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IsraelI NONPROFIT DIRECTORies

HEROES

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  • Rami Davidian saved 750 people at the Nova Festival. His story is remarkable. I had the honor of meeting our hero, and am raising funds to support him and his family as they recover from this horrific tragedy. Please read his story and contribute.

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Israeli Soldier and IDF Support

Emergency responders

  • Yafit Emergency Responders - Yafit is an agricultural community located in the Jordan Valley. The first responders in this community are volunteers who are mostly unarmed - and who need to raise funds to be armed and to enhance security.

  • Keren Gush Eztion - support rapid response teams, provide medical equipment for the region of Gush Etzion, and support families on the home front

PTSD SUPPORT for idf soldiers

Emergency Medical Response

  • Magen David Adom - Israel’s ambulance service, which is very overstretched at this time

  • United Hatzalah of Israel - preeminent volunteer ambulance service in the world

  • Barzilai Medical Center

  • Soroka Medical Center

  • Keren Gush Eztion - support rapid response teams, provide medical equipment for the region of Gush Etzion, and support families on the home front

  • Reim - Supporting emergency medical needs and providing medical equipment. Re’im is organizing a delegation of American physician volunteers in 2-week shifts, with subsequent delegations departing every week. Currently, there is a need for pathologists, orthopedics, and surgeons. This effort is coordinated by the Israeli Ministry of Health and the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles.

Food Services

  • Leket Israel - national food bank

  • Grilling for IDF

  • Chai Vekayam - When you purchase some Chai swag (t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats), they donate a food- and flower-filled basket to people in the the south of Israel whose lives have been upended.

HUMANITARIAN AID

Kibbutzim

  • Be’eri - Donate to help rebuild Kibbutz Be’eri

  • Kfar Azza - Donate to help rebuild Kibbutz Kfar Azza

  • Kfar Azza - Donate and offer your time and expertise to help rebuild Kibbutz Kfar Azza

Kids and Students

  • Atlas Juniors - Atlas Juniors provides opportunities for Israeli students to work with Israeli tech companies. Many of their students witnessed the October 7 massacre, and have since been displaced from their homes. Atlas Juniors has added resilience and mental health programming to help their students move forward. In addition to financial support, they also seek partners to offer mental health and related services.

  • Israeli Children’s Fund - support children who lost parents in the October 7 massacre.

  • Lev LaLev - Lev LaLev provides critical care to orphaned, neglected, or abandoned religious girls

  • Youth Renewal Fund’s Israel Emergency Campaign - support students in Darca’s network of schools that serves underprivileged communities and are now in more need than ever

  • Bayit Cham - providing free therapy for children

  • Artists for Israel’s Healing Arts Kits - The Healing Arts Kits were designed by mental health professionals to slow or stop the onset of new cases of PTSD. Artists for Israel has delivered over 8,000 Kits across Israel during previous operations and is seeing requests for thousands more during this time of historic need. YOU CAN HELP BY (A) DONATING AND/OR (B) PUTTING TOGETHER KITS TO SEND TO KIDS IN ISRAEL. Learn more here. Got questions? I’ll connect you with the CEO.

Mental health and social services

  • Bayit Cham - providing free therapy for 1,000 children

  • JDC - provides social services

  • IsraAID - partnering with local groups to coordinate humanitarian efforts, provide mental health, education, and protection support, and urgent aid to evacuated and vulnerable communities

  • Israel Trauma Coalition

  • Access Israel - the leading organization in Israel promoting accessibility and inclusion has focused in the last several year of the need of accessibility in times of emergency. Since the atrocities of the Black Saturday October 7th, the Purple Vest mission in Israel has received hundreds of requests for assistance from families of the elderly and disabled in areas under attack – this includes rescue, supplies, and missile proof safe houses. To learn more about and support their work click here

  • Am Ehad - One People - This organization is actively transporting families from war zones, connecting them with host families and offering emotional support for the bereaved.

  • The Edmond de Rothschild Partnerships - works to reduce gaps in Israeli society through leadership programs that provide unique opportunities to youth and young adults from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities in Israel’s socio-geographic peripheries. EDR has an emergency aid plan to welcome families from the southern region who had escaped the vicious attacks. See the Rothschild Partnerships Emergency Aid Plan 

  • ELEM/Youth in Distress in Israel - is the country’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to treating and transforming the lives of troubled youth from diverse ethnicities and religions. Support their work here.

  • Friends Health - Haverim Le'Refuah - has been striving to help sick people in need. Their mission is to ensure that every person in Israel receives the medicines they need, regardless of their economic situation. They are now mobilizing support for soldiers and reservists on the front, and evacuated residents from the South. See their call to action

  • Hamaniot - Sunflowers is a sanctuary for orphaned children and youth across Israel. In today's challenging times, an increasing number of orphans find themselves without a stable home to depend on. Sunflowers is committed to shining a beacon of hope on these children, providing them with the support and resources required to help them cope with their grief and regain their strength. To support their work, click here.

