Jason Leivenberg Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

As Senior Vice President of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, I led ~$5m young adult engagement and leadership development portfolio that provided pathways and meaningful touchpoints for over 30,000 young adults through programs like NuRoots, the Community Leadership Institute, thew Jewish Campus Life Initiative, and many more.

Greater Los Angeles Area

I am the team leader of NuRoots, an initiative of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. NuRoots is an incubator and collaborative: We collaborate with people in their 20s and 30s to create inspired, meaningful and accessible communities of creative Jewish expression around LA. We are inspired by Jewish values, culture, and heritage finding ways to cultivate creativity and explore spirituality for young adults across Los Angeles. My role as Vice President has me overseeing and managing the strategic vision of Community Fellows Program, City-wide festivals, the Community Partnership Grants Processes, the Next Gen Initiative for young Jewish professionals and the development of the Venice Project - The Israel Levin Center.

Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

Fundraising professional focused on increasing impact and programs for emerging leaders in the community.

Greater New York City Area

● Serve on 5-person consulting team of NYU Wagner graduate students to assess strategic growth opportunities by designing and executing an online survey for 300+ members and conducting 12 attitudinal interviews.● Conduct an environmental scan, internal analysis, and literature review of trends in mix method research design and impact investing.● Examine overlapping trends, gaps in services and clients desires from mix method research to develop strategic recommendations on improving value proposition and quality of member services offered.

Brooklyn, New York

On the Digital Communications and Strategy team in the Division of Instructional and Information Technology at the NYCDOE I work with colleagues in DOE offices on their web content. As Digital Strategist, I review analytics and advise on usability to make content effective for DOE website consumers. Additionally, I supervised the launch of the DOE's Summer Innovation Professional Development series for teachers in partnerships with Google, Microsoft and PBS, inspiring teachers to integrate ed tech tools. I initiated a plan to launch Social Media Guidelines for students under 13 helping teach young students about issues of sharing responsibly, privacy and safety and cyberbullying.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Oversee and execute strategic plan and vision for staff of 12 to empower over 2,500 students to engage in student life on campus Manage marketing process for year-end Annual Report by developing brand strategy incorporating new logo and infographics Secured $35,000 grant from and directed partnership with Repair the World: supervise Repair the World Student Fellowship Write and present fundraising grants which to date have garnered $50,000 for student engagement initiativesAnalyze data from 1,500 unique contacts and produce reports about trends which inform organizational impact

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Create curriculum and leadership opportunities that empower students to produce programs to energize Jewish life on campus• Increase annual Shabbat dinner attendance 50% from last year by working with student committee to create viral Youtube videos • Design social justice mission statement to cultivate a culture of social justice through Hillel’s internal and external programs• Supervise 35 student interns, including the Campus Entrepreneur Initiative, and facilitate weekly workshops to develop their leadership abilities• Analyze data about 900 unique contacts and produce weekly reports about trends that will inform program development• Plan and lead Birthright-Israel and Alternative Spring Break trips to New Orleans and Uruguay for 100+ students

*Inspire and enrich the lives of Jewish students in whatever way is meaningful to them.• Oversee 6 student interns in their planning and implementation of programs and initiatives for the Jewish community of SantaBarbara. Develop engagement opportunities and collaborative partnerships for students at Hillel and on campus, in order to fostermeaningful Jewish experiences.• Maintain records of programs and attendance for measurement and ongoing evaluation.• Organize all logistics, marketing and outreach for Tzedek (social justice) related activities, including Alternative Breaks to NewOrleans and Costa Rica.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Community EngagementFundraising

• Launch and monitor social network websites, like Twitter, Facebook, mySpace, YouTube, Changents, in order to promoteawareness and funds for cancer research. Work closely with Director of Social Media Development director to trace, organize andanalyze ThinkCure! website insights and demographics.• Write and prepare press releases of fundraising events that raise potential grant money for partners, LA Children’s Hospital andCity of Hope.

• Organized and managed $15,000 for first ever Passover Seder in Rome for 100+ students studying abroad in Europe.• Head of event programming for 150 Seniors; create and handle year-long budget of $3000 for community projects; encourage,promote and oversee involvement of new students. Fundraised $1500 for Hillel Senior Gift.• Travel and speak to support fundraising efforts on behalf of Hillel International’s non-profit efforts. Develop and implementprograms and activities in the Jewish community as Jewish Student Union VP. Directed community marketing programs as partof Campus Entrepreneur Initiative.• Student board member on a bi-monthly committee of UC-Berkeley administrators, community members and Berkeley Hillel staffto discuss improvement of Jewish involvement on campus. Guided institution and followed strict budget matters.

University Of Southern California

• Worked with inner city boys to increase their engagement and interest in academics (reading and math) through a football-based curriculum.• Provided opportunity to young student-athletes to improve football conditioning and skills through involvement withNFL Junior Player Development Program (JPD) and the University of Southern California (USC).

• Assisted publicists in entertainment and broadcast/media services, provided research, worked on product campaigns for one of world's largest PR companies.

Sociology & Mass Communications, Consumer Behavior

Activities and Societies: Delta Chi Fraternity, Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), American Israel Public Affairs.

Master Of Public Administration (Mpa), Management And Policy

Littauer Fellow

Ma, Skirball Department Of Hebrew And Judaic Studies

Education record