Criteria for Session Topics and Leaders

This is the list of the criteria the JSJR planning team used to choose session topics and leaders. The core planning team (Leili Davari, Rachel Gottfried-Clancy, Abby Levine, Roberta Ritvo) made the decisions with input from the rest of the JSJR staff team and Leadership Team.

We decided to do it this way, rather than soliciting applications for sessions from the network, for a few reasons:

We didn’t want to create more work for the field. The JSJR staff team is taking on the work of figuring out the program sessions, using the knowledge and relationships we have, in order not to create additional work for people who we know already have a lot on their plate.
We don’t want to have to say no to you all! We wanted to avoid a process that has to decline topics people want to lead. And, the schedule includes open space time for participants to offer sessions on topics of their choice.
We curated sessions that take advantage of the Network Assembly as an opportunity to go deep into the Roundtable’s priority areas and move the work of racial equity and strong organizational culture forward.
That being said, we’re very open to requests! Have a topic you’d like to lead or see? Let us know at na2023@jewishsocialjustice.org!

Criteria for Session Topics:

Advances the Roundtable's mission: The Jewish Social Justice Roundtable is a network of nonprofit organizations that strengthens and aligns the Jewish social justice field in order to make justice a core expression of Jewish life and help create an equitable world.
Advances the two core capacity-building goals of the Roundtable in 2023:
a) To advance internal racial inclusion and equity at affiliated organizations in order to better represent the multiracial reality of Jewish communities and to contribute toward dismantling racism in our society
b) To support organizations in creating strong, healthy, vibrant organizational cultures
OR Provides timely political strategy/education that is relevant to enough of the affiliates to make it a good use of Network Assembly time
Aligns with the field-building goals of the Network Assembly “To provide a supportive experience in which participants feel part of a bigger movement, less alone” and:
a) build and deepen relationships across the network
b) lay the groundwork for collaborations
c) are energized by the larger multi-racial Jewish Social Justice movement
Builds relationships with strategic partners within or outside field
Takes advantage of being in-person - NOT something that could be done just as well or better by zoom
Acknowledges and embraces difference and diversity in the audience
Discusses content that is good for everyone to hear in the same way, at the same time (eg, a briefing of new info)
Showcases successes and/or brilliant failures from the network

Criteria for Session Leaders:

Relevant experience with the topic
Familiarity with the Roundtable network OR a strategic partner that is less familiar but we want to bring closer into the work
Experience with a lens of equity and justice, including racial equity
Fees that fit within our budget
Ability to model collaboration in facilitation
Represent multiracial co-facilitation in order to model, practice, and strengthen the diversity of the Roundtable and Jewish communities
People with whom it is advantageous to build a relationship, for example because of their role in another movement, the opportunity to introduce cross-pollination, or they bring relevant learnings from other movements

Criteria for Session Topics and Leaders

This is the list of the criteria the JSJR planning team used to choose session topics and leaders. The core planning team (Leili Davari, Rachel Gottfried-Clancy, Abby Levine, Roberta Ritvo) made the decisions with input from the rest of the JSJR staff team and Leadership Team.

We decided to do it this way, rather than soliciting applications for sessions from the network, for a few reasons:

We didn’t want to create more work for the field. The JSJR staff team is taking on the work of figuring out the program sessions, using the knowledge and relationships we have, in order not to create additional work for people who we know already have a lot on their plate.

We don’t want to have to say no to you all! We wanted to avoid a process that has to decline topics people want to lead. And, the schedule includes open space time for participants to offer sessions on topics of their choice.

We curated sessions that take advantage of the Network Assembly as an opportunity to go deep into the Roundtable’s priority areas and move the work of racial equity and strong organizational culture forward.

That being said, we’re very open to requests! Have a topic you’d like to lead or see? Let us know at na2023@jewishsocialjustice.org!

Criteria for Session Topics:

Advances the Roundtable's mission: The Jewish Social Justice Roundtable is a network of nonprofit organizations that strengthens and aligns the Jewish social justice field in order to make justice a core expression of Jewish life and help create an equitable world.

Advances the two core capacity-building goals of the Roundtable in 2023:

a) To advance internal racial inclusion and equity at affiliated organizations in order to better represent the multiracial reality of Jewish communities and to contribute toward dismantling racism in our society

b) To support organizations in creating strong, healthy, vibrant organizational cultures

OR Provides timely political strategy/education that is relevant to enough of the affiliates to make it a good use of Network Assembly time

Aligns with the field-building goals of the Network Assembly “To provide a supportive experience in which participants feel part of a bigger movement, less alone” and:

a) build and deepen relationships across the network

b) lay the groundwork for collaborations

c) are energized by the larger multi-racial Jewish Social Justice movement

Builds relationships with strategic partners within or outside field

Takes advantage of being in-person - NOT something that could be done just as well or better by zoom

Acknowledges and embraces difference and diversity in the audience

Discusses content that is good for everyone to hear in the same way, at the same time (eg, a briefing of new info)

Showcases successes and/or brilliant failures from the network

Criteria for Session Leaders:

Relevant experience with the topic

Familiarity with the Roundtable network OR a strategic partner that is less familiar but we want to bring closer into the work

Experience with a lens of equity and justice, including racial equity

Fees that fit within our budget

Ability to model collaboration in facilitation

Represent multiracial co-facilitation in order to model, practice, and strengthen the diversity of the Roundtable and Jewish communities

People with whom it is advantageous to build a relationship, for example because of their role in another movement, the opportunity to introduce cross-pollination, or they bring relevant learnings from other movements