Sparknotes Blog

December 6, 2018
Strong Women Fellowship: For the Love of Pizza and Chris Hemsworth
By developer in 2018
Meeting the refugees from the Global Village Project was an amazing experience. When I had first arrived I wasn’t sure what to expect or who I would be meeting. I stepped into the room where...
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December 5, 2018
Finding Connections As We Change The World
By developer in 2018
Every generation is controlled by the constant increasing pressure to change the world. Millenials are constantly reminding us, Generation Z, that we are the ones that can make the biggest difference, not only for the...
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November 21, 2018
Spark Grants
By developer in 2018
Chanukah 2018 is officially in the books. It is time to clean the wax out of your menorah, wipe the splattered oil off your stove top and try to forget how many jelly doughnuts you...
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November 8, 2018
Self-Expression and the Confidence to Make Change
By developer in 2018
Our second meeting for the Strong Women Fellowship was centered around self-expression, in which we also discussed female and youth empowerment. As teenage girls, all of us who attended have struggled with expressing our true...
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October 25, 2018
Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Funder Collaborative
By developer in 2018
First published by the Jim Joseph Foundation › Teens today are impacted by monumental sociological forces and challenges. With this understanding, and powered by research and data, the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Funder Collaborative...
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October 19, 2018
Spark Notes: Telling Our Failure Stories
By Kelly Cohen in 2018
I recently had two amazing experiences that changed my beliefs on failure. The first week of October I traveled to Austin to meet with leaders and representatives from the nine other Jewish Teen Initiatives that...
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