Bakehila
Director: Arik Saporta
During the 2005/2006 academic year, Bakehila has had a strong empowering impact on the 2500 children, youths (in 15 schools) and adults in four Jerusalem neighborhoods - Katamon, Kiryat HaYovel, Gilo and Neve Yaakov.  Bakehila works with the students on subjects such as math, Hebrew and English, and also runs extra-curricular activities, summer camps, and additional programs aimed to involve the students’ parents as well as other neighborhood residents.

College4All, חינוך לפסגות  (http://www.college4all.org)
Director: Dr. Shmuelik Weiss
College4All runs after-school enrichment programs for underprivileged children. The organization focuses on those students with the greatest potential to excel and accompanies them from second grade through the end of high school, with the goal of preparing these students for higher education.

College4All launched its operation in 1999 with 30 students in the neighborhood of Tel Kabir in South Tel Aviv. By the end of the 2006/07 shool year, the organization was working with over 850 students in 13 locations around the country. Additional sites are being considered.

FIRST  (http://www.usfirst.org)
Director: Alisha Wallenstein
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was established in 1992 in the US to encourage technology education among youth, and now operates in the US, Canada, Brazil, and Britain.  FIRST established connections with the Technion and GM/UMI in order to bring this program to Israel in the 2004/05 school year.  As part of the program, teams of high school students, teachers, and mentors from industry enter a robotics competition against other teams/schools.  The teams are required to build robots from a standard kit of parts and enter them in a series of competitions in which they are rewarded for excellence in design, demonstrated team spirit, gracious professionalism and maturity, and ability to overcome obstacles.  12 teams joined the competition in the first year of operation in Israel; in the second year of operation there were 26 teams; and in the third year 34 teams.

Gallop  (http://www.gallop.org.il)
Director: Oz Maor
Gallop runs a farm for individuals with special needs, including autisitc children, youth at risk, and people with other handicaps.  The farm, which houses both a horse-riding stable and agricultural space, offers the participants opportunities to learn life skills and gain a sense of responsibility through activities such as horse-riding, caring for animals, and interacting with the other populations at the farm e.g. youth at risk are given opportunities to help care for autistic children.

Hapoel Tel Aviv Education and Society Project  (http://www.mifalot.co.il/mifalot/language/english)
Director: Dr. Meir Orenstein
The Education and Social Project of Hapoel Tel Aviv leverages the Hapoel brand name and childrens' love of soccer to give disadvantaged and at-risk children all over Israel the opportunity to be winners and to realize their full potential.  Children who participate in the program attend soccer practice and games twice a week and are also required to attend education sessions twice a week.  Thus, in addition to the teamwork and sportsmanship the children learn on the field, they are also improving their formal education, receiving help with their homework and other enrichment activities.
 
Hapoel's Education and Social Project began 12 years ago with several hundred children, and today operates about 350 programs, reaching over 25,000 children, ages 5 - 16.  Programs are run for various populations in both the Jewish and Arab sectors, including special programs (with content adapted as necessary) for Ethiopian immigrant children, children with special needs, Druze, Bedouin, girls, youth in prison, and others.

Kadima  (http://www.lasova.org.il)
Chairman/Founder: Gilad Harish
Kadima operates a network of youth clubs in poor neighborhoods. The centers operate five days a week from 12:00 to 19:00, with longer hours during vacations. Each center accepts about 50 children, based on referrals from the city’s welfare and/or education departments, and is run by one paid counselor together with many volunteers who provide the children with help in their studies as well as other supplemental educational programming. The children also receive lunch and dinner there.

At the end of 2005, Kadima was operating fifteen such centers and was investigating additional potential locations.

Latet  (http://www.latet.org.il)
Chairman/Founder: Gilles Darmon
Latet is an Israeli humanitarian aid organization founded in 1996 with the goal of providing assistance to needy populations in Israel and worldwide. Latet aims to mobilize Israeli society to greater involvement in the humanitarian field, through heightened social awareness and the fostering of values such as mutual responsibility and giving.

