Last week, IsraelGrants CEO David Maeir-Epstein had the unique
opportunity of meeting with Joseph Hyman, Director of the Center for
Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy (CEJP). In October 2012, the Jerusalem Post
featured the CEJP’s work in a front page story entitled “A Jewish Philanthropic
Bank Changing the Face of Charity” which can be found at www.Jpost.com/features/inthespotlight/article.aspx?id=289501
This article is a must-read as it highlights the sophisticated
philanthropic philosophy developed by Hyman involving collaboration,
partnership and leverage as a way of maximizing social impact and efficiency of
charity. Hyman told David that CEJP’s focus was likely to move from Tsfat and
the North to the South of Israel for 2013.
After the Second Lebanon War in
2006, CEJP created the Philanthropic Partnership to Strengthen Northern Israel
(PPSNI), which in 2010 made the collective strategic decision to target Tsfat, a
city which has struggled with a variety of socio-economic challenges including
the departure of many young, middle-class families in recent years.
To further this mission, the CJEP assembled a coalition of strategic
partners such as the Tsfat municipality and Mayor, the Rashi Foundation,
numerous Israeli Government Ministries and 13 U.S. philanthropists from the PPSNI
giving group. This synergy resulted in infusing $9.2 million towards the
development and renovation of key educational and cultural centers and programs
in the city with the ultimate goal of strengthening the quality of life in
Tsfat as a means of attracting new residents and strengthening its present
population.
The CJEP is an outstanding example of impactful giving which can only be
accomplished by leveraging each other’s strengths in order to provide far
greater support than any of the partners could have possibly secured alone.
Please click on the link to the article above and discover how— as
Joseph Hyman often says: “The sum of 1
+1 +1 really can equal 5”....
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