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The BIRD (Binational Industrial Research and Development) Foundation works to encourage and facilitate cooperation between U.S. and Israeli companies in a wide range of technology sectors and offers funding to selected projects. BIRD has approved close to 950 projects over its 40-year history. The BIRD Foundation supports projects without receiving any equity or intellectual property rights in the participating companies or in the projects, themselves. BIRD funding is repaid as royalties from sales of products that were commercialized as a result of BIRD support. The Foundation provides funding of up to 50% of a project's budget, beginning with R&D and ending with the initial stages of sales and marketing. The Foundation shares the risk and does not require repayment if the project fails to reach the sales stage.

The Raya Strauss Center for Family Business Research at Coller School of Management strives to strengthen the academic knowledge in the field of family firms in Israel and worldwide. As part of this activity, the Center encourages academic research concerning various aspects of managing family businesses.

The Ted Arison Family Foundation operates in Israel several key spheres, to promote an improved social environment. It realizes the vision of Doing Good by generating impactful social investments and strategic philanthropy, creating innovative vision ventures, advancing a wide range of key projects and strategic investment, and endorsing in its annual grants. The fund realizes the vision of doing good through social investment and strategic philanthropy, which include creating unique vision projects, promoting a wide range of leading projects, making strategic investments, and supporting annual grants.