Israel
European Research Network on Philanthropy
Tel Aviv University
Buchmann Faculty of Law
Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Website: Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Galia Feit
The Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Faculty of Law / Tel Aviv University
email: gfeit@ post.tau.ac.il
Nissan Limor
The Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Faculty of Law / Tel Aviv University
email: nissan1@ tauex.tau.ac.il
Yoram Margalioth
The Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Faculty of Law / Tel Aviv University
email: margalio@ post.tau.ac.il
Guy Schultz
The Institute for Law and Philanthropy
Faculty of Law / Tel Aviv University
email: schultz@ tauex.tau.ac.il
Individual members
Hagai Katz
The Israeli Center for Third Sector Research,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Email: katzh@ bgu.ac.il
Hillel Schmid
Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israël
Paul Baerwald School of Social Work
Hebrew University
Email: hillels@ mscc.huji.ac.il
Ilana F. Silber
Bar-Ilan University
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Email: ifsilber@ mail.biu.ac.il
Current research projects on philanthropy in Israël
The Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, established in 2006 in cooperation with the Israel-Joint Distribution Committee, aims to enhance existing knowledge in the field and to provide an appropriate academic framework for achieving that goal. The Center is engaged in efforts to develop and promote basic and applied research knowledge on philanthropy in Israel and in Jewish communities throughout the world. Current research projects on philanthropy are:
Current state of Giving Research in Israel
Information on data and current state of giving research in Israël will follow shortly.
Bar, M., & Schmid, H. (2005). A prefatory essay, Nonprofit Organizations: Trends and Changes. A special edition of Social Security 70 (December), 5-12. (Hebrew).
Haski-Levental D. and Kabalo P. (2009). A Historical Overview of Monetary Philanthropy In and For Israel In The 20th century.
Haski-Leventhal D. (2005). To be or not to be: Retention and turnover among volunteers, Qualitative research of volunteers at a rape crisis center. Jerusalem: Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (In Hebrew).
Levi D’Ancona L., (2003). ‘“Notabili e dame” nella filantropia ebraica ottocentesca: casi di studio in Francia, Italia e Inghilterra’, Quaderni Storici 114 :741-776
Levi D’Ancona L., (2006). Philanthropy and politics: strategies of Jewish bourgeois in Italy, France and England between the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, Traverse Revue d’histoire, 1: 83-100
Levi D’Ancona L., e Francesconi F.,(2007), Vita e società ebraica di Modena e Reggio Emilia. L’Età dei ghetti, Modena.
Levi D’Ancona L., (forthcoming). Jewish philantropy in 19th and 20th century Italy, in Weinsten R.(ed), The Jews of Italy, Jerusalem.
Levi D’Ancona L., (forthcoming) I filantropi ebrei nella Ricostruzione: il caso di Milano in Atti del Convegno di studi in onore di Astorre Mayer, Milano.
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Rudich A., (2008) The Philanthropic Relationships Between Two Social Welfare Departments and Voluntary Bodies – A New Arena for Funding Welfare Services? Masters’ thesis supervised by Dr. Uri Yanai. The HebrewUniversity. (Hebrew).
Rudich A., (2007). Not Only Love of Mankind–Philanthropy: A Research Overview. Jerusalem: The Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel, The HebrewUniversity.
Shemer O., & Schmid, H. (2006). Toward a redefinition of community partnership: A Three-dimensional approach. Hevra Verevaha. 26(3), 327-354.
Shimoni B. (2008). Business and New Philanthropy in Israel: Ethnography of Mega Donors. Jerusalem: The Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel, The Hebrew University.
Schmid, H., (2006) Leadership styles and leadership change in human and community service organizations. In R.A.Cnaan & C. Milofsky (Eds.), Values, Passion and Trust in Nonprofit Organizations, 395-409.
Schmid, H., (2006) Leadership styles and leadership change in human and community service organizations.Nonprofit menagement & Leadership. Vol. 27(2), 179-194.
Shemer, O. & Schmid, H. (2007). Toward a new definiton of partnership: A three dimensional approach. Journal of Rural cooperation, 35 (2), 123-139.
Schmid, H. (2007). Childern and youth at risk in Israel: Findings and reconnemdations to improve their well being. Children and Youth Services Review, 29(8), 1114-1128.
Schmid, H. & Hasenfeld, Y. (2008). Contracting out social services. Encyclopedia of Social Work.
Schmid, H., Bar, M., & Nirel, R. (2008). Advocacy roles of nonprofit human service organizations: Implications for policy. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 37(4), 581-602.
Schmid, H. & Blit-Cohen, E. (2009). University and social involement at the neighbourhood level: implications for social work education. Journal of Teaching in Social Work. 29, 1-20.
Schmid, H. (2009). Agency-environment relations: Understanding external and natural environments. In R. Patti (Ed.) The Handbook of Human Services Management, 411-433.
Schmid, H. (2009). Organizational change in human service organizations: Theories, boundaries, strategies and implementation. In Y. Hasenfeld (Ed.) Human services as complex organizations. (2nd. Edition), 455-479.
Schmid, H. (2009). Leadership styles and leadership change in human and community organizations. In Y. Hasenfeld (Ed.). Human services organizations as complex organizations. (2nd edition), 193-206.
Schmid, H. (2009). The contingencies of nonprofit leadership. In J.Kane, H.Patapon and P.T. Hart (Eds.), Dispersed Leadership in Democracies. Oxford, England: OxfordUniversity Press, 193-210.
Schmid H. & Rudich A., (2009) Private Philanthropy in Israel- A Pioneering Study. Jerusalem: The Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel, The Hebrew University. (Hebrew)
Schmid H., & Rudich A.,(2009). The Implications of the Decline in Philanthropy on Israeli Non-profit Organizations and Social Services – A Position paper towards the “president’s conference”. Jerusalem: The Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel, The HebrewUniversity.
Schmid H., & Rudich A.,(2008). Public Opinion Survey on Philanthropy in Israel. Jerusalem: The Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel, The HebrewUniversity.