By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
When it comes to funding innovative Jewish organizations and projects, few foundations are more involved than three that are shutting their doors in the next few years — the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies (ACBP), the Avi Chai Foundation and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund. While observers differ about the impact of their closing, one thing is certain: The funders’ absence is sure to leave the Jewish nonprofit world challenged to find new funders.
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By Gordon Haber
‘Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!” wrote Herman Melville in “Moby Dick.” In other words, writing is an endurance test, and it can drive you mad. And if it was problematic for him, imagine how the rest of us feel.
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By Michael Kaminer
GIVING 2011: We put a call out for young Jews making a difference. You told us about Erin Schrode and nine others helping African villagers and making neighbors laugh.
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By Renee Ghert-Zand
GIVING 2011: Raising money in the U.S. for Israeli non-profits used to be simple. Now, donors are much more demanding, and groups have to be much more savvy.
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By E.B. Solomont
GIVING 2011: For many baby boomers, 60 is the new 30, and it gets better from there. Civic Ventures is a think tank geared toward people who are aging, but still want to contribute.
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By Nathan Guttman
GIVING 2011: Aid groups raced to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake, including many Jewish groups. Those that remain are focused on creating sustainable improvements.
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By Nathan Jeffay
GIVING 2011: Immigrants to Israel can find themselves lost in a strange culture. Selah, which means ‘rock’ in Hebrew, helps them survive and thrive in a new homeland.
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By Boaz Arad
GIVING 2011: The Japanese government has done a remarkable job in providing physical assistance to victims of the tsunami. Israel helped them deal with the psychological trauma.
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By Linda K. Wertheimer
Some synagogues are taking steps to make sure Mitzvah Day volunteers do not treat the one-day event as their only community service commitment each year.
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By Gabrielle Birkner
As early immigrants to what is now Israel were learning how to communicate in a revived ancient language, the hard-of-hearing among them were creating a new language altogether. Combining signs from most all of the different countries from which the Jewish populations emigrated, Israeli Sign Language began to take shape in the 1930s. Around the same time, in a small village in Israel’s Negev Desert, another sign language was forming — one that did not grow out of older, existing sign languages, but arose, organically, out of the need to communicate with four deaf children born into one Bedouin family.
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