College4All, חינוך לפסגות
Director/Founder: Shahaf Erlich
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 2004, the organization was working with 538 students in five locations including Tel Kabir, Yehud, Herzliya, Katzrin, and Nes Ziona. Additional sites are being considered.

JVP Community
Director: Arik Saporta
During the 2003/2004 academic year, JVPC assisted over 400, 5th and 6th grade Jerusalem students from three schools in subjects such as math, Hebrew and English. In the following year, the program expanded to two additional schools. JVPC also runs extra-curricular activities, summer camps, and additional programs aimed to involve the students’ parents as well as other neighborhood residents.

Kadima (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 2004, Kadima was operating twelve such centers and was investigating additional potential locations.

Latet (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.

Misholim (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 (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 2003/2004 school year, Shiur Acher reached 500 students with 24 courses, delivered by 140 volunteers, in 16 schools. In the 2004/2005 school year, more than 40 courses were offered. 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.

Summit Institute (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
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 2003, the Center received 9,064 approaches, representing 42% 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 (www.tzeva.org.il)
Director: Sagit Frecter-Bratzlavski
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 2003/04 school year, Tzeva operated 19 enrichment centers in several cities around Israel, and was assisted by about 540 volunteers. Each center works with approximately 25 students and is supported by between 25–35 volunteers. Tzeva intends to expand its operations to 30 enrichment centers in the 2004/05 school year.

Yaacov Herzog Center for Jewish Studies (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 (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.