Volunteer & Study Summer 2012
Volunteer & Study, co-sponsored by the Conservative Yeshiva of United Synagogue and Skilled Volunteers for Israel (SVFI), comprises a...
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- Dec 13, 2011
- 1 min
Eat, Pray, Volunteer
Eat, Pray, Volunteer Repair the World blogpost on the Volunteer & Study Program #conservativeyeshiva #repairtheworld
- Nov 1, 2011
- 4 min
Digitize, Visualize, Optimize, An Archivist’s Volunteer Experience
Skilled Volunteers for Israel placed Mordecai Walfish as a volunteer archivist with the Mandel Foundation. Read about his experience...
- Aug 25, 2011
- 1 min
Sudanese Refugee Starts National Service At Nitzana
Of Interest: HaAretz (25 August 2011) article about the first African refugee to start Israel’s pre-army national service program. Tom...
- Aug 17, 2011
- 3 min
Welcoming the Stranger
This post was written by Gina Milano after her second volunteer experience with Skilled Volunteers for Israel. After completing my...
- Aug 1, 2011
- 3 min
Desert Pioneers
This post was written by Gina Milano from New Jersey and Roseli Ejzenberg from Maryland who are among the first volunteers for Skilled...
- Jul 18, 2011
- 3 min
“It Starts with Soccer and Concludes with Champions” A Volunteer Shares Her Experience
Lisa Pengitore, a special education teacher from New Jersey with 19 years of classroom experience, volunteered teaching English in...
- Apr 26, 2011
- 1 min
Value of Volunteering Exceeds Cash Contributions!
The value of volunteering is estimated at $400 BILLION globally based on previous research and reported in a Volunteer Match blog,...
- Mar 4, 2011
- 4 min
A volunteer shares his recent experience with the Ethiopian National Project
This post was written by Rabbi Ted Stainman who is volunteering as an English tutor in Netanya with the Ethiopian National Project (ENP)....
- Feb 2, 2011
- 1 min
Understanding what motivates the Boomers
The article by Paula Jacobs in The Jewish Week does a great job of capturing the compelling reasons for actively engaging with Jewish...
- Dec 28, 2010
- 1 min
The Jewish Daily Forward – reviews Repair the World report on volunteer impact
The last blog I wrote referenced a new and important report from Repair the World on the impact that intensive Jewish service learning...
- Dec 14, 2010
- 1 min
Repair the World Report on Volunteer Impact on Communities
eJewishphilanthropy’s post on December 14, 2010 about a new study done by Repair the World on the impact of service learning and...
- Dec 8, 2010
- 1 min
Metro West NJ Meets Skilled Volunteers for Israel
Attend an information session on Wednesday, December 15 2010 at 7:00 pm in Short Hills NJ. RSVP to Noga Maliniak, nmaliniak@ujcnj.org or...
- Dec 8, 2010
- 1 min
Meet Our Partner Keshet Zchuyot HaYeled קשת זכויות הילד
Skilled Volunteers for Israel is pleased to introduce Keshet Zchuyot HaYeled in Nahariya and our joint project to bring skilled...
- Oct 6, 2010
- 1 min
The Jewish News article on Jewish Boomers
Check out this article in this week’s The Jewish News on Jewish Boomers. Skilled Volunteers for Israel cited. Volunteering in Israel is...
- Sep 21, 2010
- 1 min
Philadelphia Recruitment-Outreach
A new national organization named Skilled Volunteers for Israel is launching this year. Skilled Volunteers for Israel seeks to match...
- Sep 4, 2010
- 1 min
Shana Tova
May this be a year of peace, abundance, health and successful volunteering! This is an exciting year for Skilled Volunteers for Israel....
- Sep 2, 2010
- 1 min
Israeli Non-Profit Advocates for Refugee Status Process in Israel
Mollie Gerver has written an article on the problem facing refugees in Israel. Mollie was one of the PresenTense Global Fellows from...
- Aug 31, 2010
- 1 min
ejewishphilanthropy.com post on boomer use of social media
Check out this post by ejewishphilanthropy.com on the increased usage by older adults (50+) of social media. Although far fewer over 50...
- Aug 30, 2010
- 1 min
Boomer Volunteer Engagement – Cultivation and Motivation
In a recent post, I shared the research cited by Daniel Pink on what motivates people, what Pink calls, “the purpose motivation.” This...
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