JoCI funding is supporting professional development and mentorship with a BIPOC executive coach for the JoC leader of JOIN for Justice’s Jews of Color Organizing Fellowship.
Leadership Development
In Spring 2023, Moving Traditions' Kumi teen leadership program had its first JoC Empowerment track as a part of its multiracial cohort. JoCI funding supported the JoC Empowerment track and the JoC staff working on the track.
The IOWA Project is excited to bring the first JoC IOWA Project Rabbinic intern onto the team to help grow capacity to bring the spiritual technologies and practices of Mussar (applied Jewish ethics) and Chassidut (applied Jewish mysticism) to Jewish people/communities of color.
The Jewish Social Justice Roundtable (JSJR) is in the third year of their Jews of Color mentorship program. This third year includes a newly required field-building and accountability mechanism, data collection, and program evaluation.
In partnership with the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, JoCI is supporting two Jews of Color Fellows within the fellowship program at The Forward, focusing on newsroom journalism and the media business.
JoCI funding is supporting professional development for the Director of Equity, Inclusion & Justice at Camp Tawonga.
This grant supports Dayenu and their JoC Caucus, investing in JoC leadership, community, and mobilization for climate solutions that are equitable, just, and rooted in Jewish values.