New Israel Fund

Founded in San Francisco in 1979 the New Israel Fund (EIN: 942607722) is an American 501(c)3 non-profit organisation. Anchored in the Israeli left the NIF provides the following description of itself on its website:

The New Israel Fund (NIF) helps Israel live up to its founders' vision of a state that ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants. Our aim is to advance liberal democracy, including freedom of speech and minority rights, and to fight inequality, injustice, and extremism that diminish Israel.

People Circa 2015

Board

Brian Lurie - President | Itzik Danziger - Vice President, Israel | Mary Ann Stein - Vice President, North America | Stephen Gunther - Treasurer | Deborah Bussel - Secretary

Directors

Amal ElSana Alh'jooj - Director | Elah Alkalay - Director | Naomi Chazan - Director | Peter Edelman - Director | Paul Egerman - Director | Franklin M. Fisher - Director | Joan Garson - Director | William Goldman - Director | Daniel Levy - Director | David N. Myers - Director | Debra Pell - Director | Talia Sasson - Director | Carole Segal - Director | Peter Shapiro - Director | Daniel Sokatch - Director | Jeffrey Solomon - Director | Yael Sternhell - Director | Carole Zabar - Director

International Council

Israel

Adeeb Awad | Michel Abitbol | Amal Elsana Alh’jooj | Arieh Arnon | Avner Azulay | Zouheir Bahloul | Haim Ben Shachar | Eliyahu Bareket | Maya Bar-Hillel | Mordechai Bar-On | Uri Bar-Yosef | Illan Baruch | Michael Ben-Yair | Avram Burg | Ruth Cheshin | Aaron Ciechanover | Avner De-Shalit | Omri Dotan | Rachel Elior | Uzi Even | Sidra Ezrahi | Lily Galili | Benny Gidron | Amiram Goldblum | Hanoch Gutfreund | Yisca Harani | David Har'el | Gilad Harish | Dorothy Harman | Tova Hartman | Shlomo Hasson | Roni Hefetz | Nehama Hillman | Avraham Infeld | Haim Izraeli | Daniel Kahneman | Judith Karp | Yadin Kaufman | Yehoshua Kolodny | Noam Lautman | Nati Linial | Yossi Malka | Kobi Metzer | Sami Michael | Jacob Ner David | Israela Oron | Amos Oz | Sarah Ozacky-Lazar | Ilan Paz | Motty Peri | Alon Piltz | Barak Platt | Uriel Procaccia | Frances Raday | Itzik Saporta | Orna Sasson-Levi | Amnon Sella | Hannan Serphos | Joshua Schoffman | Alla Shainskaja | Alice Shalvi | Shimon Shamir | Aliza Shenhar | Ruth Sheshinski | Varda Shiffer | Jonathan Shimshoni | Avraham Beiga Shochat | Joel Siegel | Ronny Someck | Shaanan Streett | Doron Tzabari | Ami Weinstein | Menachem Ya'ari | Dan Yakir | Alex Yoffe | Dina Zisserman | Neta Ziv

San Francisco and Northern California

Michael Bien | Sanford Gallanter | Linda Gallanter | Jim Koshland | Raquel H. Newman | Craig Newmark | Stuart Pollak | Lela Sarnat | Gerard Sarnat | Howard Sohn | Ingrid Tauber | Bonnie Tenenbaum | Paul Wachter | Diane Wexler | Carol Winograd | Terry Winograd | Vincent Worms

Los Angeles and Southern California

Susan Adelman | Rabbi Sharon Brous | Sara Cannon | James Cummings | Reuben Dori | Richard Gunther | Lois Gunther | Jackie Heller | Luis Lainer | David Myers | Marcie Zelikow

Chicago

Aviva Futorian | Emile Karafiol | Paul Lehman | Robert Lifton | Bettylu Saltzman | Gabrielle Sigel | Denis Weil

New York

Karen Adler | Yossef Beinart | Oz Benamram | Melissa Berman | Alan Cohen | Yehudah Cohn | Rachel Cowan | Jerome Davidson | Ellie Friedman | Bruce Goldberger | Phyllis Goldman | Sally Gottesman | Sherri Greenbach | Liz Greenstein | Michael Hirschhorn | Marvin Israelow | Arlene Kanter | Leslie Kimerling | Sara Klein | Jonathan Klein | Donald Landis | Betsy Landis | Shelley Levine | Bryna Linett | Jonathan Lopatin | J. Rolando Matalon | Cindy Miller | Harriet Mouchly-Weiss | Aaron Panken | Kathleen Peratis | Daniel Price | Paula Rackoff | Robert Rifkind | Irwin Rosenblum | Rick Schaffer | Lawrence Schwartz | Nancy Schwartz Sternoff | Gideon Stein | Gordon Tucker | David Umansky | Al Vorspan | Michael Walzer

Washington, D.C.

Sara Ehrman | Janine and Rob Frier | Judith Gelman | Frances Goldman | David Gottlieb | Barbara Green | Joan Kuriansky | Terry Lenzner | Judith Lichtman | Russell Linden | Susan Liss | Elaine Reuben | June Rogul | Sanford Ungar | Frank Vogl

Boston

Mindy Berman | Jeffrey Green | Dale Mnookin | Robert Mnookin | Bonnie Orlin | Moshe Safdie | Harriet Schley | Karen Tucker | Ruth Wolman

Florida

Sari Agatston | Barry Gaberman | Jane Katcher | Barbara Lipman | David Lipman | Noreen Sablotsky | Marsha Soffer

