Joshua Venture Fellowship

The Joshua Venture fellowship is a two-year program with three components:

1. Seed funding;
2. Organizational and professional development through interaction with experts and a community of practice (working/learning sessions with peers); and
3. Recognition and legitimacy within – and access to – an expanded network in the Jewish communal and philanthropic worlds.

The target audience for the fellowship is Jewish social entrepreneurs living and working in North America, between the ages of twenty-one (21) and thirty-six (36), who are developing innovative nonprofit initiatives that contribute to a just, inclusive, and vibrant Jewish community. The design of the program includes post-fellowship programming for alumni.

Jewish Social Entrepreneurship Field Building

Joshua Venture will help organize and lead the advancement of the field of Jewish social entrepreneurship for the benefit of all Jewish social entrepreneurship stakeholders by hosting gatherings to encourage and facilitate sharing of “lessons learned,” ideas, and know-how, as well as networking for potential collaboration. Stakeholders in the field of Jewish social entrepreneurship include not only Joshua Venture fellows and alumni, but also other Jewish social entrepreneurs and individuals considering launching a new Jewish venture, funders of new Jewish ventures and innovations, experts who serve Jewish social entrepreneurs, staff and lay leaders of other initiatives serving Jewish social entrepreneurs, business people will skills and experiences to offer from the for-profit sector, and members of the broader social entrepreneurship community. Joshua Venture will also help organize and advance the field by identifying and providing open access to best practices, knowledge sharing and ongoing learning.

The idea is to introduce and encourage “new ways of working” within the Jewish world such that collaboration and leverage become the norm. Especially for start-up nonprofits, developing partnerships that honor different organizations’ core competencies and reduce redundancies may mean the difference between sustainability and existential struggle.

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