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The LIFE Team |
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Leadership
Team
Our
leadership team has decades of experience training young adults,
supporting volunteers and implementing programs in developing
nations. It is a blend of in-house staff, volunteers, and staff of
organizational partners:
Yonatan
Glaser
is the LIFE Director and founder of B’Tzedek. He has
successfully developed and managed year programs for young adults
during over 20 years in informal Jewish education and leadership
development. Yonatan has worked with Israeli school principals,
non-profit organizations and managed and developed year programs for
young Jews from the Diaspora in Israel for five years. He served as
the Central Educational Shaliach to the Reform Movement in North
America, he helped spearhead the development of Carmel, a new year
program for school graduates. Yonatan has worked extensively with
student populations in North America and Israel. A trained lawyer
with an M.A. in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University, he is a
graduate of the Mandel Leadership Institute’s School for
Educational Leadership in Israel and he has published academically on
leadership development, Judaism and social vision (see here).
Active himself in civil society, Yonatan has served on the Board of
various organizations and appeared in the press about the influx of
African asylum seekers to Israel (see here).
Uzi
Israeli
(see below) voluntarily works with Yonatan on the Development Studies
and the overall learning program
of LIFE.
Mark
Zober
(see below), Deputy Director for Overseas Placements, voluntarily works with Yonatan on the overseas volunteer
placement program of LIFE
Charlotte Casselson, Program Associate. UK-born intern with 6 years' experience in community organizing and work with NGO's.
The
following top Israeli organizations have become operational partners
with LIFE, sharing their professional expertise
and working with us as a broad team to bring LIFE to life:
-
The Israel Experience (expertise in housing,
logistics, security)
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The Machon L’Madrichei Chutz
L’Aretz (Institute for Leadership Development of JAFI)
-
The (Israeli)
Training Center for Mind-Body Skills (connected to the Washington-based
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine)
-
Kibbutz Lotan (here)
-
Shatil
(Israel’s leading agency for
social change capacity building for non-profit organizations, founded
by the New Israel Fund)
- The Jerusalem City Council
- The Society for the Preservation of Nature
Our Indian partners say:
"The Byrraju Foundation is delighted to partner with the LIFE program
for leadership development and is excited to harness the full potential
of bright young global talent by involving them in volunteer
projects that serve the underprivileged in our Indian rural communities."
Verghese K. Jacob
Lead Partner, Byrraju Foundation
To learn more, go to the Byrraju Foundation.
Advisory
Team
Art Braunstein: was born and raised in New York. At the age
of 20, he moved to Israel for studies at the Hebrew University. In 1996,
after a full career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Art took early retirement and
moved back to Jerusalem, becoming an Israeli citizen. Art is a graduate of the
Hebrew University and has MA degrees from both the Institut d’Etudes Politiques
(in history, political science and international relations) and Johns Hopkins
University (international health programs). Art served with U.S. Embassies,
mostly in Moslem and French-speaking countries: Niger, Senegal, Mali, Tunisia,
Viet-Nam, Peru and Egypt, and Washington, D.C. He specialized in program
development/management and mass media promotion. In Tunisia, Art worked with
local counterparts to develop, implement and promote programs in all economic
sectors. In Egypt, he oversaw multi-million dollar programs in family planning,
working on the design of culturally-sensitive messages and public information
campaigns. Since returning to Israel, Art was director of corporate promotion
for Dale Carnegie Training®, Israel. He is past-Chairman of the Jerusalem
Rotary Foundation. With a Palestinian counterpart, he was a moderator for the
Israeli-Palestinian Internet Discussion Group on Peace Education at the Truman
Institute. Art has assisted Yad Vashem and hi-tech start-up firms in
writing/editing, public relations, marketing and corporate promotion. Art is
founder of CounterTerror Creations®, a hi-tech incubator and educational
alliance which has developed a unique projectile for non-lethal crowd control.
Dr. Howard Feldman is the Associate Dean and Director of
Graduate Programs for the Pamplin School of Business. His teaching interests
lie in the areas of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, strategic
management. Dr. Feldman has published extensively in journals, such as The
Journal of Business Venturing, The Journal of Small Business Management, The
Case Research Journal, the Journal of Applied Case Research, and others. Dr
Feldman taught a course in Social Entrepreneurship at the Tel Aviv University
MBA program in 2008.
Dr. Jen Glaser is senior faculty at the Mandel Leadership
Institute, Jerusalem. She specializes and publishes in philosophy of education,
pluralism, community and the development of thinking. Jen works with short-term
and multi-year educational seminars for promising middle and high-level Jewish
and Israeli Education.
Dr. Max
Klau is the Director of Leadership Development at City Year,
Inc., a national service program based in Boston,
Massachussetts. He is helping to design
a comprehensive leadership development experience to be rolled out network wide
in the 2008-09 service year. His recent
efforts have focused on creating The
Idealist’s Journey: The City Year Leadership Development Guide and Workbook,
and managing its pilot administration all 18 sites in the City Year network. Max received his doctorate
from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2005. He focused his studies
on leadership education, exploring the connection between individual action and
systemic change. He has extensive involvement teaching the adaptive leadership
model developed by Ronald Heifetz, working with graduate students from private,
public, and non-profit sectors. In addition, Max has served as the lead editor
of an issue of the journal New Directions
for Youth Development focused on the subject of youth leadership. Max has had extensive
experience as a participant and group leader of service programs.
