Expanding Our Impact: IVN Update 2004-5

1. Expanding Our Impact:IVN Update 2004-5 September 2005

2. About IVN activities • Strengthening the Education System • Education Initiative (EI) - Tiberias, Galilee, Sderot • eMBA: Education Management via Business Approaches • Institute for School Leadership (ISL) • Active Citizenship • Investing in Tomorrow’s Leaders • IsraCorps • IVN Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program • Creating Employment Opportunities • StartUp Jerusalem

3. What Sets IVN Apart • Active membership engagement • Hi-tech & business background of members • Management skill set and values • Focus on scalable, systemic solutions • Leveraged Investments

4. Strengthening the Education System

5. EI – Municipal Intervention The primary goal of the EI Municipal Intervention is to raise student achievements in basic skills, while advancing the management capabilities and culture within the education system.

6. EI: Scope of Intervention • Locations • Tiberias – 3 years, 100% of schools, 20 projects in 2004-5 • Galilee Panhandle – 2 years, 6 municipalities, 46 projects in 2004-5 • Sderot – 1st year, 100% of schools, municipal-wide intervention in all core languages • Areas of Activity • Formal Education • Informal Education • Children and Youth at-Risk

7. IVN’s Intervention Approach • IVN brings a holistic approach that focuses on education and children and youth at-risk in the periphery • IVN empowers and enhances the managerial culture of local leaders and professionals. • As a program integrator, IVN coordinates between national and local government bodies and other NGOs working in local municipalities • Emphasize a culture that sets measurable objectives, and data-based decision-making using measurement and evaluation tools • In order to leverage our impact, we develop partnerships with leading foundations such as the Sacta-Rashi Foundation, Jewish Federations and industry

8. Major EI Achievements • Improvements in student achievements in basic skills. • Assimilation of relevant managerial tools from the business culture into the education system. • Promotion of measurement and evaluation within the organization and with our partners. • Partnership as a model for intervention.

9. EI - Improving Student Achievement: Hebrew Literacy Results • Over 90% of 2nd grade students where IVN intervened in Tiberias can read and understand Hebrew fluently. • Implemented ‘best practice’ Litaf teaching method (Litaf was evaluated by the Ministry of Education as a top method for teaching Hebrew literacy).

10. EI - Improving Student Achievement: English Language Results In Tiberias, 60% of 5th & 6th grade students who were identified as under achievers at the beginning of the year, progressed to the expected level of knowledge by the end of the year following a municipal intervention.

11. EI - Improving Student Achievement: Mathematics Results (1) • An average class score of 90 was achieved by students in grades 1-4, who participated in the Singapore program for math achievement and development of mathematical thinking. • Average cost per student is only $72/student/year • Teachers work independently after two years of training. • 16% of all students in Tiberias participated in the program.

12. EI - Improving Student Achievement: Mathematics Results (2) • Intervention with the Tafnit Program to reduce educational gaps and to significantly improve student achievement in math. • Results show significant improvement in children in grades 4th, 5th & 6th in Tiberias and Kiryat Shemona who began the year in the weakest section of the class. Example of representative results in one school in Kiryat Shemona.

13. EI – Enhancing Local Management Capabilities & Culture: Results • Creation of management forums comprised of local professionals • Establishment of local information, measurement and evaluation units in Kiryat Shemona and Tiberias • Initiated a municipal-wide mapping process of student achievement • In Sderot, schools principals are involved in planning and implementing next year’s intervention program • Plan to run school principal training course where we intervene

14. School Principal Management Training (eMBA & ISL) • IVN and Yad Hanadiv have developed and implemented eMBA, a training course for in-service school principals. It is unique because it imports managerial know-how from the businesssector into the educational system. • The knowledge obtained as a result of the course will serve as an important foundation for the Institute for School Leadership (ISL). • ISL will be a national home for school principals that builds and evolves their leadership in teaching and learning, and develops their managerial skills as accountable educational leaders who are a networked group of proud professionals.

15. eMBA: 1st Year Feedback • Program content: Topics that were rated as most significant by the participants: • Methodology for defining objectives • Tools and methods for preparing a work plan • Risk-management methodology in building a work plan and supervising its implementation • Communication tools for all 'interested parties' in the school • Mentoring: Mentoring was rated as one of the most crucial components of the program, in particular for ensuring implementation of program content in the schools.

