THE COLLECTIVE
The Collective is Elluminate’s signature leadership advancement experience for entrepreneurial Jewish women nonprofit CEOs leading social change organizations in the United States, Israel, and beyond.
Guided by Jewish values and a feminist lens, Collective members are on the front line of today’s most pressing challenges—advancing gender equity, strengthening democracy, combating antisemitism, promoting religious pluralism, expanding economic opportunity, supporting vulnerable communities, and creating a more just and equitable world.
The Collective invests in the leaders behind this work—strengthening their leadership, expanding their influence, and accelerating their ability to create lasting social change.
Transformative Leadership Development grounded in a Jewish and feminist lens.
An exceptional peer cohort of Jewish women nonprofit CEOs learning, connecting, and collaborating.
Intensive learning and support through virtual sessions, retreats, coaching, and professional development.
Visibility, connections, and opportunities across Elluminate’s network of leaders, philanthropists, advocates, and experts.
$25,000 in direct investment in your organization plus ongoing connection through Elluminate’s Global Jewish Women’s Leadership Network.
WHY THE COLLECTIVE?
Jewish women nonprofit CEOs are leading some of the most innovative organizations addressing today’s greatest challenges. Yet too often, these leaders have limited opportunities to invest in their own leadership, build trusted relationships with peers, or connect with a community of philanthropists and changemakers who understand and support their work.
Elluminate created The Collective because we believe that investing in extraordinary Jewish women leaders is one of the most powerful ways to advance gender equity and social justice. By strengthening their leadership, expanding their influence, and connecting them with a trusted community of peers, we accelerate their ability to create meaningful and lasting social change.
Each year, Elluminate selects ten exceptional Jewish women nonprofit CEOs to participate in this transformational leadership advancement experience.
Leading with a
Jewish Lens
Participants explore Jewish values, feminist teachings, and contemporary issues affecting Jewish communities, while strengthening their ability to lead with purpose, resilience, and connection.
Leading with a
Gender Lens
Participants deepen their understanding of gender equity and learn strategies to ensure that their organizations, programs, and policies create meaningful impact for women and other marginalized communities.
Leading with
Moral Courage
Participants develop the skills and confidence needed to lead through complexity, challenge systems, advance social change, and address difficult issues with integrity and courage.
A TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
The Collective combines leadership development, trusted relationships, and strategic investment to help extraordinary women leaders expand their impact and strengthen the organizations and movements they lead.
Develop adaptive leadership, moral courage, and strategic leadership skills through a Jewish and feminist lens while strengthening the ability to lead through complexity, uncertainty, and change.
Learn from nationally and internationally recognized faculty, thought leaders, and practitioners through retreats, virtual learning, executive coaching, and peer consultation.
Build trusted relationships with an extraordinary cohort of Jewish women nonprofit CEOs while joining a lifelong network of leaders, philanthropists, and changemakers committed to advancing equity and social justice.
Receive professional development funding to support your leadership growth and a grant to strengthen the work and impact of your organization.
MEMBERSHIP IN THE GLOBAL JEWISH WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP NETWORK
The Collective is the beginning of a lifelong leadership journey.
Upon completing the program, participants become members of Elluminate’s Global Jewish Women’s Leadership Network—a growing international community of Jewish women leaders committed to strengthening one another, sharing ideas, mentoring future leaders, and advancing collective impact.
Through ongoing learning, collaboration, affinity groups, international exchanges, and leadership opportunities, members remain connected throughout their careers.
THE LEADERS
Collective members lead organizations advancing social change across a broad range of issues, including:
- Gender equity and women’s leadership
- Democracy and civic engagement
- Combating antisemitism
- Religious pluralism
- Education
- Economic opportunity and poverty reduction
- Israel and Jewish peoplehood
- Mental health and community resilience
- Inclusion and belonging
- Support for vulnerable communities
While their missions are diverse, they are united by a shared commitment to advancing equity and justice through Jewish values.
Today, The Collective includes nearly 80 Jewish women nonprofit CEOs, representing organizations that are creating meaningful change across the United States, Israel, and beyond.
