Israel

Our mission is to mobilize local leadership on trash infrastructure with a specific focus on empowering youth to reshape the landscape of the waste crisis worldwide. The organization operates through a network of volunteers on an international scale and local chapters who organize weekly or monthly clean-up events and educational outreach initiatives in their communities. We formulated our approach to provide a bridge that expands individual efforts into group, community, agency, and government wide initiatives that have resulted in participants in 40+ countries, over 50,000lbs of trash removed from our environment since in 2020. The organization's mission is to engage and empower individuals--especially in vulnerable regions--to take action to reduce litter and waste in their local environment, weaponize their voices and to promote sustainable practices that benefit the planet as a whole. Our initiatives focus on key issues such as waste management, plastic pollution, frontline justice, and intersectionality. These are detrimental problems that affect minority communities the most—requiring the greatest support and immediate attention.

The goal of the activity is to expand the opportunities for the weakend families (parents & children) by enhancing the educational aspect for children & teens (homework assistance, tutors for learning disabilities & scholarships for higher education), teaching parents how to better conduct themselves, exposing the community to new cultural experiences. Education is the key to success in all aspects of life.

Our mission is to make the Valley of Springs an attractive destination to visit and to live in.

Organization Summary: Established in 1991, Windows is a joint Palestinian-Israeli educational organization that seeks to strengthen values of human rights, equality, and democracy among Palestinian and Israeli youth.
As an organization, we function through a unique triangle framework with equal representation of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories, Palestinian citizens of Israel and Jewish Israelis. Our flagship project is the production and distribution of Windows Hebrew Arabic Youth Magazine , a bilingual magazine written for and by Palestinian and Israeli youth. Our activities are designed to empower young people to be agents of change in their communities, leading their societies towards a more democratic and equitable future. Our work in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) focuses on education and community outreach programs that foster critical thinking, democratic values, and leadership among Palestinian youth.
Through our programs, Windows participants gain skills in journalism, verbal expression, and activism enabling them to become positive forces of change and development in their communities. We place a particular emphasis on reaching disadvantaged sectors of Palestinian society and we have extensive experience working in refugee camps and high-conflict areas. Through working with these populations, we provide disadvantaged youth with practical skills in journalism and expression, as well as a strengthened commitment to democratic values that enables them to be leaders in the development of Palestinian society.

Strategic objectives :  
Strategic Objective 1: Contribute to improving the quality of women's lives and creating a secure environment for empowering vulnerable women in the southern Gaza Strip
Strategic Objective II :
Strategic Objective 2: Contribute to the provision of a safe and supportive environment that contributes to the psychological and educational development of marginalized children in the southern Gaza Strip.
Third Strategic Objective: To contribute to building and developing the capacities of society and enhancing its social role.
 

WIIS Israel is dedicated to increasing the influence of women in the fields of foreign and defense affairs in Israel and the greater Middle East by raising their numbers and increasing awareness about international security issues and women’s rights. WIIS Israel seeks this through two avenues, the first being our programming, mentorship programs, training programs, networking between women and the second avenue in through our research. The research aspect of WIIS Israel is to rather relevant information on women in the field of security to help increase the influence of the field including major research on women's influence in the peace process, the perception of women in the field and how it can aid the peace process, the influence of women in conflict zones and post-conflict reconstruction among others.

Objectives of the association:
*To promote and expose films made by women from Israel and the world
*To change the status of women filmmakers in the film and television industry in Israel
*To promote equality and social justice for women using women-made film
*To expose the Israeli audience to films directed by women, which focus on women and their world.
In order to fulfill our goals, we have established a pioneering international film festival in Israel, that focuses on films directed by women only and which put women and their world in their center. These festivals have as a long tradition in Europe, but in Israel this is the first festival focusing on advancing films made by women. Such films allow a profound critical look on our lives and we believe that they can lead a social and conscious change among the audience.
The association’s activity focuses on curating exceptional fascinating programs of film by women world wide. During the International Women’s Film Festival in Rehovot, a large audience is exposed to the films and in the months following the festival, films, meetings and seminars go out from the festival to other towns and cities around the country from north to south. The objective is to maximize the exposure of such films, alongside a novel public discourse which is to challenge existing patterns in Israeli society and allow a new look on our lives here.

Women's Spirit has three main objectives:
a.Making a change in society, through promoting legislation benefiting women victims of violence in the employment market, and raising public awareness in the labor market and in society to women victims of violence’s financial state and to society's responsibility to take action on behalf of women victims of violence.
b.Providing women victims of violence with efficient tools to achieve financial independence and self-reliance, and to place them in long-term positions that are appropriate to their skills and career ambitions.
c.Development of a supportive infrastructure within the labor market and the business world, in order to promote women victims of violence's opportunities in the employment market and to remove structural barriers facing them in their struggle to achieve financial independence.