ABout
At the Zschool, we prepare professionals to lead the business of Jewish life.
Beyond The Classroom
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We like students who live values first. Nonprofit leadership is about repairing the world. It is a way to challenge the status quo and for you to make a career in making good happen.
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We use creativity to problem find. For us, innovation is not a bunch of randomly placed sticky notes. It is a way to help you to design a more perfect world.
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We believe there is a lot to learn from missing the mark. There is also a lot to learn by doing. Our internships and consulting projects provide a lab for you to practice and develop your nonprofit expertise with people who care about your career.
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We are in this together. Our students and 650+ alumni are a community of difference makers with global reach and impact. They effect change and you will too.
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We embrace diversity, pluralism and are non-denominational. Our students come from a spectrum of backgrounds, knowledge sets, and geographies. You will find faculty who care and a place where Jewish wisdom and values are intertwined to reinforce our educational practices and the work we inspire in the nonprofit ecosystem.
The school is a transformative gathering place for nonprofit leaders to learn and collaborate. We use creative problem solving to spark innovative solutions to today’s Jewish nonprofit challenges.
Our students are activists, intellectuals, artists, musicians, engineers, rabbis, social workers, educators, and policy wonks that include Dual degree students at USC, and other universities across the globe, as well as students concurrently enrolled in the Education and Rabbinic programs at HUC-JIR.
Our faculty and community of practitioners include business entrepreneurs, executive directors of Jewish organizations, and Scholars-In-Residence that have included the likes of Stosh Cotler of Bend the Arc, Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, John Ruskay of the UJA-Federation New York, and Ruth Messinger of American Jewish World Service.
We take a Silicon Beach attitude and push education outside of the classroom, making it hands-on and project based, ensuring students acquire the skills needed to get the job and do the job effectively.
