ORT is the largest global non-governmental education organization. The ORT network has a presence in 63 countries, educating and training more than 300,000 students and beneficiaries daily. ORT’s heritage is 130 years old, beginning in tsarist Russia to provide impoverished Jews with employable skills. Since then, the organization’s curriculum has evolved to meet the needs of a complex marketplace and individual communities such as Kiryat Yam, Israel to Buenos Aires, Argentina to South Central Los Angeles, with cutting-edge fields such as telecommunications, robotics, renewable energy technology, bioengineering and biochemistry. ORT’s educational and vocational programs provide talented students, many from at-risk households, with the best possible educational preparation, social services, tuition assistance, and financial support to remain in school and break the cycle of poverty. ORT schools in the United States boast more than 75 percent job placement rate after graduation and one-third of university students in Israel have been educated by ORT.
Educate and elevate: ORT Works!