Abstract
CMJS has studied Hillel International’s Springboard Fellowship for early career professionals since 2017. The Springboard program is part of Hillel’s efforts to build a talent pipeline for the movement and the Jewish nonprofit sector overall. Alumni outcomes are critical for understanding the Fellowship’s impact, both on individual participants and the field.
This report includes findings of alumni surveys fielded in winter/spring 2024 to Ezra Fellowship alumni and to participants in six Springboard cohorts: Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalet, Hey, and Vav.
The report focuses on participants’ post-Fellowship professional growth and leadership trajectories, including on employment, graduate studies, career advancement and considerations, professional development activities, continued connections to Hillel and the Fellowships, and participation in Jewish life and leadership.
In addition to the winter/spring 2024 findings, the report uses result of alumni surveys from prior years for point-in-time comparisons across the cohorts. The comparisons show the experiences of different cohorts at the same point in time from the Fellowship. The report also examines survey and interview data from alumni of Springboard’s second cohort, Bet, to explore changes over the five years since the end of their Fellowship experience.