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ADI (Ability. Diversity. Inclusion) cares for children and young adults with severe disabilities, empowering Israel‘s most vulnerable individuals to reach their greatest potential. It provides cutting-edge therapeutic and recovery services to individuals needing inpatient and outpatient care at the first-ever rehabilitation hospital in Israel‘s south.

Dental Volunteers for Israel (DVI) is the ONLY totally free dental clinic in all of Israel, offering state-of-the-art treatment, thanks to volunteer dentists from all corners of the world. DVI offers free dental care to Jerusalem’s at-risk children, youth, needy elderly and Holocaust Survivors, regardless of race or religion.

ENP’s SPACE (School Performance and Community Empowerment) Scholastic Assistance Program promotes academic growth and improvement by providing supplementary tutoring to students in small groups. Along with its commitment to improving students’ academic performance, SPACE  also works to improve students’ self-esteem and leadership skills through lessons that address obstacles to social integration and personal development.

The mission of HonestReporting is to ensure truth, integrity, and fairness and combat ideological prejudice in journalism and the media as it impacts Israel. HonestReporting engages the next generation and educates the public to understand and value the above aspirations.

ImpactIsrael mobilizes supporters in the U.S. to uplift Israel’s at-risk youth and Israeli society by partnering with Yemin Orde Youth Village and Village Way Educational Initiatives. Yemin Orde Youth Village is an acclaimed safe haven and year-round 24/7 school for at-risk Jewish teens from Israel and around the world.

IsraAID is an international non-governmental humanitarian aid organization based in Israel. Since their founding in 2001, their teams have worked in emergency and long-term development settings in more than 60 countries around the world. IsraAID provides humanitarian assistance all over the world to overcome extreme crises and has provided millions with the vital support needed to move from destruction to reconstruction, and eventually, to sustainable living.

Krembo Wings is the only inclusive youth movement in Israel for children and youth with special needs, providing weekly social activities for young people with all types of mental and physical disabilities together with their able-bodied peers.

Leket Israel, the National Food Bank, is the leading food rescue organization in Israel. Unique among all other organizations that serve the poor in Israel and food banks worldwide, Leket Israel’s sole focus is rescuing healthy, surplus food and delivering it to those in need through partner nonprofit organizations. 

Mavoi Satum is the leading women’s organization advocating for women’s freedom from divorce refusal (i.e. “get” abuse). Mavoi Satum works to address the problem of get refusal both at the personal and at the national level – providing assistance to individual “mesoravot get” (women who have been refused a Jewish divorce), along with advocacy campaigns aiming for a broad and systemic reform in Israeli society.

Nevet is a nonprofit organization dedicated to opening up educational opportunities for children and teenagers from vulnerable populations by providing them with food security. Nevet is the only organization of its kind in Israel designed to provide this practical response to an increasingly troubling problem in Israeli society. Nevet works with school-aged children, aged 6-18, from all backgrounds and ethnicities- Jews, Arabs, Bedouin, religious, and secular.

Operation Lifeshield provides above-ground protective shelters for areas of the country vulnerable to incoming rocket attacks. Operation Lifeshield is an emergency campaign to save innocent lives by providing Israel’s threatened communities with the protected air raid shelters they so desperately need. 

Orr Shalom is a non-profit organization that cares for children and youth at risk that have been removed from their parents’ custody by welfare authorities due to an extreme lack of protection and parental dysfunction. For over 40 years, Orr Shalom has sought to provide these children with everything they were lacking – immediate protection, a warm home, an embracing family environment, and everything that a child needs for proper development and a real chance for an improved present and future. 

Selah provides comprehensive support to immigrants throughout Israel whose lives have been torn apart by tragedy and who lack the resources to cope. In times of crisis, each individual has different needs.  With compassion and discretion, Selah strives to identify the most urgent emotional and practical needs, and respond to meet them.

The Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian organization that provides assistance to needy elderly in the Former Soviet Union, breaking the cycle of poverty and connecting them to a caring Jewish community.

The Jaffa Institute is a social services agency that assists severely disadvantaged children and their families, without distinction of religion or national origin, from the impoverished communities of Jaffa, South Tel Aviv, Bat Yam, and Bet Shemesh in Israel. The Jaffa Institute’s vision is to create a community in which children are nourished, educated and supported so that they become strong contributors to Israeli society. They work to provide program participants with the educational, nutritional, therapeutic, and social enrichment they need to escape the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

Women’s Spirit is a non-profit dedicated to helping women survivors of abuse find employment and achieve economic independence, empowering them to break free from poverty and the cycle of abuse. Women’s Spirit supports women in the “day after” phase — a critical time when they are striving to begin a new chapter in their lives while still dealing with the challenges and crises stemming from the abuse they have endured.

Yashar LaChayal provides various forms of support to IDF soldiers from impoverished families, those injured in the line of duty, and bereaved family members of those who fell in Israel’s defense.    

Zahal Disabled Veterans Fund provides rehabilitation treatment & programs for men and women who were wounded in the course of their IDF service and were left with a lifelong disability.