Presented on a panel for a delegation from Atlanta in their Yokeneam/Megido Partnership about Israeli Giving and shared our experiences of building the Friends of the Partnership and the crowd funding campaign. Interest was high and there was desire to continue the conversation. 

The Calendar of Opportunities for 2019-2020 is available. Will set up individual conversations with each community to expand on the Calendar explanations.

The new Artists Community initiative Israeli champions went to meet artists in Akko and Matte Asher who are new to the Partnership as they begin to create a data base of artists  for future collaboration which can span the Middle East - Europe and North America.  

The current theme for the Partnership is "Bayit/Home." Chairs Efrat and Michelle invite you to share ideas about how to bring Partnership into our "homes" and share the Partnership message from our homes. 

Danit is working on fund requests from various foundations for Women Leading a Dialogue so that we can begin Cohort #3 in 2020. This will be the opportunity for communities who have not yet hosted the WLD. If there are any funding sources in your community for this highly successful Jewish and Arab women dialogue group, please let us know by return email. 

Marcy Paul (Ft Wo), Jenan Fallach (Akko), Academic committee chairs together with Carmit, will be traveling to communities in September. Their goal is to create connections at colleges in the Consortium communities. Please contact Carmit if you would be interested in them visiting your community. carmitG@jafi.org

The Donor recognition in The Partnership Center will be projected onto the designated wall - high techy and giving the opportunity to update and refresh!

Dolev is working with the TPC architect to choose furniture and window treatments for the building.

Thank you to the Thomases Family Endowment who made awards this week to a number of programs/organizations in the Western Galilee. One award was given to a program to help Arab and Jewish female students integrate into the world of engineering and high tech which is conceived and implemented by one of the WLD group!

The UPDATE will be on vacation next week as we accompany our youngest son to the Chuppah next Friday morning!!