The Collaboratory 2022: Virtual Swag Bag
Want more Collaboratory in your life? Continue the experience with our virtual swag. Below are links to some exclusive offerings and resources, courtesy of our sponsors and presenters. Take a look to find great offerings just for you!
Resources & Offerings
Collaboratory Participant Survey
We are so glad you could join us for Collaboratory 2022: Grow the Good! Please tell us about your experience in this brief survey by Friday, May 20, 2022.
The Collaboratory Challenge Grant: Grow the Good Together
Apply for The Collaboratory Challenge Grant by midnight PST June 9, 2022
The Collaboratory Challenge Grant: Grow the Good Together encourages Collaboratory participants to grow their impact through meaningful collaborations seeded at Collaboratory 2022. Learn more here.
A virtual Question & Answer session for applicants will be hosted on May 18, 2022 1 pm – 2 pm EDT. Participants should attend if they have any questions or concerns regarding the application process. Register to attend the Q&A Office Hours here.
Amplifer Powered by Jewish Federations of North America
Grow Your Impact, Grow Your Giving, Grow Your Community
Share stories about giving values, what giving Jewishly means to you, and which organizations inspire you to give with family and friends. Use Amplifier’s Virtual Pop-Up Giving Circle Facilitation Guide to run a pop-up in your community
- Conversation About Giving
- Virtual Pop-Up Giving Circle
- Free Consultation with Amplifier: Amplifier offers tools for meaningful conversation, impactful philanthropy, and moving money rooted in Jewish values. We can help you plan your next event, start a giving circle, and brainstorm creative approaches to philanthropy. To schedule a call with us, please email amanda.shane@jewishfederations.org using the code “AmplifierXcollaboraoty” in the subject.
The Forward
$1 annual subscription to Forward.com, plus 50% off for your network!
$1 = 1 year of America’s most powerful source of independent Jewish journalism. Subscribe today!
Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
Use code UPSTART22 for 1 free registration
In Culture Passport, The Lambert Center for Arts + Ideas takes you around the world to virtually explore exciting institutions, engage with artists, and experience unique cultures from an array of countries—all from the comfort of your own home.
The Jewish Theological Society (JTS)
In this text-based lecture series, JTS faculty explore the breadth of Jewish wisdom—from the Bible to the present day—to find meaning in life’s challenges and evaluate what is most important to us.
Natan Fund Collective Giving for Innovation.
Vote for the Jewish Connections grantees
The Natan Fund invites all Collaboratory attendees to vote for one of its current Jewish Connections grantees to receive an additional $2,500 grant.
Slingshot
Aligning Your Policies and Workplace Culture with Your Values
As a sponsor of the 2022 Collaboratory, Slingshot is excited to offer participants a one-hour session to share how we adjusted our policies and workplace culture to align with our values and the work we do in the world. This will be an interactive conversation led by Slingshot staff and board members.
Available sessions: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 3:00 pm ET and Thursday, July 28, 2022 12:00 pm ET
Adeena Sussman
Try your hand at making Adeena’s Fig and Yogurt Pops with Tahini Magic Shell at home!
Goodnation
Giving and Fundraising in Response to a Crisis
If the past two years have taught us anything when it comes to philanthropy, donors respond in a crisis, and nonprofits should be prepared to ask and receive during those times. Based on our experience, here are some things donors and nonprofits should consider.
Resetting the Table
Check out RTT’s short film Purple and accompanying Discussion Guide.
A DIY resource for building capacity for difficult conversations across divides
Tzedek Box
Tzedek Box is a new ritual supporting Jews and their allies to pursue justice work as a consistent, meaningful, and reflective practice. The Tzedek Box is available in both physical form and digital app.
Jumpstart Creative Social Good
Register for the Survey of Contemporary Jewish Initiatives.
The Survey of Contemporary Initiatives will provide much-needed data on the global landscape of new and innovative Jewish projects and organizations. Find more information here!
Collaboratory Wallpaper
Beautify your desktop background with Collaboratory 2022: Grow the Good wallpaper!
Collaboratory Zoom Background
Did you love the UpStart staff’s Zoom background during the Collaboratory? Download your own here!
