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issues regarding robots in society, there
were ROIers at the summit who were
eager to provide help and cheer each
other on in implementing our visions for
improving our communities.
“ROI sends the message that we’re
not alone in trying to create change,”
Lieberman said. “ROI connects us with
collaborators from around the world,
and then we’re provided resources so we
can take risks.”
He has already worked to further the
ROI community well beyond the summit
experience.
“I stayed in Israel for a week after
ROI so I could see the Israeli ROIers in
action,” he said. “I joined an ROIer at a
Knesset committee meeting, visited an
ROIer’s art studio in Jerusalem and saw
my peers’ hometowns. Since I returned
to Michigan, it has been fascinating to
see how ROIers from around the world
provide commentary on social media
regarding local and global events and
engage their communities with different
issues.”
Shimon Gal Levy of Detroit, a return-
ing member to the ROI Summit, said
the conference outdid itself in creating
an experience that social entrepreneurs
could only fantasize about.
“Imagining and then building a sterile
environment, a petri dish, that takes a
multidisciplinary, cross-cultural group of
people and creates a common language
in the span of five days through strategic,
yet intensive programming, creative
studios and brain dates [collaborating
opportunities] allowed social entrepre-
neurs to more efficiently brainstorm and
assess ways to scale their organizations.”
The Summit, Levy said, is so meticu-
lously thought through that it allows you
and your fellow social entrepreneurs
to “pause, shift perspective, risk and
re-vision” the work you are doing with
a clear sense of purpose and drive soon
after its conclusion.
“ROI both creates an environment that
empowers entrepreneurs to fulfill their
potential and pursue their aspirations
as well as the fail-safe community that
provides you the safety net to support

your success through connecting with
community members to an array of dif-
ferent grant-making opportunities and
professional guidance to support our
individual causes,” he said.
As a returning ROIer, Levy can attest
firsthand that ROI has opened his door
to explore a world he was previously
not familiar with. The interaction with
fellow participants led in later years to
establishing some of his closest friends
and fellow collaborators in an array of
ventures — and 2016 was no different.
Horwitz, founder of The Well, a
Detroit-based outreach initiative that
plans programming for Jewish young
adults, says it was an incredibly hum-
bling experience to have been selected.
“The conference was planned and exe-
cuted with a level of expertise and atten-
tion to detail simply unparalleled by any
experience I’ve ever had in the Jewish
world,” he said. Surrounded by passion-
ate, articulate, intelligent change-makers,
Horwitz says he was in awe of the talents
and passions of his fellow participants.
“From creating socially conscious viral
videos that have reached more than 100
million viewers, to creating an online
toolkit to help provide comfort, guidance
and support to those who have been
raped, each participant had a unique
story and project to share, demonstrated
a willingness to be vulnerable, and
exhibited a passion for building an inclu-
sive and global Jewish community.”
The largest take-away from the
Summit — no matter the geographic
location — the future of the Jewish com-
munity must be as participatory and
collaborative as possible to thrive in the
21st century.

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Adam Finkel of Bloomfield Hills is a partner at
Orfin Ventures, a venture capital firm. He helped
raise funds to bring Moishe House to the city of
Detroit and is a Detroit Jewish News contributing
writer. He is also on several boards in the Jewish
community and serves as outreach co-chair of the
Detroit Homecoming, recruiting the 200 most suc-
cessful Detroit expats back to Detroit for a yearly
conference.

University of
Michigan alumni and
graduate students
who participated:
(standing) Aaron
Miller, Rabbi Dan
Horwitz, Kevin
Lieberman, Nathan
Gilson and Adam
Finkel; (front) Erin
Zaikis and Beth
DeBeer.

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