  • Hands On Tzedakah (“HOT”), a 4-star Charity Navigator public charity with a 20+ year history, has an extensive network of partners on the ground in Israel that it works with year-round to provide a variety of social impact programs. HOT immediately responded to the current crisis by coordinating with its partners on the ground to provide assistance and necessities to many Victims of War and Terror. You can support their work here

  • HIAS - provides vital services to refugees and asylum seekers around the world and advocates for their fundamental rights so they can rebuild their lives. HIAS is implementing an initial 30-day response plan seeking to focus critical needs as well as core emergency capabilities to address crisis in Israel. These include: a Help Rush Emergency Aid to Israel campaign.

  • Impact Cubed is for philanthropists who want to give together to strengthen nonprofit capacity in a time of rapid change. Impact Cubed provides guidance to philanthropists and impact investors; facilitating funder consortiums; providing technical consulting and advice on nonprofit capacity; and stimulating philanthropy education initiatives. Impact Cubed has established an Israel Emergency Rapid Response Grassroots Initiative. To support this initiative click here.

  • IsraAID  - This Israeli aid group known mainly humanitarian work, is accepting donations in support of Israeli communities affected by the fighting. IsraAID is working with evacuees from the South.

  • Israel Women’s Network – IWN has expanded its hotline to provide women who have lost their jobs or can’t work due to the war with guidance on accessing government resources and information on their legal rights. IWN helps lead efforts to connect 100s of women’s organizations across Israel to provide a unified voice on the inclusion of women in key decision-making roles and negotiations. Click here to donate.

  • Itach Ma’aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice – is running a Jewish-Arab joint alliance to help support Bedouin women in the south who are providing food, sanitary items, and first aid equipment to families in the Negev without shelter and who suffer from a shortage in basic staples. Itach Ma’aki is also providing emotional support to those who have been directly impacted and legal aid to women throughout Israel who have been fired from their jobs as a result of the war. Click here to donate.

  • Latet Israeli Humanitarian Aid - largest NGO combating poverty and food insecurity in Israel. Acting as an umbrella organization for 210 local associations. Latet launched a large-scale operation in the south, providing food and hygiene boxes to citizens with no resources - those still in the south and those who have been evacuated to other locations, families in need, elderly people, Holocaust survivors and reservists operating in the field. Campaign donation form is Latet Israeli Humanitarian Aid.

  • Leket Israel -  Leket Israel is a leading source of food rescue which focuses on delivering healthy food to those in need Leket Israel has swiftly launched emergency relief programs in the South. The Leket Stand With Israel initiatives were developed in collaboration with local NPOs and in response to direct requests from families in need and impacted business owners, addressing their most pressing needs. 

  • Lifes Door Gisha L'ChaimThe Hope Warriors Emergency Support Fund is providing the comfort and support the elderly and sick deserve, as they cope with anxiety during these difficult days. Hope Warriors are offering, assistance, medication, food and companionship.

  • החברה למתנ"סים (matnasim.org.il) - Israel Association of Community Centers is looking to provide emergency aid packages to cater to the needs of several communities and regional counsels including Shderot and Mehavim You can learn more here.

  • NATAN Worldwide Disaster Relief – NATAN is an Israeli based all volunteer non-profit NGO helping people rebuild their lives following natural and human made disasters. They are now operating three field medical clinics, one dental clinic and one counseling center whereever evacuees from the south of Israel are housed. To support this initiative click here.

  • One Heart בלב אחדב - One Heart organizes a network of volunteers during national emergencies. Their team in Israel is working tirelessly to ensure all wounded are accounted for. they have been visiting multiple hospitals daily, reaching out to the thousands of wounded soldiers. Participating in Operation Swords of Iron will help support soldiers in need.

  • Open Your Heart for Israel - Pitchon Lev Humanitarian Aid Centers - This organization has launched an emergency aid campaign for southern residents, soldiers and other security forces. The campaign will support their coordinated efforts with the Center for Civic Aid (מרס"ל) to deliver goods and aid to residents and equipment to soldiers.

  • Orr Shalom is a non-profit organization that cares for children and youth at risk providing them a real chance for an improved present and future. Many Orr Shalom’s group homes and graduates are located in the South.  Orr shalom has joined the Swords of Iron campaign to provide aid to foster families in the south.

  • The Public Forum - was founded in 2012, at the initiative of Avi Naor, a social entrepreneur and Laureate of the Israel Prize. The forum is a professional and philanthropic collaboration that advances and cater to Israel’s youth villages and boarding schools. It removes the state’s responsibility for promoting the students and alumni of external-to-home educational frameworks. During the national emergency, the Public Forum is directing all of its energies towards providing immediate assistance to the thousands of children and youth in these frameworks and the staff who are with them. More details about emergency need here.

