JESNA's Berman Center is the central information resource for Jewish educational research and evaluation in North America.  Since it was established in 1992, the Berman Center has conducted more than 175 short- and long-term evaluation studies, consulting and capacity-building projects, and evaluation training workshops for its four major client groups: private and community foundations, central agencies for Jewish education, Jewish community federations, and independent national and local Jewish educational and communal service providers across North America.

The Berman Center has three primary goals:

1. To increase and improve the use of evaluation to improve the quality of Jewish educational and communal service programs in North America;
2. To raise the prominence of and support for research and evaluation in the Jewish educational and communal service sectors; and
3. To achieve a greater understanding of factors contributing to increases in Jewish identity, educational change, and improvement.

The Berman Center's coordinated team approach gives it a competitive edge in the expanding field of Jewish educational and communal service program evaluation. Our team brings diverse talent, resources, and strengths to the evaluation process from learning to dissemination to application. This team approach allows us to go beyond "doing evaluation" to cultivating and sharing knowledge with clients to increase their capacities for programming and evaluation.

JESNA's strategic business model of learnings, dissemination, and application adds value to the Berman Center's services by drawing on the additional expertise of its colleagues in JESNA's Learnings and Consultation Center (LCC) and the Lippman Kanfer Institute (LKI) to enhance its work with clients.