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AVI CHAI Israel by the Numbers BY THE NUMBERS FILM & MEDIA 447 TOTAL BROADCAST HOURS OF FEATURE FILMS, TV DRAMA SERIES, DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND SERIES PRIMARY PROJECTS SHTISEL NEVSU TOTAL AVI CHAI INVESTMENT FOOTNOTE $13M FILL THE VOID 56 SALAH, THIS IS THE LAND OF ISRAEL MA’ABAROT ISRAELI ACADEMY AWARDS THE HEBREWS (HA’IVRIM) USHPIZIN MEORAV YERUSHALMI KATHMANDU BEN GURION EPILOGUE LONDON CORNER BEN YEHUDA 18 LEIBOWITZ, FAITH, COUNTRY AND MAN 20% YEARS OF GRANT-MAKING MY HERO BROTHER VIEWER RATINGS 2001-2018 WHO’S GONNA LOVE ME NOW FOR POPULAR DRAMAS BY THE NUMBERS RELIGIOUS ZIONISM TZOHAR 60,000 BEIT MORASHA COUPLES MARRIED BY 554 450 TZOHAR RABBIS GRADUATES 100 13,000 FROM 1986-2011 ($10.4M) COMMUNITY RABBIS OLIM AFFIRMED TRAINED JEWISH STATUS TOTAL AVI CHAI INVESTMENT FROM 1997-2012 ($8.3M) $24.6M YESODOT PEAK YEAR (2008) MATAN 63 480 36 SCHOOLS TEACHERS GRADUATES OF 27 4,500 3 YEARS OF GRANT-MAKING STUDENTS COHORTS OF THREE-YEAR PROGRAM 1986-2012 FROM 2002-2012 ($3.2M) FROM 1999-2006 ($1.5M) BY THE NUMBERS JEWISH COMMUNITIES BAYIT KIBBUTZ MOVEMENT PER ANNUM PER ANNUM 13 21 LOCALITIES COMMUNITY CENTERS 26 KIBBUTZIM 406 328 150 130 PROFESSIONAL NEW PROGRAMS TOTAL AVI CHAI INVESTMENT PROFESSIONAL NEW PROGRAMS AND LAY LEADERS AND LAY LEADERS 2,500 22,745 $11.2M PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS MOSHAV MOVEMENT NITZANIM PER ANNUM PER ANNUM 15 23 11 249 MOSHAVIM LOCALITIES NEW PROGRAMS YEARS OF GRANT-MAKING 2004-2018 112 33 PROFESSIONAL NEW PROGRAMS 2,211 73,350 AND LAY LEADERS PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPANTS AND LAY LEADERS 2,475 PARTICIPANTS BY THE NUMBERS PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS SCHOOLS TZAV PIUS 17 75% 40 NEW RELIGIOUS-SECULAR SCHOOLS OR CAMPAIGNS AVERAGE TRACKS FROM 2010-2018 IN FROM 1997-2010 PUBLIC IDENTIFICATION 25 COMMUNITIES TOTAL AVI CHAI INVESTMENT DIALOGUE GROUPS $27.4M SUMMER CAMP 270,000 1,200 PARTICIPANTS YOUTH FROM 1997-2010 FROM 2013-2018 23 SOCCER LEAGUE YEARS OF GRANT-MAKING COMMUNITIES 1996-2018 CO-FOUNDED UMBRELLA 15,000 ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH 16 FROM 2003-2018 RELIGIOUS-SECULAR COMMUNITIES BY THE NUMBERS AVI CHAI LIBRARY 54 10 WEEKS ON TOTAL AVI CHAI INVESTMENT PUBLICATIONS BEST SELLER LISTS $1.2M SIDDUR AVI CHAI PIRKEI AVOT SEFER HA’AGGADAH YONAH EICHA RUTH ESTHER 100,000 25 Forthcoming: SHIR HASHIRIM COPIES SOLD YEARS OF GRANT-MAKING 1995-2018 KOHELET HAFTAROT BY THE NUMBERS SCHOOLS PRIMARY PROJECTS PEAK PER ANNUM MIVCHAR ORANIM HARTMAN PARASHAT HASHAVUAH YAHALOM MORASHA 60,000 MIKRANET STUDENTS TOTAL AVI CHAI INVESTMENT YAD BEN ZVI BIBLE MA’ARAG $41.1M HEBREW CULTURE IN TEL AVIV TARBUT.IL 5,000 212 CIVICS WEBSITE TEACHERS SCHOOLS OTZAROT REVIVIM 266 93 28 GRADUATES SCHOOLS YEARS OF