Grantees
In the 2011 fiscal year, NCJW awarded six grants as part of Yad B’ Yad: NCJW’s Initiative to Nurture Knowledge:
Eden Association for the Promotion of Educational, Social and Cultural Projects in the Northern Negev was established in 1997 by educators and social activists. The association aims to promote educational and social projects in the northern Negev, Israel’s southern region that suffers from high percentage of unemployment and deprivation. This grant will help fund the Computer lab at the learning center in the Eden boarding school, for at-risk girls, living in the Eden boarding school, who come from disadvantaged families and have suffered from violence, abuse and neglect.
Kamoni-Kamocha – The Israel Gay Youth Organization (IGY) was established in 2002 and has since grown into one of the largest and most widespread Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender (LGBT) organizations in Israel, with activities in 26 cities and towns across the country and more than 1,500 participants. This grant will help fund the Gay-Straight Alliance program, a twin project of the American GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance), that operates in schools, colleges and universities, aiming to create a secure environment for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) youth.
The NCJW Women Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University is a vital association of faculty and students that advances research and analysis in feminist studies. With the support of NCJW, the forum sponsors major conferences and lecture series, and critical community service initiatives, and it delivers essential services to women on the Tel Aviv campus. The forum also founded and supports the Tel Aviv University sexual harassment hotline, the first such campus hotline in Israel. This grant will help fund the Teenage Girls and Students Join Hands for Social Change program which aims to help female adolescents, aged 15-18, from the city of Bat-Yam, shape and fulfill their vision for social change in their communities, by developing leadership skills.
Neve Michael Children’s Village is the only multidisciplinary children’s home in Israel. It provides a refuge and a loving home for over 250 at risk children and youth, who come from an abusive background. The Home also operates a 24-hour Emergency Crisis Center, a Teenage Girls’ Crisis, 12 Family Units, an Elementary School on the premises, Day Care facilities, a Therapy Enrichment Center and an External Crisis Center and a Therapy Counseling Unit. This grant will help fund the Personal Arrival Packages for Children in the Emergency Crisis Center, an innovative project of personal arrival kits that would provide the children at risk with new clothes upon their arrival at the children’s home.
The NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education (RIFIE) was established by NCJW in 1969 to foster the development of innovative methods of education to meet the needs of immigrant and disadvantaged children and their families, and ultimately facilitate their integration into Israeli society. This grant will help fund The Yuval School, which provides an educational framework and vocational training to100 high school dropouts from severely economically, socially and emotionally disadvantaged backgrounds. The school offers its students the opportunity to change the course of their life and adjust to normative society, through study and regular employment.
Tasfachin was established in the city of Yavne in 1998 with the aim of facilitating the integration of the Ethiopian community, specifically children. Tasfachin, which was established in concern for the severe distress of the Ethiopian teenagers’ community in Yavne, operates afternoon learning centers for children and teenagers. This grant will help fund the Literacy Begins At Home – A Project for the Ethiopian Community in Yavne which focuses on work with and within the family through tutoring and mentoring of youngsters from within the community in order to empower the parents to enhance activities with their children that would lead to improved literacy skills consisting of cognitive, social and linguistic abilities.