Name: Empowering Your Community Through Crowdfunding
Start: 2013-03-08T21:30:00-0800
End: 2013-03-08T21:45:00-0800

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Empowering Your Community Through Crowdfunding

We often speak of "engagement" in the Jewish world. How do we get the community around us engaged with our programs? How could we get the next generation engage with Jewish ideas? In this talk we would present crowdfunding as a new tool for empowering members of the community and groups which leads to greater engagement and involvement.

Moderators

David Abitbol

Founder, Visionary & Jedi Master, Jewlicious.com

Born in Israel, raised in Canada, only to relocate back to the land of "milk & honey" and surround himself by far too many Americans, David Abitbol is all things digital and Jewish. Better known to the blogg-o-sphere as "ck", David is the founder ofJewlicious.com. Among his other talents and skill set(s), Mr. Jewlicious is also a Web guru, former lawyer, and an artist (the kind you can give a Sharpie to and they create instant works-of-art on any inanimate object... Read More →

Speakers

Amir Give'on

Founder, Jewcer.com

Amir Give’on holds a B.S.E. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University. A serial entrepreneur in the Jewish world with projects such as jewcer.com, jewsdo.com and jewnovations.com. His drive stems from his passion for Israel... Read More →

Naomi Leight

Naomi Leight is Jewcer’s resident diplomat. Her dream is to help craft foreign policies which aid in creating mutual understanding between peoples and governments around the world. Her day-job takes her to the USC Annenberg School to participate in building the academic field of... Read More →

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