Ronny Douek
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| Born | 1958 Haifa, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Known for | Businessman, Social Entrepreneur and Philanthropist |
Ronny Douek (Hebrew: רוני דואק) known as Roni Duek (born 1958, Haifa) is an Israeli businessman, social entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has founded multiple social ventures, including Zionism 2000, Sheatufim and Uru, and has served as chairman of the Israel Anti-Drug Authority. Douek lit a torch at formal torch-lighting ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on Israel's 60th anniversary.
In 1990, he founded Ach-Shav, an association which worked with new immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. Among others, Ach-Shav has established community centers in the caravan sites that provided provisional housing to the new immigrants in attempt to allow them to benefit from cultural and leisure activities. In 1994, he founded "Alter-Nativ", a national initiative for fighting substance abuse, which was later adopted by the Israel Anti-Drug Authority and became its flagship program for prevention of substance abuse by youth. To date, over 300 thousand teenagers participated in Alter-Nativ workshops in hundreds of schools and other educational settings across Israel.
In 1995, in the wake of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, Ronny Douek and a group of friends founded Zionism 2000 as a civic movement that believes change is possible. Zionism 2000 runs a range of social projects across Israel to encourage individuals to assume personal responsibility for the creation of better society. Since its inception, Zionism 2000 has become one of Israel's most prominent social organizations, harnessing the good will of thousands of volunteers, educators and social activists, business people and philanthropists as well as hundreds of business corporation to help start educational and social ventures across Israel. One of the first projects initiated by Zionism 2000 in 1998 was ALEH, Hebrew acronym for "Business for the Community", which helps business entities become community engaged in the most professional, optimal and advanced manner. ALEH volunteers currently support over 120 Israeli and international corporations in their partnerships with the third and public sectors with a vision of creating a more just and balanced society. ALEH also works with youth at risk to encourage business entrepreneurial spirit among them as part of the "Business Making" project. Another program run by Zionism 2000 is "City in Transition", which seeks to improve the quality of life in various communities with a system-wide model for change which is based on community empowerment and development of the social equity. The unique work model introduces a different managerial approach and working in broad roundtables that represent the three sectors of society to develop a shared vision and strategy, comprehensive and dynamic mapping to create the database, creating a budgeted work plan, and continuous measurement of effectiveness. All this is done in complete transparency and according to proper management practices. The Program results in a change that involves the three sectors (public, business and third sectors) to facilitate working with the community's organization to promote the quality of life with pooled resources and leveraging the unique strengths of each sector. "City in Transition" projects have been implemented to date in dozens of communities across Israel.
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