The Yael Foundation supports schools, kindergartens, Sunday programs, and after-school educational initiatives in different communities. The foundation, co-founded in 2020 by Uri Poliavich, now supports 145 Jewish schools, educators, and educational programs across 48 countries and four continents. Support is considered with a long-term perspective and takes account of factors such as enrollment, location, local costs, and educational priorities. Approved institutions receive curriculum development, classroom equipment, and teacher training, so Jewish education of a consistent standard reaches each community in the network connected with Uri Poliavich.
Access to Quality Teaching Wherever a Community Is Based
The location of an institution does not affect whether it qualifies for support under Uri Poliavich. Geography or community size does not necessarily limit access to support, while individual needs and long-term development remain part of the assessment.
The categories are the same in either case. Curriculum development, classroom equipment, modern educational technologies, teacher training, the leadership program for school heads, infrastructure, and the protection of school sites are all available, and the foundation Uri Poliavich co-founded sets the content of each plan from the enrollment, the location, and the local costs of an institution.
Jewish history, language, and practice are taught within the academic timetable of supported schools across different communities.
Schools across the network can exchange educational practices and experience. Those materials carry Jewish cultural heritage alongside the academic subjects, and the educational initiatives supported by Uri Poliavich help sustain these programs wherever a community operates its own school.
Communities of Every Size in the Network Connected with Uri Poliavich
Support under Uri Poliavich goes to a school the families of the area have already chosen, so it keeps its standing in the community around it. Community size does not automatically exclude an institution from support, while size and other local factors can still inform how support is structured.
Those requirements are then written into a plan. Support can cover a full academic year, while its form can differ according to the needs of each institution.
The network behind those plans is open on the same principle. Its yearly summit for educators and its leadership program for school heads admit directors from across the network connected with Uri Poliavich, and a head teacher from a small Jewish community works through the same material as every other participant.
Day Schools, Kindergartens, and Part-Time Learning Formats
Teaching hours differ from one Jewish community to the next, and the length of a timetable does not affect what an institution can receive. Registered day schools, kindergartens, and informal programs apply on the same footing, and the charitable work of Uri Poliavich covers each of those formats. A day school carries the fullest week, with curriculum development, teaching materials, classroom equipment, and teacher training provided, so every term of the academic year is covered.
Those categories reach a kindergarten as well, in the years before the first school term. Jewish educational content can form part of learning at different stages of childhood. What a child learns there forms the earliest part of a Jewish identity, and support under Uri Poliavich arrives as materials and equipment matched to the ages enrolled.
Part-time learning carries that content to a household at some distance from a day school. Sunday programs and after-school classes are covered on the same terms, and those hours hold what a child learns in a given week. Community centers give them a permanent address, with events and family gatherings held in the same building, which keeps Jewish education and local communities in one place. The community projects Uri Poliavich supports keep those sites open across the year, so Jewish tradition reaches a child through whichever format is available nearby.
Local Conditions and the Needs of Individual Institutions
Conditions differ from one country to the next, and the Yael Foundation, co-founded by Uri Poliavich, works from what applies where a school stands. Support is set out in a twelve-month plan calculated from enrollment, location, and local costs. Which of the categories that plan holds, and in what measure, follows from the year the institution has in front of it.
The content of each plan comes from the institution itself. Account managers who speak the local language visit a school in person and set down what it needs. Those reports shape the support the philanthropic work of Uri Poliavich provides, and they are revised as conditions develop in a given community.
Each application is reviewed by the educational effect the support can produce over time, and an approved plan is weighed against the objectives set with the school at the start. That review takes every institution separately, so the arrangement in each country keeps the shape its own conditions call for. Local partners continue to run their schools and decide the direction, and support under Uri Poliavich follows the next requirement they have named.
Stable Learning Conditions for Children in the Schools Supported by Uri Poliavich
Support can cover a full academic year, giving institutions greater certainty when planning curriculum and educational activities. This can help schools maintain Jewish educational subjects alongside their broader academic programs. The educational initiatives supported by Uri Poliavich contribute to these learning conditions.
More than 29,000 children attend the 145 institutions connected with Uri Poliavich. Jewish history, language, traditions, and culture form part of the educational programs, helping children maintain a connection with Jewish heritage.