CIJE meaning in Community ?

The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) was granted funding to give guidance and assistance to Jewish educational institutions. The organization's present focus is on STEM and they operate their own science competitions for students in co-ed schools, Orthodox all-boys schools, and all-girls schools. Their most recent multi-school STEM competition (December 2019) expanded, reaching down to the middle-school level.

The multi-organization task force from which CIJE was initiated had as their driving focus, according to their 1990 report, to go beyond the single-gender schools, and reach out to "the segment of the Jewish population which is finding it increasingly difficult to define its future in terms of Jewish values and behavior.": p.73 

The way their work contrasts with that of Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, another non-profit organization, was described as "from life back to the Torah.”