Israël

Clipa Theater and the Clipa Aduma international festival for visual theater and performance art hold 3 main missions and objectives:
The first goal is that of promoting the field of visual theater in Israel, by exposing local audiences and artists to various forms of advanced theatrical creation taking place created in Israel and world-wide.
The second goal of is that of empowering and enriching local young and beginning artists. the theater is home to study programs and venues for young artists and creators in these fields, as well as supplies techinical and artistic support. The Clipa Aduma festival invites highly acclaimed and experienced groups and creators from around the world to hold open workshops and master-classes.
The third goal is creating significant cross-cultural exchanges and dialogue between Israeli and international artists. The theater and festival encourage artistic encounters and collaborations between local and international artists as a means of deepening and enhancing the artistic research and output of all partners.

The Cochav Hatzafon association aims to empower people with special needs with the skills needed to become economically self sufficient and productive within the work force and encourages them to realize the personal potential inside each of them and to pursue their dreams. Thus, aside from arranging “traditional” employment opportunities for people with disabilities, which mainly include contracted factory work, the association has created unique opportunities for creative and productive employment making decorative items such as domestic products made of ceramics, placemats, wooden frameworks, candles, textile products, wooden furniture and greeting cards and providing skills that can be utilized in the open workforce.
These items are manufactured by people with special needs, at "Something Special" – a network of occupational centers with a different orientation. All the income from the sale of these items is devoted to rehabilitate people with special needs and to their wages.

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute was founded 1959 and is based on the vision of Israel as both a homeland for the Jewish people and a democratic society predicated on justice, fairness and equality for all its residents. The Institute's work today, as a leading intellectual center for the interdisciplinary study and discussion of issues related to philosophy, society, culture and education, is designed to enhance ethnic and cultural understanding, ameliorate social tensions, empower civil society players and promote democratic values. The Institute pursues its mandate by employing different methodologies: academic research, public policy analysis, advocacy and civil society projects.

Our main, overall objective is to assist in the establishment of a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel. Our leading focus areas for 2013-14 are protecting the human rights of Palestinians and exposing Israeli policy makers, the media, and the general public to the situation in the West Bank. To raise awareness and promote understanding among both publics regarding the hopes and suffering of the other side and create partners for dialogue, we work to educate both sides about reconciliation and non-violent struggle and to put political pressure on both governments to demand that they stop the cycle of violence and the occupation and resume a constructive dialogue. 

To empower marginalized rural communities through the provision of basic energy and clean-water services, in a way that is socially, economically and environmentally sustainable.

Community Advocacy, established in 1993, is a voluntary community organization working for 16 years to strengthen the awareness of residents concerning their social rights in order to access and promote these rights as an expression of their empowerment as individuals and as a community.
Our primary goals are to teach residents to advocate on their own behalf or on behalf of their neighbors in order to access their legal entitlements, to find solutions to common problems and participate in decision making bodies which affect their lives; to provide information and expertise with regards to rights and entitlements and to conduct outreach in order to recruit volunteers, identify issues and understand the community from the perspectives of its residents.
Community Advocacy is unique in its approach to working with people in the community. The basis of our work is developing relationships among members of the community and professionals in order to empower individuals and the community as a whole, enabling them to make decisions and to develop their abilities to help themselves. While we disseminate information and provide expertise in the fields of welfare and law, we consciously enable the community, the people whose lives stand to be affected by programmatic decisions, to make their own determinations. The majority of our board members are residents elected from our local steering committees in Jerusalem, Beersheva and Lod. 75% of the members of our local steering committees, which are responsible for the policy decisions that guide the organization, are neighborhood residents.

The Collective work towards:
a) Establishing a platform where people of opposing nations and different artistic backgrounds are given the opportunity to work together, thereby transforming the way conflict is expressed;
b) Addressing a market need to create high-end multicultural arts productions;
c) Helping educational departments, universities, research centers, think-tanks, and multilateral organizations in the examination of multicultural issues and policy development.

• To foster dialogue between Israeli filmmakers and foreign counterparts
• To offer international audiences new and interesting insight into the Israeli actuality and social complexities
• To promote and nurture young talented Israeli Arab and Jewish filmmakers
• To raise funds for Israeli-foreign co-productions
CoPro’s Agenda includes the following principles:
Promoting multiple services –providing resources, information and avenues of communication for independent filmmakers, industry professionals and film enthusiasts, Assuming that independently made films are important as a powerful means of expression for all walks of our society.
Supporting independent creative filmmaking
when the rip between rich and poor is ever growing, privatization is the order of the day, media organizations are struggling to survive and public broadcasting is collapsing. . CoPro feels responsible and is committed to supporting and maintaining quality documentary filmmaking in Israel.
Equal opportunities – CoPro provides independent filmmakers with various levels of experience and expertise, assisting them in expressing their own exclusive viewpoints, and facilitating interaction between the creative and the business communities.
Professional training – Today’s media demand expert, competent and skilled personnel, well versed in the media market rules. It requires social competence, cultural tolerance and flexibility, and humanitarian commitment – all being crucial in this highly sensitive intercultural industry. CoPro Documentary Marketing Foundation offers and advances such suitable training.

Cultural activities as a bridge between nations and peopel