The quarterly report summarizes the PresenTense Institute's accomplishments and upcoming events. Key milestones included forming a steering committee, developing marketing materials, and recruiting fellows. The institute also began planning the Jerusalem Fellowship program. Upcoming events focus on continuing recruitment and admissions, finalizing the Jerusalem Fellowship curriculum, and providing support for past fellows.
PresenTense held its quarterly report meeting on February 28, 2012. The report discussed metrics and challenges across PresenTense's Community Entrepreneur Partnership programs, SocialStart training, and overseas expansion efforts. Key highlights included growth of the Israeli market, successful launches of fellowship programs across 6 cities in North America, and initial progress expanding to new regions like Russia and Europe. However, challenges remained around ensuring program consistency, addressing coordinator and facilitator needs, and adapting products for different markets and budgets. Overall the quarter showed progress in reach and impact but also room for improvement.
The document introduces a group of fellows working on various Jewish educational and social projects. It provides brief biographies of 15 fellows including their backgrounds, locations, and descriptions of their projects in 3 sentences or less. The projects focus on areas like documentary filmmaking, disability inclusion, Jewish education through games, theater, art, entrepreneurship, and more. The document also thanks past sponsors who have supported the fellows' work.
This document provides a quarterly review of the PresenTense Group's programs and metrics from January to May 2012. It discusses progress and challenges for their Community Entrepreneur Partnership programs in North America and Israel, as well as their PTSchool seminars. Key highlights include successful launches of new CEPs in multiple cities, exceeding metrics for trainer participation, and challenges around balancing client prices and relations. The review concludes with next steps to improve programs based on feedback and ensure future success.
The document introduces the 2012 WCJCC Global Jewish Connections Fellowship program. It notes this is the first time a young leadership group is being trained globally and long-term across continents and cultures. Brief biographies are then provided for 10 fellows, outlining their backgrounds, locations, and ventures which aim to connect Jewish communities around the world through websites, programs and events.
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