09:00-10:00

Registration

10:00-10:15

Opening and Greetings

Prof. Ayala Malach-Pines, Dean, Guilford Glazer faculty of Business and Management

Prof. Pierre Kletz, Director of the Social Leadership MBA, Vice-President, Mandel Foundation

10:15-11:45

Social Engagement by Young Adults in Israel – ICTR Research Findings

Chair: Dr. Hagai Katz, Director, ICTR

Dr. Uzi Sasson: Recruiting youth volunteers and youth volunteers’ motivations

Ms. Avital Schlanger: What makes the entrepreneur? Young social entrepreneurs

Ms. Shelly Sharon: Young mission-based communities

11:45-12:15

Coffee

12:15-13:45

Parallel Sessions: New Research on the Third Sector in Israel

Third sector organizations as social bridges and junctions

Vision to results – paths towards effectiveness

Dependence, control and legitimacy in civil society organizations

Philanthropy – now and then

13:45-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Keynote: Is Israeli Civil Society Crumbling? What’s Changed Since Summer 2011?

Prof. Yael Yishai, School of Political Science, Haifa University

Chair: Prof. Ayala Malach-Pines, Dean, Guilford Glazer faculty of Business and Management

Discussants:

Dr. Danielle Shani, Staff Member and Program Development, Mandel Foundation

Dr. Noam Hofstadter, ICTR

16:00-16:30

Coffee

16:30-18:00

Panel: Young Persons and Social Change – Bottom-Up? Periphery vs. Center?

Chair: Dr. Varda Shiffer, President, Mandel Foundation, Israel

Panelists:

MK Gila Gamliel, Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office, in charge of the issue of young persons in the government

Dr. Ronit Amit, CEO, Gandyr Foundation

Mr. Safi Ibrahim, CEO, Horizins to the Future, Maghar

Mr. Alon-Lee Green, the New Social Movement, of the summer protest leadership

Mr. Nitai Schreiber, Co-Executive Director, Gvanim