Adene+Sacks


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 * Name Adene Sacks**


 * Organization** Jim Joseph Foundation


 * Title** Program Director


 * Location** San Francisco (usually) but in Boston until June, 2011

email: asacks@jimjosephfoundation.org twitter: adenesacks
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 * Your most pressing questions about networks.**

Our questions tend to focus the role of networks in identify formation.


 * Live network experiments (include multiple, if relevant).**

Over 18% of the total grant portfolio at the Jim Joseph Foundation is invested in networks - both networks of education professionals and of emerging adults. We come to this work with a rich set of experiments but in need of a more intentional practice on identifying and evaluating effective networks and promoting their role within the foundation and its partners.


 * Brief Bio (optional)**

I have been at the Jim Joseph Foundation for almost years as its founding Program Director. In addition to my work peer networks, I also develop strategies to promote the Foundation's interest in service learning and new media. Prior to my work at the Jim Joseph foundation, I was the US Executive Director of the Israel Venture Network, a venture philanthropy network of high-tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and philanthropists in the United States and Israel