BIS Summer 2019 Impact Report - Final

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION 2018 • Beit Issie Shapiro wins the award for "Best   Practice for Global Transference" from the   international Zero Project for Friendship   Park, Israel's first inclusive and accessible   playground. • Beit Issie Shapiro wins the international   Zero Project Award on Accessibility 2018. 2017 • Naomi Stuchiner, Founder of Beit   Issie Shapiro, receives the Wind Social   Entrepeneurship Award and Honorary   Fellowship from IDC Herzliya. • Beit Issie Shapiro's Self-Advocacy Program   wins the "Source of Light" Award from the   Government of Israel, Ministry of Welfare. 2016 • Shosh Kaminsky, Beit Issie Shapiro’s Director   of Community Development, wins the five-  year prize for developing and managing   knowledge, and disseminating knowledge in   Israel and abroad. 2014 • Beit Issie Shapiro wins the International   "Right to Play" Prize, by the International   Play Association. • Hani Shmerling, a teacher at Beit Issie   Shapiro’s Special Education School, wins   the State’s “2014 Teacher of the Year” award. 2013 • Dr Benny Hozmi, Beit Issie Shapiro’s   Academic Director, won the Recanati-Kop-  Rashi Entrepreneur Social Worker Award. 2012 • Beit Issie Shapiro is granted "Special   Consultative Status" to the UN Economic   and Social Council. • Beit Issie Shapiro receives the Akim   Outstanding Member award for excellence   in its work for people with intellectual   disabilities. • Beit Issie Shapiro receives the Rotary   Club Award for Tolerance, awarded to   organizations and people who contribute   towards inter-ethnic understanding, for its   activity among Jews and Arabs, working   for a better, more caring society. 2011 • Beit Issie Shapiro wins Israel’s “Most   Effective Non-Profit” Award, for being   an organization that displays exceptional   achievements and makes an impact   through its activities. 2004 • Beit Issie Shapiro wins Israel's Award for   Excellence in the Field of Volunteerism and Non-Profit Organizations. 2000 • Dentists and anesthetists at Beit Issie   Shapiro's Naomi & Shimon Ditkovsky   Dental Clinic receive the Shalem Fund's   Volunteer Award. 1999 • Beit Issie Shapiro receives the Prime   Minister's "Child Protection" Award.