Jewish-Palestinian
Citizen Relationship-Building Projects:

A Financial Need List

The purpose of this page is. . .
to help financial donors of small or large gifts seeking to discover worthy projects that urge Palestinian and Israeli citizens to communicate in Sustained Dialogue and cooperative endeavors, to begin changing the nature of their relationships. Included here are the most leading-edge, concrete, activities that model Jewish-Palestinian reconciliation and collaboration. Many are not recipients of traditional foundation funding so would benefit greatly from independent gifts. These people and their imaginative work illusrate what life will look like not far down the road. Most of these initiatives include people on both sides Green Line.

Please send your financial help to one or more of these creative, courageous projects.
You can inspire these innovative people and make a difference.


Summer, 2009
Help bring a Palestinian & a Jewish Israeli
to U.C. Berkeley's Environmental Leadership Program (ELP)

    We are looking for a tax-deductible gift of $5,000 to $8,000 by June 8th, 2009, to bring two students - one from Palestine, one from Israel - from the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies to U.C. Berkeley's Environmental Leadership Program (ELP).
    Lina Isma'il, Environmental Health Specialist, works on renewable energy for water desalination in Gaza, and is an environmental health inspector in Nablus and surrounding villages.
    Shira Kronich is an environmental engineer, responsible for wastewater system upgrades for the Eilat-Eilot municipality, and oversees wastewater management in ten kibbutzim.
    To increase their leadership capacity for work on Arab-Israeli environmental education programs, conflict resolution and transformation around transboundary environmental issues, they want to participate in this summer's three and half week certificate program (ELP) with a group of 30 other environmental leaders taught by Berkeley faculty.
    Since 2001, the ELP has graduated 308 professionals, with three participants being Goldman environmental prize winners.
    It links participants through an alumni network that encourages collaboration beyond the program’s end.

See http://beahrselp.berkeley.edu/
CONTACT Bernadette Powell -- (510) 643 9903 -- BPowell@nature.berkeley.edu


North American summer programs
for Palestinian and Israeli youth leadership training
http://traubman.igc.org/camps.htm

Sustained relationship-building activities
described at the bottom of http://traubman.igc.org/peace.htm
and at http://traubman.igc.org/peace2.htm

Additional endeavors
in over 500 success stories on the Web at
http://traubman.igc.org/messages.htm

or simply Google "Jewish Palestinian Success"


Please phone us
for the most up-to-date suggestions
about gifting to exceptionally worthy, exemplary projects
of Jews and Palestinians cooperating to
create inspiring films, begin youth and family summer camps,
help students communicate across physical and emotional barriers
and much more.

Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group
1448 Cedarwood Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403
Voice: (650) 574-8303 -- Fax: (650) 573-1217
Web: http://traubman.igc.org/
E-mail:LTRAUBMAN@igc.org
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