Social Change Initiatives
The association’s social projects grow within the Social Change Incubator, through partnerships with social entrepreneurs who bring professional expertise in response to real needs emerging from the field.
As part of the Incubator, we work together with project leaders to develop their initiatives and expand their social impact: refining strategy and impact, building work plans, developing resources, creating connections, providing professional training, management consulting, and shared learning.
Our social solutions strategy is based on ongoing engagement with communities and social entrepreneurs, identifying real needs within Israeli society, and developing innovative solutions across different areas of life.
The Incubator is where social ideas, committed people, and professional partnerships come together to create meaningful action and lasting impact.
Education, Welfare, and Reducing Inequality
Adi’s House
Adi’s House was founded in memory of Adi Melamed, of blessed memory, an inspiring woman who passed away from cancer in September 2024.
The center offers hope and support to individuals facing serious illness through holistic, integrative treatments, workshops, and professional training in the fields of healing mushrooms and natural medicine.
120 Women
Leadership Council
Forum 120 – Connecting Leadership is a women-led leadership space dedicated to restoring the voices, knowledge, and wisdom of Jewish women across generations, translating this legacy into contemporary practices of repair, connection, and action. In a time of national division, the forum sees art as a bridge between cultures and generations, fostering belonging, identity, and connection. Through feminine leadership that is deep, attentive, and action-driven, it creates spaces of hope, inspiration, and shared responsibility for Israel’s future.
LAVO
LAVO is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting positive sexuality education from an early age, through training and guidance for the significant adults in the lives of children and adolescents. We equip educators, parents, and communities with the knowledge, language, and tools to foster open, safe, and age-appropriate conversations about the body, relationships, boundaries, consent, and sexuality.
The Power Station
The first center in Israel dedicated to advancing knowledge, research, and policy in the field of homelessness.
It engages a wide audience—including policymakers, professionals, people with lived experience of homelessness, and the general public—to develop practical systemic solutions and drive long-term change that will lead to ending homelessness in Israel.
LAMDENI
Founded in 2010 by Marco Schliachter, the educational initiative develops curricula and teacher training programs to make values and identity-related content accessible to younger generations in the postmodern era. It began by supporting Jewish schools in the Diaspora through the adaptation of educational content to contemporary realities. Today, the initiative also operates in Israel, working with schools (through the Gefen program) and pre-military academies, exploring complex historical and identity-related dilemmas. Its overarching goal is to provide learners with a sense of meaning, deepen their understanding of the consequences of their choices, and help them shape their values and identity.
Trauma and Community Resilience
Ot.Haim
Ot.Haim creates typefaces from the handwriting of victims killed in the October 7, 2023 attack, in order to memorialize them. The fonts derived from their personal scripts are available for free download, making their stories accessible to the public so that their memory remains alive and resonant.
Stones with a Human Heart
An initiative of support and solidarity with bereaved families, expressed through the placement of decorated stones (river pebbles) bearing messages of love and compassion on the graves of fallen soldiers on Memorial Day. Participants in the initiative come from across the entire spectrum of Israeli society-religious and secular, right- and left-wing, elderly and young people, people with disabilities, and more. Each year, approximately 100,000 stones are placed.
The Fabric of Life
The Fabric of Life initiative emerged in response to the immense loss that has shaken Israeli society since October 7, 2023, and throughout the war. Its purpose is to cultivate continuity and hope. The initiative connects families affected by the war with artists in a shared process of remembrance, creation, and commemoration.
It Takes a Village
An innovative social initiative that transforms the Family Constellation method into an accessible community tool for strengthening resilience and providing emotional support. It operates ongoing groups in community centers, tailored to specific populations such as women, separated parents, and communities in crisis. These groups create networks of mutual support and serve as a foundation for sustained community resilience.
Rights Access and Economic Recovery
MAZAL
Mazal operates a One-Stop Shop Rights and Benefits Assistance Center, providing Israeli residents with personalized, professional guidance - without leaving their homes - on the rights, benefits, and services available to them, as well as the steps required to access and realize those entitlements.
Hamzzan
Hamzzan offers support to evacuees,
soldiers, and families affected by the war, assisting them with economic, employment, and emotional challenges. Each person receives personalized accompaniment, including a customized action plan; the initiative’s goal is to ensure a stable economic future for the families of those harmed.
Patir
A social-business-tech initiative that assists individuals living in poverty, crisis, or hardship in navigating complex bureaucratic challenges and accessing their full legal rights through institutions such as government ministries, local authorities, the National Insurance Institute, Property Tax Authority, and others.
Community and Culture
Moms Don׳t Hoard
Moms Don’t Hoard is an Israeli women’s movement fostering solidarity, sustainability, and community resilience in everyday life and emergencies. What began as a neighborhood WhatsApp group in Jerusalem has grown into a national network of approximately 140,000 women across 300 communities.
The Empty Wagon Club
The Empty Wagon Club is a community home for people who have left the religious world, born out of a genuine need for connection, sharing, mutual understanding, and collective growth. The initiative offers a safe and professional space to explore identity, relationships, sexuality, culture, and belonging in life after leaving the religious world.
Kehilat Hapardes
Founded in Pardes Hanna, Kehilat Hapardes serves as a refuge and supportive community in times of crisis. It provides spiritual and social support to every individual - regardless of social status or religion - and strengthens mutual responsibility and human connection through prayers, educational activities, and family events.
NUEMA
Founded in October 2025, with the mission of supporting you - all the bereaved friends of the “Iron Swords” war who lost a friend in the army, at the Nova and Psyduck festivals, and in the communities of the Gaza Envelope. A huge group of young people, just at the beginning of your journey in life. You are the beautiful future of our country - and it is to you that we want to give recognition, belonging, and a home.
