Israel

Vision
Kav LaOved envisions an Israeli society in which workers, regardless of gender, religion, nationality, race, age and legal status in the Israeli labor market, are respected, valued, and recognized for their contributions via full and complete protection of their labor rights.
Mission
Kav LaOved aspires to prevent abuse and exploitation of workers by demanding fair employment terms and conditions, addressing both individual cases and greater phenomena of violation of workers’ rights. Kav LaOved strives to improve and strengthen:
Workers’ Awareness in order to inform, educate, and empower workers to know and defend their own labor rights
State Policy in order to create, amend, and enforce legislation to improve employment terms and conditions in the Israeli labor market
Social Responsibility in order to influence Israeli culture and society to recognize the rights of disadvantaged workers in the Israeli labor market and uphold principles of social justice

The program "Jusur (Bridges) – Developing and Institutionalizing the Grassroots Movement of Arab Women in Israel" enables the empowerment of Palestinian women on an individual basis and fosters women's leadership on the community level. The program teaches community organizing and mentors community projects of local women. The "Legal Department" councils and represents individual Palestinian women in legal cases, promotes social change through various means of legal advocacy, and educates women about their rights and ways to demand them. The program "An Active Approach towards Personal Economy" (since 2007) empowers Palestinian women to become actively involved into matters of personal economy, educates about entitlements from the social welfare institutions, teaches ways how to demand these entitlements, and shows them the importance of planning economically for the future. The program “Gender Equality in Local Budgets” aims to provide women practical tools to analyze public budgeting processes and professionalize their advocacy vis-à-vis Arab local authorities through a prism of gender equality. In addition, Kayan serves as host and fiscal conduit organization for "Aswat – Palestinian Gay Women". More Information: Annual Report 2009: http://www.kayan.org.il/Public/publications/Kayan%20Annual%20Report%2020...

To support kindergarten children and youth at risk by operating supplementary programmes for the community.

Keshev was founded following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Israeli citizens who shared a deep concern about the deterioration of the public discourse and its repercussions for Israeli democracy. Keshev promotes a more moderate media discourse and critical media consumption by carrying out and disseminating media analyses and advocating vis-a-vis journalists, students and media consumers. We advise media editors on how to correct deviations from sound media practices and we teach students and news consumers to evaluate coverage critically in order to acquire informed viewpoints that can help them make reasoned decisions in all aspects of their democratic participation.

Kol Ha-Isha was founded in 1994, as a grassroots multi-cultural women’s center that seeks to promote a feminist model for social change and to lay the foundation for social justice and peace. Kol Ha-Isha’s mission is to develop and promote a feminist multicultural model of social change, addressing social inequality, economic distress, power politics, militarism, intolerance and discrimination – and in particular, how these affect women.
Kol Ha-Isha is dedicated to empowering women from different, often marginalized socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds, religious affiliations, nationalities and sexual orientations.

The LAHAV NGO,  implements socio-cinematographic projects with children from all social backgrounds, reinforcing the humanitarian principles of co-existence. At the center of the project lies an original educational and creative method that allows the participants to express themselves through a cinematographic work (a short fiction film).
Since its establishment, Lahav has worked closely with government ministries, educational institutions and social foundations in the development of cinematic-social projects, in which over 860 films have been produced, promoting a range of topics and values ​​such as: mutual respect, violence prevention, democracy, tolerance and equality, - Children and more. The films enrich the Israeli public discourse with meaningful content from the lives of children and youth at risk, reflect the personal stories of the participants from a real and authentic perspective, and enable a rare and exceptional look of Israeli society
The films enrich the Israeli public discourse with meaningful content from the lives of children and youth at risk, reflect the personal stories of the participants from a real and authentic perspective, and enable a rare and exceptional look of Israeli society.

To develop youth leadership in Israel.

Although the initial focus was on security and strategic studies, there has been a shift in focus towards two new areas of research: international organization and international political economy and development.
Area-wise the traditional focus has been on the Middle East but more recently attention is being given to the Mediterranean.

Life & Environment (L&E) – The Israeli Union of Environmental NGOs is a non-profit non-governmental organization representing and serving over 120 environmental organizations. Empowering and strengthening its member organizations, Life & Environment’s provides a broad framework that fosters cooperation among the NGOs and offers vital professional assistance.
L&E is leading the effort of the environmental organizations to influence decision making processes in Israel towards sustainability and environmental justice, as well as further the integration of these issues into the discourse of both civil society and government agencies. Our advocacy efforts in recent years generated new laws, improving the availability and accessibility of information, as well as the participation and influence of the public through environmental and social NGO’s in local and national policy making.
L&E coordinates a network of volunteer professionals in planning and science, and initiates activity and research on environmental issues.

To strengthen local communities through increased active volunteerism and a great knowledge of the world we live in.
The breaking down of stereotypes, racialism and the inclusion of the mentally challenged and disabled.
The inclusion of minority groups and equality of cultures, genders….