Latest from MAOF: Seminars for Civil Society Leadership

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Between Health And The Environment [5]	Creating An Environmental Groundshift In Local Politics [6]	"Green Now" Campaign [7]

About MAOF:

The Maof Seminar Program provides a platform for free-flowing exchange and inter-organizational networking. We strive to use these three-day meetings to develop new ideas, a network of leaders, and a joint agenda for social-environmental organizations in Israel.

The Maof seminars have played an important role in strengthening and enhancing the Israeli environmental movement and establishing the Heschel Center's key function as a facilitator and catalyst for effective examination and formulation of ideas, goals and strategy. Both the Heschel Center and the environment movement as a whole have developed and matured a great deal since the first annual Maof seminar for senior staff of environmental NGOs in 1998. 

The seventh Maof in 2005 returned to the original concept of a summit meeting for CEOs of environmental NGOs and, like its predecessor in 1998 marked a turning-point in the development of the Israeli environmental movement.

The eighth Maof used this basis to expand the discourse to include social issues NGOs and created the stimulus for creation of a joint social-environmental agenda.

The ninth Maof (May 2007) focused on health and the environment and introduced health professionals and NGOs for the first time to issues of sustainability and the connection between public health and the environment Linking them with environmental NGOs the conference created alliances for action reflected in a number of joint workgroups.

The Maof Seminar is made possible through the generous support of The Green Environment Fund [8]