About Us

The Olivestone Trust (OST) is an Israeli nonprofit organization established in 2003, and commenced its activity in 2004. The principal goals of the trust are to promote shared society and strengthen the ties between Jews and Arabs in Israel and the region. To advance its goals, the trust focuses its activities in four main fields: education and culture, conflict resolution, socio-economic development, science and research.

The Trust promotes these initiatives by lending financial support, recruiting donors for projects and providing consulting services such as project promotion, networking and other activities required for successful project development. In its activity, the trust has developed professional capacity to manage and monitor philanthropic projects worldwide. As such, it currently manages and monitors several projects for third party donors from Israel and abroad.

Currently, the trust does not receive new applications for support.

TEAM

Joseph Steinman - Co-founder and President

Gil Erez - Co-founder and Board Member

Cedric Olivestone - Board Member

Michal Caspi - General Manager

MISSION

The mission of OST is to provide critical tools for the development, advancement and encouragement of activities that promote a shared society, with emphasis on education, science, health and culture, as well as the promotion of economic and social justice, and poverty reduction.

This mission is driven by the belief that cultivating mutual understanding and cooperation between people is the foundation for building a harmonious world. The trust supports projects that teach people how to live in an interdependent global reality, imbued by a spirit of respect for cultural pluralism and universal values. Through our programs, we empower people to employ educational, conflict resolution and economic development tools that will enable them to create the conditions for peaceful shared society and social welfare within and between people, communities and nations.

APPROACH

The Olivestone Trust pursues its mission through an active, hands-on approach to programs and projects. In all of our activities, we go beyond traditional grant making and project monitoring, offering a full range of project involvement including management participation, knowledge sharing, expertise, guidance and know-how that benefit the various programs we support.

Key elements of our approach include:

Catalyzing new and innovative projects that advance our mission;

Facilitating projects, partnerships and knowledge exchange;

Financing projects and programs;

Guiding project development and implementation through the provision of support based on accumulated knowledge, insight and know-how;

Partnering with local private and public sector actors in order to foster local ownership and demand-driven projects;

Networking between and among parties working with us in order to leverage the overall impact of programs;

Sustaining projects through the early engagement of stakeholders in project design and implementation, and handing over project management to local partners once we make an exit.

Accessibility Statement

We believe that anyone and everyone should have access to enjoy our website, and therefore we make an effort that our website is clear and accessible, and will allow smooth internet surfing for anyone using different technologies.

The website was planned to meet the World Wide Web Consortium Accessibility Guidelines – Level AA.

If you have encountered an accessibility problem on our website please contact us at [email protected].

Keyboard navigation

It is possible to navigate and use our website with the help of your keyboard alone.

To activate this option, please click the TAB key.

Clicking the TAB key will move you on to the next link (highlighted in yellow) and clicking on SHIFT + TAB will bring you back to the previous link.

Clicking ENTER will activate the different links.

On forms where you can click to choose different options – choose your desired option by pressing on the ARROWS key (up/down).

For the different visual medias on the website (images/videos), you can navigate through the images by pressing on the ARROWS key (left/right).

Accessibility Options Menu

*the Accessibility Menu suits Explorer 10 and higher, Opera and Chrome. With browsers like Safari and Firefox on Mac computers, activating keyboard navigation is necessary, and is done on the browser’s settings menu.

Pressing on the TAB key will activate the navigation options for the website. At the front page of the website the following options will appear:

Accessibility Statement – open the website’s accessibility statement text.

Skip to content – begin navigation from the main area of content on the page (this option skips the navigation options at the top)

Skip to menu – begin navigation from the main site menu.

Skip to search – moves the browser to the search box (assuming that the site has a search box).

Skip to cart - moves the browser to the shopping cart (assuming that the site has a cart).

Activate high contrast – Changes the site’s colors in order to suit the vision of colorblind or blind individuals.

Enlarging the site’s font

Text size can be changed by using + CTRL key or the browser’s options menu (zoom).

To enlarge text: use + CTRL key.

To make text smaller: use – CTRL key.

For the default size text: use 0 CTRL key.

Text and background color

Pressing on the button “activate high contrast” on the options menu disables and colors and background images on the site. The text will be black on white background.

Site content

The site’s content includes standard titles, tables, lists, links, forms and buttons.

Images on the site include a corresponding description (ALT) if they are significant.

The forms on the site are accessible to screen users and keyboard users.

The site could include content from different sites using iframe. The accessibility to this content is dependent on the guest site’s accessibility and we cannot guarantee that they are accessible. For instance – Facebook’s comment section and share options, payment pages of a third party supplier or any other content.

Additional accessibility aids

The site can be viewed on portable devices (responsive).

ARIA was used in order to provide use and navigate the site by screen reader programs.