Israel Venture Network Announces Winners of Social Entrepreneur Fellowships.TEL AVIV, Israel & PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Israel Venture Network's Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program, together with its strategic partners, the New Israel Fund The New Israel Fund (NIF) is a fund that is set up as the result of a philanthropic partnership of Israelis, North Americans and Europeans to provide financial and technical support to hundreds of national and community-based organizations. and the Sacta-Rashi Foundation, is delighted to announce this year's winners of IVN's Social Entrepreneur ("SE") Fellowships for 2007-2009. The winners are Asher Elias for his "Tech Careers: Computer Programming Training Center for Ethiopian Israelis" and Dana Weinberg for "Women and their Bodies." Tech Careers enables Ethiopian Israelis to enter the Israeli high tech workforce and earn far higher salaries by training them, providing job placement services and accompanying them in the work force to guarantee job satisfaction. Asher was born in Israel to Ethiopian parents, pioneers of the emigration emigration: see immigration; migration. from Ethiopia in the early sixties before "Beta Israel" was officially recognized by the State of Israel. Women and their Bodies is a unique multicultural multi-professional non-profit organization of women in Israel, Jewish, Arab and Palestinian, who have made it their mission to work towards empowering women to become self-health advocates who can protect and promote their own health. It is based on "Our Bodies Ourselves" founded in Boston, that went on to inspire a world-wide movement of women's health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. ; and aims to galvanize gal·va·nize tr.v. gal·va·nized, gal·va·niz·ing, gal·va·niz·es 1. To stimulate or shock with an electric current. 2. and energize en·er·gize v. en·er·gized, en·er·giz·ing, en·er·giz·es v.tr. 1. To give energy to; activate or invigorate: "His childhood any nascent women's health movements here in the region. Isabel Maxwell, Chair of IVN's Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program, an IVN IVN Interactive Video Network IVN Intravenous IVN Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek IVN Intravenous Nutrition IVN Integrated Voice Network IVN Intervening Networks IVN in Vehicle Network Leadership Initiative said, "This year has been an inspiring and banner year for social entrepreneuring with the awarding of the Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. for Peace to Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh - THE quintessential social entrepreneur - and we are delighted to welcome these new exceptional individuals to our program. Their projects are important and we believe they will have a strong and positive impact on society here and beyond in the years to come." ABOUT THE IVN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM: The Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program provides the fellows with a monthly stipend for a two year period as well as oversight and strong mentoring from IVN members and staff. IVN was recently selected to partner with Ashoka, the pre-eminent social entrepreneuring organization, in Israel and the region. |
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