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Causes: Education, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Ethnic & Immigrant Centers, Human Service Organizations, Human Services, Immigration, Judaism, Literacy, Religion
Mission: Join israel rescues people who are hopelessly stuck in intolerable
Programs: School enhancement program: underfunded schools with outdated or nonexistent facilities can torpedo any child's motivation. Join bolsters the academic experience and achievement in 25 schools with educational programs and facilities - computer, science, libraries, english, and music-enrichment centers for 6,000 youth.
marriage and family: when strife and dysfunction destroy normalcy, targeted intervention returns stability to the home. Join provides lectures and workshops in relationships, parenting, empowerment, pre-marriage, subsidizes therapy and workshops, develops and disseminates family educational material on two russian websites, runs three-day retreats for hyper-stressed mothers, provides intensive home-mentoring program for extremely dysfunctional families, offers a big brother and learning program
lifeline: nearly one-third of israel's elderly live exclusively on welfare, in severe financial distress. When emergency expenses strike, the usual struggle becomes unbearable. Lifeline leverages the manpower and infrastructure of five municipal welfare agencies to identify and subsidize critical essentials like dental work, hearing aids, eyeglasses, critical home repairs, and medical transportation.