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JFN works with Jewish funders to improve the quality of their giving and maximize their impact. Visit www.jfunders.org.

Jewish Funders Network (JFN) grows the size and impact of Jewish philanthropy. We connect funders together, empower individual excellence, and catalyze collective action. We work for a vibrant, meaningful, inclusive, interconnected, creative, and compassionate world.

09/08/2026

Jewish communities have absorbed massive technological shifts before, but AI may move faster and cut deeper than any of them.

Join us for ASPIRE to hear from Rabbi Zvika Krieger, Spiritual Leader, Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley, who also advises AI companies including Anthropic, Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld, Chief Learning Officer at Sefaria, Dr. David Zvi Kalman of the Shalom Hartman Institute, and JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny.

Together they'll explore what Jewish history teaches us about surviving disruption, and a question being raised more and more: unlike the Vatican, which just issued a major encyclical on AI, whose job is it in the Jewish world to work through what this technology means for meaning, work, and community?

This program is open to JFN members and non-members. Click here to register: https://www.jfunders.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=2061864&group=

08/21/2026

Join JFN Executive Vice President Rabbi Rebecca W. Sirbu, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbi Mike Uram, and TEN: Together Ending Need for an essential webinar next week.

This high holiday season, some of us will be sitting in pews of our synagogues, calculating if we can afford to maintain our membership over the next year. TEN's text sheet supports rabbis and Jewish educators in discussing Jewish economic vulnerability with their communities.

This Thursday, August 27th at 10am-11am PT / 1pm-2p ET

Attendance is open to rabbis, funders, all who are interested in learning!

Register to join us and find the guide here: https://www.togetherendingneed.org/highholidays

08/20/2026

In the latest episode, JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny speaks with Eric Goldstein, who, after twelve years leading UJA-Federation of New York, the largest local Jewish charity in the world, is stepping down this fall. They reflect on a tenure that ran through COVID-19, October 7, and a run of once-in-a-generation crises. Eric makes the case for the federation model at a moment when the widening gap between the Jewish right and left may be the community's most urgent problem.

Take a listen: https://www.jfunders.org/news/733400/Eric-Goldstein---Lessons-From-a-Decade-of-Crisis-Leadership.htm

08/19/2026

Behind every thriving Jewish organization are talented professionals, strong leaders, skilled HR practitioners, and engaged boards. No matter what area of Jewish life a funder supports, investing in the people who lead, govern, and sustain organizations is essential to lasting impact.

The Talent Pipeline Collaborative (TPC) brings funders and philanthropists together to strengthen the professional and board talent powering Jewish life. Offered by Jewish Funders Network in partnership with Leading Edge, the TPC creates space to learn, connect, and explore how philanthropy can help the Jewish nonprofit field attract, develop, support, and retain the people organizations need to thrive.

Click here for more information: https://www.jfunders.org/page/talent_pipeline_collaborative

The first program takes place on September 23, 2026. Click here to learn more and register for the kickoff: https://www.jfunders.org/event/talentpipeline1

08/18/2026

Nominations are now open for the prestigious Ilia Salita Excellence in Research Award (ERA)! The Ilia Salita ERA recognizes and highlights research projects that can impact Jewish life in a direct and positive way.

Click here for more details visit and to nominate a worthy research project: https://www.jfunders.org/ilia_salita_era

Be sure to spread the word among your friends and colleagues. The deadline for submitting nominations for this award is Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET, and applications will close the following week on Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET.

08/11/2026

Do you know of a research project that can help funders and nonprofits in the Jewish community? We're excited to announce that nominations for the prestigious Ilia Salita Excellence in Research Award (ERA) open next week on Tuesday, August 18!

For more details visit: https://www.jfunders.org/ilia_salita_era

Be sure to spread the word among your friends and colleagues. The deadline for submitting nominations for this award is Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET, and applications will close the following week on Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET.

08/06/2026

In the latest episode of What Gives?, the Jewish Philanthropy Podcast JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny speaks with Jonathan Gottschall, literary scholar and author of The Storytelling Animal.

Take a listen: https://www.jfunders.org/news/732619/Jonathan-Gottschall---How-Story-Makes-a-People.htm

Jonathan has spent his career studying why human beings are wired for narrative, which he explored with attendees in a fascinating keynote at this year's JFN Conference in San Diego. Andrés and Jonathan explore the idea that we are not only Homo sapiens but Homo fictus, a species that lives its whole life inside stories. They explore why human communities, whether a nation, a family, or the Jewish people itself, are held together by the stories they share even more than by borders or bloodlines, and what happens when those stories begin to fracture. They also get into the darker side of narrative: how stories can quietly replace reality, and why antisemitism is one of the oldest and most destructive fictions ever told.

08/05/2026

Registration is now open for the first-ever JFN Midwest Regional Convening in Downtown Detroit.

Monday, Oct 26, 12:00pm ET – Tuesday, Oct 27, 2:00pm ET

Register now: https://jfnconference.cventevents.com/event/5c0c6cc7-04ea-4cb4-862a-46f7cb15ca08/register?rp=06d6b32e-d854-4aa8-b416-b7b2291161d8

At a time when many philanthropists are reassessing their priorities, an old question has come into sharper focus. How do we weigh our commitments to the Jewish community against our responsibilities to the broader world? That tension between the particular and the universal runs beneath nearly every funding decision.

The JFN Midwest Convening will explore a range of issues demanding funders’ attention right now. At this heightened time of introspection, join us for deep conversations exploring timely issues at the inaugural Midwest Regional Convening.

Don't miss it! Join us in Downtown Detroit this fall.

07/28/2026

Most Jews have only a vague picture of the American Christian world, and a fair number of Christians do too. On episode 82 of What Gives?, Andrés Spokoiny talks with Mark Tooley, President of the Institute on Religion & Democracy and editor of Providence, about what actually distinguishes mainline Protestants from Evangelicals and why denominational identity is collapsing into non-denominational and megachurch Christianity. They also discuss why the case for standing with the Jewish people may need to rest on human dignity rather than scripture alone.

Take a listen: https://www.jfunders.org/news/731646/Mark-Tooley---What-Jews-Should-Know-About-Christians-in-America.htm

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