WHAT WE DO

	WHAT WE DO
	MAIN AREAS OF ACTIVITY IN ISRAEL
	The Israel office supports activities of non-governmental organizations working inside Israel mainly in four areas: Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development, Women´s Rights and Gender Democracy, Strengthening Civil Society and Democratic Participation, Dialogue and Networking: Strengthening German-Israeli and EU-Israeli relations In cooperation with our local partners we organize and support workshops and conferences, trainings, informational materials and research. We support advocacy, capacity and coalition building and are active in initiating public debates on political, environmental, and social issues. Additional important instruments of international cooperation include visitor programs, which enhance the exchange of experiences and of political networking, as well as staff development for committed activists. Limitations: Applicants must be registered, non-profit organizations in Israel. The Heinrich Boell Stiftung does not provide financial support for: * Building or capital campaigns * Individuals or scholarships * Schools and youth programs * Political parties The Heinrich Boell Stiftung encourages programs that: * Educate and empower * Engage with decision makers on the local and national levels * Include marginalized communities and promote public participation * Build bridges among diverse members of society and include diverse target groups in personnel and programs * Integrate social, environmental and economic justice * Promote gender equality * Incorporate environmentally friendly methods and practices * Collaborate with other organizations and sectors to maximize impact Application procedure for NGOs For HBS Application Guidelines please click here. We offer our conference rooms free of charge for meetings of various activist groups or NGOs, reflecting the diversity of Israeli civil society. Internship Opportunities Internship opportunities are available from October 2009 on. New applications therefore can be submitted again from September 2008 onward. An external internship opportunity is available as well.
	Our 4 Main Areas Of Interest:
	Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development Environmental issues have always been of central importance to the Greens and to the Heinrich Boell Foundation. This does not mean to just “save frogs”, but to deal with issues of global warming, energy production and energy consumption as well as air quality and water. Despite the attention these issues have gained the process of changing old patterns and of putting existing technologies to work for the benefit of present and future generations is still much to slow. At the same time existing environmental problems often affect the already disadvantaged parts of the population disproportionately. The foundation supports a variety of Israeli environmental organizations, which over the years attempted successfully to have a growing impact of politics and society. Women’s Rights and Gender Democracy Gender democracy is one of the main fields of work for the foundation, where it has been playing a pioneering role in many respects. The aim is to strengthen the social, legal and political position of women and to improve their opportunities to participate in political decision making. In Israel the foundation supports Jewish as well as Arab-Palestinian women’s groups that are working for these goals in their respective societal contexts. These organizations are dealing with capacity building, economic empowerment, advancing women’s representation in decision-making processes and the assessment of gender issues in budgetary policies. Furthermore the foundation sees gender democracy as a cross cutting issue that needs to be reflected in the overall work and in each of the projects the foundation supports. Strengthening Civil Society and Democratic Participation On the background of German history and it’s own participation in the post war history of West and East Germany and then unified Germany after 1990 the Greens and the Heinrich B?ll Foundation see democratic participation as a basic ingredient for a vivid, stable and developing democracy. It aims to strengthen the development of civil society as a motor for democratic transformation to expand participation in political decision-making. An essential part of this is the effort to secure and implement the rights of minorities in society. The foundation supports projects in Israel that help to implement the rights of foreign workers as well as low paid workers. It supports organizations that work for the improvement of the status of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel as well as efforts to promote fair compromises concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dialogue and Networking Programs – Strengthening German-Israeli and EU-Israeli Relations On the background of German-Jewish and German-Israeli relations as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Heinrich B?ll Foundation supports a wide range of activities in the field of political education. These include conferences on various historical and actual issues, public meetings of writers as well as exploring new ways of education in learning about and commemorate the prosecution and murder of the European Jews. It supports efforts to make the discourses in the respective countries understandable in other countries and to strengthen a pluralistic and critical discourse.
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