Mission

Elluminate empowers feminist Jewish women leaders and philanthropists to advance equity and social justice.
We are:

  • Supporting Jewish women nonprofit leaders and their organizations by providing training and funding, fostering collaboration, and sharing best practices to accelerate social change through a gender lens.
  • Building a global leadership network for Jewish women leaders who are addressing and finding innovative solutions to today’s most intractable issues.
  • Transforming traditional philanthropic models to strategically direct funds towards women advancing social change.
  • Educating the broader community on issues that are emergent in important areas with a gender lens.

 Bringing together a diverse coalition of bold women, we address the unique challenges by female leaders ensuring that they are supported and elevated as they battle to change the world. Together, we work as a force multiplier for vital social change, fostering collaboration, strengthening leadership capabilities, magnifying voices, and accelerating transformational influence and impact. 

What We Do

The Collective Leadership Advancement Program – The Collective is our signature leadership program. Each year, we select ten exceptional non-profit Jewish women leaders, each running organizations focused on social justice. They take part in a two-year cohort-based leadership advancement program and join an ongoing and expanding global network of peers. Connecting women working on a broad range of issues leads to more rapid and lasting social change.

Visionary Circle  – Elluminate’s key philanthropic initiative is the the Visionary Circles (VC), that review and select the members of each cohort of The Collective. Through gender-lens philanthropic education, members grow in their understanding of how to advance gender equity, using Jewish values to create impact. The VCs provide a unique opportunity to become acquainted with a broad range of Jewish women creating change across the globe.

The Convening, Briefings, and Programs – Elluminate’s Convening is an annual one-day conference in the fall that spotlights emergent issues through a gender and Jewish lens. It is a day of learning, activism, community, and activation. Throughout the year, Elluminate sponsors high-level briefings and programs in-person and online. 

Monthly Webcast: Crown JEWEL Conversations  – Tune in to Elluminate’s monthly Crown JEWEL Conversation webcast, which highlights one of our Collective JEWELs who share their personal story, issue area, and how they create change.

How We Do It: Elluminate’s Theory of Change