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Must-Read Free eBook Explores the Ideas of Now

Influential blogs and websites are buzzing about What Matters Now, a fascinating collection of essays compiled by widely read author, blogger, marketer, self-empowerment guru and networking advocate Seth Godin. This free, downloadable ebook, a manual of mini-essays and one-page gems by innovative thought leaders offers insight into what's foremost on their minds as 2010 begins with new challenges. And its very method of distribution highlights just how quickly traditional approaches are falling by the wayside in an overpowering digital age. Click the link above to download the book and begin absorbing the wisdom.

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Art Meets Education

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The Covenant Foundation has long supported the power and nexus of art and education. A truly rare find presented itself on a recent trip to the Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History at 15 West 16^th Street in New York City. Two phenomenal exhibits there now, Letters of Conscience: Raphael Lemkin and the Quest to End Genocide, and In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis, are worthy of a personal or group visit.

The Social Media Revolution

http://zyozy.org/blog/2009/08/18/social-media-revolution/

The statistics and trends are stunning and demand attention by any organization with a constituency. So that means all of us. The zyOzy Foundation, mobilizing youth to fight poverty around the world, has produced a short video that makes the case to anyone still doubting this. The bottom line: get on board or be left behind. View the video on the zyOzy website.

Teaching the Parsha

www.g-dcast.com

A weekly cartoon about the Torah stories that Jews are reading each week. Every Monday, a new writer tells the parsha in an entertaining and dynamic four-minute animated video. A newsletter and curriculum guide is available for educators.

Jewish Innovation

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/new-teachings

Jerusalem Post correspondent Haviv Rettig Gur takes on the Jewish social innovation boom in a widely circulated opinion piece in ejewishphilanthropy.com. Haviv takes the position that Jewish social entrepreneurship should be more than clever packaging, but rather contain real, sustainable, quality Jewish content. Haviv concludes that there is a responsibility to look beyond the branding, taglines and hype to examine if a project can truly change the world. “Sustainable innovation," he writes, "requires that foundations, federations and donors have a duty to ask innovators and aspiring grantees a fundamental question: What is the educational value of their work? What do they have to teach?”

Educating and Engaging Autistic Children

www.mywire.com/pubs/Lets-Cook

Let's Cook! uses multimedia (videos, slides, images and text) demonstrating how parents and teachers can help kids with autism build functional skills through enjoyable, everyday activities, such as cooking. The site features structured, predictable activities to help children engage and communicate in a natural social situation.

Lesson Plans on Jewish Ethics, Values and History

www.wateringcanpress.com/html/freeJewishGuides.html

Books from Watering Can Press teach children key lessons about Jewish ethics, values, history, current issues, and themselves. The Watering Can Press website offers valuable lesson plans for these for use in homes, supplementary day schools, day schools, JCCs and other venues. The Covenant Foundation commissioned these education guides to teach Jewish principles while engaging children.

Building Your Professional Communications Skills

http://www.sethgodin.com/freeprize/reallybad-1.pdf

New media blogger and marketing consultant Seth Godin offers a downloadable e-booklet on making effecting and engaging PowerPoint presentations. This, and a host of other marketing and communications tips and tools are offered by this respected observer and practitioner.

“Our Jewish tradition puts significance on this 18th anniversary, as it corresponds to the Hebrew word for life, ‘chai.’ And so we are gathered to celebrate that Tree of Life that we planted 18 years ago and to marvel at all the wonderful fruit that it has borne.” — Eli Evans, chairman of the board of directors, The Covenant Foundation

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