by nifc-phil-mike | Sep 25, 2020 | News, NIF
In a country in which a dictator shuts down the internet and jails opposition candidates on the eve of a national election, what is a people to do? If you live in Belarus, the high-tech capital of Eastern Europe, you find a way. These ways were elucidated to an...
by nifc-phil-mike | Sep 20, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News, Social and Economic Justice
Earlier this month, Omdim Beyachad (Standing Together), an organization funded by the NIF global network, made national headlines with a chilling and creative protest using 1,019 empty chairs in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. Each chair had the name of an Israeli who died...
by nifc-phil-mike | Aug 26, 2020 | News
Shatil has created its first ever Zoom course around strategies of community building to help social change organizations thrive and expand. One might assume that business and social change models are worlds apart, but there are business models that can be used to...
by nifc-phil-mike | Aug 26, 2020 | News
Sam has been in the New Gen seat on NIFC’s board for the last two years . He is leaving Toronto (and the Board) in August to pursue an MBA at Georgetown University. Here, Executive Director Ben Murane interviews Sam about his experience as a board member, and...
by nifc-phil-mike | Aug 26, 2020 | News, Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Bereaved Arab Israeli mothers marched to the National Police Headquarters in Jerusalem earlier this month to protest growing violence in Arab Israeli society and to demand that the government and the Israeli Police form a plan of action to tackle the problem and...