Jody
Zall Kusek
leads the World Bank’s
Global HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Group in providing support to
countries to analyze and use data to better understand the trends and
drivers
of their epidemic and to better monitor and manage the national
response to the
epidemic in their country. Previously
she was the Africa Regions’ Advisor on Results Based
Management; helping
countries in 35 African Nations improve their ability to design
government
policies and programs to support poverty reduction.
She
co-developed a training program for government officials and their
development
partners in designing and building performance-based monitoring and
evaluation
systems to support good public management. With
another colleague, she developed the
Model of 10-Steps to a Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation system
that is
used all over the world to support government strategic planning and
programming. This
program is also taught
in 10 United States Universities and is currently being used by the
Government
of China to develop their 10th 5 year plan.
Before joining the Bank, Ms. Kusek was Principal
Management Advisor to
the U.S. Secretary of Energy, advising on new management reform and
with Vice
President Al Gore in the William Clinton Administration on improving
management
of the United States Government. She
advises Governments all over the world in the area of results
management and
has served on the boards of public sector organizations in support of
this
goal.
Dr.
Mike Naftali
is the founder and Chairperson of Brit Olam. He was the CEO of Elem
for 20 years, an organization he led to be Israel’s leading
and
largest organization for youth at risk. At Tel Aviv University, Mike
taught and researched youth, volunteerism, civil society issues and
Israel’s Bedouin community. A long-time consultant to the
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mike traveled to and worked in
many countries across Africa, Asia and South America. He is a former
Chair of the Israel Association for Volunteer Organizations, the
founder of www.ivolunteer.org.il
, Israel’s most-used web portal for volunteers and a frequent
keynote speaker in Israeli civil society settings.
Tamar Vital
serves on the Board of Brit Olam and is a professional Fundraising
Consultant. Having headed fundraising at one of Israel's most
important scientific institutions, Tamar now is a sougt-after
consultant and teaches and coaches Fundraising with the Pratt
Foundation's innovative 'Pradler' program for fundraising
professionals. Tamar voluntarily represents the leading USA firm
SalesForce in their philanthropic efforts to assist, for free, Israeli NGO's. She
has led Israeli NGOs to be the largest users of SalesForces'
remarkable web-based CRM application outside of the United States.
Dr.
Einat Wilf is a
Fellow with The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute and is pursuing the
implementation of the detailed policy solutions for fixing Israel's education system contained
in her second book, "Back to Basics". Previously Ms. Wilf served as
the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Vice Prime Minister of Israel Shimon Peres.
Ms. Wilf is a graduate of Harvard University, has an MBA from INSEAD in France and a
PhD with Cambridge University in the UK. Prior to working for the
Israeli Government she worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in New York and as a Managing Partner with Koor Corporate
Venture Capital in Israel.
Ms. Wilf's first book "Founders, Fighters and Us - Of Israel's Young
Generation" was published in Israel in 2003. Ms. Wilf publishes
editorials frequently with the Israeli and Foreign press.
Uzi
Yisraeli
has over 35 years experience in management and administration of
training & educational projects, both in Israel and in the
developing world. He created and for 10 years managed a training
center for people from overseas for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Mashav) and the Ministry of Education. Uzi specializes in designing
and implementation of international short and long-term training
activities in education and socio-economic topics. He has vast
experience in leading large-scale, socio-educational projects (Rural
education, community education, teacher training, ICT in education,
and Distance Learning.) in Israel and around the developing world. He
has 7 years of experience in Jewish Education in the Diaspora (School
Director in Mexico and National Supervisor of Jewish Education in
Brazil).
Oren
Yosifon
– Chief Technology Officer of Israeli high-tech firm Mindcite,
Oren is responsible for the thinking behind and development of their
product, a sophisticated knowledge creation and management system
that in real time, mines complex organizations and the internet to
deliver knowledge to client’s staff. Oren works with Mindcite
clients around the world to adapt, integrate, and embed their system
in the client’s operations. Alongside this cutting-edge,
sophisticated system, Oren has a keen interest in how the latest
technological developments and trends, many of them low cost or free,
can be put to use for social benefit in the non-profit world.
Dr Mark Zober has worked during his career in the areas of Jewish
communal service, education, community, volunteer management and international
development. His PhD. is in social welfare management and policy from Brandeis University. He served for four years in
the United States Peace Corps in India
and Sierra Leone and later
served as the Peace Corps Director in Mongolia. Mark has taught social
service administration and program evaluation at Brandeis, Cornell, Boston University, Hebrew and Haifa universities. He served as a Jewish Federation
Executive Director in Texas
and later headed the research division at the Israeli Ministry of Social Services.
Mark has been a United Nations Development Program Senior Advisor and serves on
the Rotary International Advisory Committee for International Projects,
traveling widely to evaluate projects for their suitability for Rotary support.
He is President of the Jerusalem Rotary club.
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