Pt 2008 Annual Report

Fostering Innovation

Annual Report

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Dear Reader,

Accomplishments

As our entire community struggles with difficult times, we are inspired by the continuing efforts of investors and entrepreneurs to drive the Jewish People’s mission forward.

Institute Members: 141

2008

2:1 Ratio of Mentors to Fellows

PresenTense has spent the past three years building exactly the tool our community needs to maintain its innovative edge during these downturns: a platform for social enterprise within the global Jewish community that equips the next generation of pioneers with the skills and ideas they need to change the world.

40% Success Rate of Magazine 3 Issues Over 80 volunteers per issue

To develop this pioneering cohort, PresenTense invests in supportive communities that inspire creativity, and a creative environment that provides opportunities for pioneers to emerge.

Statistic 3 Network Cities with Active Programming: 5

Our investors include private philanthropists and some of the most creative foundations in existence, and we focus on honoring every investment by doing our best to generate strong outcomes for change. When you imagine a Jewish community that outpaces the most celebrated for-profit innovation shops in both its creativity and achievement, you envision a Jewish community that has been touched by the full potential of PresenTense.

Statistic 2 Statistic 3 Hub In the Door: Community Driven Events: Statistic 3

As we grow to scale, we hope you will join us in investing in tomorrow’s most innovative Jewish solutions, today.

Development 200% Growth in Institute Funding Over Last Year Unique Major Donors Grew from 2 in 2007 to 25 in 2008 AVICHAI Award

PresentTense Institute The Best & the Brightest in Social Innovation Institute Beneficiaries

5000

Ventures Launched

Our Reach is Growing

Applicants

1500 30 16

15

5

6

8

‘08

‘09

‘07

projected

12

14

projected

97

750

‘10

ACTIVE PT CITIES

3

6

8

STAFF MEMBERS

3

12

18

2008

2009 (projected)

2010 (projected)

Budapest... New Jersey... Toronto... Seattle... Paris... New York... Connecticut... Tel Aviv... Austin... Palo Alto... Los Angeles... Ann Arbor... Zichron Yaakov... Washington

CIRCLES: Helping innovators and activists explore questions and challenges facing the Jewish People - and particularly on their mind - Circles bring together Micro-ThinkTanks for a multi-month process of exploration and brainstorming. Circles produce position papers, article collections and ventures that address burning issues facing our People and the World.

HUB: Providing a laboratory and meeting-space for pioneers, and generating a creative community to foster and support innovation, the Hub provides infrastructure to serve the Jewish People's network of social capital. Our Zion Hub has hosted hundreds since its launch, with daily events and activities. Since our generation is the most mobile generation of all time, PresenTense is working to establish hubs around the world to create a network of nodes that create a global platform for innovation and social entrepreneurship.

FUTURETENSE: Gathering distruptors - individuals who have either transformed organizations or developed projects to transform a field - FutureTense utilizes a specially developed methodology to explore the future of action and activism and develop stronger ties among leading innovators.

Cities with Circles by end of 2009: 4 Average size of circle: 6

Cities with FutureTense: 3 Maximum FutureTense Circle: 25

TORONTO

Visitors to Hub in first 5 months: 1500+ Events at hub in that time: 55+ Coworkers at Hub: 40+

BOSTON

CHICAGO

NEW YORK CITY

MAGAZINE: Now in its third year of publication, the Magazine builds an international community around ideas and values, exploring and expressing the Jewish here and now.

INSTITUTE: Equipping entrepreneurs since 2007, the Institute helps the next generation of pioneers launch projects in education, social action, environment, philanthropy and the arts.

