BNAI ZION FOUNDATION INC

Bnai Zion Foundation is a US-based nonprofit that identifies and funds capital projects in Israel in the areas of social inclusion, health, and culture. For one hundred and ten years we have raised tens of millions of dollars and completed more than one hundred projects in Israel.

Below, is a brief description our main projects and their goals.

- The Bnai Zion Medical Center is a leading urban hospital that serves the communities of northern Israel, providing compassionate care without regard to one's ethnicity, religion or economic background. One of our current goals is to raise the funds needed to build a new protected underground emergency department in the Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. This state-of-the-art facility will be designed to have 30 beds, 2 trauma rooms and 6 professional clinics, as well as a protected hospitalization department for ongoing care with 90 beds and a complete range of services, treatment rooms, doctors' offices, a pharmacy, storage and other features. The cost to build this is 8 million.

- Ahava Village for Children and Youth is a residential center for children ages 6-18 coming from high-risk home situations. Bnai Zion is funding the building of a Therapy Center where all therapists and therapies are under one roof. The cost to build and furnish the Therapeutic Center is $2.2 million.

- Israel Elwyn's Supported Living Services complex in Jerusalem is home to 220 adults with intellectual and other disabilities requiring varying levels of care. For nearly fifty years, Bnai Zion members have opened their hearts to Israel's citizens with disabilities. Bnai Zion's focus is on a new complex of six buildings to house some of the residents.


- The David Yellin Academic College of Education has trained thousands of teachers in Israel. The college has about 4,500 students including. Jews, Arab Muslims, Christians, and new immigrants that will together become the next generation of Israeli educators. Some of Bnai Zion's goals are to enlarge and renovate the classrooms throughout, to optimally accommodate the current population, as well as renovate the archive containing historical documents.


- The city of Ma'aleh Adumim has a population of more than 40,000 people and is strategically situated just seven minutes east of Jerusalem. Continuing needs include completing the cultural center, which still needs equipment and furnishings; increasing the playground equipment throughout the neighborhoods; adding computers to the educational system; building three new preschools for an expanding population; providing air conditioning in all the schools, providing new security vehicles for roving 24-hour detection and protection; expanding the center for children with special needs, and constructing a new, fortified security center.

What are your strategies for making this happen?

The strategies for achieving our humanitarian goals include:

- Special regional and national fund and awareness raising events
- Sponsored and cosponsored events
- Website promotions
- Email campaigns
- Mobile campaigns
- Social media campaigns
- Press and media coverage
- Facilitating private fundraisers
- Planned giving opportunities
- Corporate sponsorships

Bnai Zion helps realize it's goals many ways. Here are a few:

Leadership - With a strong leadership team led by Executive Vice President, CEO and National Secretary, Cheryl Bier, Bnai Zion sets clear goals and provides the mechanisms to achieve them.
Reputation - Throughout our one hundred and ten years of existence, Bnai Zion has always reached out to those in need. With over one hundred projects completed, we have built a strong worldwide reputation of being a trusted organization that realizes its goals and stays true to its mission of supporting humanitarian projects in Israel.
Strong Outreach - Besides our national presence we facilitate fundraising and awareness campaigns and events through our regional offices including our northeast, southeast, western, and Texas locations. We also have a team of dedicated professionals who work online and off to facilitate outreach.
Connecting the Dots – A powerful motivator for our supporters and would be supporters is how we connect them to our projects. Through Bnai Zion sponsored Israel trips, to visits to the US by the tremendously talented and dedicated leaders of these projects; interested parties get to witness firsthand the wonderfully important work we do.

For one hundred and ten years Bnai Zion has raised tens of millions of dollars and completed more than one hundred projects in Israel. Our recent work includes a community center for disabled adults and a performing arts center.

We are currently raising money for a bomb-proof emergency room at a hospital near Lebanon and a therapy center in a village for at-risk youth.