New Leaders Fellowship

Advancing the Next Generation of Community Leaders

Put your values into action and learn how to be a leader for change through this inspiring and immersive experience for Bay Area leaders in their 30s and early 40s.

Applications are now open for the 2025 – 2026 cohort of the New Leaders Fellowship. Apply here!

Questions? Contact Tamar Zaken at [email protected]

HONE THE SKILLS YOU NEED TO MAKE AN IMPACT

Over the course of six months, we’ll dive into key tenets of nonprofit leadership, learn how to put personal leadership styles into meaningful action, and build critical leadership skills for maximum impact

CONNECT WITH OTHER YOUNG LEADERS WHO CARE

As a JFCS Fellow, you’ll have the opportunity to network with a diverse group of Jewish leaders who share your values and your desire to make the world a better place.

DRAW FROM JEWISH WISDOM TO STRENGTHEN YOUR COMMUNITY

Grapple with the contemporary leadership challenges impacting our Jewish and the broader community, now and into the future, and learn from world-renown scholars from the Shalom Hartman Institute.

“My sense of Jewish belonging is much deeper. It was valuable for me to be exposed to vulnerable conversations with Jewish people my age who have diverse upbringings and associations with their Jewishness.”

—Hannah Greinetz, JFCS New Leaders Fellow, 2024 – 2025 Cohort

A Comprehensive Curriculum

Our learning sessions are led by a distinguished faculty of respected community and business leaders, educators, rabbis, and scholars.

Throughout the curriculum, we explore:

Steering a successful nonprofit for maximum impact
Creating change through advocacy, community engagement, and philanthropy
Using case studies to approach the most pressing issues facing our community
Leveraging personal leadership styles for more effective action
Understanding community and identity needs through a Jewish lens

Fellows have access to influential community leaders, opportunities to meet with legislators, and first-hand exposure to JFCS fundraising, advocacy, and events.

As part of participation in the JFCS New Leaders Fellowship, we ask accepted Fellows to make a personally meaningful donation to JFCS in support of our programs.

Turn Learning into Impact

Every day, JFCS changes lives. We help individuals and families through all stages of life and provide a lifeline to anyone facing personal crises or challenges.

Fellowship Alumni have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in other peoples’ lives through leadership opportunities on JFCS committees and special volunteer initiatives. Many of our alumni have taken on meaningful leadership roles, including Board placement at JFCS and other nonprofit organizations! You will also have access to continued learning and networking within our Fellowship Alumni Network.

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“I took away so much from the New Leaders Fellowship: building a sense of belonging and a community, understanding how non-profits work and operate, finding a group of people I could be vulnerable with and explore tough questions that most of the time don’t have answers and learning from others with such diverse backgrounds. This program provided a launching pad to find my ‘home’ as a leader at JFCS.”

—Mara Rosenberg, JFCS New Leaders Fellow, 2024 – 2025 Cohort