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Things I Learned in Baltimore
Until the JFNA General Assembly, earlier this month in Baltimore, I didn’t know that the famous Exodus ship, the one that brought the...


Operation Pillar of Cloud
Unfortunately, Israel is once again engulfed in violence. As rockets fall on the south and center of the country, the IDF is trying to...


Hurricane Sandy and Crisis Philanthropy
Following the devastating storm that just hit the North East Coast, our thoughts and prayers go out for all those affected by this...


Funders and Typists—The Failure Series
For most Argentineans my generation, the name "Pitman Academies" produces a sort of nostalgic smile: a bizarre reminder of a bygone era....


Rosh Hashanah and the Possibilty of Time Travel
The Russian cosmonaut Sergei Adveyev proved Einstein right when he became the first person to travel in time. According to the theory of...


$6 Million for Moishe House: The Good News, the Better News and the Caveats
A few months ago, the Jewish Funders Network organized a series of events to discuss the “JDub case,” how as a community we support...


Funders and Apes: Seven Steps for Constructive Failure
Friday, I wrote a bit about how funders, like all humans, are programmed by millions of years of evolution to hate failure. But our DNA...


Funders and Apes: Our Troglodyte Approach to Failure
Last year, influenced by the hype around Darwin’s 150th anniversary, I developed an interest in evolutionary theory. I read a few books...


Video: Networks & The Future of Jewish Philanthropy—Andrés Spokoiny
JFN President & CEO Andrés Spokoiny's address to the 2012 Jewish Funders Network International Conference is entitled "Networks and the...


Our Great Incomplete Journey
Passover is a holidays of journeys. The journey of the Hebrews from Egypt to the Promise Land; the journey from Slavery to Freedom and...


Networks and the Future of Jewish Philanthropy
FN President & CEO Andrés Spokoiny's address to the 2012 Jewish Funders Network International Conference. A person is walking in the...


Purim, the Beauty of Difference
Purim is arguably one of the merriest holidays of the Jewish calendar. Because of that, perhaps, we don’t often reflect on its deep...


The Redcoats are Coming – and Hope Out of Boulder
Every school child in America knows that Paul Revere rode through Massachusetts warning the militia that “the Redcoats were coming”....


The New 10 Commandments of Strategy: Planning for our Uncertain World
The fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Arab Spring, the travesty of Argentina’s early elimination in the 2010 Wor


Three Questions And Three Certainties: Philanthropy In The New Economy
Just a year after economists say the “Great Recession” ended, instability and market crisis are rearing their ugly heads again. For the Jewi
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