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Bring the Jewish Fertility Foundation to your community, organization, workplace, or event.
Infertility affects people emotionally, financially, and spiritually, yet it is still hard to talk about. JFF speakers bring lived experience, professional insight, and what we’ve learned supporting families across the country to conversations that educate, build awareness, and help communities show up for people on their family-building journey.
Meet Elana Frank
CEO & Founder, Jewish Fertility Foundation
Elana Frank is an entrepreneur and a mom of three through IVF and embryo donation. Her own family-building journey led her to found the Jewish Fertility Foundation to take on the financial, emotional, and cultural barriers that make infertility so isolating, especially in Jewish spaces. Whether the topic is fertility education, nonprofit leadership, or Jewish communal values, Elana speaks with empathy, candor, and a clear call to action.
Elana’s signature talks
Belonging While Longing: Fertility in the Jewish Workplace
Based on a JFF survey of 46 nonprofit professionals, which found that only 36% of Jewish organizations offered any fertility benefit compared with 72% of non-Jewish nonprofits, this talk looks at how Jewish workplaces can better support employees on their family-building journey. Elana offers practical steps organizations of any size can take, starting now.
Loving Someone with Infertility / Pathways to Parenthood
A practical, values-driven conversation about reducing stigma, the many paths to parenthood (surrogacy, adoption, donor gametes), fertility preservation through a Jewish lens, ethical and halachic perspectives on embryo donation, and how synagogues and organizations can support families.
A Post-Roe World: Advocacy Strategies for Supporting Reproductive Rights
How shifting laws affect fertility care and access, Jewish legal and ethical perspectives on reproductive health, and how rabbis and community leaders can educate, advocate, and respond.
Building and Scaling a Sustainable Nonprofit
Real-world lessons from growing a mission-driven organization across multiple cities: fundraising and partnerships, collaboration over competition, building systems for long-term growth, and advancing women’s leadership in Jewish communal life.
Empowering Women in Leadership
A candid look at leading as a female founder, breaking barriers in the Jewish nonprofit space, and building family-friendly, flexible workplaces where women thrive.
More voices from our team
Other members of our staff bring their own professional expertise and firsthand knowledge of supporting families through infertility, and they’re available to speak with community groups, congregations, workplaces, and professional audiences.
Our team works with clients, clinics, rabbis, and community partners every day, so they can speak to what people going through infertility need and what helps. Talks can range from an introduction for a congregation or young couples to a deeper session for clergy, educators, HR teams, or healthcare professionals. They can be in person or virtual, and work well as a keynote, a workshop, a lunch-and-learn, or part of a panel.
Not sure which speaker is the right fit? Tell us about your event in the form below and we’ll match you with the best person on our team.
Each talk is shaped around your audience and may cover topics such as:
- Infertility and the family-building journey
- How to support someone experiencing infertility
- Fertility in the Jewish community
- The financial and emotional impact of fertility treatment
- Building more compassionate and fertility-friendly communities
- JFF’s mission, programs, and impact
Invite a speaker to your community
Whether you’re planning a community program, professional event, staff training, or educational session, we’d love to hear about your audience and what you have in mind. Every talk can be tailored to your group.
Complete the form below to request a JFF speaker, and a member of our team will be in touch.