The Covenant Foundation

This fall, The Covenant Foundation launched The Pomegranate Prize, rewarding and recognizing excellent educators who have been in the field less than ten years, and offering them added support as well as new experiences. [more]

From its genesis, the Jewish Futures Conference was designed to jumpstart a conversation and spur people to suspend disbelief and imagine what could be. While we cannot predict the futureof Jewish education, all of us must take responsibility for it, along with those we work with and influence every day. [more]

The Days of Awe have been a time to reflect. As The Covenant Foundation reaches its 20th year of supporting excellence and innovation in Jewish education, here are some reflections on its work, mission and impact, and the world in which it exists. [more]

Recent press reports explore what has come to be known as “prize philanthropy.”  Many foundations and other organizations are finding award giving to be “in vogue,” articles say. [more]

Built on your ideas from the field of Jewish education, The Covenant Foundation views itself as a platform for dreams.  The foundation aims to facilitate, not legislate, to help construct ideas from the field into a compelling reality. In reviewing letters of inquiry for grants, the foundation seizes on those that conjure new realities and possibilities.  In John Dewey’s words, those that “… look at things as if they could be otherwise.” [more]

Three words jump out at me as I read Here Comes Everybody, an engaging book about the social effects of Internet technology by NYU’s Clay Shirky. “Sharing anchors community” strikes me as cutting right to the core of what the Covenant Foundation’s new website aims to do, and what it can do. [more]

Welcome to The Covenant Foundation’s redesigned web page, a beta test site of a newly enhanced online resource for our community. [more]