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Social Venture Fund for Arab Israeli Equality and Shared Society Consultation Visit               May 3-7, 2009

Members of the Social Venture Fund for Arab Israeli Equality and Shared Society recently returned to the US from their Consultation Visit in Israel, where they visited grantee organizations, met with experts, and discussed their strategy and operations for the coming year. Click here to view the consultation visit itinerary. The fund is currently focusing its grant-making in the areas of education and economic development with greater knowledge of the issues. UJC is looking forward to entering the second year of the fund's activities.

Participants spend time with high school students at the Hand in Hand School in Jerusalem.

A visit to the Prime Minister's Office to meet Ayman Saif, (second from right) General Director of the Authority for the Economic Development of the Minorities Sectors

Carol Smokler, Chair of the UJC Social Venture Fund, meets with representatives of CJAED (Center for Jewish Arab Economic Development) and JAFI at the Bar Lev Industrial Zone regarding the The Jewish-Arab Employment Zone Loan Fund

Children at the Ben-Gurion School in Ramle present a song with hand motions for the members of the fund.
Social Venture Fund members meet students at a MERCHAVIM school.