With more than 150 projects across 30 cities in Israel, when you ask Israeli social entrepreneur Nehoray Erdinast Ofri what Community O is, he skips the nonprofit vocabulary and reaches for the clouds.
It’s AWS — Amazon Web Services — for nonprofit organizations in Israel, he responds.
The comparison is deliberate. Amazon’s cloud service allowed a generation of startups to launch without buying and running their own servers; companies rent computing power on demand and leave someone else to keep the data center humming. Community O wants to do the same for social ventures, serving as a fiscal sponsor and operational host that hands founders the legal, financial and administrative machinery of a nonprofit so no one has to build it from scratch. Community O initiatives operate inside its existing legal and regulatory framework instead of incorporating as a stand-alone amuta (nonprofit).
Launched in the weeks after the Oct. 7 attacks, Community O was…
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