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The Momentum Fellowship: A Leadership Journey
The Momentum Fellowship is a transformative leadership development program designed to empower Jewish women and their communities with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to lead together to make significant community impact.

Program Overview
The Momentum Fellowship is structured to support the development and practice of communal leadership skills. Fellows engage in a menu of offerings that include an immersive experience, workshops, and mentorship opportunities that focus on personal, organizational and communal growth through strategic planning. The fellowship elevates local networks of leaders committed to fostering unity without uniformity and making a positive difference in their local communities.

Key Components
The Journey Begins with a 3-Day In-Person Summit: The Fellowship is founded with the intention to build and support strong, engaged communities.  Fellows join with their community cohort groups to gain practical leadership skills from world-class Jewish educators and network with other cohorts from around the world. Fellows participate in tailored workshops and activities focused on communal leadership foundational skills including asset mapping, identifying target audiences, leading and managing conflict through empathy, mobilizing communities, and strategic planning. Through group work, structured networking activities, and opportunities for collaboration and peer-to-peer learning, Fellows and their cohorts make invaluable connections during the summit to share ongoing ideas, insights and support.

The Journey Continues through Action Planning: Each organization’s Cohort Leader oversees the development of a plan of action, uniquely created to address a need in their local community. The work of these action plans begins while at the Summit, reflecting in cohorts on skills training and participating in activities such as asset mapping to build a foundation for this plan creation. Following the Summit, group coaching is provided by Momentum to guide Cohort Leaders in the step-by-step creation of this action plan over the course of 5 virtual sessions. These planning sessions take Cohort Leaders through strategic thinking and planning best practices including identifying goals, stakeholders, and evaluation processes, as well as collaboration benefits provided through peer-to-peer learning, consultations, and expert guidance and feedback from both professional coaches and colleagues. While only Cohort Leaders participate in these group coaching sessions, all members of the cohort provide input and participate in the creation of this strategic plan under the direction of the Cohort Leader.

Momentum team members follow up with Cohort Leaders during their group coaching journey to provide additional support and resources where possible. The investment of group coaching and guided plan creation is both to support the Cohort Leaders in creating a specific action plan to be implemented as a direct outcome of Fellowship participation, and also to equip Cohort Leaders with the skills to use these planning practices and templates for future projects to maximize their long-term impact as communal leaders.

The Journey Extends through Fellowship Next: Participation in the first two steps of the Fellowship unlock access to an ongoing journey of connection, growth, and community. Momentum Fellows are presented with an annual menu of offerings that include continued educational opportunities, live workshops, affinity groups, and spaces to connect with Fellowship alumni from all over the world. These offerings allow Fellows for opportunities to create a larger network of peers for potential collaboration and mentorship opportunities outside of the women they may have met at their own Summit, growing the Momentum sisterhood of leaders.

The Momentum Fellowship empowers Jewish women, creating a ripple effect of positive change. By equipping Fellows and their organizations with the tools they need to succeed, the program strengthens communities and inspires future generations. Fellows leave the program with a renewed sense of purpose, a deeper understanding of their leadership potential, and a strong network of peers and mentors.