Immersive Jewish Service-Learning
Jewish Organizing Initiative 
The Jewish Organizing Initiative (JOI) focuses on community organizing as a strategy for social change. Community organizing helps build community groups and develop grassroots leaders. It creates ongoing relationships among people and encourages community members to develop skills and a sense of public responsibility. They are then empowered to shape their own future.
The Jewish Organizing Initiative Fellowship is a professional development opportunity for Jewish young adults who learn grassroots community organizing, explore their Jewish identity together, and become leaders in the pursuit of social justice.
Our highly competitive year-long paid Community Organizing Fellowship is a year of field experience and professional development for young Jewish adults (21-30) who have campus or professional experience working for social justice and are interested in systemic change and community building.
Livnot U’Lehibanot 
To Build and To Be Built
Join Livnot in Tzfat on a four-week Galilee Fellowship for meaningful volunteering, hiking (2-3 hikes EVERY week!), learning through nature and spirituality workshops. Get off the bus and experience Israel with all of your senses. Dig into excavations from the 16th century, lunch with local families on Shabbat, and connect to a unique community. Take a break from the daily grind or living out of your suitcase and make yourself at home in the Artists’ Colony of the mystical Old City of Tzfat. Livnot is a nonprofit organization in Tzfat, running Israel experience programs since 1980. Apply online or write for more information.
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Ma’ase
Ma’ase (“Doing” in Hebrew) was established in 2004 to promote the value of volunteering and to spearhead volunteering frameworks for young people in Israel in an equal, professional manner. Ma’ase puts emphasis on recruiting disadvantaged populations aged 18-21 to volunteering frameworks and develops a professional environment that assists the volunteers’ optimal performance.
Ma’ase Olam is a joint 10-month service learning program for young adults from Israel and the Diaspora, in communities in the social periphery of Israel. The program will serve as a platform for developing Jewish leadership with an understanding of social change and local community responsibility, and an awareness of global Jewish Peoplehood.
Ma’ase Olam is particularly slated for participants in their gap year (18-19) and university graduates (21-26) with a social activist profile, who wish to be involved in social justice and action. Each participant of Ma’ase Olam will be assigned placement of service in Israel based on interests and skills, and spend approximately 25 hours per week in their placement. Some of the work may be done alongside Israeli peers.
NISPED: The Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development
NISPED: The Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development, is a non-profit association which promotes peace and development, focusing on the centrality of the civil society. NISPED conducts programs of education, training, project development and consultancy.
The NISPED-AJEEC Service-Learning Program brings together Arab-Bedouins and Jewish young-adult volunteers from around the world, allowing participants to live and volunteer in the Bedouin city of Rahat, while integrating actively in the community’s daily life and culture.
OTZMA
OTZMA is a 10-month program that offers Jewish adults ages 20-26 (college graduates preferred) an opportunity to live and volunteer in Israel in a variety of settings.
OTZMA promotes direct contact and strengthens ties between the North American Jewish Community and Israel, provides its participants with the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution of service to Israel, facilitates opportunities for development of leadership qualities and personal exploration of Jewish identity, and offers experiential and educational opportunities that foster a deeper understanding of Israel.
Tevel b’Tzedek 
Tevel b’Tzedek (The Earth, In Justice) is an Israel-based non-profit organization promoting social and environmental justice. Our mission is to create a community of Israeli and Diaspora Jews engaging in the urgent issues of global poverty, marginalization and environmental devastation from a place of deep commitment to the Jewish people and its ethical and spiritual traditions.
Tevel b’Tzedek presently offers long-term service-learning programs in Nepal and Haiti.
