Israel

Our mission includes making higher education accessible to the population in the vicinity of the college at the northern tip of the Negev.
We have a School of Education and a School of Sciences. We grant bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as teaching certificates. The college also provides continuing education courses. 
Faculty engage in research in their fields and in cooperation with researchers at other institutions.

ActiveVision brings to the front stage those who are usually pushed to the margin, the faceless and the nameless. With those who usually act on the passive side of the frame in our society.
ActiveVision was created by a group of visual and documentary artists and photojournalists, sharing the belief in the power of the visual image in creating consciousness and change, of mobilizing social changes via art.
There is a very strong inflow of refugees from Africa into Europe and the Mediterranean. the largest group comes from Darfur. Many of these refugees are youth under 18. We need to create a space for them for expression, free exchange of information, a space for public discourse. Art and media should be harnessed to the well-being and development of the refugee youth and provide them with tools and training. This will contribute to community rehabilitation and promote an essential dialogue in society.

"Activism festival" is the annual gathering for social change and sustainability in Israel and its vicinity.
The Festival is part of a long-term process that encourages responsibility by supporting entrepreneurship which have sustainable impact on the local society. The festival is the peak point of the year: The place where initiatives are shaped.
We do this by creating a platform in which grassroots organizations and independent activists meet, and new collaborations grow.
The festival is also open to the public. Every person can arrive, enjoy a massive cultural event, get inspired and become active in society.
Objectives:
• To strengthen the ties and interrelations among grassroots organizations and the general public
• To empower participating individuals, according to the freedom of infor-mation and media
• To encourage the development of initiatives which create and support a sustainable lifestyle and promote a sustainable society

The Adva Center is an action-oriented policy analysis institute focusing on equality and social justice issues in Israel whose mission is to contribute to a more equitable and socially just society in Israel.

The goal of Afikim BaNegev is to promote advances in education, Judaism and social welfare in the Negev development city of Sderot, one of Israel's poorest cities. Our group lives in the town and therefore can have a better overall impact on its citizens. We strive to make the city of Sderot a better place to live in by providing educational and social activities for the benefit of the city's children, youth and adults. We also help parents and children deal with the constant threat of Kassam missiles being fired at the town.

The mission of ARDC is to assist, support and empower asylum seekers and refugees of African origin who are in Israel by ensuring access to basic social services, facilitating integration into Israeli society and promoting self-sufficiency and ownership in matters affecting their lives. We advocate for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and for fair and humane Israeli asylum policies.
We establish our direction with the community engaging asylum seekers and refugees in activities to ensure greater capacity, community ownership and long term sustainability. Our service recipients also play a vital role in the decision-making process through the ARDC Board of Directors and Working Group.

The African Israeli Stage,  sees its role as a supporter of African culture; it seeks to contribute to the cultural ‘conversation’, rather than dominate it; it takes a positive, rather than critical perspective on African culture (and by extension, on Africa itself); and ultimately, it looks to enrich the Israeli culture discourse, by helping creating a space within it for African arts and culture, as well as for minority culture. The strength and unique quality of the African-Israeli Stage is in creating opportunities for inter-cultural contacts. The professional ensemble of actors, musicians and creators include among its participants veteran Israelis, Ethiopian immigrants, African immigrants, Asylum seekers and Israeli-Palestinian actors, who transcend their daily existences to create a community of understanding and acceptance without minimizing the differences and conflicts that exist across different cultural and religious identities.

The Regional Council for the Unrecognized Arab Villages in the Negev (RCUV) is a grassroot civil society organization and a democratically elected body, chosen to represent the Bedouin community of the of the unrecognized villages. There are 120,000 people living in 45 unrecognized villages in the Negev. This population has been denied representation in the local authorities, through the policies of non-recognition. The primary goal of the RCUV is governmental recognition of the Arab Bedouin (governmentally unrecognized) villages in the Negev. In addition, the RCUV's mission is to lobby for services for the unrecognized villages - Education, public transportation, water supply, healthcare and democratic representation. The RCUV initiates and implements development programs; lobbies for civil rights; advocate for the needs of its constituency.

The Factory primarily aims to enhance the cultural development within the Palestinian society inside Israel, according to a vision and curriculum that strives to rise up in this young field in our society. As well as it strives to establish the efforts and abilities in order to build the creative self and the creative human and the creative artist in all artistic fields, through giving assistance and offering techniques, study, research and exploration.
We believe that the change starts within the individuals, and they carry by their turn the indications of this change, its seeds and burgeon to their audience, and from there will emerge an intellectual and cultural record.
Our objectives are:
*Develop Palestinian cultural production and promote its consumption, locally;
*Establish infrastructure for the professional education and intellectual development of the arts;
*Support and empower defined groups in the areas of culture and production, e.g., women, youth;
*Adopt and tutor “homeless” creative groups by providing them with technical and financial support;
*Facilitate cultural connections with other Palestinians, and with the wider Arab world;
*Foster cultural exchanges with international and local artists for mutual enrichment; &
*Provide cultural infrastructure and networks to assist researchers, students and the public to broaden cultural capacity.

Al-Tufula center (NNI) is a pedagogical multi-purpose women's center which aims at empowering women and developing the field of early childhood by adopting a feminist, holistic, integrative and liberating approach, and by utilizing the following strategies: capacities building, development of resources and infrastructures, national and international lobby and advocacy, local international resource development and networking.
In view of that, our main objectives are:
1. Empowering Arab women citizens of Israel to become active in all life spheres guarantee all their rights and enjoy a society that provides equal opportunities to all its members: increase the integration of Arab women in the labor force and developing women leadership.
2. Enhancing social solidarity through networking and coalitions.
3. Developing and disseminating a holistic integrative approach to early childhood in the Palestinian society in Israel.