In a ceremony held during the annual Liberal Social Impact Conference, The Tel Aviv Foundation received the 2022 Impact Award in the Public Sector, for the initiative to reduce elderly loneliness in partnership with SFI via Social Impact Bonds.
The program to reduce elderly loneliness provides an array of tech tools, specifically designed for senior citizens, along with volunteers, and social workers, which are set to help us reconnect, alleviate loneliness, and increase our well-being and independence – fostering a true sense of belonging.
In 2022 200 women and men took part in the program, (18 of them are holocaust survivors), reporting a 26% increase in the sense of belongingness.
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The Tel Aviv Foundation Look At 2024
16 January 2024Click here to read about the Tek Aviv Foundation Look at 2024 and a look back to 2023 https://mailchi.mp/telavivfoundation.org/2024?e=[UNIQID]
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Mayor’s War Update and Gathering with Evacuees
28 November 2023On November 28th, the Tel Aviv Foundation will be holding a war briefing with Israeli donors and Fund executives at the municipality’s situation room, in the presence of Ron Huldai and Municipality directors. The briefing will include a meeting with evacuees who are currently living in a hotel in the city. Please contact our Tel Aviv […]
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Establishing the Orphans Fund
01 December 2023Following the October 7th massacre, tragically, over 300 children were left orphans. The Tel Aviv Foundation is here for them. The Tel Aviv Foundation Orphans Fund, established in partnership with the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization, provides customized financial, therapeutic, and educational assistance to any child who was orphaned due to the Iron Swords war, […]
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Stravos Niachos Foundation 2023 Mental Health Conference
22 June 2023Tel Aviv Foundation CEO, Dr, Hila Oren and Sharon Melamed Bloom, Director of Welfare, Social Services & Public Health Administration at the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality spoke about the Tel Aviv Foundation and the Municipality’s on going work to combat the loneliness pandemic, across all ages. To read more click here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hilaoren1_development-mentalhealth-publicspace-activity-7077646427471945728-tjm1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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Crowdsourcing Campaign for the Social Food Market
30 March 2023On the week of March 27th, The Tel Aviv Foundation and Mesila launched a crowdsourcing campaign for the Social Food Market. Over 1,200 people donated a total sum of close to 1,000,000 shekels. which will ensure that the Market’s doors stay open. The Tel Aviv Foundation and the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, in partnership with Leshuva […]
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The Social Food Market Inauguration
28 February 2022The Social Food Market was inaugurated today in a ceremony attended by the mayor and the General Custodian. The Tel Aviv Foundation and the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, in partnership with Leshuva and Mesila, established the Social Food Market to provide food security and nutritional guidance to asylum seekers, refugees, and work immigrants through respectful food […]
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The Tel Aviv Foundation Opens the Stanley Gold Spacebook Library at Ironi Hey High School
15 December 2021On December 15, 2021 A new student-focused collaborative study space opened, with the generous support of Stanley Gold, who joined via Zoom. Designed for the information age, designed to encourage interactive and collaborative learning in a relaxed and fun way, was built and will operate on three basic principles. 1. Designed and managed by students […]
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The Tel Aviv Foundation Builds a New Homeless Shelter Named After the Late Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
20 May 2022In May 2022, the new homeless shelter named after the late Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein opened, serving as a safe and respectable shelter caring of the well-being of its residents. The building overlooks the beaches of Tel Aviv-Yafo and was designed by architect Yoav Messer. It was built through the partnership of the Tel Aviv Foundation, the […]
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The Tel Aviv Foundation Builds the HaGal Sheli New Home in Jaffa, the Australia -Tel Aviv-Yafo Surf Education Center
10 November 2022HaGal Sheli new home in Jaffa, the Australia -Tel Aviv-Yafo Surf Education Center – built by the Tel Aviv Foundation and the Tel Aviv Yafo Municipality has officially opened! The opening ceremony, held in the presence of the Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Ron Huldai, and Australian Ambassador to Israel, Paul Griffiths, was a true celebration of pluralism and equality. […]
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The Lou Dunst Trust supports Warm Homes after-school program
02 February 2021The legacy of the late Lou Dunst from San Diego, a longtime friend of Tel Aviv, was strengthened with the recent donation in his name to Warm Homes, an after-school program for children ages 3-7 from low socio-economic backgrounds in south Tel Aviv. Warm Homes provides a supervised and supportive environment for at-risk children to […]
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The Shapiro Foundation expands its support for children of asylum-seekers
02 February 2021Having seen the life-changing impact of after-school programs for children of asylum-seekers, Ed and Barbara Shapiro of the Shapiro Foundation from Boston decided to increase their generous support for after-school programs for children of asylum-seekers. They are now supporting a total of nine programs, providing over 300 children with essential educational and social support. These […]
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Geula Kindergarten is dedicated in memory of former First Lady of Tel Aviv-Yafo
02 February 2021“Being remembered by the laughter of children” – The Geula Kindergarten was recently dedicated in memory of Geula Rabinovitz, former First Lady of Tel Aviv-Yafo and kindergarten teacher who once worked in the very same building that now carries her name. The kindergarten was donated by her son and daughter-in-law, Joseph and Mirit Rabinovitz, who […]
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Local shopkeepers in Jaffa celebrating digital coin campaign success
02 February 2021Local businesses on Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa were, until a month ago, facing financial ruin in the wake of total street closures due to the light rail construction. However, the digital currency campaign initiated by the Tel Aviv Foundation in partnership with the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo and Colu, has injected some $600,000 into the local […]
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Students Housing Scholarships Distributed
02 February 2021Just in time for Passover, Housing Scholarships were distributed as follows: Tel Aviv University – 89, Kibbutzim College – 2, Academic College – 45, Nissan Nativ Acting Studio – 10, The Yoram Levinstein’s Performing Arts Studio – 10
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