The Jewish Talent Project, a recently launched pilot program, is hoping to turn Washington —- already home to many Jewish organizations — into a hub for skilled Jewish professionals, Gil Preuss, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, told eJewishPhilanthropy.
The two-year pilot project, spearheaded and supported by the federation’s former president and president of the Phyllis Margolius Family Foundation, Philip Margolius, is still in its early stages. Now the project — and launched through the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington’s Jewish Community Foundation — is searching for a director and will be assembling a national advisory committee that will help develop and oversee the program, Preuss told eJP.
As it develops, it will focus on improving working conditions, providing professional development opportunities and enhancing respect and communication within Jewish organizations to attract talent to the Greater Washington area.