Collaboratory Session Recordings
Welcome Ritual, Keynote Speaker, Toby Herzlich (Nature’s Lessons for Growing the Good), and Cooking Demo with Adeena Sussman
Welcome to The Collaboratory 2022: Grow the Good! Join Toby Herzlich, founder of Biomimicry for Social Innovation, for insights from the natural world as guidance for your work. Through Toby’s presentation and the breakouts that follow, we have an opportunity to understand the regenerative nature of ecosystems as models for how we can lead resilient initiatives that grow in healthy ways and contribute to a more just, vibrant, and inclusive Jewish community. In this year of shmita*, now is the time to pause, feel into what helps us thrive, and then move forward together to grow the good. Then join Adeena Sussman, New York Times Best-selling author of Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen, and coauthor of the Gazoz book, in an interactive cooking demo.
Leveraging Bold Models: Building Bridges for a Just Future
We are living in times of divisiveness and disconnection. Yet, we know that we often hold more in common with other faith communities than is apparent on the surface. This session will highlight three models for building deep, enduring, mutually supportive relationships with other faith communities and will show how interfaith alliances help to build a more just, vibrant, and inclusive world for all.
Leveraging Bold Models: Building an Inclusive Future Through Difficult Conversations
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed fault lines in our work habits and organizational cultures. Team members experienced the stresses of managing their own health, the health of loved ones, expanded caregiving responsibilities, and more. At the same time, the pandemic created opportunities to re-think norms from flexibility to office space to work hours. The workplace is being reinvented. The three models highlighted in this session share research and wisdom for how to think about taking smart risks, and create thriving workplaces that ripple out into the community.
Leveraging Bold Models: Co-Leadership as a Path to Sustainability
The model of heroic leadership – one leader who does it all – is fading. But what models can replace it? More and more organizations are exploring models of shared leadership as an antidote to burnout, a way of leveraging diverse talents, and as a means of re-thinking traditional organizational models. This session will highlight three models of shared leadership. Leaders will pull back the curtain and tell you why they pursued shared leadership, how they achieved it, what they have gained (and lost), and what they learned along the way.
Leveraging Bold Models: Creative Funding Models
While popular funding models are not necessarily broken, they are often far from ideal. Grantseekers find themselves creating programs to match funder interests, moving through vast amounts of paperwork, and feeling uncertain about how frank they can be in conversations with funders. Funders often wonder “what grantees really think”, how to streamline processes, and how to be of real value beyond making grants. This session will highlight three bold funding models that seek to move beyond the traditional (often stilted) funder/grantee relationship to enable frank conversations, user-friendly processes, and breakthroughs in addressing the problems that both grantmakers and grantseekers want to fix. This session is inspired by GrantED: a joint project of UpStart and the Jewish Funders Network that works to strengthen relationships between grantseekers and grantmakers in the Jewish community.
Leveraging Bold Models: Cultivating Healthy Teams and Organizations
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed fault lines in our work habits and organizational cultures. Team members experienced the stresses of managing their own health, the health of loved ones, expanded caregiving responsibilities, and more. At the same time, the pandemic created opportunities to re-think norms from flexibility to office space to work hours. The workplace is being reinvented. The three models highlighted in this session share research and wisdom for how to think about taking smart risks, and create thriving workplaces that ripple out into the community.
Leveraging Bold Models: In Pursuit of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. Justice. Many organizations have doubled down on these values in the wake of a racial reckoning in the United States and across the world. Leaders are challenged in moving from declared values to deep, meaningful action that increases diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice for those who are often excluded and treated inequitably. This session will offer three models for actualizing DEIJ in your organization and in your work.
Collaboratory Podcast Suggestions
Recommendation from GrowTorah:
The Ecological Imperative: A podcast on the environment and Judaism from Rabbi Sacks.
Recommendation from Keynote Speaker, Toby Herzlich:
The Light Ahead Produced by Beloved Economies is a game-changer. In the way that Star Trek inspired a generation of scientists, investors, and techies, The Light Ahead offers listeners visionary ideas for a kinder, more inclusive, economic future. 27 min of your time and well worth it!
Recommendation from Adeena Sussman:
Listen to Adeena’s Salt & Spine Podcast! This podcast is full of the compelling stories behind cookbooks you won’t get anywhere else. Featuring interviews with leading authors, we explore the art and craft of cookbooks.
Collaboratory Playlist
Loved the tunes played on May 11? Check out our Collaboratory: Grow the Good playlist!
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