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Established in 2002, the Israel Venture
Network (IVN) is a venture philanthropy network of high-tech
entrepreneurs, business executives, venture capitalists,
corporations and philanthropists from Israel and the US. IVN
aims to strengthen the capacity of the educational, social
leadership and business communities in Israel through the
sharing of skills, knowledge and experience that have led to
private sector success.
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime."
- Old
Chinese Proverb
In the last fifteen years, Israel has been
dramatically altered by the ambition, creativity and innovation
of the high-tech sector. However, Israeli society faces serious
challenges in ensuring that the benefits of the new economy are
available to all. The immense disparity between rich and poor
reinforces ethnic and religious tensions, jeopardizes potential
for future economic growth and threatens the democratic
principles on which Israel was founded.
IVN currently invests in three areas of
intervention and encourages synergy among them:
- Strengthening the Education System
- Investing in Social Leadership
- Stimulating Economic Development
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Why IVN is Unique
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One of the unique facets of IVN is
that it provides a platform that enables its members to become
actively engaged in the programs that it operates. IVN members
are involved "hands on" in the individual initiatives and
contribute their management expertise and experience in the
implementation through our Mentorship program.
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IVN is committed to the integration of
measurement & evaluation (M&E) in all of its strategic
initiatives. This commitment is based on the premise that M&E
are crucial for effective management and that improvement
cannot be tracked or proven without it.
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As a venture philanthropy, IVN is in the
advantageous position of being able to take more innovative
approaches and apply cutting edge models and methods and when
introducing pilot programs. Based on the determined success of
the programs, IVN is in the position to expand them, together
with strategic partners, i.e. the government.
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IVN takes the position that chances of
success are greatly increased through strategic partnerships.
Over the last five years, IVN has worked very hard on
developing relationships with local and national government
entities, as well as with other NGO's and business entities,
in the belief that only through close collaboration can
sustainable change be achieved. This conviction has born fruit
in all three of IVN's clusters.
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Due to the very nature of IVN's membership
base, the organization also brings to the table a wide network
of business contacts that are made available to programs we
support; specifically the economic and social initiatives.
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We have begun to track significant changes
in the areas where we intervene and believe that our valuable
and unique skill set provides an important contribution to the
non-profit sector in Israel.
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IVN Members
IVN is committed to active participation of
its members. Participation in IVN offers investors the
opportunity to take on challenges in accordance with individual
expertise and interest. We are grateful to our supporters for
their financial and time commitments to our mission. To find out
more on how to join the IVN Network, click here.
Pillar Members
Anonymous
Eric Benhamou
Patron Members
Nir Barkat
Yossi Beinart
Ofer Ben-Shachar
Itsik Danziger
Shlomo Dovrat
Bobby Lent
Benny Levin
Dov Moran
Rich Saperstein
Rony Tzarom
Vincent Worms
Bachrach Foundation
Kahanoff Foundation
Voting Members
Mark Chess
Jonathan Cohen
Yehudah Cohn
Shuki Ehrlich
Isaac Hillel
Alan Kessler
Isabel Maxwell
Modi Segal
Ofir Shalvi
Nachman Shelef
Edwin Slonim
Diane Troderman
Tom Unterberg
Bob Weiner
Amos and Ruth Wilnai
Oren Zeev
Harold Grinspoon Foundation
Voting Corporate Members
Bank Leumi
Check Point Technologies Ltd.
