S349 How Can Jewish Culture Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century (Lou Cove)

This is a Greatest Hits episode - a re-release of the second part of my conversation with Lou Cove, from Season 2 Episode 21 (the interview spanned episdoes 20 & 21).  Lou Cove is the director of CANVAS, an organization that is very important to Art/Lab, in terms of funding, guidance, netwworking iwth other Jewish creative organizations, and inspiration.   Art/ Lab is part of the CANVAS network.  Lou heads up CANVAS, but his impact is far greater than that.   He's an author, a speaker, and really a maven in the field of nonprofit fundraising. But his professional life has been about standing at the center of Jewish creativity and the kind of renewal in Jewish arts and culture that's been such an important part of the story of the last generation. Lou is a champion fundraiser. He has raised more than $75 million for the causes he cares most about, and he has really used that skill and his insights into how to get people connected to one another and how to motivate people and to how to inspire people to really breathe new life into the Jewish world. He was the former executive director of Reboot, a network of leading young Jewish creatives devoted to rebooting modern Jewish culture such as digital entrepreneurs at Google and YouTube, creators of TV shows and films like Lost, Orange is the New Black, Transparent, Anchorman and Star Trek, journalists in the New York Times, et cetera. I am actually part of reboot myself. So that's another thing that Lou and I have in common. Besides music and many other things, it was a total joy to talk to him. So this is the second part of the conversation. I'm re-releasing this one today in part because it touches upon some of the themes that will show up in upcoming episodes.  So. Enjoy my conversation with Lou Cove. Thanks so much for listening.   Links Art/Lab: Innovating Jewish Arts & Culture: artlabpdx.org CANVAS: bycanvas.org Lou's personal website: loucove.com