Beis Community 2018 Amount: $7,000 Project: Women’s Leadership Development Amudim Community Resources, INC. • Supports women’s leadership development for Amount: $10,000 volunteers of an intentional and inclusive Project: Project Shmirah Orthodox Jewish community in Washington • Hold age-appropriate workshops in yeshivas Heights that attracts those traditionally on the and day schools to teach children about margins. healthy boundaries and strategies to increase emotional wellbeing. They will also provide Moving Traditions events in community centers, , and Amount: $60,000 homes that will encourage adults to become Project: National Jewish Summer Camp Healthy community advocates against abuse. Sexuality Initiative Center for Initiatives in (CIJE) • Moving Traditions will prepare two cohorts of Amount: $10,000 camp directors and assistant directors to train Project: YES I CAN their staff on bias prevention, harassment, and • Motivate, encourage, and support girls to peer pressure among staff and campers. pursue STEM education and careers through exposure to mentors and educational, T’ruah volunteer, and internship opportunities. Amount: $75,000 Additionally, CIJE will establish the YES I CAN Project: Development of Rabbinic Network career center which will establish STEM • Supports strengthening their rabbinic network internships and opportunities in the US and and training rabbis and cantors to be more Israel and offer assistance to young women effective leaders and to amplify the moral with college and scholarship applications. voice of the Jewish community. T’ruah will for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) develop trainings on anti-Semitism and Amount: $75,000 provide support to their network, particularly Project: Leadership Development women clergy, and promote the voices of • JWFNY’s unrestricted funds will support women as experts in teaching positions and leadership development and political journalism. education efforts and their caucuses for Jews of Color, Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews, and Jews Itach-Maaki Women Lawyers for Social Justice who were raised working class. The caucuses Amount: $30,000 support public speaking, writing, facilitation, Project: Holistic Model for Gender Equality and leadership skills for the participants and • Supports implementation of a holistic model serve as communities to organize for social for municipal level gender equality throughout justice. Israel and institutionalizing women’s participation in local policy making. Amount: $10,000

Project: LGBTQ & Ally Shabbatonim Project Kesher Israel • Encourages leadership and community Amount: $30,000 engagement among LGBTQ and ally teens. Project: Education of the Russian Speaking Shabbatonim provides a safe space for teens Community in Israel to explore their identities and connect with • Supports PKI’s program educating Russian their peers in a Jewish context. The program speaking community to help them understand includes the Teen Steering Committee, where the political system and to provide accurately members increase their leadership, translated news which then enables them to facilitation, and communication skills as they become politically active and have a voice and lead social events, awareness sessions, and advocate for their community’s needs and social justice workshops… concerns.

The Joint Council of Pre-Military Leadership Shalom Hartman Institute of Academies (Mechinot) Amount: $15,000 Amount: $30,000 Project: Created Equal Project: Lishma • Supports Created Equal: A Research and • Supports The Joint Council of Pre-Military Educational Project on Men, Women and the Leadership Academies’ Lishma program which Ethics of Shared Leadership, Shalom Hartman will cultivate young Israelis to address gender Institute addresses gender equality through a inequality in Israeli society. story of Jewish tradition. JWFNY continues to support the Created Equal program enabling a Sacred Spaces research team to expand and continue to Amount: $15,000 engage in study to address underlying issues Project: General Support impact power dynamics. • Supports Sacred Spaces to work with another thirty organizations in the coming year and Appetite for Change support the organization’s infrastructure, Amount: $30,000 including launching a website, growing the Project: A4C Workshops Board, marketing, investing in risk-assessment, • Supports A4C workshops for new mothers and training curricula, and formalizing the their infant children encompassing nutrition, accreditation program. community building and sharing knowledge. jGirls Magazine Bella Abzug Leadership Institute (BALI) Amount: $13,000 Amount: $30,000 Project: General Support Project: BALI’S College Program • Continues to support jGirls Magazine’s efforts • Supports Bella Abzug Leadership Institute to provide a space in which young girls have a trains and mentors young women to become safe space to explore identity and develop leaders within their communities and inspire their own skills and voices in our community. positive social and economic change. JWFNY supports the expansion of BALI’s college At the Well program to include year-round programming Amount: $10,000 consisting of a formalized mentorship program Project: Well Circles to advise students on pre-college counseling • Supports At the Well’s program to develop and internship opportunities. new and existing Well Circles which serves as communities for women to provide support and mindfulness within each other but also Emma’s Torch through direction, coaching, and connection to Amount: $20,000 the global At the Well network. Project: Four-Person Cohort • Supports Emma’s Torch’s stipends for their four-person cohort enabling the students to Sanctuary for Families commit to their training without financial Amount: $15,000 stress. Project: Mishkan • Supports building awareness and outreach to New Women New Yorkers (NWNY) survivors of domestic abuse within the Amount: $5,000 Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox communities Project: General Support but also helping teenage girls who left these • Supports NWNY to hire a part-time Program communities and are at risk of sexual Associate in order to carry out their mission by exploitation. developing meaningful programming and opportunities for the immigrant women of .

