Community Entrepreneur Partnership Unleashing the energy of your city’s young adults to develop opportunities for the local Jewish Community
We want to work with you to exponentially engage your community. Young Jews today are increasingly channeling their energy and interests outside the Jewish community. At the same time, Jewish organizations are constantly looking for new ways to engage these young adults and direct the next generation toward the their important work. Through the Community Entrepreneur Partnership (CEP), the PresenTense Group provides more than a dozen communities around the globe the tools to exponentially engage Jews ages 22-40 with their community institutions. We hope to work with you and your community to expand this impact and deepen your community’s engagement of young adults. By engaging young adults, more experienced professionals, and Jewish organizational professionals in our turnkey year-long program, your community will quickly see new leadership emerge, new projects and opportunities launch, and passionate individuals joining existing, important community causes. The CEP was designed to leverage the best assets of your community in order to attract those individuals who you have tried to reach, but have not yet found a way to get involved. Once the three years of the CEP are done, and your community has adapted our tools and integrated them into your regular operations, your community will have a tried and tested vehicle for growing the engagement of your current and next generation of leadership with your communal institutions, as well as innovating new programs and practices to meet the changing conditions of the 21st century.
What the partnership will do:
How your city is impacted:
Engage young professionals, aged 22-40, in building networks through a steering committee
Empower young adults through substantive processes that lead to meaningful ties
Build networks with industry leaders and professionals aged 40+ as mentors
Reach out to new contacts and connect them to the work of the community organization
Engage 12-16 social entrepreneurs in taking on community challenges
Extend the organization’s influence and provide solutions to persistent challenges
Lay another plank in your city’s youth engagement platform
Provide rich follow-up for successful young leadership engagement
Connect to young Jews and further your mission PresenTense connects young Jews to local organizations as an unparalleled resource for social impact and self realization. PresenTense seeks to help create local engines of community renewal and unleash the energies of the next generation within your community through the CEP’s three-year collaboration.
Past fellowship benchmarks of success:
Timeline The PresenTense Community Entrepreneur Partnership has been built to connect local young professionals with Jewish community organizations and its leadership, leveraging the energy and experience of both parties to extend the your impact and build new opportunities. The program’s core is the steering committee of young adults aged 22-40 who can help further your mission and increase your impact. It is a year-long program. Once the organization determines its interest in the program, the community is admitted to the PresenTense program cycle, which follows the timeline to the right.
PresenTense’s goal is exponential engagement of young adults, and it has found that young adults are most encouraged to connect with local institutions when those institutions share their values and vision, and are supporting activities relevant to their daily lives. Supporting social entrepreneurship is the fastest route to creating institutions that speak to this generation, because it empowers young adults to contribute to the community on their terms, while positioning the community’s institution as resources that enable young adults to pursue their passion and change the world. With six years of data to back this assumption up, PresenTense has already connected thousands of young adults to local Federations, JCCs and community organizations, and looks forward to working with you to do the same.
APRIL 1
Decision whether to pursue fellowship
mid July
Coordinator training of staff liaison in Jerusalem
Sep-Oct
Steering Committee development
Oct-Dec
Program development
dec
Fellow decision
jan-may
Fellow program
MAY
Launch night
past, present and future
159 graduates 149 ventures accelerated 109 ventures still going 73% ongoing since 2007 89 not-for-profits (82%) 19 for-profits (18%) +200K attendees at venture events
Why Social Entrepreneurship?
The fellowship program is divided into six modules, through which the program engages a broad range of community members. These include:
SEMINARS – Seminars taught by Pre-
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senTense ensure transfer of core skills
Matt Bar
Becca Linden Becca came to PresenTense in 2008 after having lived and worked at Avodah Fellows in Chicago. Becca had a vision for a new sort of philanthropic foundation that spanned her broad family and took advantage of lifecycle events. Today, the Lifchitz Family Foundation is already making grants around the world to community and civic organizations.
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Clusters – Clusters bring Fellows together to workshop shared challenges.
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Venture Milestones & Coaching – Venture Milestones push fellows to practice business elements;
A GLIMPSE AT past FELLOWS
Matt came to PresenTense in 2007 with a vision of transforming his passion for hip hop and rap into an educational tool to teach Bible and Jewish texts. Now based in Atlanta, his Bible Raps Project is in more than 50 camps and schools, and one of the most exciting web presences on the Jewish internet.
and tools.
