Bikkurim

since its founding, bikkurim has provided over $3.5 million of direct and in-kind support to more than 33 new ideas. currently, 5 organizations are in the atid hazak program (our post-startup initiative), and 20 groups have graduated from the incubator program. bikkurim aims to: – help new ideas grow, flourish, and endure over time by nurturing innovative projects through initial stages of organizational development and supporting post-startups as they prepare to grow; – facilitate cross-fertilization, collaboration, and community building among jewish social innovators; – promote interface between new jewish ideas & the established jewish community; – foster and cultivate entrepreneurial energy in the jewish community and advance the field as a whole. our main program, atid hazak (‘strong future’), supports post-startups through significant growth and impact. groups enrolled in the program (including avodah, encounter, footsteps, hazon, and keshet) work with us over 2 years to strengt