MenoApp
The MemoApp initiative was created to help people living with dementia and Alzheimer’s remain connected to themselves, their home, and the people who love them.
It is an initiative that aims to bring a sense of order, safety, calm, and human connection back into daily life, in a place where memory gradually fades.
MINYAN
MINYAN is a center for Jewish culture in Tel Aviv, connecting the creativity of the big city with the magic of Jewish tradition. The initiative produces diverse experiences that blend spirituality with contemporary culture, bringing musicians and artists together to expand the city’s cultural horizons and create meaningful connections for all participants.
LIBA
Liba is a home for learning, food, and community in the heart of Tel Aviv – the city's “third place,” somewhere between home and work. It is a welcoming, community-oriented space where Jewish texts and traditions meet the spirit of Tel Aviv. Through study groups over a glass of wine, conversations at cultural venues, and events celebrating the Jewish calendar, Liba brings together curious people from across Israeli society.
ISRAEL SHELANU
"Israel Shelanu" works to engage new immigrants from the former Soviet Union in a broad and meaningful dialogue about Israeli democracy. The initiative focuses on a deep understanding of democratic values and aims to help immigrants integrate actively and effectively into Israeli society.
Kehilanu
"Kehilanu" developed a vital and unique response for individuals coping with trauma, combining support groups addressing diverse trauma types with the creation of trauma-aware communities. The model recognizes that integrating personal and group processes with community belonging enhances healing, improves mood, strengthens self-efficacy, and supports a return to healthy daily functioning.
Advocacy and Shared Society
Jerusalem Interfaith Center
The Jerusalem Interfaith Center exists to make religion part of the solution to conflict, rather than a force that drives it. Our mission is to advance interfaith diplomacy with moral weight, public implications, and practical responsibility in the real world.
We work with religious leaders, scholars, and institutions to engage seriously with religious traditions - textually and theologically - so that religion can serve as a source of accountability, laying the foundations for reconciliation in societies shaped by conflict.
CIC
The Consciousness Intelligence Center (CIC) is an operational research organization (DO-TANK) established shortly after October 7, providing Israel and the Jewish people with intelligence and technological infrastructure for the information and cognitive warfare arena. The Center's Mission: To give Israel and the Jewish people an advantage in the battle for public perception, spanning competing narratives, economic boycotts, legal proceedings, and cultural and academic arenas – comparable to Israel's advantages in other security domains.
Orly Farkhi
Administrative Manager
She brings extensive and diverse experience in administrative management, organizational coordination, and operations within organizations. She specializes in leading complex processes and coordinating across different work interfaces, while maintaining maximum efficiency, organization, and accuracy. Over the years, she has held a variety of management and operations roles, implementing technological solutions and process innovations that streamline workflows and improve organizational performance.
Orly is a personal coach and has completed professional courses in project management, bookkeeping, and digital marketing. In her work, she brings a unique combination of operational expertise, innovative thinking, and a human and attentive approach, serving as a central pillar of the association’s ongoing activities and fostering a productive and well-organized work environment.
Herut Davidson
Marketing & Social Media Consultant
Herut has extensive experience working with nonprofits and organizations dedicated to strengthening Israeli society, providing strategic guidance in development, content, marketing, and donor relations. She believes personal skills are engines for growth - individual, communal, and societal - and works to strengthen these capacities in every project and partnership. Herut holds a Bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from Shalem College. Convinced that the social sector is a central driver of change, she is dedicated to amplifying its impact. In addition, Herut manages the Association’s marketing portfolio.
Erez Perlmuter
Director, Marginalized Communities Division
Erez Perlmuter is the founder of MAZAL (Rights Access for Residents), a service operated by Infrastructure for Social Change.
A high-tech professional by background, Erez is also the co-founder and chairman of the non-profit organization Kol Zchut, which has operated the "Kol Zchut" information platform since 2010. The platform makes comprehensive information about the rights and entitlements available to residents of Israel accessible in Hebrew, Arabic, and Russian.
Erez is a recipient of the President of the State of Israel’s Volunteer Award and has approximately 16 years of experience in the field of rights realization. He is highly familiar with the wide range of services, solutions, and organizations operating in this area.
Yaara Kalman Vaknin
Incubator Department Manager
Yaara is a certified public accountant with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, specializing in accounting. Her first introduction to the social sector came as a board member of the Pardesim Association, where she discovered how to combine business expertise with a passion for creating tangible social change. Yaara believes that the right financial tools can empower social ventures to grow, overcome challenges, and lead meaningful initiatives that positively impact Israeli society.
Naama Steinhart-Laor
Administrative and Operations Coordinator
Extensive experience in administration, operations, and logistics. She enjoys working with people, connecting tasks and processes, and leading organized, efficient, and pleasant work. In her role as an Executive Assistant, she supports the association’s day-to-day activities, assists in advancing organizational processes, and coordinates a range of cross-functional tasks that contribute to the organization’s ongoing work and success. She holds a master’s degree from Tel Aviv University.
Nikita Haimsky
Web Designer
A web designer and developer specializing in working with nonprofits and social organizations. After years of supporting nonprofits through design and digital development projects as an independent professional, she now leads the organization’s design and digital presence, bringing a deep understanding of the nonprofit sector’s needs and a creative, thoughtful approach tailored to each organization.
Her connection to the organization began as a volunteer and grew out of a passion for community engagement and a belief in a connected, collaborative, and united Israeli society.