Fostering Innovation

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JERUSALEM

Number of 2008 volunteer contributors: 232 Cities with contributors: 24 Readers: approximately 30,000

Jamie Zebrak and Jodi Meyerowitz , Oregon

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Ventures Launched to date: 27 Ventures acquired or funded: 11 Institute Members to date: 211

Project: Shomer Achi

www.shomerachi.org Shomer Achi fosters sustainable and community based connections between Diaspora and Israeli college students through parallel community service initiatives, dialogue, and leadership training. PresenTense enables and empowers young Jews to take ownership of their Jewish identities and destinies, to find meaning in their heritage and in their practice...PresenTense helps all Jews come together through social action and forge a new Jewish identity that is not simply American Jews' or 'European Jews' or 'Israelis', but one that is based on Am Yisrael, one people.

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Eitan Ingall, Michigan

Project: TAMID Investment Group

Bradley Cohen, India

Project: ‘Be a Kli’ (All for the Kid)

www.allforthekids.org

www.allforthekids.org

TAMID is a comprehensive, three phased program that connects American business-minded students with the Israeli economic landscape. The initiative aligns the next generation of philanthropists, leaders and investors in Israel through education, hands-on investment experience, and meaningful professional opportunities.

Be a Kli will engage Israeli backpackers traveling through India in social action projects, giving them meaning, direction and connection to their Jewish Identity, while feeding and educating hundreds of children in some of the world's poorest communities.

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PresenTense created an invaluable space, both mentally and physically, where I could develop TAMID in a community of passionate, like-minded social entrepreneurs.

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A Day in the Life of PresenTense Programming

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PresenTense was, and remains, invaluable in helping me focus my idea, giving me the support, business skills and network I need to turn my vision into reality.

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COMMUNIT Y

C R E AT I V I T Y

PIONEERING

The Next Hills to Climb: 2009-2010

Opportunities for Investment

Widening Our Network • Talent Acquisition: Hire COO, Network Animator, and Seminar Trainers • Begin Tel Aviv Operations, including a Hub for coworkers co-located organizations, as well as PresenTense programs. • Continue professionalization of programming in Chicago, Boston, Toronto, and New York, and expansion into Los Angeles, and San Francisco

PresenTense is seeking capital to scale and grow projects which will then be supported by earned revenue. Opportunities include:

Expanding Our Programs • Operation of 2009 Summer Institute and implementation of Venture Development programming and yearlong mentorship to bolster venture success • Launch of the School for Pioneering, a “wiki university” for pioneering skill acquisition, at the Jerusalem hub • Expansion of PresenTense Educational Seminars across North America and the tripling of premium web content Growing Our Website • Roll out of upgraded www.presentense.org as virtual hub for community members to meet, interact, and collaborate • Upgrading the PresenTense Magazine website to a state-of-the-art online magazine and idea marketplace Increasing Our Investments • Test and Establish grassroots fundraising infrastructure around “chair for the people” campaign • Roll out a business development plan to earn revenue on training and content delivery

Investing in the summer Institute through sponsorship of entrepreneur fellowships Core operations support to help PresenTense staff up and increase in quality Support of www.presentense.org as a virtual hub for Jewish Innovators and entrepreneurs Support of PresenTense Magazine's efforts to grow to a quarterly Support of ongoing programmatic expansions in cities around the world

On investing in PresenTense There’s never a bad time to invest in innovation. During times of high ambiguity, change and resource constraints, it’s actually a great time to innovate. Not only are we facing many of the same challenges and opportunities that we’d faced before the financial downturn, but we are also facing new and more pressing ones. In order to survive today and to set ourselves up to thrive in the future, our community needs to be open to ­– and supportive of – new ways of working and thinking. Marcella Kanfer Rolnick President and Chair Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation

Our Funders American Zionist Movement, AVI CHAI Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, The Covenant Foundation, Foundation for Jewish Culture, Gary Gross, Hillel, iCenter, Israel on Campus Coalition, The Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, Josh and Rena Kopelman Foundation, The Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation, Madav IX, The Morningstar Foundation, Natan Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Oregon Youth Jewish Community Youth Philanthropy, Pamela Applebaum, Professional Leaders Project, Salesforce.com Foundation, Schusterman Foundation, Sharon Ungerleider, Sheldon and Anat Wipranik, The UJA Federation of New York, World Zionist Organization

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