Startup18 is a 501c3 that was founded in 2006 to encourage grassroots and lay led cultural programs for youth and adults that educate, build community and strengthen Jewish and Israeli identity. Programs included a Jewish Engagement Lab that met monthly supporting project founders, Idea Roundtables that generated program ideas, a Community Hackathon to increase community engagement and seed funds were allocated to impactful program ideas and a Educator Awards offered in collaboration with the Harold Greenspoon Foundation.