HSBC Private Bank
Pitango
Affiliate Members
Ricki and Zvi Alon
Allan Barkat
Bernie Belkin
Zeev Bregman
Sachi Gerlitz
Matty Karp
Jim Koshland
Yanki Margalit
David Millstein
Ron Moritz
Erez Ofer
Joseph Perl
Kobi Rozengarten
Rina Shainski
Edi Shalev
Yoav Shoham
Jacob Tal
Rick Tavan
Naomi Timor
Ofer Timor
Amnon Yacoby
Affiliate Corporate Members
Cedar Fund
Ernst & Young
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer LLP
Price Waterhouse Cooper
Rainier Communications
Silicon Valley Bank
UBS
Associate Members
Tali Aben
Nancy Ackerman
Amdocs
Chen Amit
Anonymous
Yitz Applbaum
Sam Arditi
Jonathan Art
Shai Bailis
Alona Barkat
Harel Beit-On
Ori Bendori
Boeing
Linda and Neill Brownstein
Comverse
Howard Edelstein
Rami Entin
Steve Eskenazi
Ben Feder
Financial Guardian
Alan Fox
Levy Gerzberg
Goldman Sachs
Eli Gorovici
IVC
Morrison & Foerster
Avi Katz
Theo Koffler
Barry Kramer
Yael and Amnon Landan
Len Lehmann
Nimrod Lev
Jonathan Levy Shmil Levy
Galina and Lev Leytes
Robert Mayer
Elan Moriah
Lance Nagel
Net@Work
Yoram Oron
Orli and Zack Rinat
Brett Rochkind
Sharam Sasson
Michelle Schwartz
Rina Shainsky
Meir Shani
Tzipi and Sam Tramiel
Carmel Verenia
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Avi Zeevi
Supporters
Battery Ventures
Amos Ben-Meir
Steve Berman
Joni Block
Debbie and David Block-Temin
Joscelyn Blumenthal
Larry Chafetz
Michael David
Avinoam Efraim
Guy Gecht
Arie Keshet
Magnolia Capital
Andrew Katcher
Dahlia Malkhi
Galia Messika
Allon Michaeli
Udi Paret
Neil Ross
Morey Schapira
Rob Schwartz
Steve Tolchin & Mickey Forman
Malka Treuhaft
Ehud Wieder
Program Partners
Amdocs
IVA
Jewish Agency for Israel
Jewish Agency for Israel Partnership 2000
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula,
Marin and Sonoma Counties
Jewish Funders Network
New Israel Fund
Central New Jersey
Rashi Foundation
UIA Canada Coast- to-Coast
Communities
Montreal Federation CJA
Tzafona
UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
United Jewish Communities
Israel Emergency Campaign
United
Jewish Israel Appeal
Designated Funders
Alan B. Slifka Foundation
Anonymous Foundation
Boxenbaum-Neta Foundation
DM Charitable Trust, UK
Samuel Bronfman Philanthropies
Check Point Software
Technologies Ltd.
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
Jewish Agency for Israel
Jewish Federation of Greater Houston
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
Cassirer Foundation Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust
Levi Lassen Stichting
Morningstar Foundation
National Council of Jewish Women
Ness Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of the Jewish
Federation of Central New Jersey
Rayne Trust
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
Tamara Gottstein
Viterbi Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation
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Staff
Israel Office
Ayelet Tal IL
Executive Director & CFO
ayelet@ivn.org.il
Tali Yariv Mashal, PhD
Education Initiative (EI) Director
taliym@ivn.org.il
Daphna Murvitz
Director of Economic Development Initiatives
daphna@ivn.org.il
Atara Dzikowski
Director of Development & Marketing
atara@ivn.org.il
Ravid Bogaire
Manager of Measurement & Evaluation for IERI and SE
ravid@ivn.org.il
Leah Kotin
Director of Communications
leah@ivn.org.il
Vivi Wolfsohn
Active Citizenship Manager
vivi_w@zahav.net.il
Ofra Rattner Abrahami
Manager of Evaluation & Measurement in EI
ofra@ivn.org.il
Hedva Fensterheim
Director SE Fellowship Program
hedva@ivn.org.il
Ron Gerlitz
Program Implementation and Monitoring Integrator
ron@ivn.org.il
Rita Argov
Operations Manager
rita@ivn.org.il
US Office
Joni Block
US Director
joni@israelventurenetwork.org
Taryn Hadas
Event & Administrative Assistant
taryn@israelventurenetwork.org
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