The New York Jewish Week. Since the release of the  Pew Research Center  survey on American Jews, the...

I’m happy to introduce a series of articles about interactions between local and national funders. This series continues a...

For centuries, doctors had all sorts of assumptions about human anatomy. For example, it was believed that men had fewer r...

When I lived in Europe I used to run seminars for Community Leaders. The venue was a beautiful 14th century palazzo in Ven...

Foundations and organizations must not treat Jewish next-gen donors as if they are the same as their parents and grandpare...

The problem is that the Jewish Community hasn’t yet fully internalized the need for a new leadership paradigm that places...

A couple of years ago, my sons, among other first graders, participated in something called  chagigat hasefer , the c...

We sometimes pay lip service to failure but our actual tolerance for risk and failure in the Jewish community is limited....

A new  Decalogue of effective Jewish philanthropy. The New York Jewish Week. Read article >>...

Cross-posted at eJewish Philanthropy. In the last couple of decades, a tectonic shift has altered the landscape of...

What can we do as philanthropists amid the horror of this recent tragedy? Can any parent be relieved? Can any mourner be c...

eJewish Philanthropy. Until the JFNA General Assembly, earlier this month in Baltimore, I didn’t know that the famo...

Unfortunately, Israel is once again engulfed in violence. As rockets fall on the south and center of the country, the IDF...

Following the devastating storm that just hit the North East Coast, our thoughts and prayers go out for all those affected...

For most Argentineans my generation, the name "Pitman Academies" produces a sort of nostalgic smile: a bizarre reminder of...

Israel, a country of fewer than 8 million people has 45,000 registered nonprofit organizations. This ratio, one of the hig...

The Russian cosmonaut Sergei Adveyev proved Einstein right when he became the first person to travel in time. According to...

eJewish Philanthropy . A few months ago, the Jewish Funders Network organized a series of events to discuss the “JDub...

eJewish Philanthropy . Friday, I  wrote  a bit about how funders, like all humans, are programmed by mi...

eJewish Philanthropy . Last year, influenced by the hype around Darwin’s 150th anniversary, I developed an interest...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TVPPNmDJ3E JFN President & CEO Andrés Spokoiny's address to the 2012 Jewish Fu...

Passover is a holidays of journeys. The journey of the Hebrews from Egypt to the Promise Land; the journey from Slavery to...

JFN President & CEO Andrés Spokoiny's address to the 2012 Jewish Funders Network International Conference. A pers...

Purim is arguably one of the merriest holidays of the Jewish calendar. Because of that, perhaps, we don’t often reflect on...

eJewish Philanthropy . Every school child in America knows that Paul Revere rode through Massachusetts warning the m...

eJewish Philanthropy . The fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Arab Spring, the travesty...

The New York Jewish Week . Just a year after economists say the “Great Recession” ended, instability and market cris...