About Leading Edge
For the people in Jewish nonprofits who change the world.
Jewish organizations should be places where great people deliver great impact.
The Jewish community has important work to do, and we cannot do it without skilled and engaged people. Leading Edge serves, inspires, connects, and elevates all the people who embody the Jewish nonprofit sector — professionals, leaders, and Board members. By mobilizing Jewish nonprofits to improve their talent acquisition, development, culture, and performance, we strengthen the entire Jewish sector so it can better serve the Jewish community and the world.
The Jewish community needs more and better investment in its people.
The better an organization’s talent, the greater its impact.
With the right organizational action, people thrive and perform.
No Jewish organization is an island — we’re all in this together.
Every Jewish organization should be an amazing place to work, lead, and serve.
Our Purpose
Leading Edge exists to strengthen the Jewish nonprofit field so it can better serve the Jewish community and world.
Our Vision
Leading Edge envisions a thriving Jewish communal ecosystem where talented and engaged people are empowered to drive change.
Our Mission
Leading Edge mobilizes Jewish nonprofits to become places where great people deliver great impact.
Our Values
Read about the six values that inform everything we do, both within our team and in interacting with the broader community.
Our History
Founded in 2014 and originally called the Leadership Pipelines Initiative, Leading Edge emerged from a group of funders and communal leaders who saw a leadership succession crisis on the horizon for Jewish nonprofits. They commissioned the Bridgespan Group to answer the question: Why are Jewish organizations struggling to find the talent they need, especially at the most senior ranks? Bridgespan’s answer was Cultivating the Next Generation of Leaders for Jewish Nonprofits, the inaugural report and initial roadmap of the journey that became Leading Edge.
Since then, Leading Edge has become the central address for talent and culture in the Jewish sector, changing the way that Jewish organizations and the sector think and talk about talent development, leadership, and organizational culture. Leading Edge has supported over 500 organizations in their quests to become better places to work, facilitated the development of hundreds of leaders, professionals, and Board members, and released original tools and research to address the most critical leadership challenges facing our sector.
In 2022, Leading Edge acquired Boardified, growing our capacity and strengthening our mandate to address longstanding structural challenges in Jewish communal Board leadership. In 2025, Leading Edge and JPro united, broadening our reach to all Jewish professionals in the field and joining together Leading Edge’s story of innovation since 2014 with the rich history of JPro and its predecessors dating back to 1899.
Leading Edge now has a mandate to influence and shape how the entire Jewish nonprofit sector attracts, develops, and retains talent — across Boards, executives, managers, and frontline professionals alike.
Meet the devoted team and Board behind Leading Edge.
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Influencing, innovating, and intervening to drive progress in our sector.
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