Helping the Helpers

Or LaMishpachot

The Or Lamishpachot Association supports bereaved parents through the long process of rebuilding active, productive lives, restoring hope and helping them choose life.

Inclu - Inclusive Schools and Kindergartens

Inclu establishes and operates inclusive schools and kindergartens nationwide, serving Israel’s secular, religious, Ultra-Orthodox, Arab and Druze communities. Students with special needs (approximately 30% per class) and without special needs learn together, contributing equally to the classroom and society.

United Hatzalah

United Hatzalah (UH) is Israel's only nationwide, fully volunteer emergency medical service (EMS). It trains and equips citizens to provide free on-scene medical treatment during the critical period before an ambulance arrives, giving victims of choking, drowning, cardiac arrest, and other emergencies the best chance of survival.

Bshvil Hamachar

Israel's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to the mental health and well-being of IDF combat veterans and reservists, helping them and their families cope with war trauma through transformative journeys in nature.

Itach Ma'aki

Itach-Ma'aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice is an Israeli nonprofit founded in 2001 to advance the rights and voices of marginalized women. Its name means "with you" in both Hebrew and Arabic, reflecting its founding commitment to Jewish-Arab partnership and its work across Israel's diverse communities.

Israel Center for Educational Innovation (ICEI)

The Israel Center for Educational Innovation (ICEI) works to ensure that every child in Israel has access to a quality education and the opportunity to succeed. Through long-term partnerships with schools, municipalities, and the Ministry of Education, ICEI strengthens school leadership and equips educators with tools to improve literacy, instruction, student well-being and resilience.

Shaar Hanegev Matnas

Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council promotes residents’ well-being, resilience, and quality of life of its residents through a wide range of community-based services and initiatives, including social, educational, employment, sports, cultural, and leisure activities, as well as early childhood and youth programs.

Orr Shalom - Children & Youth at Risk

Orr Shalom provides safe, therapeutic homes and life changing support for children and young adults who have been removed from their families by Israel's Ministry of Welfare due to severe abuse and neglect. It supports 1,500 children, adolescents, and young adults through services that foster healing, resilience, and long-term independence.

Wuste Tsega

Wuste Tsega strengthens the mental health and resilience of Ethiopian Israelis through culturally adapted trauma-informed services. It addresses longstanding barriers to mental health care, including stigma, language and cultural gaps, shortages of culturally competent professionals, and limited access to therapeutic support.

Shahaf Foundation

Shahaf Foundation strengthens community resilience in Israel's social and geographic periphery by empowering diverse communities, fostering local leadership and working to bridge social and economic gaps. Through partnership and innovative initiatives, it helps build thriving, inclusive communities.

Masira Fund and Center

Masira empowers Arab people with disabilities through funding, support, and professional advocacy, improving the lives of those with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities in the Arab community.

Niv Nirel

The Center addresses a critical gap in Israel's trauma care system by providing immediate, comprehensive treatment for people suffering from combat-related trauma through access to expert care without lengthy waits, bureaucratic barriers, or a formal PTSD diagnosis.

Israel Center on Addiction

One in four Israelis struggles with problematic substance use or faces high addiction risk, undermining trauma recovery. The Israel Center on Addiction and Mental Health (ICA) addresses the link between trauma and substance use through training, treatment, prevention, policy and awareness, research, and innovation.

CareGivers Israel

CareGivers Israel is the leading national organization supporting Israel’s 1.5 million family caregivers through three core areas: national policy, workplace engagement, and direct support.

HaGal Sheli

HaGal Sheli operates 12 surf therapy centers across Israel, serving more than 5,000 participants annually from diverse communities. Its programs combine surf therapy, psychoeducational guidance, group therapy, mentorship, and trauma-informed experiential education.

Clear Sky

Clear Sky accelerates the national adoption of innovative mental health technologies. By connecting startups with hospitals, healthcare providers, and local authorities, it integrates proven digital tools into clinical workflows to make the health care more efficient and accessible.

Advot

Advot is a shared regional initiative strengthening mental health and well-being in southern Israel, recognizing mental well-being as foundational to personal and community resilience and communities’ ability to thrive amid ongoing challenges.

Etgarim

Etgarim empowers and integrates children, youth, and adults with disabilities through adaptive outdoor sports and nature-based activities.

Connecting for Impact / In Her Shoes

Community O provides cutting edge operational, strategic, legal, and financial support that helps new initiatives launch and thrive without bureaucratic hurdles. Its multidisciplinary network of professionals, partners, and funders works to address Israel's greatest societal challenges.

Hut Hameshulash

For more than 25 years, Hut HaMeshulash has provided professional assistance to at-risk youth and young adults ages 14-25 facing challenges including school dropout, addiction, prostitution, lack of family support, and street life. Approximately 1,300 young people participate in its programs each year.

A Home for Every Child / Bayit Lekol Yeled

A Home for Every Child, established in 1975, supports high-risk children and youth who have experienced maltreatment, abuse, and trauma, as well as their caregivers. Its programs help prevent and alleviate child abuse while strengthening children's emotional health, development, and family well-being.

Otef Lev

Otef Lev strengthens mental health and community resilience through human-centered and digital innovation and evidence-based psychosocial support, responding to mental health challenges intensified by the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel.

EmotionAid

Since 2009, EmotionAid® has developed science-based methods for self-regulation during stress and trauma in Israel and globally. Its core work makes rapid emotional first aid accessible and helps prevent burnout through a five-step protocol based on Somatic Experiencing principles.

Beit Daniella

Beit Daniela is a pioneering, community-based mental health day center providing adolescents ages 13-19 with short-term intensive, holistic rehabilitation for conditions including PTSD, suicidality, depression, and eating disorders.

Make-A-Wish Israel

Make-A-Wish Israel supports children ages 3–18 facing critical illness or severe multi-system physical trauma from the October 7th terror attack through structured wish experiences that also provide targeted psychosocial support for their caregivers and professionals.

Dror Israel

Trained educators living communally in 14 “Educators Kibbutzim” provide emergency relief and trauma support in schools, after-school programs, and local community initiatives.