Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies - PowerNET 2025 Highlights

Meeting the Moment in Toronto

2026 Highlights

Almost 600 Attendees
100+ Member & Affiliate Agencies Represented
64 Conference Sponsors (Including the first-ever Title Sponsor, The Azrieli Foundation)
Over 30 Professional Workshops
3 Plenary Speakers

PowerNET 2026 brought together almost 600 professionals, executives, funders, and community leaders from 116 organizations across the United States, Canada, and Israel in Toronto for one of the Jewish human services sector’s largest annual gatherings.

A major highlight this year was the continued growth of the Funders Forum, which created meaningful opportunities for foundations, philanthropists, and sector leaders to discuss shared priorities, emerging needs, and future collaboration. The conversations reinforced the importance of bringing funders and practitioners together in the same room to help move ideas into action.

ExecNET also stood out as a key part of the conference experience. Designed for CEOs and senior executives, the program offered space for candid leadership conversations, peer learning, and relationship-building among top agency leaders from across the field.

Throughout the conference, attendees participated in more than 30 workshops, multiple plenary sessions, a NEW Poster Showcase featuring innovative member agency programs, and a wide range of networking and community events focused on the challenges and opportunities facing Jewish human services today.

We’re excited to announce that PowerNET 2027 will be hosted by Gulf Coast JFCS in Tampa, Florida May 17-20 to mark The Network’s 10th Anniversary!

Impact Award Winner

The Advocacy Collective-Jewish Community Services of South Florida

In July 2025, Miami-Dade County proposed eliminating $16.577 million in funding historically allocated to dozens of legacy community-based organizations (CBOs), placing life-sustaining services, including housing stability, food security, mental health care, disability services, and homelessness prevention, at immediate risk for both the Jewish and broader Miami-Dade community. Recognizing the severity of this threat to the county’s social safety net, Jewish Community Services of South Florida (JCS) convened 63 nonprofit organizations to form The Advocacy Collective, a countywide coalition focused on restoring the proposed cuts. Under the leadership of JCS President & CEO, Miriam Singer, the Collective coordinated a joint letter signed by all 63 organizations, and directly engaged all 13 County Commissioners, the Mayor’s Office, and state legislators.

Following two revised budgets and a unanimous vote by the Board of County Commissioners, the full $16.577 million was restored. This effort not only preserved Miami-Dade’s essential service infrastructure but also demonstrated the power of coordinated, community-centered advocacy, reinforcing the value of cross-organizational collaboration, shared leadership, and elevating lived experience as a catalyst for systems-level change.

Professional Leadership Award Winner

Amy Israel Pregulman, Executive Director, KAVOD – Ensuring Dignity for Holocaust Survivors

Amy and John Pregulman co-founded Kavod in 2015, with the mission to help Holocaust Survivors in the U.S. live the remainder of their lives comfortably and with dignity. Amy has served as the Executive Director of the organization from the beginning, and continues to bring her vision, drive, energy, passion, and compassion to her agency and all the individuals they serve each and every day.

Since 2019, Amy has provided material support (ensuring Survivors have access to nutritional foods, emergency homecare, emergency home repairs, utilities, dental care, and more) together with emotional support.

Amy is committed to the 100,000 Holocaust Survivors living in poverty, wherever they live. She helped launch and lead a national philanthropic and local practitioner partnership system that has filled more than 156,000 requests of Holocaust Survivors to date.