Coaches help them along.
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ROUnD TABLES – Round Tables introduce fellows to lived experiences of successful entrepreneurs.
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MENTORSHIP – Mentors provide guid-
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Launch Night – Launch Night teaches
ance, feedback and professional opinion.
networking skills and exposes the venture to the public.
Together with a local community partner, PresenTense will find outstanding entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to enhance the future of your Jewish community. We’re taking action with PresenTense, providing fellowship opportunities to engage young Jewish social entrepreneurs to help strengthen identity connections. – Stephen H. Hoffman, President The Jewish Federation of Cleveland
Process The goal of the Community Entrepreneur Partnership is for your city to develop local expertise to autonomously run programming that harnesses the energy of the next generation. PresenTense has built the program in order to train and support a local communal professional assigned to coordinate the project. This professional is required to devote a minimum of twenty hours a week during the course of the program in addition to a one-week training seminar to take place during the preceding summer. Over three years, the organization will develop local expertise, while PresenTense phases out operations. In the first year, PresenTense provides oversight, in the second year close support, and in the third year, on-going resources and training. Costs associated include: YEAR 1 START-UP
YEAR 2 maintenance
YEAR 3 Autonomy
Local Coordinator Training and Updating
5,000
5,000
5,000
Set-Up and Program Preparation
21,200
n/a
n/a
Program Support
22,500
16,025
13,200
PresenTense Seminars
6,000
6,000
6,000
Steering Committee Training and Support
4,200
2,950
1,250
Marketing and Recruiting
9,200
5,775
4,500
Assessment
5,900
3,500
3,050
Launch Night Coordination
4,500
3,000
1,500
General Management
11,500
7,750
5,500
PresenTense FEE
90,000
50,000
40,000
Program and Publicity Materials
6,000
6,000
6,000
Event Costs
10,400
10,400
10,400
TOTAL
16,400
16,400
16,400
66,400
56,400
UNIT PresenTense Support*
TOTAL PROGRAM COST*** 106, 400
* Program can be customized to meet your organization’s requirements. ** Estimated costs for local programming assumed by the organization; can rise or fall at the organization’s discretion. *** Payment structure can be altered upon request.
goals and financing
general material cost**
Testimonials and past successes
PresenTense has partnered with communal institutions across the world to run CEP programs in Jerusalem, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Kansas City, Tel Aviv, and Moscow, among others. As we grow, so too grow our capabilities to serve local communities in areas such as online tools, workplan templates and more. The bigger we get, the more service we can provide your community.
Here are some of the ventures PresenTense has helped launch: Shomer Achi,
founded by two young Jews in their twenties and sponsored by a donor to the Oregon Federation, has mobilized a community of Jews from the Pacific Northwest to partner with their Israeli counterparts around issues of environment, Jewish identity, and community life.
“PresenTense provided the mentorship, connections, philosophy and logistical training for Shomer Achi to grow into a formulated program with a mission. The nurturing, yet demanding nature of the program, the ideas and backgrounds of the fellows, and the overall dedication to Judaism and Israel make PresenTense a one-of-a-kind program; one that empowers others to continue the cycle.”
Hebrew Play helps restore He-
“My biggest takeaway is that web tools are more than simple conveniences. They have the power to transform the vision and operation of the entire organization. The fellowship gave me the confidence to try out some of these new tools. Hebrew Play now has a website and a presence on Ning, Twitter, Meetup and Facebook. An innovative website focused on promoting Hebrew is the next step in our people’s emerging and evolving narrative.”
brew as an integral art of Jewish identity in America by providing materials to inspire young children and their families to play in the language. The venture was launched out of the CJP/PresenTense Boston fellowship program.
— Jodi Meyerowitz, Shomer Achi Co-founder
— Michael Goldstein, Hebrew Play Founder
“There is never a bad time to invest in innovation. During times of high ambiguity, change and resource constraints, it is actually a great time to innovate. To survive today and to set ourselves up to thrive in the future, our community needs to be supportive of new ways of working and thinking.” – Marcella Kanfer Rolnick, Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation 2009 Entrepreneur Sponsor
For more information, please contact us at fellowships@presentense.org.