Tmura’s funding is being directed towards the I’m For You project which aims to develop humanitarian values in the younger generation by exposing them to the advantages of contributing to the community and providing aid to people regardless of their affiliation.

Maksam  (http://www.maksam.org)
Director: Eitan Bitew
The Maksam program in Hadera was initiated in 1996 by young Ethiopian activists who saw the need for programs run by Ethiopians for Ethiopians.  Maksam in unique in that it is seen by the Ethiopian community as their own initiative and has therefore been able to gain the confidence and trust of the parent body.  Launched as a homework help program in a derelict bomb shelter, Maksam now operates a network of four centers in Hadera that provide professional programming for children, and support and enrichment for their parents.

Misholim  (http://www.misholim.org.il)
Director: Elisabeth Chouraqui-Chemla
Misholim – The Jerusalem Expressive Therapy Center for Children was established in 1980 to provide a new method of treatment for children with emotional and neurological difficulties. Misholim’s method of treatment is unique in that it combines 1) the use of expressive therapies, 2) for children, 3) in a group dynamic.

Recognized nationally as a unique resource for providing a new and effective approach to dealing with trauma, the center has been approached by several municipalities in other parts of Israel to explore the possibility of establishing additional branches of Misholim, specifically in the periphery where there is already a dearth of affordable therapeutic options. Tmura’s funding is being directed towards Misholim’s expansion program.

Rosh Pina Mainstreaming Network
Chairman/Founder: Chana Zweiter
RPMN has been active for more than 10 years, developing and implementing programs to integrate different populations e.g. veteran Israelis and new immigrants, Arabs and Israelis. RPMN’s original model taught children self-awareness, and awareness and understanding of others in order to bring two populations together.

In response to findings of Israel’s Ministry of Education that achievement in the formal academic areas had declined over the previous two years and that students do not want to attend school because of the verbal and physical abuse they experience there, RPMN is now using the same principles for social and emotional learning i.e. to teach children to articulate feelings, to communicate effectively, to respect others, and so on, thus enabling them to deal with everyday dilemmas without resorting to violence.

Shiur Acher  (http://www.shiuracher.org)
Director: Dafna Adoram
Shiur Acher, founded in 2002, promotes civic involvement and social responsibility by enlisting volunteers to teach courses in their area of specialization in Israeli schools. The organization aims to create a bridge between the professional community and the educational needs in Israel’s disadvantaged neighborhoods by offering children unmediated access to positive adult role models who work in fields that the children rarely encounter in their daily lives.

In the 2005/2006 school year, Shiur Acher reached over 1,700 students with 68 courses, delivered by 480 volunteers, in 34 schools.  It is worth noting that all of the volunteers and schools have continued to work with Shiur Acher for either their second or even third year, attesting to their overall satisfaction with the program.

SPNI Jerusalem  (http://www.teva.org.il)
Director: Naomi Tsur
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel is Israel's oldest and largest environmental organization.  SPNI works to help average citizens become life-long advocates for the environment and a sustainable Israel for all to enjoy and inhabit.
 
Tmura's funding has been directed towards "Children Can Make a Difference," an environmental education curriculum developed for use in elementary schools.  The program leads children through concepts adapted to their age level, taking them from their own small world to the concept of neighborhood and city environment.  A sense of responsibility and stewardship for their environment is fostered by creating a school garden in the lower grades, and later on by adopting a small neglected site near the school. 

Summit Institute  (http://www.summit.org.il)
Director: Haim Deutsch
For over 30 years, the Summit Institute has been active in rehabilitation programs and care for marginalized youth and youth at risk. In January 2003, the government privatized its foster care services and Summit was appointed by the Social Welfare Department to coordinate the foster care placement of children and youth at risk in the Jerusalem and southern regions of Israel, involving hundreds of cases of children and youth in need of its services.

Tmura’s funding is being directed toward a tutoring program for a select group of children in the foster care program – those with the greatest potential and motivation to succeed – in order to bring them up to the level of other students in their age group.

