Giving Back
As a small, yet ever-growing business, "Noa Sharon Designs" sees high importance in giving back and working with and for the community she belongs to.
Giving back to the community you live in (locally as well as world wide) has a satisfying and enriching value.
Noa also believes it is important to raise the awareness of these great initiatives / organizations and therefore share it all out here on our web page.
Local community
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Supportive Community (Sviva Tomehet- no longer active)
Supportive Community is an exciting non-profit organization in Israel, that I was volunteering in. It acts as a women's business development center.
My main aim is to help small businesses of disadvantage women to establish tools for self-conducting with the internet media in order to develop a sales and marketing meadow for their own art products.
After attending our workshops, women will be able to manage their online shops for making profit.
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Turning The Tables (Hofchot-et-Hayotsrot)
As part of this evening, there will be a lottery with great prices, and each ticket’s value will support the initiative.
We donated a voucher to be used in our shop.
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Israel Bat Sanctuary Organization (Amutat Atalef)
Amutat ATALEF (an NPO) was established in order to help, treat, and rehabilitate fruit bats, and then release those who are able back to nature. These include bats from all over Israel, who were found wounded, sick, orphaned or exhausted.
We donated money for this cause on 2022.
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Out Of The Box organization (Amutat Latset Mehakufsa)
In collaboration with the Sunshine foundation, Out Of The Box organization build a special program for the empowerment of young initiative designers. I am currently serve as a lecturer in the course program, and give the designers important lead ideas, tips and guidelines to help their new small business to bloom.
It gives me a great satisfaction to help other designers with all the knowledge I have accumulated and give them the tools to succeed on their own.
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5 NIS SALE Event // Pa'ama'im Ki Tov
Proud to take part in this amazing project!
5 (!) NIS SALE event in the south of Israel
arranged by a non-profit organization paamaimkitov
and the blog 5 Shekel
The organization has 2 second hand shops that give handicapped people a proper place to work and decent salary. The items in the shop are sold in a fair price and encourage reuse and recycle.
We have donated a pair of earrings from our geometry collection.
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Taking part with publicity and donation on behalf of the talented musician Air-Run RainMan Carmeli
Eran is a talented musician (here performing a song about the palestinian refugees, written by Israeli poet Daliya Rabikowitch)- that has been to a real bad car accident and needs to have an expensive surgery. We wish he will get well soon and here is a music festival that all incomes will be for his recovery.
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The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in
The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel and the ten Rape Crisis Centers in the country are the only organizations in Israel dedicated solely to combating sexual violence.
Every year the center organizes an amazing bazar called: Mitlabshot-Al-Ze that sales items from Israeli designers (fashion, jewelry and accessories) - donated by the designers themselves. Everything is sold with great discount and the income goes to help the call center that gives a true help to those in need.
Every year we donate several items from our collection, and we've been told they are sold out almost immediately!
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Haverim Lerfuah
Donation to various people in need for the extra cash to complete the funds for an expensive surgery.
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Yom Ma'asim Tovim
This is a special day, a good deeds day, on March 28.
Everyone can participate in different events and donation.
This year I collaborated with an Israeli jeweler and each of us gave few jewels to the patients in the oncology department in Ichilov hospital in Tel-Aviv.
We donated several pieces gift-wrapped nicely as a small gesture to make them happy, during Chemo treatment. Wish them all good health.
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Crowdfunding for the Innocent People of Huwara
Donating to an independent crowdfunding project to help the innocent people of Huwara town that their home was under attack by settlers.
The political environment here is very complex and we try to do all in our power to help and make a positive impact.
Pnimeet / Israel's Community Bicycle Workshop
Noa was introduced to Pnimeet's venture last year, and this year she wanted to donate to them because she believe this is a true important cause that will help us reduce carbon print and better know our vehicles and explore our cities in more sustainable and social way.
Women's Spirit, founded in 2007, works to promote Economic Independence of women survivors of abuse in Israel and strives for social change from a feminist perspective and commitment to social and gender justice. Women's Spirit is the only NGO in Israel providing women survivors of abuse with long-term solutions to escape the vicious cycle of abuse through a focus on employment and financial empowerment.
On 2024 we donated jewelry pieces for their volunteers' appreciation event.
Following the October 7th Massacre,
we donate 40% of all profits from the Star of David Collection
sold on our site during Oct+Nov+Dec '23, to the survivors.
The money splits between these projects:
Fundraising for Kibbutz Be'eri rehabilitation
On Saturday, 10/7, Simchat Torah, Israel awoke to a nightmare. Inhumane terrorists massacred entire families and communities in the settlements of the Gaza envelope and committed crimes that the soul cannot contain and the mind cannot conceive.
Kibbutz Be'eri was destroyed on its residents. Over 100 people were murdered, many were held hostage, and others were kidnapped to Gaza.
The money will be used to rebuild Kibbutz Be'eri, to rebuild the community, and to answer all of the physical and emotional needs of the families that have been affected.
Fundraising for post trauma music therapy
There is a critical need for long-term therapeutic support processes for deep and gradual internal balance and a return to functionality.
The money collected will provide immediate assistance to survivors of the Nova event and displaced communities.
Fundraising for Shy-Lee & Shaya
A tragic-heroic survivor story that touched our hearts.
Shay-Lee and her husband Yahav, who live in Gaza village with their one-month-old baby daughter Shaya, found themselves under attack by terrorists on their home. Shay-Lee managed to escape with Shaya to a neighbor's shelter, where she waited with them for over a day - without food and without knowing where her husband was. Yahav, her husband was murdered, and Shay-Lee and her little Shaya, were left with nothing.
World wide community
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Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound focuses on one goal: working hand-in-hand with children and their families to embrace each day with hope, determination and empowerment. We break the multi-generational cycle of families in crisis who aspire to a life of economic independence and safety. Each family receives individual support and a plan that takes them down a path of positive change. Homeward Bound changes lives for today and, more importantly, tomorrow!
I am proud to take part of the annual fundraising event, by giving a donation of one of my designs.
Co-Founding and voluntarily managing the "Sustainable Fashion Forum" in Israel
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Co-Founding and managing the team and the community of sustainable fashion forum in Israel.
Cultivating and running the forum activities, FB community and strategy alongside Illana Leizin & Amos Shtibelman.