Grantee Spotlight: Meet Ta'amod
SRE Network invests in strengthening the capacity of Jewish organizations through grantmaking so that Jewish communities will be strengthened, become more cohesive, experience healing, and have deeper trust in each other, their institutions, and leaders. Over the past six years, SRE has invested over $6.5M across 108 projects and 52 organizations through its grantmaking, technical assistance, and partnerships.
Throughout the year, we provide grants to outstanding Jewish organizations whose organizations and projects focus on advancing the safety, respect, and equity across North America’s Jewish communal landscape. Over the coming weeks, we will shine the spotlight on SRE's twelve extraordinary spring 2024 field building grant recipients.
We are excited to introduce you to Ta'amod.
About Ta'amod
Ta’amod: Stand Up! transforms Jewish life by equipping institutions and individuals with the resources they need to build healthy, safe, equitable, and accountable workplaces and communal spaces.
About the Grant
With a one-year, grant, Ta’amod will continue its important work of applying frameworks of Jewish wisdom and accountability to help communities live in alignment with their values, and create Jewish cultural shifts.
Q&A with Ta'amod
SRE: Why is Ta’amod excited to receive this grant? What change do you hope this grant will bring to your organization and the important work it does?
Ta'amod: Ta’amod has been in relationship and a grateful grantee of SRE since its inception. This grant allows us to continue the impactful work of educating, training and supporting Jewish communal organizations in fostering and sustaining healthy, equitable and safe accountable culture for every human who works, engages or worships at a Jewish organization.
SRE: How has being a member of SRE Network impacted Ta’amod?
Ta'amod: As a grantee since SRE’s inception our work was launched by the initial support of SRE’s early builders and has been sustained because of our partnership. Our relationship with SRE has also allowed us to be lifted up throughout the network as a service provider to other grantees, and educator in SRE’s webinars and a presenter and educator at the annual convenings.
SRE: What is your hope for the future of the broader Jewish nonprofit landscape?
Ta'amod: Our hope for the future is that the experience of working in and engaging with Jewish organizations is most often whole, healthy, nourishing, and positive. We want a Jewish communal landscape that people flock to work in because the culture is so powerful rather than leave because their experience has been toxic and harmful. We also want a landscape that represents with equity the diversity of the Jewish community across all identities moving away from the historically more homogenous identity representation of the past.
Photos provided by Ta'amod staff.
SRE Network promotes Jewish workplaces and communal spaces in becoming safe, respectful, and equitable through network building, resource sharing, and community investments. As a network of over 175 Jewish organizations, we are working towards a Jewish communal landscape where people are free from abuse, engage one another with dignity, and are treated fairly. Learn more at: www.srenetwork.org.