Ten Gav is an internet crowd-funding platform that matches donors to individuals and families with modest needs that have been submitted for backing by social services professionals in Israel. Ten Gav’s mission is to provide direct access to personal giving opportunities in order to enable you to make a real difference in the lives of real people. It’s Personal; It’s Powerful; It’s Real; It’s the 100% Model
Since our founding in 2002, Dream Doctors medical clowns have touched the lives of more than 1.6 million children in Israel. We currently partner with 29 hospitals across the country where our 100 Dream Doctors offer care to approximately 200,000 patients annually.
Our “Dream Doctors” bring light, love, and laughter to the hospital wards and work hand-in-hand with doctors and nurses to make procedures less anxiety-ridden. As professional artists with extensive training, they have a rich toolbox of techniques that ease fear and pain for children undergoing treatment in hospitals and medical clinics. They are able to build a special bond with patients, families and staff, and empower the children, making them feel brave and comfortable in the unfamiliar hospital environment.
The Dream Doctors also travel all over the world to share their knowledge and experience with our friends and partners abroad. They serve as reservists in the IDF Field Hospital Unit and brought humanitarian aid to Nepal and Haiti after the devastating earthquakes and to Houston and Miami after the hurricanes in 2017. With the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dream Doctors serve as Goodwill Ambassadors and have offered training to medical clowns, students, medical staff, and therapists worldwide.
The Feuerstein Institute: At the Institute we teach people of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of ability to think, learn and better function. These goals are achieved through use of the Feuerstein Method, a cognitive technique designed by Israel Prize laureate and renowned psychologist Professor Reuven Feuerstein. The Feuerstein Method identifies a human being’s learning profile, learning potential, and the specific process necessary to maximize that potential. Our programs assist the very young, the very old and those in between.
The Aim Higher Program: For Young Adults of Ethiopian Origin and from the Social Periphery
The Feuerstein Institute is dedicated to creating a more inclusive and diverse Israeli society. Across the political divide in both Israel and the US, it seems one of the few things almost everyone agrees about is the importance of equality of opportunity. That is the essence of the Aim Higher program: to create equality of opportunity for high-potential but socio-economically deprived populations. In Israel specifically, the Institute operates a program for young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds – many from the Ethiopian community as well as the social periphery. The aim of this program is to help hi-potential students overcome cultural and socioeconomic obstacles, so that they can succeed academically, progress professionally and integrate culturally.
Since 2010, when Feuerstein launched Aim Higher, the program has helped support more than 425 Israelis from the Ethiopian community and the social periphery in pursuing their goals and dreams in higher education. As you might imagine, the Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected those served by this program due to furloughs, unemployment and burdens of caring for family members. Even basic issues like access to computers and internet are significant challenges for many of the students served by Feuerstein.
The Lone Soldier Center’s mission is to assist lone soldiers before, during and after their army service. They provide them with food, laundry, basic necessities, equipment, advice, seminars, social events, Shabbat meals and more. By giving soldiers physical and emotional support, The Lone Soldier Center helps them through the difficulties that the army presents.
The vision is to enable every lone soldier to succeed in his or her army service, successfully integrate into Israeli society and become part of the lone soldier family.
Torat Reva Yerushalayim provides Torah study groups for the elderly residents of southern Jerusalem in nursing homes, senior centers and assisted living communities. Torat Reva Yerushalayim also offers unique Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Programs culminating in Jerusalem.
Tsad Kadima (a step forward in Hebrew), is an award winning Israeli non-profit that was established over three decades ago by Israeli parents of children born with cerebral palsy, who took their children’s fate and future into their own hands and embarked on a life changing journey – to help their children reach their full potential and independence and integrate into the community at large.
Today, Tsad Kadima operates several rehabilitative frameworks, various complementary programs and services, throughout Israel, for infants, children and adults with severe physical disabilities and their families.
Their overriding goal is to enable children and adults with severe physical disabilities to become actively involved, reach a level of functional independence, integrate into the community and participate in normative life frameworks.
United Hatzalah is an independent, non-profit, fully volunteer Emergency Medical Services organization that provides the fastest and free emergency medical first response throughout Israel. United Hatzalah’s service is available to all people without regard to race, religion or national origin. With almost 4,000 volunteers throughout the country, our average response time around Israel in 3 minutes or less, and 90 seconds in major cities such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The Women’s International Zionist Organization identifies the needs of Israeli society, and creates solutions to meet them. Now over 250,000 members strong in 50 federations worldwide, WIZO is the main agent of change for women, children, and youth in Israel. The organization strives to strengthen women and their families in Israel and to connect global Jewish communities by working together for a stronger Israel. WIZO has three main focus areas: women’s rights, children, and youth. For women, WIZO offers empowerment and leadership, legal aid and advice, legislation and policy, and works to reduce and treat domestic violence. For children, WIZO has 183 Day Care Centers, offers foster homes, and integrates children with special needs or children at risk in their Day Care Centers. For youth, WIZO has a number of Youth Villages, youth centers, and schools for special education.
Yad Ezra V’Shulamit works hard to fight hunger through many projects – from our food basket project to our employment desk, children’s centers and our feed-a-baby project we work around the clock to break the cycle of poverty, feeding hungry children and families in Israel. We provide 3,000 food baskets throughout Israel each week and 20,000 on Rosh Hashanah and Passover.
Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 – 13:
Yashar LaChayal has been helping soldiers since 2006. Yashar LaChayal builds and maintains Warm Corner rest stations for soldiers on patrol, responds quickly to cases of injured soldiers and offers them assistance, and aids bereaved families in many ways. In addition, we supply work closely with needy soldiers, maintaining Needy Soldiers Supply Closets filled with toiletries, blankets, socks and other necessities, and distributing food baskets to needy soldiers and their families for the holidays. Yashar LaChayal also works closely with Lone Soldiers, ensuring that they have the goods they need and a support system during and after their service. Additional projects are described in detail on our website: www.yasharlachayal.org.
Every donation goes directly to the soldiers. We are grateful recipients of a grant that funds all our operating expenses, so all other money is used to make purchases for the soldiers.
You can show your support for the IDF combat soldiers by adopting a unit, or by raising money to provide soldiers with specific goods.
