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Shiur Acher (Different Lesson)
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Shiur Acher aims to broaden opportunities for disadvantaged children by connecting between schools in low-income neighborhoods and volunteer resources, offering high quality education. Founded in 2002, Shiur Acher aims to change the way children perceive themselves utilizing a low cost/high impact approach.
Shiur Acher recruits volunteers - accomplished professionals - through their place of employment as teachers in Israeli schools. They teach “different lessons” in their own field of expertise, which have been developed into replicable 12-20 week courses, involving unique teaching methods, interactive activities, simulations and excursions. With 209 courses across the country, and over 2000 volunteers, Shiur Acher currently serves 5,300 children from a variety of backgrounds. These children are inspired to develop new ways of thinking and set higher goals for themselves through unmediated access to new role models, new teaching methods and exciting subject matter.
Joined IVN’s portfolio in 2011 as part of the Social Venture Program.
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Duroos Learning Center
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Dismayed by the lack of education facilities in his impoverished local area, 25 year old Fadi El Obra from Rahat, the largest Bedouin settlement in Israel, set up Duroos Learning Center in 2008 to bridge the gap between what was available and what should be available to all children and adults everywhere. Duroos Learning Center teaches students from age 3 to adulthood, offering English (Helen Doron method) and mathematics courses as well as help with matriculation examinations (bagruts) and preparation for university entrance exams – in Arabic. The pioneering Center, which employs only local residents, has become vital to the community, and has been such a great success that 4 additional branches have opened since in the outlying Bedouin villages, to give as many children as possible the education they deserve.
Joined IVN’s portfolio in 2009 as part of the IVN Economic Reconstructive Initiative (IERI).
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SOS Center for Violence Studies in Israel
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SOS is a program committed to prevention of violence in schools and it also promotes the topic as an academic discipline. It is inspired by a very successful, innovative European model. The Center takes a holistic approach that includes teacher training and work with parents, students, youth movements and local police authorities.
Joined IVN’s portfolio in 2008 as part of the Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program.
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Women and Their Bodies
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WTB, founded in 2005, is an NGO of Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli women working together to promote comprehensive social change in the health attitudes and behaviors of women in Israel. WTB provides accessible, pragmatic, research-based information about women’s health and sexuality to women, regardless of age, socio-economic status and ethnicity. WTB is fortunate to have created a remarkable network of over 300 devoted women volunteers who donate their time and their skills.
Their main activities include (i) the massive and vital task of creating local and culturally adapted Hebrew and Arabic editions of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’, an unparalleled women’s health guide, to serve the entire female population of Israel; (ii) an online information center in Hebrew and Arabic and (iii) community outreach workshops on women’s health rights and sexuality
Joined IVN’s portfolio in 2007 as part of the Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program and was reselected as part of the Social Venture Program.
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| Eitanim - Enlisting Together |
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In response to the national challenge to advance development towns and bridge social gaps, Eitanim is a program based on instilling Jewish and Zionist values in development town youth in an appealing and practical way. Through an intensive weekly program for 11th and 12th graders, Eitanim uses military preparation skills to convey a sense of communal responsibility and Jewish values and to engage the youth in real-life decision-making and leadership situations. Eitanim’s staff members are residents of the development town of Netivot.
Joined IVN’s portfolio in 2009 as part of the Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program.
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| Ore to Excellence |
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Ore to Excellence promotes excellence and volunteerism in Israel. Through this program, academically and/or socially challenged 6th graders are paired with a volunteer high school student from the community. The volunteer provides both social and academic support as part of this youth mentoring program. The innovative methodology of the youth mentoring program is based on Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences and the volunteers receive formal training. In return for what they receive, the 6th graders themselves volunteer in the community once a month with the guidance of their volunteer youth mentor.
Joined IVN’s portfolio in 2009 as part of the Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program.
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