Volunteer

Volunteering at IGY 23+

Join IGY's community of facilitators. IGY facilitators can take on a wide range of roles, from facilitating groups of LGBTQ+ teenagers or young people throughout the country, to facilitating in various youth clubs, correspondence with youth from all across the country through our digital platforms, or facilitating groups specifically for LGBTQ+ Arab youth, religious and ultra-Orthodox youth, trans youth and more.

What do you need to know before?

Volunteering at IGY requires a great deal of time and emotional availability. Working with youth is consuming and this means facilitators are required to come with quite a bit of free time.
Facilitators should be over the age of 23.
Each volunteering opportunity requires at least one activity per week (between 4-5 hours per week), and availability for team-building days and training on weekends once a month.
Want to take part in some other way? You can send an email to [email protected] and we will try to brainstorm together how.

Volunteer

*Important to know! Volunteering at IGY is a weekly commitment throughout the year and part of the .volunteering is attending training seminars and regional/group days throughout the year
*!Groups operate all over the country, because we are here and everywhere

So what can you do in the organization?

Personal Stories

"I met amazing people, true friends" - Kai, facilitator of the Mitriyah group in Be’er Sheva.

I finally have this opportunity to facilitate a space and kids that I would have wanted to have when I was their age.

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"I met amazing people, true friends" - Kai, facilitator of the Mitriyah group in Be’er Sheva.

I finally have this opportunity to facilitate a space and kids that I would have wanted to have when I was their age.

read more
- Come and volunteer in the upcoming year. Click here to register
  
  "I met amazing people, true friends" - Kai, facilitator of the Mitriyah group in Be’er Sheva.
  
  I finally have this opportunity to facilitate a space and kids that I would have wanted to have when I was their age.
  
  Kai
  
  One of the reasons I wanted to be a facilitator was to surround myself with people who understood me – which includes both the students and my stunning team. This is an opportunity for me to give time and love to the LGBTQ+ community, especially to the trans community that really needs love and understanding. I have met amazing people that I love so much through IGY, true friends.
"Big ideas, LGBTQ+ and action in Israeli society - this is IGY" - Yoav, founder and facilitator of the Manhiga leadership program

IGY is where you come to make your dreams a reality. I came with a gran vision and low expectations, and IGY made that vision a reality.
I am Yoav, founder and facilitator of the Manhiga leadership program.

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"Big ideas, LGBTQ+ and action in Israeli society - this is IGY" - Yoav, founder and facilitator of the Manhiga leadership program

IGY is where you come to make your dreams a reality. I came with a gran vision and low expectations, and IGY made that vision a reality.
I am Yoav, founder and facilitator of the Manhiga leadership program.

read more
- Come and volunteer in the upcoming year. Click here to register
  
  "Big ideas, LGBTQ+ and action in Israeli society - this is IGY" - Yoav, founder and facilitator of the Manhiga leadership program
  
  IGY is where you come to make your dreams a reality. I came with a gran vision and low expectations, and IGY made that vision a reality.
  I am Yoav, founder and facilitator of the Manhiga leadership program.
  
  Yoav
  
  About 40 Year of Service volunteers and Mechina participants from all over the country meet every week, in order to create a working group that changes the reality of Israeli society.
  This group was born from IGY’s value system, since big ideas, LGBTQ+ and action in Israeli society is the essence of IGY.
"We are the role models we always dreamed of having" - Noam, facilitator of the 18-23 trans group

Thanks to the volunteering at IGY, I got to know an amazing group of people (my students) and got the opportunity to help them fulfill dreams

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"We are the role models we always dreamed of having" - Noam, facilitator of the 18-23 trans group

Thanks to the volunteering at IGY, I got to know an amazing group of people (my students) and got the opportunity to help them fulfill dreams

read more
- Come and volunteer in the upcoming year. Click here to register
  
  "We are the role models we always dreamed of having" - Noam, facilitator of the 18-23 trans group
  
  Thanks to the volunteering at IGY, I got to know an amazing group of people (my students) and got the opportunity to help them fulfill dreams
  
  Noam
  
  The weekly meetings with them teach me a lot, and in return I feel like I give them a space that I wish I had had as a teenager. Volunteering also helped foster a new connection to the trans community, and the opportunity to run the International Transgender Day of Visibility events for two years in a row, to help shape them into of revolutionaries that in a few more years will lead the community forward.
It was the first time I was ever exposed to the community with such intensity and on a such a personal level - Nadav Tsabari, facilitator of the 18-23 group in Be’er Sheva

I came out of the closet at the age of 25, and before my own identity had fully crystallized, I had already started facilitating the 18-23 group in Be’er Sheva. By the end of the year, I felt that I had learned the most from all my students.

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It was the first time I was ever exposed to the community with such intensity and on a such a personal level - Nadav Tsabari, facilitator of the 18-23 group in Be’er Sheva

I came out of the closet at the age of 25, and before my own identity had fully crystallized, I had already started facilitating the 18-23 group in Be’er Sheva. By the end of the year, I felt that I had learned the most from all my students.

read more
- Come and volunteer in the upcoming year. Click here to register
  
  It was the first time I was ever exposed to the community with such intensity and on a such a personal level - Nadav Tsabari, facilitator of the 18-23 group in Be’er Sheva
  
  I came out of the closet at the age of 25, and before my own identity had fully crystallized, I had already started facilitating the 18-23 group in Be’er Sheva. By the end of the year, I felt that I had learned the most from all my students.
  
  Nadav Sabri
  
  I’m at the start-of-the-year seminar.
  
  My eyes have been opened, I’m meeting so many amazing people, LGBTQ+ people, made from the finest material. But where were they before?
  
  I had just, a few months prior, come out to my Dad, who was the last to know. Yes, 25 years old and only now telling my Dad. Proportions, unconditional love, acceptance, inclusion. I’m being showered in it all en masse. A level of discourse I hadn’t ever witnessed, patient, embracing, courageous.
  
  When I was assigned the group, I was still forming my own identity, but in the process I meet and see students, friends, heroes. They are all so amazing and smart that I’ve become the student. I learn about coping and making the right decisions, about honesty and finding the light and goodness around me.
  
  We talk endlessly, about our lives, about our community. How do I become a better person? How do I make the world better?
  
  This was asked of me over and over again throughout the year.
  Yes, I answer, it was the first time I was ever exposed to the community with such intensity and on a such personal level. My first time in IGY. Not a student. A facilitator who has comes to give of his world and to learn together with these magical youth. And along the way, my teammates became soul mates. Volunteering became my drive.

We are here and everywhere

Volunteering at IGY 23+

What do you need to know before?

So what can you do in the organization?

Personal Stories

"I met amazing people, true friends" - Kai, facilitator of the Mitriyah group in Be’er Sheva.

"I met amazing people, true friends" - Kai, facilitator of the Mitriyah group in Be’er Sheva.

"Big ideas, LGBTQ+ and action in Israeli society - this is IGY" - Yoav, founder and facilitator of the Manhiga leadership program

"Big ideas, LGBTQ+ and action in Israeli society - this is IGY" - Yoav, founder and facilitator of the Manhiga leadership program

"We are the role models we always dreamed of having" - Noam, facilitator of the 18-23 trans group

"We are the role models we always dreamed of having" - Noam, facilitator of the 18-23 trans group

It was the first time I was ever exposed to the community with such intensity and on a such a personal level - Nadav Tsabari, facilitator of the 18-23 group in Be’er Sheva

It was the first time I was ever exposed to the community with such intensity and on a such a personal level - Nadav Tsabari, facilitator of the 18-23 group in Be’er Sheva