Overview
A detailed description and analysis of the hundreds of foundations that are prepared to fund projects that relate to the State of Israel. This book also gives the reader an insight into what each foundation is looking for, and how to reach these foundations both in the United States and in Israel.For the tens of thousands of people who are looking to fund their Israel-related projects, and for the hundreds of organizations affiliated with Israel, this is an invaluable guide to the sources for funding that they must have. Each foundation has reviewed the material entered in this volume and agreed that the contents are up-to-date and accurate, thereby assuring the reader of undiluted, precise information on the potential sources for funding their project.
About the Author
Prof. Eliezer Jaffe has lived in Israel since 1960 and teaches at The Hebrew University's Paul Baerwald School of Social Work. He was trained in the United States, obtaining degrees in sociology, psychology, and criminology, and a doctorate in social work. He has been a consultant to the Israel Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and has served on several ministerial committees, including the Prime Minister's Committee on Children and Disadvantaged Youth (under Golda Meir), The Prime Minister's Council on Social Welfare Policy (under Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir), the President's Committee on Outstanding Volunteers (under Chai Herzog), and the Committee to Determine Israel's Poverty Line. Between 1970 and 1972, he headed the Jerusalem Municipal Department of Family and Community Services, introducing major reforms, all of which have since been adopted nationwide.
Prof. Jaffe's research has focused primarily on social services to children and families and on the nonprofit sector and philanthropy in Israel. He studies and teaches about intercountry adoptions, nonprofit organization management, fundraising, and private philanthropy in Israel, and has conducted pioneering research on culturally sensitive practice, ethnic stereotypes among Israelis and public access to information regarding nonprofit organizations in Israel. He has helped promote and prepare the new Israeli law on intercountry adoption. He publishes frequently in professional journals and in the Israeli and American Jewish press and is the author of fourteen books.
Prof. Jaffee received the President of Israel's Citation for Outstanding Volunteer Activity in 1996, and the Mayor of Jerusalem Award for Outstanding Nonprofit Association Chairman. He also received the Bernard Revel Memorial Award, presented annually to the most outstanding scholar and community leader among the alumni of Yeshiva University. He is an independent, frank interpreter and analyst of social problems in Israel and an ardent advocate of direct giving and involvement by Jews abroad in Israeli social affairs. It was Prof. Jaffe who suggested the twinning concept in Project Renewal, whereby Jewish Federations and private philanthropists abroad link-up directly in partnerships with specific disadvantaged neighborhoods in Israel.
He was a co-founder of Zahavi - The Israel Association of Large Families, a member of the Central Committee of the Israel Association of Social Workers, an advisor to social action groups of new immigrant and other disadvantages Israelis, the first Chairman of the Israel Committee of the New Israel Fund, and Chairman of the Academic council of the International Sephardi Education Fund (ISEF). He was a member of the editorial board of Israel's social work journal, Society and Welfare; serves On the editorial board of the international journal Public Management; and is a member of the National Council on Social Work. He is a consultant to the Rothschild Foundation and other foundations and private philanthropists in Israel and abroad. In 1990, he founded the Israel Free Loan Association (IFLA) to provide interest free loans for new immigrants and other needy Israelis, which he chairs as a volunteer. The Association has thus far provided over $16 million dollars in revolving interest free loans to over 13,000 individuals in Israel. It received the Mayor of Jerusalem Award for Outstanding Nonprofit Organization. Prof. Jaffee is married and has four children and 13 grandchildren, all born and living in Israel. He is the Centraid-L. Jacques Menard Professor for the Study of Nonprofit Organizations, Volunteering and Philanthropy at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This is the only chair on this subject at any university in Israel and is an important element of the Master's degree program in Nonprofit Management, the first program of its kind in Israel.