Community

"Discount Sprint for the Future" – Discount Bank's Flagship Project in the community

In 2005, the Bank joined the "Sprint for the Future" Association with a view of advancing education and schooling in the social and geographical periphery in the State of Israel, in favor of the various sectors of society (Jews, Ultra-Orthodox, religious, secular, Arab, Druze and Bedouins) together with which it launched a program that became the Bank's flagship program "Discount Sprint for the Future". Over the passing years the Bank was an important partner in the growth in the scope of operations and budgets of the Association, assists in the structure of unique projects and partnerships with government agencies, such as the Israeli Ministry of Education and the Israeli National Insurance Institute, and also has founded a student scholarship foundation. 
The "Sprint for the Future" Association initiates and operates unique and innovative programs for advancement of education and knowledge, Self-empowerment and for providing tools for social-economic leadership for weak populations of all social segments and strives to integrate them in the academy, in employment and in the society in Israel. The Association operates ten central programs
Sprint for the Future

Krembo Wings

A youth movement leading social change, the first and the only one of its kind in the world, for children with and without special needs. Krembo Wings conducts once a week informal social-educational activities in a model of personal coaching within a group framework. Most of the coachers are youngsters coming from general education. The joint activity contributes to increased awareness for special populations and to social accessibility, while providing response to the emotional and social needs of persons with special needs and their integration into the Israeli society.
The bank’s strategic support for the youth movement is designated for its ongoing activities and for its spring and summer camps. Alongside this, bank employees volunteer at the movement’s branches and camps.

DARCA

DARCA is a network of high schools intended to strengthen schools in the geosocial periphery and from various communities in Israeli society. DARCA’s activities promote students’ success and excellence. The Bank provides support for activities at schools in Ashkelon and Julis in the North, and view DARCA as a strategic project.

The Notnim Tikva (Giving Hope) Association

The Discount Group set up a Discount war room, the basic aim of which is to provide a response to the urgent needs of IDF soldiers wounded in the Iron Swords War who are undergoing rehabilitation at Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital. Within the framework of the war room, which operates through the Notnim Tikva Association, the Bank provides a response to urgent requests that fall outside the realm of the IDF or the Ministry of Defense. Since the establishment of the war room, Bank volunteers have been going to the rehabilitation center regularly once a week, and some even more frequently. The volunteers conduct joint activities with the wounded, find out their needs and establish personal connections.
In 2024, volunteer activity continued and even increased. It included a mentoring program, within the framework of which managers at the Bank accompany the wounded prior to and throughout the days after their rehabilitation. The wounded come as guests to the Discount campus to study and delve deeper into topics that interest them.
This year, our volunteer activities continued and even increased. It included a mentoring program, within the framework of which managers at the Bank accompany the wounded prior to and throughout the days after their rehabilitation. The wounded come as guests to the Discount campus to study and delve deeper into topics that interest them.

INCLU

The association promotes a groundbreaking agenda of kindergartens and schools at which children with special needs and those without learn together, with an emphasis on providing the necessary environment to achieve accomplishments. The children learn to include their classmates. The Bank provides support for the operation of INCLU’s educational institutions and for the opening of additional facilities, and  view INCLU as a strategic project. In 2024, the Bank supported a strategic donation to establish an inclusive school, the first in the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip.

"Tech Career"

The hi-tech field is not accessible to most young people of Ethiopian origin, due to social and economic differences that prevent them from reaching the required studies and integrate into this field. The "Tech Career" Association made it its target to change this reality, providing young people of Ethiopian origin with an entry ticket to the hi-tech field by appropriate professional training, thus creating a dramatic social leadership for this community as a whole. The Association operates for the last twenty years, a singular model that had produced many successes. Discount Bank supports this Association since 2014. In 2024, the Bank's support of the operations of the Association continued, in order to enable a larger number of young persons to be trained and to integrate into workplaces of the first line, and also included hosting students at the Discount Campus, financial education lectures and more.

Educating for the Top 

supporting an excellence center for reducing gaps, promoting social mobility and nurturing excellence.