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The Professional Leaders Project has conducted extensive quantitative and qualitative research about the next generation of Jewish leadership.

Academic Research

"The Jewish Sector's Workforce: Report of Six-Community Study" by Shaul Kelner, Michael Rabkin, Leonard Saxe, and Carl Sheingold of the Cohen Center at Brandeis University

"The Development of Professional Leadership in the Jewish Community" by Stephen Mark Dobbs, Gary A. Tobin, and Zev Hymowitz of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research, San Francisco

Action Research

Highlights of Blueprint Research & Design's evaluation of PLP's highly successful pilot year. Findings show PLP is meeting Talents' needs and has helped strengthen Talents' leadership skills, reinforced Judaic values, and has build vibrant networks of support.

 

Personal story written by PLP participant Robert Beiser

 
Related Report: "Selected Excerpts from Listening to the Twenty Something Generation" by Shifra Bronznick and Yonatan Gordis
ThinkTank 2, August 2005 Related Report: "Participatory Findings" developed by Talent, Partner Organizations and Seasoned Community Leaders
 
Useful Resources
Books and Additional Readings
 
YPulse Interview: Scott K. Wilder, Author of Millenial Leaders

Newsweek - A Day of Reckoning for Gen-Yers
 
Adults Only: Trendsetting Spirituality for the 21st Century - A book highly recommended for PLP participants.
 
 
Engaging Gen-Y- As companies strive to maximize talent, many stumble when it comes to younger workers. They're, like, different.
 
Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy: The Next Generationby Alison Goldberg, Karen Pittelman, and Resource Generation

 Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use it for Social Change! by Karen Pittelman, Resource Generation, and Molly Hein

'Millenials' Thrive On Choice, Instant Results - article on how young adults think by the Seattle Post Intelligencer

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Jim Collins on Leadership- piece about the need for 640,000 new nonprofit leaders over the next decade, from a speech by Collins.

The Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles- The Nation's largest Jewish free library!

 
 

PLP is made possible by the extraordinary vision and support of its co-founders: Robert P. Aronson, William M. Davidson, Michael Steinhardt/Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, Eugene & Marcia Applebaum, Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Rhoda Weisman, Executive Director

 

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