Eco Campus

What Eco Campus does

Eco Campus is a virtual world platform for Jewish environmental education, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Beit-shemesh, Israel, with a team of 1-10 employees. It operates as a program under Sviva Israel, the parent organization, and reaches Jewish day schools across Israel, the United States, and South Africa. Its two core offerings are: (1) the Eco Campus virtual world itself, which hosts dedicated school galleries where students can post videos, photos, and documents about environmental projects and school events; and (2) the Eco Connection school twinning program, which pairs Jewish schools internationally for joint environmental education activities including poster signings, letter exchanges, friendship bracelet making, and videoconferencing. Educational content integrates Jewish teachings (the middot, or values, of the forefathers Avraham, Yitschak, and Yaakov) with environmental concepts centered on the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and personal ecological footprint measurement.

The platform is built on lightweight infrastructure — a WordPress-hosted blog (ecocampusblog.wordpress.com), a Twitter account (@ecocampusedu), an RSS feed, and an email newsletter — suggesting low technical complexity. Proprietary features include the school gallery system, the Eco Connection twinning workflow, an Ecological Footprint Calculator, and Media Literacy Integration for community professionals. The business model is non-commercial: Eco Campus is funded through grants routed via the Jewish Agency for Israel's Partnership 2Gether network and regional partnership organizations (e.g., Philadelphia-Sedot Negev-Netivot Partnership 2000, Beit Shemesh-Mateh Yehuda-South Africa Partnership 2Gether). No pricing is publicly disclosed, and the platform appears to be offered free to participating schools. Go-to-market is community-led, relying on on-the-ground coordinators (e.g., Jonathon Feinberg for US operations) and Sviva Israel staff who facilitate workshops and program adoption directly within school communities.

Name

Eco Campus

Website

https://ecocamp.us

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Eco Campus is a virtual Jewish environmental education platform and school twinning program connecting day schools in Israel, the United States, and South Africa, operated as a grant-funded program under Sviva Israel.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Technology

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Services (611)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Science & Sustainability Programs (Ecology, Climate, Conservation) (EDAMABAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Virtual/Hybrid International Short-Term Academic Programs (EDAIAIAL)

Keywords

• Jewish environmental education
• School twinning programs
• Virtual learning platform
• Ecological footprint education
• Media literacy education

Headquarters

HQ city

Beit-shemesh

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: Eco Campus operates as a program under Sviva Israel, with funding support from the Jewish Agency for Israel's Partnership 2Gether program and various partnership organizations like Philadelphia-Sedot Negev-Netivot Partnership 2000.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Eco Campus is a virtual world platform that delivers Jewish environmental education to schools internationally. The platform provides school galleries for displaying student projects, an ecological footprint calculator, and hosts the Eco Connection program, a school twinning initiative that partners Jewish schools in Israel, the US, and South Africa for collaborative sustainability learning through letter exchanges, poster signings, and videoconferencing.

Product overview

Eco Campus operates as a unified online educational platform consisting of two core offerings: the Eco Campus virtual world platform and the Eco Connection school twinning program. The Eco Campus provides the underlying technology for school galleries, project showcases, and educational resources, while Eco Connection leverages this platform to facilitate international partnerships between Jewish schools focused on environmental education around the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Eco Campus Virtual World Platform Virtual world platform providing online Jewish environmental education, featuring school galleries where students can display videos, photos, and documents about their schools and projects. The platform also includes an ecological footprint calculator and serves as the underlying technology for school twinning activities.
• Eco Connection Program School twinning program connecting Jewish schools internationally (Israeli and South African schools, plus US schools) for collaborative environmental education, featuring joint projects, poster signings, letter exchanges, and videoconferencing. Facilitated through the Jewish Agency Partnership 2Gether network.

Named customers7 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Jewish Agency for Israel (Partnership 2Gether)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 July 2011The Jewish Agency for Israel's Partnership 2Gether program is the primary partner enabling Eco Campus's international school connections. Multiple regional partnerships operate under this umbrella, including Philadelphia-Sedot Negev-Netivot Partnership 2000 and Beit Shemesh-Mateh Yehuda-South Africa Partnership 2Gether. These partnerships provide funding, coordination, and institutional support for school twinning programs.
• Israel Centre, South AfricacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 July 2011The Israel Centre in South Africa coordinates Eco Connection activities in South African schools. Under the directorship of Shimon Shamila, the Centre hosted the launch of the first South African Eco Connection school and facilitates media literacy presentations for community professionals.
• Sviva IsraelcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSviva Israel is the parent organization of Eco Campus. The organization's Director of Media & Technology travels to launch Eco Connection programs internationally, and staff members like Carmi Wisemon conduct environmental education workshops in Israeli schools.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL): Jewish communal environmental advocacy coalition coordinating across denominations and Jewish institutions. Comparable in bridging Jewish communal infrastructure with environmental content, though primarily advocacy/coalition rather than direct school programming.
• Hazon: Largest Jewish environmental organization in North America, running the Teva Learning Center and Jewish Outdoor, Food, and Environmental Education network. Directly comparable in mission (Jewish environmental education) and in pairing Jewish values with sustainability content, though at much larger scale.
• Adamah (Jewish Environmental Leadership): Jewish environmental education and leadership organization running fellowships and retreat-based programs. Comparable mission and audience (Jewish young adults and educators), though its delivery model is in-person immersive programs rather than a virtual world.
• Canfei Nesharim: Jewish environmental education nonprofit producing educational resources connecting Torah values with contemporary environmental issues. Directly comparable in content niche and Jewish-values-plus-environmental-curriculum approach, though it operates as a resource portal rather than a school-twinning platform.

Emerging players

• GreenFaith: Interfaith environmental organization running religious-environmental education and organizing programs. Comparable in religious-values-plus-environmental framing, though broader (multi-faith) and advocacy-focused rather than school-twinning.
• Interfaith Power and Light: Faith-based environmental organization mobilizing religious communities on climate and sustainability. Comparable in fusing religious identity with environmental engagement, but operates at the congregational/community level rather than the school level.

Others

• Sefaria: Digital platform providing Jewish texts and educational resources, used heavily in Jewish day schools. Comparable as Jewish-education digital infrastructure serving the same day-school market, but focused on textual study rather than environmental curriculum.

Broad incumbents

• Eco-Schools (Foundation for Environmental Education): International environmental education program operating in 70+ countries across K-12 schools. Comparable in delivering structured sustainability curricula to schools, but secular and far larger in scale; serves as the dominant global incumbent in school environmental education.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/EcoCampusEdu
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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