Hear from Slingshot grantees and funders and read about Slingshot in the news stories below. http://www.slingshotfund.org Jewish World Watch enlists a growing number of synagogues and their members to tackle genocide in Darfur and other locations around the globe. http://www.slingshotfund.org/jewishworldwatch.php Consistently cutting edge, Sixth and I has become a haven for unaffiliated 20s and 30s Jews in Washington, DC. It not only holds services, facilitated by its relationships with The New Republic and Politics and Prose bookstore, this non-denominational, non-membership synagogue also welcomes fiction and nonfiction authors not to mention the latest in musical talent. http://www.slingshotfund.org/sixthandi.php Take a tour of Centropa’s home office in Vienna with Executive Director, Ed Serotta, as he shows those working behind the scenes to bring lives lived during the Shoah to life. http://www.slingshotfund.org/media/our_office/index.html?header=Centropa Malkie Schwartz couldn’t foresee that her monthly support group in college would turn into the first U.S.-based organization devoted to helping ultra-Orthodox explore beyond — and in some cases exit — their traditional existences. 500 changed lives later, Footsteps is providing a bridge to the modern world. http://www.slingshotfund.org/footsteps.php There’s a difference between “acceptance” and “inclusion” of GLBT Jews. Idit Klein explains more about this profound distinction and how Keshet is working to reconcile it in communities across the country. http://www.slingshotfund.org/keshet.php Who would’ve thought the ancient tradition of mikveh, or ritual bath, could be made new and modern while retaining its spiritual underpinnings. Attracting visitors from as far away as Israel, that’s exactly what Aliza Kline and her Mayyim Hayyim team are doing in Boston. http://www.slingshotfund.org/mayyimhayyim.php Hear Ronit Avni speak about how Just Vision is amplifying the voices of Israeli and Palestinian civilians in order to resolve the conflict. Through media and educational tools, her organization is providing a platform to those who are peaceably reaching across divides and are committed to coexistence. http://www.slingshotfund.org/ravni.php Dr. Debbie Findling is an educator, writer and activist as well as the Deputy Director of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, a San Francisco-based philanthropic foundation that awards $60 million in grants annually. Dr. Findling has played a critical role in the development of Slingshot guides, serving annually as one of the 25 evaluators. Hear how Dr. Findling utilizes the guide, as she directs The Goldman Fund's support of Slingshot organizations, and envisions the unique role the Slingshot Fund can play in developing Jewish life for the next generation. http://www.slingshotfund.org/dfindling.php Hear the talented and creative educator Amichai Lau Lavie capture the essence of Storahtelling, an organization he founded seven years ago. Discover how he’s incubated this start-up in order to achieve an ambitious vision of helping the “next generation” to become Jewishly literate. Storahteling strives to accomplish this goal by combining an innovative performance troupe translating age-old Jewish texts. Working in schools, synagogues and other venues for 20 and 30 something’s who don’t tend to become members to shuls, Storahtelling is opening the eyes of young Jews to its tradition one performance at a time. http://www.slingshotfund.org/Storahtelling.php Simon Greer, President and CEO of the Jewish Funds for Justice, illustrates how JFSJ is taking the lead in the Jewish community's advocacy for a "just, fair and compassionate America." He invokes Slingshot's own namesake, in the Biblical story to David and Goliath, to communicate Judaism's long-standing tradition of supporting the underdog. With JFSJ, Rabbis in Massachusetts fought Goliath to raise the minimum wage to a livable standard. Hear Simon's podcast to become inspired about how you can play a role in creating change in America today. http://www.slingshotfund.org/sgreer.php Ed Case, Director of InterfaithFamily.com discusses the organization's mission to encourage interfaith families to make Jewish choices and to encourage the Jewish community to be welcoming of interfaith families. Given the reality that many Gen Y Jews are growing up in interfaith homes, Slingshot Fund investors wanted to support an organization investing Jewishly in their peers. Visit with Ed Case to hear IFF's approach, its impact and the challenges it continues to face in meeting the demand for its services. http://www.slingshotfund.org/ecase.php Macy Hart, director of the Goldring/ Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewry, captures the balance between the rich heritage and the lack of infrastructure in Jewish communities of the South. Circuit-riding rabbis and Jewish educators extend themselves across fourteen states to meet the needs of those populations. Committed to the Institute's mission, Hart passionately describes how this model can be replicated in other regions across the U.S.. http://www.slingshotfund.org/mhart.php Rebooter Josh Kun discusses the organizing philosophy behind the network that is capturing the creative minds and Jewish souls of its 20 and 30-something members. As a co-founder of Reboot Stereophonic, Kun elaborates on how music, which was once a personal expression of Judaism for him, is becoming a medium for public conversation through this new record label. http://www.slingshotfund.org/jkun.php Rabbi Sharon Brous, founder of Ikar, speaks about the spiritual community she and others are building in Los Angeles. Sharon's vision and intention to create meaningful Judaism comes through in her passionate message as well as in Ikar's melodies featured on this podcast. http://www.slingshotfund.org/sbrous.php Founding Investor of the Slingshot Fund, Scott talks about his role as a next generation funder and why the Fund is critical to its grantees but also as a vehicle for change in the Jewish community. http://www.slingshotfund.org/sbelsky.php As an inaugural grant recipient of the Slingshot Fund, Aaron speaks about the founding of JDub Records and the critical role culture plays in conveying values of Jewish life as well as building Jewish identity and community in America today. http://www.slingshotfund.org/abisman.php Founding Investor and Slingshot Fund Coordinator, Jessica conveys the importance of financial support and flexible resources for these undercapitalized organizations to build their capacity and serve the next generation of Jews who are hungry to connect to Jewish life. http://www.slingshotfund.org/jwarren.php By Sean Stannard-Stockton, Tactical Philanthropy http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/10/slingshot-fund-philanthropic-innovation/ By Maya Norton, The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy http://thenewjew.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/slingshot-releases-resource-guide-to-american-jewish-innovation-2007-2008/ By Brad A. Greenberg, Jewish Journal http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/searchview.php?id=18318 By Debra Nussbaum Cohen, The Jewish Week (New York) http://www.slingshotfund.net/news/jewishweek2.html By Jacob Berkman, Jewish Telegraphic Agency http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/Directoryofnichec.html By Saly Berkovic, The Jerusalem Post http://www.slingshotfund.net/news/jerusalempost.html by Rachel Pomerance, Jewish Telegraphic Agency http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/Newguidebookserves.html Staff Report, The Jewish Week (New York) http://www.slingshotfund.net/news/jewishweek1.html