The Alliance for Global Good, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, and Pears Foundation are partnering to launch OLAM, a shared platform to promote global Jewish service — volunteering and service learning, international development, and social justice advocacy — in support of communities in need around the world. 

Designed to be a field-building resource, OLAM aims to expand the global Jewish community's awareness and philanthropic support for volunteering and service learning, international development, and social justice advocacy and will help existing organizations multiply their collective impact. Among its initial activities, OLAM will convene professionals in the Jewish service field and will provide shared professional training, curricular resources, evaluation tools, and other opportunities for strategic planning and learning. OLAM also will work to organize study trips around the world for key funders and influencers to raise the profile of global Jewish service generally.

"Today's global Jewish community is blessed with unprecedented wealth and influence. Israel, which was a developing country less than sixty years ago, has a strong economy and is a world leader in many realms," said Dyonna Ginsburg, newly appointed executive director of OLAM. "Yet, with resources comes responsibility — a responsibility to be true to our own tradition of tikkun olam, repairing a fractured world, and to do our part to address some of the world's most complex issues, which no single organization or funder can solve alone. It is only by coming together and learning from one another that we can leverage the tremendous wisdom that already exists."