GET INVOLVED
Are you a Jewish woman nonprofit CEO?
Learn more about eligibility and the application process for the next Collective cohort.
Believe in investing in women leaders?
Join the Visionary Circle and help identify, support, and invest in the next generation of Jewish women leaders.
LEADING WITH A GENDER LENS
Case Study: Ending Feminization of Poverty with a Gender Lens
Kimberly Novod,
Executive Director, Saul’s Light,
New Orleans, LA
Kimberly Novod is a member of Elluminate’s Collective Cohort 5 (2023-2025) as the founder and Executive Director of Saul’s Light in New Orleans. The organization works to advance equity in healthcare and to ensure that every family with a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has access to the support they deserve.
Saul’s Light counters disparate outcomes in infant mortality and prematurity in Louisiana, where Black mothers are twice as likely to lose a baby in the NICU than white mothers. Saul’s Light helps to change law and policy to address the disproportionate impact of these outcomes on Black and Hispanic families, attributable to a number of factors including economic means, healthcare access, information deficits, and racism. Kimberly founded the organization in 2015, one year after the death of her son, Saul, who spent 20 days in a NICU with complications from his premature birth.
The Collective provided a new perspective to Kimberly’s work through its curriculum focus on advancing social change and equity through a gender lens. Her time with Elluminate reaffirmed the focus of the organization’s work emphasizing the experience and empowerment of the mother and family as a whole, not just the infant in isolation. This includes providing mothers with a child in the NICU with:
- Funds for transportation, food and lodging, to be physically and emotionally present if they are situated far from the medical centers;
- Access to information, education and resources so that mothers can build knowledge and power to self advocate within the healthcare ecosystem;
- Mental health support groups, as more than half of NICU parents are at risk for PTSD
“When we are fighting for infant health, we are ultimately fighting for women. If we want to ensure futures for babies, we have to ensure the welfare of women. Eliminating disparities and advancing equity in health care positively impacts women and babies. And that builds strong communities,”
Kimberly said at an Elluminate community gathering in 2025. Kimberly has been and continues to be a public advocate for legislation in Louisiana to advance economic and health care equity for NICU and bereaved families. She led Saul’s Light in seeking successful passage and enactment of a state law establishing an income tax credit following the delivery of a stillborn child; a law requiring Medicaid and commercial insurance to cover the cost of pasteurized donor human milk for infants unable to receive maternal milk; and the establishment of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Awareness Month in the state.
LEADING WITH A JEWISH LENS
Case Study: Embracing Jewish Values to Advance Inclusion and Give Voice
Analucía Lopezrevoredo,
Founder and Executive Director
Jewtina and Co.,
San Francisco, CA
Analucía Lopezrevoredo is a member of Elluminate’s Collective Cohort 3, (2021- 2024) — beginning two years after she founded Jewtina y Co. The organization aims to create a more inclusive Jewish community by nurturing and elevating the Latin Jewish community and heritage, and working to create a multicultural Jewish community by educating and engaging Latino Jews who are often overlooked within the global Jewish community as current and future leaders.
“Jewtina y Co. began as a dream, one sparked long ago as a young girl growing up in Southern California. Surrounded by vibrant Latin and Jewish communities that were often seen as separate worlds, I longed to create a space where they could exist together in harmony. Today, our global Latin-Jewish community is more than 750,000 strong.” — from the Founder’s statement.
As a Peruvian-Chilean-American Jewtina, Analucía brought the Latin-Jewish narrative — and the imperative for inclusive Jewish community — to other Jewish women leaders in her cohort, and also to the greater Elluminate community. During her time in The Collective, with the support for her passion and commitment to the organization’s vision, she was able to grow the budget for Jewtina y Co. exponentially, a fact she attributes to the confidence she gained as a fundraiser through The Collective’s professional development track. More broadly, Analucía says her participation in The Collective was instrumental to elevating her standing as a Jewish woman leader and advancing inclusion in the Jewish community.
