How an investment in The Kehilliyot Center for Community Transformation

1. How an investment in The Kehilliyot Center for Community Transformation Will help Joshua Venture realize its mission.

2. Joshua Venture Group seeks… • (the what): to reinvigorate and expand the Jewish community by cultivating the leadership and management capability of talented, passionate young Jewish social entrepreneurs and by investing in their visions and the growth of healthy, sustainable organizations. • (the how) While building upon the strength and values of our shared heritage and traditions, we envision an expanded Jewish landscape — embracing contemporary values, leveraging new technologies, and relying on innovative and sustainable organizational models. .. and Kehilliyot / KC does both !

3. Joshua Venture Group seeks • While building upon the strength and values of our shared heritage and traditions, we envision an expanded Jewish landscape • KC connects entities, professionals, practice across the landscape • embracing contemporary values, • KC itself embodies these values which is how it creates the • Networkedness • Emergent entities • Openness .. • leveraging new technologies • Web 2.0 • and relying on innovative and sustainable organizational models. • Networks .. Networks of networks • CoPs..

4. How CoP Reinvigorate and Expand the capability of Jewish communal professionals (see notes) CoP tap the voluntary passion of individuals, improving morale, energizing, inspiring and reinvigorating individuals CoP build intentional community – members feel ‘known’ Techniques for intentional community building can be adapted to other venues like congregations, camps, online communities New technologies are critical tools in the development of community. CoP are innovative sustainable organizational models that include mission, activities, outcomes, governance, fiscal management. Passion Community CoP provide ongoing just-in-time professionals development combining access to expertise, resources and a network of peers toward the creation of new practices. CoP help professionals master new technologies and keep pace with the rapidly changing environment. CoP develop the capacity of members for autonomous learning. Professional Development Embracing Diversity CoP bring diverse individuals together and help them learn to embrace the strength of diversity and the value of multiple opinions and overcomes typical stereotypes. Embracing these values help Jewish institutions bring more people under the tent, supporting subcultures that embrace individual identities without losing the connection to the whole. Teaching congregational leaders and early childhood educators the theories and techniques of CoP will dramatically increase their ability to attract and retain young Jew. CoP can bring about a cultural sea change.

5. How CoP Reinvigorate and Expand the Jewish Community Reinvigorated And Expanded Jewish Community Passion CoP tap the voluntary passion of individuals, improving morale as well as energizing, inspiring and reinvigorating individuals Community Professional Development Embracing Diversity

6. How CoP Reinvigorate and Expand the Jewish community CoP build intentional community; members feel ‘known’. Techniques for intentional community building can be adapted to other venues such as congregations, camps, and online communities. New technologies are critical tools in the development of community. CoP are innovative, sustainable organizational models that include a mission, activities, outcomes, governance, and fiscal management. Reinvigorated And Expanded Jewish Community Passion Community Professional Development Embracing Diversity

7. How CoP Reinvigorate and Expand the Jewish community Reinvigorated And Expanded Jewish Community CoP provide ongoing professional development, combining access to expertise and resources with peer network, all furthering the creation of new practices. CoP help professionals master new technologies and keep pace with the rapidly changing environment. In addition, they develop the capacity of members for autonomous learning. Passion Community Professional Development Embracing Diversity

8. How CoP Reinvigorate and Expand the Jewish community CoP bring diverse individuals together and help them learn to embrace the strength in their diversity as well as the value of multiple opinions and of overcoming stereotypes. Embracing these values help Jewish institutions bring more people under the tent, supporting subcultures that embrace individual identities without losing the connection to the whole. Teaching congregational leaders and early childhood educators the theories and techniques of CoP will dramatically increase their ability to attract and retain young Jews. In this way, CoP can bring about a cultural sea change. Passion Reinvigorated And Expanded Jewish Community Community Professional Development Embracing Diversity

9. People of the Link working collection of sources Estee Solomon Gray 2009

10. “ • Relationship is the Jewish core. • How do we know ? Ask yourself .. • Why did OneGod not preserve peace and perfection? Why did OneGod create multiplicity ? • In order to be in relationship. • Rabbi Levy Darby • Wexner Heritage Alumni Shabbaton, Aspen, Sept 20007 ”

11. To see oneself as a Jew is to see oneself as part of a conversation... • a conversation that extends over time, space, media, generations ... • In fact, Judaism IS the conversation. • Arnie Eisen “ ”

12. The network is emerging as the signature form of organization in the Information Age, just as bureaucracy stamped the Industrial Age. • Networked Judaism by R Hayim Herring in • Jewish Networking: Linking People, Institutions and Community “ ”

13. Yitz’ Three Eras of Jewish History, Three Stages of Covenant network