Other U.S. Regions

Lois Frank | Jan Liff | Sara Litt | Louis Newman | Lisa Orlick-Salka

International

Mark Baker | David Bernstein | Ellen Dahrendorf | Isser Dubinsky | Lawrence Englander | Susie Gilbert | David Goldberg | Mark Goldberg | June Jacobs | Pierre Loeb | Robin Margo | Claude Rakovsky | Simone Susskind | Irving Wallach | Sharon Weintraub | Fred Zemans

People Circa 2013

Brian Lurie - President | Naom Lautman - Vice President Israel | Mary Ann Stein - Vice President North America | Deborah Bussel - Secretary | Stephen D. Gunther - Treasurer | Lela Goren - Director | Elah Alkalay - Director | Yifat Bitton - Director | Naomi Chazan - Director | Itzik Danziger - Director | Peter Edelman - Director | Paul Egerman - Director | Amal Elsana Alhjooj - Director | Franklin M. Fisher - Director | Itzhak Galnoor - Director | Bill Goldman - Director | Martin Indyk - Director | Assad Joubran - Director | Daniel Levy - Director | Harriet Mouchly-Weiss - Director | Debra Pell - Director | Nicholas Saphir - Director | Talia Sasson - Director | Carole Segal - Director | Daniel Segal - Director | Peter Shapiro - Director | Jeffrey Solomon - Director | Yael Sternhell - Director | Alfred Fred Tauber - Director | Daniel Sokatch - Chief Executive Officer | David Rosen - Chief Operating Officer | Anthony Fullington - Chief Finance Officer | Rachel Liel - Executive Director, Israel | Steven Rothman - National Development Specialist | Naomi Paiss - Communications Director | Naom Shelef - Director, Digital Strategy | Bruce Temkin - Regional Director, NY | Libby Lenkinski - Regional Director, National | Karen Paul-Stern - Regional Director, DC | Ruti Berner-Kadish - Director, Foundation Relations

Funding

The New Israel Fund receives funding from the following organisations:

Albert E. Marks Charitable Trust, Alan B. Slifka Foundation, Allan and Elizabeth Loeb Fund, Altman-Aronow Charitable Foundation, Anixter-Browning Family Charitable Foundation, Anne and Howard Gottlieb Foundation, Arnold and Rhoda Steiger Charitable Foundation, Arnow Family Fund, Beverly Foundation, Big Cat Foundation, Blum Family Foundation, Center for Alternative Media and Culture, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Charles and Richard Oestreich Foundation, Charles L. Weisberg Family Foundation, Chuch Goldman Family Supporting Foundation, Compton Foundation, Burnam Charitable Foundation, Dajer Charitable Foundation, Dana and Jesse Lehman Foundation, Dobkin Family Foundation, Donald S. Lowitz Memorial Fund, Elizabeth B. and Arthur E. Roswell Foundation, Ernest Lowenstein Foundation, Eshaghpour Family Foundation, Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, Fadem Family Foundation, Florence and Fred Thomases Foundation, FJC - A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds, Fox Family Foundation, Gavlin Family Foundation, Gelb Foundation, George Hirsch Foundation, Gesher Family Foundation, Gruber Foundation, Harold K. Raisler Foundation, Howard G. and Samita B. Jacobs Foundation, Irving and Doris Lee Goldman Foundation, Irving and Geraldine Schaffer Foundation, Irving Harris Foundation, Isaac and Leah Potts Foundation, Israel and Mollie Myers Foundation, Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation, Janklow Foundation, J.B. and Margaret Blaugrund Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, Jewish Funders Network, Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation, J.S. and S. Michaan Foundation, June and Ira Kapp Foundation, J. Zel Lurie Family Foundation, Kaplan Family Foundation, Kathryn Ames Foundation, Key Foundation, Klein Family Foundation, Koppelman Family Foundation, Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Foundation, Lehman-Stamm Family Fund, Lenore Hecht Foundation, Lenzner Family Foundation, Leo Burnett Company Charitable Foundation, Leonard J. and Ethel H. Smith Charitable Foundation, Leslie S. and Marsha Levine Charitable Trust, Libby Foundation, Louis J. Kuriansky Foundation, Louis P. Singer Fund, Maor Foundation, Margaret K. Sloss Foundation, Marie Lazare Foundation, Martin D. Cohen Family Foundation, Marvin Naiman and Margery Goldman Family Foundation, Massie Family Charitable Trust 2, Max Fund, Mazur Family Foundation, Milton Pollack Family Foundation, Morgan and Marjorie Miller Charitable Trust, Moriah Fund, Morning Star Foundation, Morse Family Foundation, Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation, Nathan and Helen Kohler Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New Prospect Foundation, N. Silverstein Charitable Foundation, Paul Family Foundation, Philip J. Solondz Family Foundation, Pomegranate Foundation, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, Richard and Mary L. Gray Foundation, Righteous Persons Foundation, Rita Poretsky Foundation, Robert Russell Memorial Foundation, Sabra Minkus Family Foundation, Samuel and Francine Klagsbrun Foundation, Schocken Foundation, Schreck Family Foundation, Segal Family Foundation, Selma and Alvin Silverman Foundation, Senville Foundation, Sheldon L. and Pearl R. Leibowitz Foundation, Shore Family Foundation, SJR Charitable Trust, Sonkin Family Foundation, Sparkplug Foundation, Star Foundation, Stratfield Fund, Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation, Susan Adler Foundation, Toole Charitable Foundation, Vogl Foundation, Walter Stone Foundation, Wechsler Foundation, Weiser Family Foundation, Wexler-Beron Family Foundation, Woodbourne Foundation, World Institute for World Peace Foundation, Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund

Contact

Address Circa 2015:

330 Seventh Avenue, 11th Floor

New York,

NY 10001

Phone: (212) 613 4400

Website: http://nif.org

Email: info@nif.org