The Innovation Ecosystem: Emergence of a New Jewish Landscape is a snapshot of a habitat with over 400,000 participants and... More > over $500 million in investment over the past decade. This new report by Jumpstart, The Natan Fund, and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation provides data, analysis, implications and recommendations about the emerging communal infrastructure of Jewish life for innovators and supporters of Jewish innovation. < Less

Haskalah 2.0 is an analytical essay based on a consultation on Jewish innovation and social entrepreneurship which took... More > place in Toronto on December 15-16, 2009. It was organized and convened by Jumpstart, JESNA's Lippman Kanfer Institute, and The Jewish Federations of North America, hosted and co-sponsored by the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, and co-sponsored by the Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies. All quotes in the report are from participants in the consultation. < Less

The Innovation Ecosystem: Emergence of a New Jewish Landscape is a snapshot of a habitat with over 400,000 participants and... More > over $500 million in investment over the past decade. This new report by Jumpstart, The Natan Fund, and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation provides data, analysis, implications and recommendations about the emerging communal infrastructure of Jewish life for innovators and supporters of Jewish innovation. < Less

Research Report on the 2008 Survey of New Jewish Organizations

Jumpstart partnered with The Natan Fund and The Samuel... More > Bronfman Foundation to conduct the first-ever survey of the nonprofit Jewish startup sector. The survey sought data on the hundreds of nonprofit startups that have been founded in the North American Jewish community in the last ten years. The purpose was to better understand the needs of these organizations, with the goal of creating effective responses to the current economic downturn.

This preliminary report on the data from the survey contains ten key findings, covering the organizations and their participants, with a focus on how they are run, staffed, funded and governed. < Less