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Jun 17, 2009 | Category: Rare Finds

Jewish Innovation


Jun 17, 2009—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?”


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