What is PresenTenseLA?

Meet the 2013 Class of PresenTenseLA!

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The Federation's PresenTenseLA gives social entrepreneurs the leadership
skills, business tools and connections - through a Jewish lens - that turns
ideas into ventures which will engage, inspire, and transform the Los Angeles
Jewish community. Meet the 2013 Class. Meet their Coaches and Mentors!

News from PresenTenseLA: 

Being Social... On Social Media: On Wednesday, March 20th, the PTLA fellows had the great fortune to enjoy a panel discussion consisting of some of the LA Jewish community's best minds in the field of Social Marketing. Experts Jason Adelman, Rae Gross, and Heather Wilk shared their knowledge... (read more here)

Learning Through Failing Through Marshmallows: This past Wednesday evening, the PresenTenseLA Fellows were presented with The Marshmallow Challenge: In no more than 18 minutes, work in teams of four to build the tallest spaghetti tower possible, that is strong enough to support the weight of a marshmallow at its peak.... (read more here)

Discovering Your Pain Point: “What’s your pain point?” I had just given my practice “pitch”—a 3 minute rationale for my PresenTenseLA venture—and our guest speaker, Adlai Wertman, Director of the Society and Business Lab at USC, clearly was not impressed.  “Your venture sounds cool. But you spoke about a very broad problem—I’m not clear at all what the ‘pain point’ is, nor why you are the one best suited to address it."... (read more here)

Cultivating Innovation in Los Angeles' Jewish Community: In the last month I have had the great privilege to be part of the inaugural cohort of PresenTenseLA. As a part of this fellowship of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, I have met some of L.A.’s Jewish most creative and exciting innovators... (read more here)

PresenTenseLA Kicks-Off 2013: On Sunday, January 6th, nearly 40 Jewish community members joined together to be part of the kick-off of PresenTenseLA, The Jewish Federation’s social entrepreneur fellowship... (read more here)

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So-cial En-tre-pre-neur
(noun)
Change agent; an ambitious and persistent individual with an innovation that disrupts the status quo and transforms the community for the better

In-no-vate
(verb)
The act of converting knowledge and ideas into something that is new and transformative.
The Jewish Federation