Executive Leadership Program

The Executive Leadership Program aims to empower rising leaders of Jewish nonprofits to sharpen their guiding visions of Jewish communal life and expand their leadership and management skills. The program consists of four in-person seminars over 18 months, three in Boston and one in Israel, along with online learning between seminars.

Fellows analyze trends in North American Jewish communities and Israeli society, examine ideas that animate contemporary Jewish life in diverse settings, develop their leadership signatures and stories, and learn ways to catalyze organizations to achieve vision-guided change. After the second seminar, fellows work with mentors to clarify leadership and career pathways and hone their vision for communal impact. 

Up to 20 fellows are selected to form a cohort of outstanding midcareer professionals from Jewish nonprofits in the United States and Canada which can include, but are not limited to, federations, JCCs, JCRCs, Hillels, human services agencies, social action organizations, advocacy groups, private foundations, and start-ups of all types. The program aims to cultivate a Jewish nonprofit landscape in which leaders have sophisticated and clear organizational visions, along with the leadership skills and professional networks necessary to bring those visions to life.

The Executive Leadership Program operates under the umbrella of the Boston-based Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership, which empowers leaders to achieve visions of social, cultural and educational change.