As Jewish institutions evolve to meet the changing demands of social movements, our funding practices must change as well.

The Brick by Brick Fellowship is a year-long leadership program that equips Jewish funders with organizing tools, relationships, and new grantmaking practices to become powerful allies to modern movements.

We know that many Jewish funders are ready to support power-building movements. However, too often funders are missing critical perspectives from organizers, practical strategies for change, and a team of peers they can turn to when they hit challenges in their grantmaking. 

Brick by Brick is changing this reality.

• Nominations accepted on a rolling basis from May 10th - June 30th, 2023

• Nominations reviewed and applications sent to nominees on weekly basis

• Application closes on August 7, 2023 - *Applications are only available by nomination* 

• Fellowship acceptance letters delivered August 21, 2023

• Accepted Fellows in-person retreat on November 8 and 9, 2023 on the East Coast  

• Build relationships with movement leaders and understand what their campaigns need to win.

• Develop giving practices that are aligned with and reflective of the values and needs of movements. 

• Grow greater trust and transparency with grantees and work in partnership to liberate diverse forms of resources to power campaigns. 

• Deepen understanding of how systems of oppression limit the power of your grantmaking. 

• Build a diverse network of trusted peers to advance your leadership and grantmaking.

The cohort experience and curriculum are designed by diverse leaders of progressive social movements to address the specific challenges that Jewish funders are navigating today.

We focus on supporting you as an individual and ensuring that you are not alone in making long-lasting changes to your grantmaking. 

We’re a team of people who care about building power and meaningful values-aligned grantmaking. We’re creating a community of bold grantmakers that are ready to experiment with new ways of supporting organizers on the ground and hold each other accountable to equitable, powerful grantmaking.

• Hear from movement leaders about what funding challenges they face.

• Overview of funding movement ecologies, and how intersecting theories of change work together. 

• Learn from peer funders about their trials and lessons with funding movements.

• Gain feedback from current grantees and other decision-makers on what challenges and misalignments they experience within your institution’s grantmaking. 

• Go through an adaptive design process with our team of coaches, peer funders, movement leaders, and necessary decision-makers. 

• Work through challenges with peers. 

• Collective evaluation and feedback process after implementation.