Jumpstart (http://www.jewishjumpstart.org) is an incubator, catalyst, and advocate to build sustainable Jewish initiatives for the future. Its mission is to develop, strengthen, and learn from emerging nonprofit organizations that build community at the nexus of community, spirituality, learning, social activism, and culture.

Jumpstart identifies, adopts, supports, and partners with experimental Jewish community-building initiatives that share its vision of a vibrant, creative, inclusive, and diverse American Judaism. It convenes educational forums for leaders of emergent organizations, innovators interested in building new initiatives, philanthropic leaders, and members of the broader community. Jumpstart creates peer-learning networks for leaders seeking to develop new forms of community within and beyond their institutions, thereby creating idea marketplaces for the productive exchange of knowledge and best practices. Its research and publication program -- a source of and clearinghouse for new Jewish thought -- identifies and assesses effective innovation in Jewish charitable work, then freely disseminates key findings for use by leaders and funders as well as the public at large.

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