It can be difficult to find an organization that fits your values and capacities. Whether you are interested in joining a 20s & 30s committee / Young Leadership board, a fiduciary Board of Directors, or a leadership development fellowship, it can be hard to know where to start. Serving as a lay leader offers tremendous opportunities for personal and professional development and giving back. We are taking the pain out of the process. If you take a few minutes to register on this platform, our software and team will do the rest.

Strong organizations require capable and diverse boards. But it can be hard to identify new board members and donors, especially from younger demographics. Identifying new leaders, especially outside of your network, is difficult. CYJP believes multigenerational boards more effectively serve organizations than monolithic ones, and we want to ensure every Jewish nonprofit in the country has access to incredible young lay leaders. You tell us about your work, needs, and board requirements and we will come to you with candidate profiles of young leaders who are a match. As the pool of candidates grows, we will reach back out to you with more candidates. It’s that simple!

The Jewish community has a lay leadership “matchmaking” problem which severely impacts the next generation of Jewish leaders and threatens the future of American Jewish communal life. For every one of the 9,500 Jewish nonprofit organizations in search of board members and donors, there are just as many, if not more, young lay leaders hungry for meaningful service opportunities. But until now, there was no central address for lay talent to research board opportunities or for organizations to identify those leaders. The problem is not one of supply and demand, but of connecting the supply with the demand.

For our community to adapt into the 21st century, young and diverse lay leaders must be engaged today.