Tel Aviv Rape Crisis Center  (http://tlv.1202.org.il)
Director: Miriam Schler
The Center was established in 1978 with a mandate to assist and support victims of sexual assault, as well as to raise awareness of and increase education about related issues. The Center, the first of its kind to open in Israel, serves the Gush Dan region and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Nine additional centers around the country were since founded in its footsteps. In 2005, the Center received 11,261 calls, representing 32% of all those received in Israel.

Tmura’s funding is being directed towards the הושיטי לה יד project which does outreach work targeted to youth from specific segments of the population that are less likely to approach the Center on their own (e.g. immigrants from the FSU, religious), and as a result, it is necessary to make the services accessible in their local communities. This project represents a new model for working with specific population groups and will raise awareness of the issues at hand within these groups, as well as open channels of communication for them with the Center.

Tzeva  (http://www.tzeva.org.il)
Director: Ifat Zaltsberg-Hasse
The organization works with children from grades 3–6 twice a week after school for 2 hours each session. Tzeva’s philosophy is to work in tandem with the school and the students’ teachers, who take an active role in defining the material to be focused on during the sessions. This age group was selected as a result of studies that show that many students are not adequately prepared to cope with the transition to junior high school (חטיבת ביניים). Tzeva’s goal is to ensure that these at-risk students are educationally and emotionally prepared for this critical transition.

During the 2005/06 school year, Tzeva operated 25 enrichment centers in cities all around Israel, and was assisted by about 650 volunteers. Each center works with approximately 25 students and is supported by between 25–50 volunteers.

Yaacov Herzog Center for Jewish Studies  (http://www.merkazherzog.org.il)
Director: Dr. Gili Zivan
The Yaacov Herzog Center for Jewish Studies (“YHC”), founded in the late 1980s, is an educational institution committed to the pluralistic study of Jewish cultural heritage as a way of overcoming the alienation between the various sectors in Israeli society, while fostering positive social change. YHC has developed a range of programs that aim to facilitate dialogue between different groups of Jews in order to generate Jewish renewal, and at the same time, initiate a process of positive social change that draws its strength from Jewish heritage.

Tmura’s funding is being directed towards “Project Atid – Leaders of Tomorrow,” a year-long leadership training program for youth that draws on Jewish and Israeli cultural traditions to nurture social welfare activity in young people with the potential for community leadership.

Yedidim  (http://www.yedidim.org.il)
Director: Shimon Siani
Yedidim was established in 1990 with the objective of forming a “Big Brother” network to help new immigrant youth (specifically the aliya from the FSU) cope with the many challenges they faced acclimating to Israel. Since then, the organization has expanded greatly and now runs many different programs in 55 locations around the country, servicing over 5,000 youth, and leveraging a network of over 2,000 volunteers.

Tmura’s funding is being directed towards expansion of the בית ידידים project, neighborhood clubhouses which serve as a drop-in center for teens. In addition to quiet spaces for reading/homework, the centers house a small library, computer room, and space for recreational activities. Additionally, the centers provide space for representatives from different organizations to meet with the youth and give advice and counseling in different areas of interest, all under one roof.

Yuvalim  (http://www.yuvalim.org)
Director: Dr. Orith Landau
Yuvalim was created in response to the growing gap between junior high school students in the poorer and outlying areas and their counterparts living in more established regions of the country.  Yuvalim stands out among educational extra-curricular programs in Israel because of the intensity of the academic studies it offers, the emotional and psychological support it provides and the characteristics of the students that it serves: underprivileged underachievers and top students in junior high schools.
 
Yuvalim's intervention differs from existing educational interventions precisely because of the above - it targets both children at risk, who are mostly underachievers, some of whom are on the verge of dropping out of school, and also high-achieving students who are thirsty for extra enrichment but because of their surroundings or economic situation don't receive it.

Zichron Menachem  (http://www.zichron.org)
Director: Chaim Ehrental
Zichron Menachem, established in 1990, is a non-profit organization aimed at easing the suffering of young cancer patients and their families.  ZM's unique programs and activities help the ill children and their family members cope with this often terrible disease.  The organization operates nation-wide, assisting children who are being treated at 12 different hospitals throughtout Israel.