{"id":22555,"date":"2016-08-04T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/?p=22555"},"modified":"2020-04-03T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T19:52:12","slug":"good-phillip-brodsky-david-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/good-phillip-brodsky-david-project","title":{"rendered":"Doing Good: Phillip Brodsky of the David Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ever since he spent the summer before his senior year of high school living just outside of Tel Aviv, Phillip Brodsky wanted to start a dialog around the issues facing Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always believed in leadership and positive social change,\u201d says Brodsky. \u201cOne of the things that was important to me growing up was community and bringing people together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brodsky started off as the director of Jewish programming for Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. He\u2019s now executive director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Project<\/a>, a nonprofit focused on starting conversations around Israel between Jewish and non-Jewish students. The organization also brings a diverse group of student leaders to Israel to expose them to the \u201cdynamic and complex society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"560\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/07\/Philip-Brodsky.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Brodsky\" class=\"wp-image-22557\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Founders:&nbsp;<\/strong>Seth Klarman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Year founded:<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>2002<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Employees:&nbsp;<\/strong>13<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where we\u2019re based: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/origin.wework.com\/locations\/boston\/south-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WeWork South Station<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moment of inspiration: <\/strong>Before visiting Yad Vashem, Jerusalem\u2019s Holocaust museum, some Jewish students were worried that it wouldn\u2019t resonate with their non-Jewish peers. \u201cOne of the non-Jewish students ended up sharing how impactful the entire experience had been, and felt that it was our mission now to go back and not let anybody judge anybody else without truly getting to know them,\u201d says Brodsky. \u201cThat\u2019s when I realized that the mission is much more than just Israel advocacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest hurdle: \u201c<\/strong>Building relationships comes first, and it\u2019s something that I don\u2019t think everybody understands right away,\u201d says Brodsky. \u201cRelationships create culture, and culture is what allows for change. The biggest hurdle is that people don\u2019t understand the true power of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How we want to change the world:<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;\u201c<\/strong>What I really believe in is building up the social and civic fabric of the community,\u201d says Brodsky. \u201cWe need to learn how to talk, and communicate, and build relationships across differences. 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