Mayberg Foundation support helped Lomdei, a DEEP Consortium member providing High-Quality Professional Development (HQPD) coaching for Judaic studies teachers, more than double its reach this year — growing from 12 to 26 partner schools and 42 to 94 coached teachers. By subsidizing the cost that too often keeps schools from investing in sustained coaching, the Foundation helped open the door for teachers and administrators to build a lasting, growth-minded culture of professional development.

Teaching Jewish history and identity in either public or non-Jewish private K-12 schools faces steep obstacles, from crowded curricula and unenforced Holocaust education mandates to a rise in antisemitic incidents fueled by foreign funding and social media. Last week, the Network for Jewish Identity and History in K-12 Education gathered at George Washington University for a convening hosted by The Collaboratory, to which the Mayberg Center belongs, to tackle these challenges together, uniting organizations that often compete for funding and clients to build shared tools — including a new framework for teaching Jewish history and an AI tool to help curriculum developers use it.

Mayberg Food & Friends, a grantee of the Mayberg Foundation, held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 13 for an 18- to 24-month expansion, which will double the organization's medically tailored meal production capacity and give "Food & Friends the space to welcome more neighbors into that community and to support the staff and volunteers who make it possible," as Mayberg Foundation Rising Trustee and Food & Friends volunteer David Mayberg noted following the ceremony.