Post by Jerry Chasen, Alliance VP on January 18, 2012 This past November 15th, the Alliance produced the Inaugural Bipartisan Conference on Innovation in Giving and Philanthropy. The one-day meeting at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC featured an Honorary Host Committee including House Maj. Leader Eric Cantor, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Susan Collins, Joe […]
Full Story »Using Solar Power to Desalinate and Produce Fresh Water in Jordan & Israel
BGU is working to develop cost-effective ways to desalinate water through solar energy. Reflecting BGU’s spirit of collaboration with Israel’s neighbors, the University is conducting its research at one location in Jordan (Aqaba) and two locations in Israel (Hatzeva & Ashdod) which reflect an array of water salinities ranging from slightly brackish to highly saline. […]
Full Story »Deworming the City of Mekele, Ethiopia – Supporting Professor Bentwich’s Efforts
Under the direction of the world-renowned Professor Zvi Bentwich, BGU’s Center for Emerging Tropical Diseases and AIDS (CEMTA) focuses on the study, prevention and treatment of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in the developing world. Of the NTDs recognized, schistosomiasis (a parasitic disease caused by several species of tremotodes, a parasitic worm of the genus schistosoma) […]
Full Story »Israel-Jordan Academic Emergency Medicine Collaboration
Israel is known for its highly trained emergency medical teams who are often sent to nations around the world to assist in managing natural disasters and devastating terrorist attacks. BGU is an influential and seminal resource – a leading contributor to Israel’s high standards of emergency medicine, preparedness and response. BGU has assumed a prominent […]
Full Story »Tikkun Olam Taskforce
The Reut Institute will launch a Tikkun Olam taskforce which will within a maximum of three years, fulfill the following objectives: Develop a strategy for harnessing the power of the State, the philanthropy of the Jewish world, the sense of volunteerism of Israeli and Diaspora young Jews, and the creative abilities that Israeli society offers […]
Full Story »Support for Israeli Coalition and Advocacy for Women’s Inclusion in Peace Building
Since 1999, The Institute for Inclusive Security has worked with women leaders from a wide variety of political parties in Israel and Palestine to create more opportunities for women to have their voices heard. These women draw on a common long-term perspective and awareness of the effects of war on families and communities that transcend […]
Full Story »Expanded Education for Palestinian Visually Impaired Children
The proposal is to support the expansion of an integrated education facility serving visually impaired children in East Jerusalem. The school, Siraj Al Quds was founded by a Synergos Social Innovator and serves children who otherwise would have no access to education. With major funding from the European Union, the school moved into a new […]
Full Story »Literacy and reading among children in disadvantaged communities
Synergos Social Innovator Rana Dajani founded an organization to promote reading among young children (ages 4-10) by establishing local libraries in communities across Jordan. Housed in neighborhood mosques, the libraries hold storytelling sessions using secular books and age-appropriate props, and are helping to develop a culture of literacy among children and families. The model is […]
Full Story »Funding Collaboration in the Children’s Sector
LINC Fellows from a range of funding agencies and community-based organizations have identified an innovative collaboration between two stakeholders in the children’s sector that do not often intersect. The goal of this collaboration is to identify funding flows in the children’s sector and improve collaboration so that projects benefiting children are better funded, and in […]
Full Story »Increased access to government support for child-headed households
An innovative pilot program in the impoverished Eastern Cape province of South Africa led by the Learning and Innovation Network in the Children’s sector (LINC) supported by Synergos. In communities hard-hit by poverty and disease, the elder children are often left to care for their younger siblings, placing the family unit at high risk for […]
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