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"It is … our duty as scientists to promote education, rational thinking and tolerance. We should also encourage our educated youth to become technological entrepreneurs. Those countries that nurture this knowhow will survive future financial and social crises. Let us advance science to create a better world for all."
Professor Dan Shechtman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2011, and member of World ORT’s Academic Advisory Council in Israel.

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"I think education is the fundamental component to South Africa being able to become a successful nation. Education should not be based on race, class, gender or ethnicity and ORT has ensured that people from all walks of life are afforded an equal chance for a better tomorrow.”
Johnny Clegg, musician and anthropologist.

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"Throughout the world, ORT schools provide a modern educational environment in which young people learn to appreciate time-honoured general values as well as get connected to Jewish values. The cutting edge technological orientation brought in by ORT positions Jewish schools at a much higher level, thus providing them with an ability to attract the generation who may otherwise remain unaffiliated."
Natan Sharansky

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"I have had occasion before to remark on the fact that ORT's activity does not base itself upon 'charity' but upon self help. Both for the work of rebuilding human lives and the great task of building a new nation in Israel, the acquisition of skills assumes an enormous importance. I want to assure you of my greatest admiration for the cause in which you are so nobly engaged."
Albert Einstein

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"Your vocational training activities … represent a constructive activity on a people-to-people level which deserves approbation … You are engaged in a work of great humanitarian significance. Yours is the type of meaningful program which transmits skills and technical knowledge as an aid to the modernization of communities and to the improvement of living standards. It is thus in consonance with the main currents of our times."
President John F. Kennedy

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"…ORT has provided an education for life to Jews and others in vulnerable communities throughout the world. In so doing, it has exemplified one of Judaism's greatest values. We are the people who predicated our very existence as a people on education, on 'teaching... diligently to our children.' … The civilizations of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome have long since disappeared. Judaism still lives and flourishes and survives. ORT is testimony to that truth.”
Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth

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World ORT is a safe pair of hands for your money. But don’t take our word for it, there are three external and independent bodies who have assessed us favourably  – Charity Navigator, Independent Charities of America and Local Independent Charities of America, and the Israeli tax office.

  • Charity Navigator, which is regarded in North America as the “gold standard” for donors seeking information about the fiscal responsibility and financial health of non-profits, has awarded World ORT its maximum four-star rating. After scrutinizing World ORT’s independently audited accounts for the years 2007 to 2010, it found that World ORT raises one dollar for every three cents spent on fundraising and that our fundraising and administrative expenses together amount to only six per cent of total costs – meaning that 94 per cent of spending is on programmes. The full report can be seen here: http://www.charitynavigator.org/stage/special/world-ort2.htm

  • The Independent Charities of America and Local Independent Charities of America has awarded World ORT its Independent Charities Seal of Excellence. This is awarded to member organisations which have been able to certify, document, and demonstrate on an annual basis that they meet the highest standards of public accountability, program effectiveness, and cost effectiveness. Fewer than 2,000 of the 1 million charities operating in the United States have been awarded this Seal.

  • The Israeli authorities officially designated World ORT a “public institution” meaning that, under section 46 of the Income Tax Ordinance, individual Israeli tax payers can credit 35 per cent of their donations to World ORT against income tax while local enterprises can credit 29 per cent. It is, in effect, a “hechsher”, a sign of our legitimacy after thorough checking by the tax authority.