JFN West Regional Convening Schedule

JFN West's 2023 Regional Convening Schedule Monday, November 6 3:00pm   Registration  3:30pm   Opening - Accelerating Impact. Empowering Change. 3:45pm   Chevruta with Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu, JFN's Executive Vice President 4:00pm   CHIP Session 1: High Impact Philanthropy & Crisis Grantmaking What is high impact philanthropy? Does it look different in times of crisis? This session introduces the foundational principles for practicing high impact philanthropy, discusses how these principles help funders achieve greater impact, and explores ways to apply these principles during times of crisis. 5:30pm   Networking Cocktail Hour  6:30pm   Dinner 8:00pm   Fireside Conversation: IsraAID - Crisis Support on the Ground Tuesday, November 7 8:00am   Breakfast 9:00am   CHIP Session 2: Problems of Practice Funders have many choices and limited resources – time, money, and information – for making decisions. In this highly interactive session, participants will discuss real-world funding dilemmas. Problems of practice are dilemmas that occupy your thinking and may seem intractable to you, but where you have control and influence, and care enough to work on them. Faculty will draw from the experiences of Jewish Funders Network members and facilitate discussions to help participants resolve dilemmas. 10:30am   Break 10:45am   CHIP Session 3: Philanthropic Plays for Impact During the first phase of a crisis, the focus is on providing urgent relief to those most directly affected. But philanthropy has always done more than provide direct services. We’ll explore the four philanthropic plays for achieving impact. Participants will work through cases to understand the tradeoffs of each play, so you can be better informed on how and when to incorporate them into a high impact philanthropy practice.  12:15pm   Lunch 1:15pm   Israel-Diaspora Connections 1:45pm   Measuring Impact in Complex Fields During Crisis: a Roundtable Discussion With Those Funding and Combating Antisemitism. Using the fight against antisemitism as a jumping off point, funders and their professional counterparts will participate in a roundtable discussion on establishing measurable outcomes and impact in fields that are often difficult to measure. Crisis funding and measuring impact on antisemitism interventions in the wake of the Israel - Hamas War adds an additional layer of complexity. This conversation will engage funders and their professional counterparts to discuss the additional challenges of measuring impact in the present moment. 3:00pm   Break 3:15pm   Plenary with Andrés Spokoiny, JFN's President and CEO. 4:00pm   Close