Insights: Announcements

UpStart is proud to announce the 28 professionals accepted into the two North American cohorts of the 2022 Change Accelerator program. UpStart’s Change Accelerator equips intrapreneurs – the bold leaders making meaningful change within our community’s Jewish institutions – to employ an entrepreneur’s mindset, change course quickly, and develop creative solutions to meet the current […]

  Applications for the 2021-22 program are now closed. UpStart’s Change Accelerator equips intrapreneurs – the bold leaders making meaningful change within our community’s Jewish institutions – with a set of lifelong skills, tools, and mindsets to adapt to any challenge. This 9-month program will draw on the frameworks of design thinking and adaptive leadership […]

We are thrilled to welcome the following bold professionals to the UpStart Board this season: Andy Cheng, Vicki Perlmutter Dansky, Monica Rodriguez Kuniyoshi, and JCF Fed Fellow Michael Rosoff, as well as welcome Mark Achler in his new role as Board Chair. These professionals bring years of experience and expertise, as well as a deep passion […]

In good faith: How nonprofit leaders effect community change Thursday, June 10, 2021  |  9:00 AM EST As worldwide needs continue to morph at lightning speed, intrapreneurs and their institutions are forced to keep up. But more than ever before those needs are increasingly laced with community and user values. Enter faith-based intrapreneurs, a band […]

UpStart and Jewish Funders Network are thrilled to announce the launch of GrantED: Stronger Relationships, Greater Impact, an groundbreaking program designed to fuel and connect grantseekers and grantmakers. UpStart has developed GrantED in partnership with Jewish Funders Network (JFN) to level the playing field and open the lines of communication between organizations and their funders. […]

UpStart is proud to announce the 52 professionals accepted into the four national cohorts of its Change Accelerator program. UpStart’s Change Accelerator equips intrapreneurs – the bold leaders making meaningful change within our community’s Jewish institutions – to employ an entrepreneur’s mindset, change course quickly, and develop creative solutions to meet the current moment. Over […]