Slingshot 2013 - 2014
Six Foundation Grantees Announced

The Samuel Bronfman Foundation values innovation among other organizational qualities, including a commitment to pluralism and deep Jewish learning. Once again, the Slingshot Fund has included six grantees of the Foundation in its annual guide to Jewish innovation, tracking North America’s most innovative Jewish organizations.
MyJewishLearning, Inc. (Find Out More)
“MyJewishLearning’s approachable, relevant, and multi-perspective nature is evident in the breadth and depth of topics covered on all of its sites. MyJewishLearning leverages key partnerships that are mutually beneficial and strengthen the pluralistic goal that it was founded on.”
Ask Big Questions, A Project of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Life on Campus (Find Out More)
“Building a movement of young adults equipped with better listening skills, greater empathy, and deeper self-awareness, ABQ helps form stronger Jewish communities and molds young Jewish leaders a growing number of college campuses nationwide.”
Encounter (Find Out More)
“The organization creates space for a new type of discourse about the conflict, allowing multiple American Jewish voices to be heard.”
Hazon (Find Out More)
“Recently embarking on a new stage of growth, the merger between Hazon and Isabella Freedman has allowed Hazon to double in size and infrastructure.”
Keshet (Find Out More)
“In the future, when Jewish life fully includes lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Jews, it will be because of Keshet.”
Mechon (Find Out More)
“Mechon Hadar has spawned a movement that has changed Jewish religious life for young Jews, and it has created a domino effect in the entire Jewish community.”
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