One Million Voices - The Campaign: Overview

Town Hall Meetings

OneVoice has been working with leading experts in the public opinion field to develop a breaking taboos methodology, which will serve as the basis for a public polling project and a town hall meetings series to be launched in May 2009. A pilot town hall meeting was conducted by OneVoice with 50 of its most advanced youth leaders from each side in July 2008.

Youth Leadership Program

The OneVoice Israel Leadership program has been growing over the past few years, resulting in the creation of OneVoice Israel University Chapters. The chapters are also the ideal means through which to run OneVoice activities across Israel without relying on the central office.

Currently the program runs in a phased manner:

Local Chapters - Lecture about OneVoice: Local Chapters are in charge of advertising the Leadership Program on their campus and holding a lecture session for new members, consisting of a presentation on OneVoice, an explanation of how the path to Advanced Leadership works, what their involvement in their Chapter should be, and the specific activities run by their Chapter.
Initial Training Seminar: After having attended an introductory lecture, new members attend a seminar comprised of: a session on OV methodology and past activities, an opening training session with professionals from an organization called Debate which focuses on leadership skills, and a session on OV campaigns.

Advanced Seminar: Every 3-4 months OneVoice Israel holds and Advanced Training Seminar for the most active 20-25 leaders. It is a one-day seminar and workshop in which OneVoice staff give the leaders measures of success and a broad vision of OneVoice in which they are to work, allowing for independence on how to reach that vision. The leaders are able to choose their methods, and the specific project they work on, so long as the result fits into the context of OneVoice’s principles and goals. After completing the Advanced Training, the leaders are designated “OneVoice Ambassadors,” and are given the responsibility and reward of representing the Movement before different audiences – on a college tour, in Town Hall Meetings, in meetings with supporters and donors oversees, or at events with groups from abroad.
OneVoice Trainers: After 6 months as involved OneVoice Ambassadors, the leaders can become OneVoice Trainers. The trainers in each Chapter are the highest level of Youth Leaders; they specify which positions are needed in each Chapter before the Advanced Seminars. These leaders are given the most responsibility, and therefore the most privileges – such as representing the Movement at conferences and events, being interviewed as spokespersons for OneVoice in print and broadcast media, joining delegations to the World Economic Forum, and meeting with dignitaries on behalf of the Movement – Tony Blair, Martin Luther King III, and others.

To get involved with this program, contact Roi Assaf at roia@onevoice.org.il.