GRANT-MAKING 85 GRADUATES 3.1 M 1991-2018 WEBSITE VIEWS IN LEADERSHIP ROLES FROM 2000-2017 BY THE NUMBERS BATEI MIDRASH PEAK PER ANNUM 2,200 PARTICIPANTS IN TOTAL AVI CHAI INVESTMENT PRIMARY PROJECTS ELUL 160 $29.4M KOLOT STUDY GROUPS ALMA MIMIZRACH SHEMESH MELTON MINI-SCHOOL BAMIDBAR TEHUDA MIDRESHET 27 SUGIYA 45,000 YEARS OF GRANT-MAKING 1992-2018 MONTHLY VISITS TO MIDRESHET STUDY SHEETS BY THE NUMBERS DEVELOPING THE FIELD OF ISRAELI JEWISH RENEWAL MATCHING GRANT PROGRAMS RESEARCH 138 88 161 122 NEW DONORS BENEFICIARY ORGANIZATIONS TOTAL AVI CHAI INVESTMENT EVALUATIONS PROJECTS EVALUATED $4.6M $13.5M RAISED CAPACITY BUILDING 27 AVI CHAI ASSISTANCE YEARS OF GRANT-MAKING SABBATICALS 1992-2018 27 21 RECIPIENTS GRANTEE ORGANIZATIONS BY THE NUMBERS YOUTH SHNAT SHERUT PEAK PER ANNUM MECHINOT 1,400 PARTICIPANTS PEAK PER ANNUM FROM 11 1,800 TOTAL AVI CHAI INVESTMENT MOVEMENTS PARTICIPANTS IN $13.1M 26 MECHINOT 20,000 TOTAL GRADUATES YOUTH MOVEMENTS FROM 1999-2018 PEAK PER ANNUM 20 78,000 CHILDREN YEARS OF GRANT-MAKING IN 1999-2018 3 MOVEMENTS BY THE NUMBERS INTERNET 51,000,000 3 MINUTES TOTAL WEBSITE VISITS AVERAGE SITE VISIT TOTAL AVI CHAI INVESTMENT $9.6M 750,000 MONTHLY WEBSITE VISITS PRIMARY PROJECTS MIKRANET PIYYUT WEBSITE JEWISH LEXICON TARBUT.IL ZUSHA 15 SEFER HA’AGGADA ONLINE YEARS OF GRANT-MAKING MIDRESHET 2003-2018 163,000,000 929 TOTAL WEB PAGES VISITED JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA IN RUSSIAN BY THE NUMBERS TOTAL GRANTS 1986-2018 18 M 16 M 1986-2018 14 M TOTAL AVI CHAI GRANTS 12 M 10 M $208.5M 8 M 6 M 4 M 2 M 0 M GRANTS PER STRATEGIC AREA: 1986-2018 $73.4M $63.6M $29.3M $17.5M $13.5M $11.2M Study and Literacy 35 31 NOTE: The data above do not include $63M to BAC from 2006-2018 BY THE NUMBERS AVI CHAI GRANTS PER STRATEGIC AREA • 1986-2018 TOTAL: $208.5M PROMOTING JEWISH STUDY PROMOTING MUTUAL CREATING AND DISSEMINATING AND LITERACY UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONSIBILTY JEWISH CULTURE TOTAL: $73.4M (35%) TOTAL: $63.6M (31%) TOTAL: $29.3M (14%) $41M $27.4M $24.6M $13M $29.4M $6.3M $5.9M $4.6M $4.6M $2.9M $2.9M $2.4M $1.2M SCHOOLS BATEI MIDRASH OLIM TZAV PIUS RELIGIOUS KESHET OTHER CHAREDIM FILM PIYYUT SHABBAT WEBSITES* AVI CHAI ZIONISM SCHOOL PROJECTS & TV UNPLUGGED/ LIBRARY OTHER *Another $6.7M in website grants are recorded in other strategic areas. INSPIRING YOUNG JEWISH DEVELOPING THE FIELD OF FOSTERING ISRAELI JEWISH CHANGE AGENTS ISRAELI JUDAISM COMMUNITIES TOTAL: $17.5M (8%) TOTAL: $13.5M (6%) TOTAL: $11.2M (5%) $11M $7.6M $4.9M $4.5M $4M $3.8M $1.8M $1.7M $0.6M $1.6M MECHINOT IDF SHNAT YOUTH RESEARCH CAPACITY ADVOCACY NITZANIM COMMUNITY KIBBUTZIM SHERUT MOVEMENTS BUILDING & PR CENTERS & MOSHAVIM NOTE: FOR SOME STRATEGIC AREAS, ADDITIONAL SMALL GRANTS ARE NOT SHOWN, BUT ARE INCLUDED IN THE TOTAL SUMS..
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