Collaboration with State bodies
The Ministry of Education – supports Ma'ase activities on three main levels
Official recognition of Ma'ase as a recruitment and placement organization for volunteers of the Arab sector within the framework of national service. The Ministry has established regulations for this purpose.
Providing National Service posts (through national service organizations: Bat Ami, Shlomit and the Volunteer Association) for Ethiopian girls of the periphery who were not accepted to national service through normative screening.
Official authorization of North District Director - for Ma'ase volunteers to be posted in district schools, helping them narrow gaps in education and social issues.
Official national authorization of the Department for Youth and Society - for Ma'ase volunteers to be posted in district schools, helping them narrow gaps in education and social issues.
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The Ministry of Defense
Authorization to become a youth organization that directs volunteers of the periphery to Community-Nahal tracks through a regularization process (money transfers) beginning in 2009.
Authorization for a pre-army preparatory program in Akko (50% of the budget is funded by the state, beginning September 2010).
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National-Civilian Service Administration
Participating in strategic planning forum directed by the Gandyr Foundation along with the Department for Civil Service, the Joint, Gvanim Association and others.
Ma'ase is involved in a pilot program focusing on various issues of national service and work with hundreds of teens (at-risk youth and teens from the Arab sector).
Discussing the possibility that Ma'ase constitute a research and development center in the service of the National-Civilian Service Administration, particularly in writing a syllabus of subject matters for training of volunteers from marginalized communities and in initiating unique projects.
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Ministry of Transport and Road Safety, Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, the National Insurance Institute of Israel
Privileges and rights for Ma'ase volunteers of the periphery during their volunteer service: Family stipend for volunteers families, covered traveling expenses, grants for new immigrants and more.
Local authorities – Ma'ase works with 55 local authorities in the northern and southern peripheries of Israel. This activity is always conducted in cooperation with authority representatives.