By, Laura Schultze, JTFN Communications Associate It can be a challenge to photograph your teens as they sit in boardrooms and look at requests for proposals. You may have communications’ professionals from your organization begging you for photos, and at the end of the day, all you have are photos of board members staring at … Continued
By Alana Hollander, JTFN Program Associate Twinkle lights sparkle along storefronts and as the days grow shorter there is a slight chill in the air. This can only mean one thing; site visit season is almost here! Just as advertisers start planning for the holidays from the moment we hang up our Halloween costumes in … Continued
by, Danielle Segal, JTFN Program Manager “All who are hungry, let them enter and eat!” On Friday, we will say these words as we symbolically and literally open our doors and share our homes. It is tradition to welcome those who are in need to our Seder table… and Elijah the prophets might even pop … Continued
By Danielle Segal, JTFN Program Director Old TV shows are making a comeback. It’s hard to scroll through your preferred streaming service or turn on your TV without seeing a re-hashing of an old favorite: Buffy The Vampire Slayer is being brought back from the undead, Rosanne made a brief and contentious return, and Will and Grace are still proving that … Continued
By Danielle Segal, JTFN Program Manager Have you ever had a dream which seems so bizarre when you wake up, but your sleep-induced logic made complete sense out of the scenario? It makes total sense that I would be flying through the sky, on my way to deliver chicken soup to an old school friend … Continued
By, Danielle Segal, JTFN Program Manager It’s nearly site visit season! And that means organizing buses, trains, carpools and Skypes in order to bring the questioning teen board members in direct contact with the applying organizations. But what do you do if there are too many organizations for the teens to visit? How can the … Continued
by Wendy Kennelly Foundation Manager at Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary The Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary has focused on inspiring and facilitating philanthropy for 25 years, and teen philanthropy had, since 2005, been a small part of the Foundation. It was that year that leadership and staff created B’nai Mitzvah funds for pre-teens, supported … Continued
Program Resource Round-up: Year End Hints and Tips By, Alana Hollander, Community and Special Projects Manager at the Jewish Teen Funders Network Thirteen years ago at Stanford University Steve Jobs was the keynote speaker at commencement. There in front of a few thousand bright-eyed idealistic graduates, Jobs took to the stage in his sandals and said, … Continued
By, Joshua Drossman As human beings, we have a responsibility to narrate the past as it was; not as we’d like it to be and certainly not as we believe it should’ve been. It is true that sometimes the past is complicated, sometimes it doesn’t show someone in the most favorable light, and sometimes it … Continued
The JTFN Youth Ambassador Council is a group of Jewish teen philanthropists who are passionate about making the world a better place. They meet virtually throughout the year to dicuss their programs and what it’s like to be a Jewish teen in today’s philanthropic society. They have bestowed their wisdom on how you too can … Continued