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Jim Joseph Foundation gives $12 million to seminaries to improve Jewish education

The Jim Joseph Foundation will give $12 million to three Jewish seminaries to help train new Jewish educators across the Jewish denominational spectrum, the foundation announced Tuesday. 

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Adapting to the recession: Mechon Hadar

More evidence that the Jewish nonprofit world is grabbing onto the notion that grassroots fund-raising is necessary as major donors have become harder to tap in the recession: The egalitarian independent yeshiva Mechon Hadar is trying to raise significant dollars in small gifts to fill its end of a $1 million matching grant.

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Foundation and cartoonist throw down the gauntlet before funders’ parley

The Fundermentalist reports on two developments that are sure to be hot topics at a major gathering of Jewish philanthropists next week in Florida: the Jim Joseph Foundation’s $11 million emergency grant for day schools and a cartoon poking fun at the obsession with social entrepreneurs.

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