“In the beginning I felt a bit of trepidation and loneliness. Could I be the organizational leader that this vision needs, that this mission needs? But being within this Elluminate cohort ultimately made me realize I am part of a long story of Jewish women leaders with vision and commitment, and who give back more than they receive from the community. That has been a major motivation and transition for me,” Analucía said.
Analucía fostered key collaborations within her cohort to advance equity in the Jewish community. She partnered with Elizabeth Mandel (jGirls+ Magazine) to strengthen mentorship between Latin-Jewish adults and teens, collaborated with Rabbi Jennie Rosenn (Dayenu) to integrate climate justice into Latin-Jewish learning resources, and worked with Sarah Levin (JIMENA) to highlight the intersections of Mizrahi and Latin American heritage.
As a new mother, Analucía appreciated that being part of a cohort of Jewish women working on social justice through a gender lens examined work-life balance issues and the unique challenges facing feminist leaders, and provided invaluable support and advice on navigating her way through a time giving birth to both her organization and her family.
“Everyone in my cohort — and this reflects on the ethos of female leadership as a whole — described working more hours because as women we are so passionate about our work and ensuring others are served first before we fill our own cup, and that is hard to turn off. It’s unsustainable if we don’t have others to care for us and remind us of the long-term strategy. The Collective provided that, and it’s not to be underestimated.”
LEADING WITH MORAL COURAGE
Case Study: Advocating for Gender Justice, Reproductive Rights, and Women’s Safety
Fraidy Reiss,
Founder and Executive Director
Unchained At Last,
Westfield, NJ
Fraidy Reiss, CEO of Unchained At Last, participated in The Collective Cohort 4 (2022- 2024). She founded the organization in 2011 as the only one dedicated to ending forced and child marriage in the United States. It provides direct services and a path to safety, and also advocates for changes in social, political, and legislative realms. As of early 2025, the organization has led a national movement resulting in 13 states outlawing child marriage.
Unchained At Last is a survivor-led organization, Fraidy herself being a forced marriage survivor. At age 19, she was forced into an arranged marriage with a stranger in her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. She soon found herself in an abusive and violent marriage and silenced by an insular religious community until she was able to obtain a divorce while her family declared her dead.
In her Collective cohort, Fraidy found an environment that allowed her to elevate awareness as well as expand new channels for advocacy and partnerships. Fraidy’s experience in The Collective allowed her to significantly advance her cause in the public sphere, and to charge her fortitude and courage as a catalyst for gender justice and equality in the Jewish community and beyond — including with other Jewish women leaders, philanthropists and social justice activists — many who participated in her advocacy actions in several states.
The Collective — as a multiplier and accelerator of impact — brought other leaders to engage and invest in her cause. A former Elluminate CEO joined her Board, and Ruth Messinger, Collective Dean and Educator, made introductions with federal lawmakers. Two members of her cohort — Kerry Brodie, Executive Director of Emma’s Torch, and Nina Smith, then CEO of GoodWeave International — joined her advocacy coalition pushing for the District of Columbia to ban child marriage. In January of 2025, Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Child Marriage Prohibition Amendment Act of 2024.
While no longer an observant Jew, Fraidy was at first apprehensive of applying to Elluminate because of its Jewish identity. When she decided to apply to and join The Collective, she carried her experiences and her deep knowledge of feminist Torah education, injecting a deeper level of learning and discussion, enhancing the Jewish and gender aspect for her Cohort members.
“Being in The Collective is the most Jewish thing I’ve done in two decades,” Fraidy says. “I was worried I wouldn’t fit in. But what happened to me in the Jewish community led me to my mission. I remember my Jewish roots with a lot of pain and it propels me to do the work that I do. So did I belong in this space? I got validation that, yes, I did.”
In early 2025, when fellow Cohort 4 member Nina Smith marked her adult Bat Mitzvah, she was so moved and engaged to end child marriage and believing in Fraidy’s leadership, she invited her to the reception and asked guests to make a donation to Unchained At Last, raising several thousand dollars for the cause.