16. Active Citizenship • IVN has developed a pilot program, in partnership with the New Israel Fund, so that every pupil experiences active citizenship. • Program is unique because • For the first time, citizenship will be taught in all age groups • Citizenship will be taught in conjunction with local social action activities • Program is potentially scalable nationwide, as it is being developed with the Ministry of Education • Defined clear and measurable objectives in the areas of knowledge, attitudes and civic skills

17. Active Citizenship Pilot in Sderot • Measured baseline attitudes of students and teachers towards democracy. • Succeeded in positioning civics as a core language. • The intervention in 2005-6 will take place in 5 elementary schools, 2 junior high schools and 2 high schools, covering 1400 students.

18. Investing in Tomorrow’s Leaders

19. IsraCorps Action Center • IsraCorps, a joint venture of IVN and the Sacta-Rashi Foundation, is a leadership program focused on Israeli youth involved in volunteer work, in the frameworks of ‘service year’, army service and the National Service in the periphery. • IsraCorps focuses on training, placement and supervision of youth volunteering in the periphery. • IsraCorps aims to expand the profile of Israeli volunteers to include more youth from traditionally weaker socio-economic backgrounds and minorities. • IsraCorps will also target US and European youth who come to volunteer in Israel.

20. IsraCorps:First Year Results • Trained and placed 178 young adults volunteering in the periphery • 23 groups • 17 municipalities throughout Israel • Included partnerships with Israeli youth movements and representatives from the Bedouin, Christian and Druze communities • Developed work plan for volunteers including work in structured school programs in the mornings, and youth movement activities in the afternoon and evening • Built strategic partnership with Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Education • Laid the foundation for the US chapter

21. Fellowship Program for Social Entrepreneurs • The Fellowship Program supports Social Entrepreneurs who are dedicated to developing and implementing sustainable and innovative solutions in Israel, empowering people and communities to create positive, sustained change. • The Program is a partnership of IVN, the New Israel Fund, and the Sacta-Rashi Foundation. • Social Entrepreneurs represent a powerful force for systemic social change and deserve the epithet “Israel’s New Leaders”.

22. First Fellowships • Identified two leading social entrepreneurs and provided them with funding, mentoring and technological resources. • Fellow Chaim Fox-Emmett launched ISRAEMPLOY, (www.israemploy.net) a one-stop on-line resource for immigrant and minority job seekers. • Circulates an average of 750-1000 job vacancies a month to 7500+ job seekers. • Over 1500 people have succeeded in securing employment through ISRAEMPLOY to date. • Fellow Amiad Lapidot launched a program that encourages citizens to separate out organic waste, which is then recycled in and for the community. • The organic waste is processed into compost in an environmentally friendly method using red worms, never before implemented in Israel.

23. Creating Employment Opportunities

24. Employment Opportunities Improving the socio-economic status of citizens living in the periphery is dependent on improving the education system and creating employment opportunities. StartUp Jerusalem is IVN’s first investment in this field. SUJ’s Board represents a broad cross-section of the city’s business community - Jews and Arabs, haredi and secular, new immigrants and veteran Israelis

25. StartUp Jerusalem: Mission SUJ’s mission is to achieve the revitalization of Jerusalem and its national and international appeal through the development of the city’s unique competitive advantages.

26. SUJ: Key Accomplishments • Recruitment of Prof. Michael E. Porter as Honorary Chair • Government Buy-In – from political and professional echelons of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Industry & Trade, PM’s Office • Matching funding from Government Health & Life Sciences • Israel-California Stem Cell research cooperation (in process) Culture & Tourism • 300-person “Leveraging Jerusalem as Tourism Destination" Conference • Development of world-class culture-tourism website Outsourcing • Successfully lobbied Government for incentives for Jerusalem-based call centers – for 800 new jobs in the city • Commissioned international report on Outsourcing to Jerusalem

27. Partnerships as a Concept of Operation • Strategic Partnerships • Sacta-Rashi Foundation • New Israel Fund • Yad Hanadiv • Project Partnerships • Federations • Industry • Government Partnerships • Ministry of Education • Local Municipalities

28. Leveraging on IVN money

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