Bearing testimony to the fact that success in receiving grants requires expertise, knowledge, professionalism, patience and a good working partnership, our client, Atid Bamidbar, an organization that seeks to strengthen pluralistic Jewish identity in the Negev, was just awarded its third grant since starting to work with us in April 2011. The two previous grants were for 140,000 NIS from an anonymous Israeli foundation for general operating expenses and towards completion of the seminar building and 10,000 Euros from the Levi Lassen organization towards a young adults’ centre.
Atid Bamidbar, with our professional assistance, was one of only three grants awarded by the New York UJA Federation out of 198 Letters of Inquiry and 11 full proposals approved for submission. The $50,000 grant was awarded for the Gvanim for Negev Municipalities program which unites Mayors and heads of Municipal Education Departments in Negev regional and local councils under the shared idea that Jewish and Israeli culture has great potential for developing community and cultivating commonality and therefore should receive municipal funding.
The funding will be put towards the costs of instituting a Municipal Jewish-Israeli Culture Communal Coordinator (JICCC) position for pluralistic Jewish identity programming in each of the six participating Negev municipalities and the next stage will be for the new municipal coordinators to plan and implement pilot activities in their respective communities.
We cannot take sole credit for Atid Bamidbar’s success as it certainly would not have happened without the intense work of Debbie Goldman Golan, President and Co-Founder and Shai Ben-Tal, CEO/CFO. Their intensive involvement along every step of the way, both in terms of working closely with us in writing and reviewing material and in terms of their knowledge and dedication to their goals, played a tremendous part in achieving such a positive outcome.
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