  • Rashi Foundation – Rashi Foundation is operating in emergency mode, assessing the needs of affected populations to provide immediate aid. The have established an emergency fund with seed money which will be used to assist the victims.

  • Shalva -the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities provides care for individuals with disabilities, empowering their families and promoting social inclusion. Shalva is mobilizing all its resources to receive hundreds of individuals evacuated from southern Israel along the Gaza border to the Shalva National Crisis Response Center where they are safe,and receive the physical and emotional care they so desperately need. To support their efforts click here

  • SPNI  – is the largest nature conservation organization in Israel and among the oldest in the world. They have started the Israel Under Fire - SPNI Emergency Campaign: providing safe housing for families evacuated from the Gaza area in SPNI's Field Schools.

  • Taglit-Birthright Israel - features as the single most important bridge to Israel for hundreds of thousands of Jewish young adults between 18 26 years-of-age. Birthright is standing hand in hand with the families of Southern and Northern Israel sponsoring the temporary relocation of 90 families from the south in hotels in Jerusalem, at full board accommodation.

  • The Tsedek Centers - a national grassroots movement established that promotes democracy, equality, and justice in a shared Israeli society, and Hashomer Hatzair, a Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement have united in action to support the Sword of Iron Campaign to solicit Immediate Relief for Residents of the Frontline

  • Friends of Unistream (FOU) - helps give teens in Israel’s periphery an equal opportunity to fulfill their full potential. Unistream harnesses entrepreneurship and innovation as tools to enable teens to dream big, breakdown barriers and gain skills that will help them succeed.

Bedouin community

  • AJEEC – NISPED (Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment, and Cooperation Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Economic Development) - an organization based in Beer Sheva dedicated to promoting the socio-economic development of the Negev Bedouin community and partnership between Arabs and Jews across Israel. AJEEC are currently working in partnership with the Shared Emergency Center for the Negev Bedouins, to create an emergency room to respond to their needs during the conflict. Donate Securely to AJEEC - NISPED (israelgives.org)

  • The Social Venture Fund for Jewish Arab Equality and Shared Society Emergency Fund (SVF) is focused on two areas of funding: one area is support for civil society organizations that are working fervently to prevent incitement and violence between the Jewish and Arab citizens in the mixed cities in Israel, as we saw in May 2021.  The second area is to support the Bedouin communities in the south, who have had members killed, kidnapped and injured and who do not have the government provided safety net because they live in “unrecognized” villages.

  • Yanabia - the leading Bedouin nonprofit is organizing a campaign to provide mobile bomb shelters to Bedouin towns and settlements in the Negev, many of which are just encampments.

  • Desert Stars - empowering mission-driven young people in the Bedouin community to realize their individual and collective potential as change-making leaders.

  • Unrecognized Arab Villages in the Negev - GoFundMe to support Bedouin communities that aren’t protected by the Iron Dome

Educational Institutions

  • The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo – responded immediately by creating the Swords of Iron Fund, assisting its students living in the Western Negev and granting special assistance to its 1,000 students mobilized to reserve duty at the IDF. The college response to the national need is Immediate Training in the fields of trauma, grief and loss - for 1,000 Mental Health Professionals.

  • Darca Schools - Darca Schools are committed to providing equal educational opportunities for youth and teens in Israel’s underserved periphery.

  • Dror Israel - Dror Israel educators are jumping into action to meet immediate needs by helping to support evacuees, providing youth counselors in bomb shelters and day care for children of hospital workers and other essential staff Donate to their emergency response campaign here.

  • Sapir College - located in the northwestern Negev desert near Sderot. It is the largest public college in Israel, with an enrollment of 8,000 students.[1] To date Sapir students and staff have experienced unbearable horrors. The college has shut down as it is located in a war zone. Many have lost their homes and possessions and are not eligible for government assistance. Please contact JFN to learn more.

  • The Tel Aviv Institute - a multidisciplinary laboratory focused on uplifting Jews and other minorities on and offline through innovative, social media-driven strategies. TLVI provide resources, data, and proven strategies for those who fight hate in the digital space with an inclusive tone focused on bringing new people into advocacy for Jews.

  • Tel Aviv University - has established an emergency fund to respond quickly and dynamically to evolving needs in Israel, capitalizing on the university’s strengths and expertise. The emergency fund is not subject to overhead and is forming and reacting to needs in real time. As of today, the fund is assisting with the following: free temporary housing in the TAU dorms, psychological treatment to soldiers, anti-Israel and antisemitic social media responses and much more. 

Miscellaneous

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