A national group of 15 funders-including JUF-committed to investing in community-based Jewish teen education initiatives recently released a case study detailing insights and lessons learned from their first two years working together. The case study, “Finding New Paths for Teen Engagement and Learning: A Funder Collaborative,” is designed to inform other co-funding and shared learning efforts both within and outside of the Jewish philanthropic community.

“The group’s progress to date demonstrates that learning and funding as a collaborative can break through grant makers’ doubts, inertia and uneasy loyalties to programs that get incomplete or mediocre results,” the study concluded.

The Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Funder Collaborative membership is convened by the Jim Joseph Foundation and includes: The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore; Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston; Jewish Community Foundation, San Diego; Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund, San Francisco; Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta; Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati; Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles; Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago; Jewish Federation of San Diego County; Jim Joseph Foundation; Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah; The Marcus Foundation; Rose Community Foundation; Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation; and UJA-Federation of New York.