Brick by Brick's tested and proven fellowship curriculum is anchored in Adaptive Leadership tools, practices, and change-management frameworks. Our focus is on implementing lasting changes, paired with peer support to tackle short-term challenges together. We understand the unique complexity that Jewish funders are navigating with how to fund a future for the Jewish community that is free from antisemitism and white supremacy.

You may have tried existing funder communities and haven't found quite what you're looking for. Brick by Brick is a community for bold experimentation, honest conversations, and rigorous support. We help each other work towards alignment with the values we hold and become more effective changemakers for the organizations we support.

What You’ll Gain

Our curriculum focuses on strategies for durable changes, paired with peer support that enables Fellows to work through short-term challenges together. Brick-by-Brick fellows gain:

• Strategy and skills to strengthen your grantmaking practice;

• Experiences that pull from Jewish and movement traditions to support the practical and the personal elements of change;

• Clarity of vision for your work;

• Trusting relationships with a diverse cohort of peers and movement leaders; and

• Adaptive leadership tools and expert support to design and pilot a transformative change within your grantmaking.

What You’ll Bring

As a Brick by Brick Fellow, you’ll be invited to:

• Show up relationally: you have much to share and receive;

• Adopt a spirit of openness to possibility and experimentation;

• Be challenged with care by movement leaders, colleagues and peers; and

• Dream and vision expansively in pursuit of justice.

Expectations and time commitment:

• Kick off Retreat: In-person gathering in February 2025

• Virtual Sessions: 9 Bi-weekly 2-hour virtual cohort work sessions

• Chevruta: Bi-weekly chevruta sessions with a peer learning & accountability partner

• Closing Retreat: In-person gathering, date TBD based on cohort availability

The Brick by Brick curriculum includes (though is not limited to):

• Exploring organizational psychology and change management theory

• Practicing concrete skills and practices for exercising effective and values-aligned leadership in the face of complex challenges

• Learning about funding movement ecologies and multi-strategic theories of change

• Hearing from movement leaders about the funding challenges they face

• Sharing lessons about funding movement work

• Understanding emergent funding practices from peer funders

• Moving through an adaptive design process to experiment, workshop, and problem-solve new changes in your grantmaking

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