2017 MFF monthly newsletter
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Anyone whose activism exceeds their wisdom, their wisdom will endure; but anyone whose wisdom exceeds their activism, their wisdom will not endure.
- Pirkei Avot 3:12
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Friends,
Spring has been a busy and productive time for the Milstein Family Foundation and our partners. We are proud of the extraordinary impact that our work together is making for the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
In this month’s newsletter, we are excited to share with you the Second prize and Staff Pick winner of the Second Annual “Inspired by Israel” Video Competition — the impactful non-profit organization, Innovation: Africa, has installed Israeli innovations in over 130 villages reaching over one million people in seven African countries. We also feature a partner that is bringing Jewish values to impact investing, and share Adam’s latest piece in The Huffington Post.
With appreciation for your continued commitment to strengthening the State of Israel and the Jewish people,
Gila and Adam Milstein
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Our community must unite against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement to stop the growth of anti-Semitism.
Written by Adam Milstein
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"Inspired By Israel" Video Contest
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Last month we featured the Grand Prize winner, check out the Staff Pick here!
Second Prize and Staff Pick Winner
A light unto the nations, Israel is transforming lives across rural African villages with innovations in water, solar and agriculture.
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Innovation: Africa, a non-profit organization founded in 2008, has installed Israeli innovations in over 130 villages reaching over one million people in seven African countries.
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Upcoming: Milstein Meme Competition
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The Milstein Meme Competition will use humor to shed light on serious subjects of Israel, pro-Israel activities, and expose anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hypocrisy by creating viral, pro-Israel memes for cash prizes.
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Do you have a great pro-Israel meme? Do you want your meme to reach tens of thousands of other Israel lovers like you? Do you just like winning? We will announce the details of the first of many Milstein Meme Competitions next month! Stay tuned!
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TAMID Tank: USC’S First-Ever Shark Tank for College Students
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USC has an outstanding entrepreneurial community, an incredible venture capital (VC) network, and thousands of fanatic Shark Tank viewers. Daniel Newman founded two startups and had the experience necessary to work with entrepreneurs and VCs alike to make TAMID Tank at USC a reality. He was elected Vice President of Operations of USC TAMID at the end of the fall semester and began planning TAMID Tank shortly thereafter in December 2016. Daniel’s first step was assembling a team of 15 brilliant students and dividing them into three groups based on their strengths: startup relations, investor relations, or logistics. This team was able to successfully raise $14,000 from various corporate and institutional sponsors that believed in TAMID Tank’s vision and greater effect it could have on the student body and TAMID. The TAMID Tank Committee then chased the VCs. Cold emails, calling their office, catching them at events — you name it, they did it. The committee also simultaneously held a school-wide startup competition to select USC’s university’s top three startups and a marketing campaign to ensure they hit every corner of campus with TAMID Tank.
To read the rest of the article, please click here.
This article was written by Daniel Newman, a student at USC and the VP of Operations for TAMID Group’s USC Chapter. For more information about TAMID Group, visit their website: http://tamidgroup.org/.
TAMID Group is generously supported by the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation.
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MFF is proud to support JLens, an organization that looks at investing through a Jewish lens and connects the Jewish community to the socially responsible investing field. Once a fringe movement, socially responsible investing is now mainstream with over $22 trillion globally, or 26 percent of all professionally managed assets.*
For over a decade, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has conducted economic warfare against Israel in the socially responsible investing field by increasing the cost and controversy for institutional investors and companies that are tied to Israel. JLens is the only socially responsible investing organization combating the hate and the lies of BDS and advocating for Jewish communal concerns in a powerful global advocacy arena that is increasingly popular with younger generations.
We thank The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation for their leadership, expertise, and support.
www.jlensnetwork.org
*2016 Global Sustainable Investment Alliance Report
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The Mission of
The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation
("MFF") is to strengthen the State of Israel, the homeland of the Jewish People, and its special ties with the United States of America; and to ensure the special affinity to the State of Israel of the young and future Jewish generations.
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