grant from the Chaya Foundation in Chicago. They want us to sign a contract that stipulates any legal disagreements will be settled in the State of Illinois. Should the organization sign this agreement with this specific clause?” (In order to protect the privacy of the foundation the name and state have been changed.)

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ROI Community  /      03/14/12
Bikkurim Releases Pivotal Study That Identifies Unique Needs and Characteristics of Jewish Post-Start-Ups
  

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New York, NY, March 14, 2012 – To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Bikkurim: An Incubator for New Jewish Ideas has released a pivotal study conducted by Wellspring Consulting that identifies characteristics of successful start-up organizations and highlights the unique needs and challenges that Jewish “post-start-up” organizations face. A cohort of post-start-up (also known as mezzanine or second-stage) organizations has grown over the past seven years, and has gained traction within the Jewish community as offering significant, new entry portals into Jewish life. They have secured initial funding, are growing rapidly, and are strong in transformational potential – but their success is far from assured.

From First Fruits to Abundant Harvest: Maximizing the Potential of Innovative Jewish Start-Ups suggests that ...

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