Slingshot Amount: $15,000 William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Project: Annual Guide Education at JTS • Slingshot creates an annual guide highlighting Amount: $5,000 the 50 most innovative Jewish organizations Project: Women’s Leadership Development Institute across North America. Past JWFNY grants have • Supports YAC’s Mental Health Awareness supported a supplement of the guide which program, which will break the stigma highlights the 15 most innovative surrounding mental health and working to organizations serving the needs of women and ensure more access to care in girls. This grant will sponsor an underrepresented communities. intergenerational giving circle that will utilize a gender lens in exploring the most innovative organizations impacting women and girls in Youth Advocacy Corps (YAC) Jewish life. Amount: $10,000 Project: Mental Health Awareness • Supports the formation of an advisory committee to support the research and planning of the Women’s Leadership Development Institute. The advisory committee will be comprised of approximately 10 women professionals, executives, thought leaders, and mid-career professionals, who will meet regularly to provide insight, guidance, and expertise in the designing of the Women’s Leadership Development Institute.

DIMENSIONS, INC. Amount: $1,000 Project: Women’s Leadership Development Institute • Supports their Jewish Women of Color Resiliency project. The goals of the project include skill building and integrated practices for self-care that will support and replenish the energy of Jewish Women of Color and alleviate pressures that serve to undermine and debilitate their ongoing leadership efforts.

Witness to Mass Incarceration Amount: $5,000 Project: Digital Storytelling & Training • Supports the organization to continue building their digital storytelling library and trainings, and send a message that the Jewish community takes a strong stand against mass incarceration.

2017 Hillel International A Better Balance Amount: $81,550 Amount: $2,500 Project: Intersection of Judaism, Gender, and Race Project: Benefit for Families • Supports workshops led by Yavilah McCoy on • Support a benefit to celebrate and further expand Judaism, gender, and race on college campuses in choices for men and women at all income levels so the five boroughs of New York City, Long Island, they may care for their families without sacrificing and Westchester County. their economic security Innovation: Africa AFYA Foundation Amount: $20,000 Amount: $30,000 Project: Solar Power for a Uganda Health Center Project: Medical Supplies and Humanitarian Aid • Supports the installation of a solar system at a • Supports the distribution of medical supplies, health center in southeast Uganda, connecting hospital equipment, and humanitarian aid to IDP power to all parts of the clinic and staff homes; camps in the south of Syria. and emergency humanitarian aid for communities in norther Uganda experiencing famine. ANU Amount: $30,000 Israeli Flying Aid Project: Women’s Activist Forum Amount: $20,000 • Supports advocacy campaigns in Israel on Project: Humanitarian Aid women’s economic security, safety, and equality, • Supports humanitarian lifesaving aid and relief to and a platform for organizations and students to communities in areas stricken by natural disaster build and run strategic campaigns. or territorial conflicts.

Art Kibbutz Jasmine Amount: $5,000 Amount: $30,000 Project: Residency for Jewish Women Artists Project: IZUN • Support for fellowships for women artists • Supports IZUN, a project that trains Jewish and exploring issues of gender equality from a Jewish Arab women to serve as board members on perspective during their residency. corporate, public, and NGO boards.

Beis Community Jewish Women International Amount: $10,000 Amount: $80,000 Project: Women’s Leadership Development Project: Change the Culture • Supports women’s leadership development for • Supports the exploration of rape culture and volunteers of an intentional and inclusive public awareness programming on college Orthodox Jewish community in Washington campuses to support survivors, change attitudes, Heights that attracts those traditionally on the empower women, and engage men as allies. margins. jGirls Magazine Empower Generation Amount: $15,000 Amount: $10,000 Project: Editorial Training and Oversight Project: EmpowerGrid • jGirls is an online community and magazine • Supports the training of women and girls in rural providing a forum for expression and exploration Nepal to become clean energy entrepreneurs, for self-identifying Jewish girls ages 13-19 across earning their own incomes from the sale of all affiliations. energy-efficient lighting.

Mother Health International Shatil – New Israel Fund Amount: $15,000 Amount: $30,000 Project: Mobile Midwifery Unit Project: Advancing Women’s Rights in Public Housing • Supports the creation of a mobile midwifery • Supports an initiative to provide increased unit for South Sudanese women living in access and fair treatment in public housing for refugee camps in northern Uganda, offering single mothers, so they may exit multi- prenatal care in women’s huts and transport generational poverty and gain economic for women in labor to health facilities. stability.

Moving Traditions SPARK MicroGrants Amount: $3,600 Amount: $15,000 Project: Benefit to Celebrate Jewish Teens Project: Village Strengthening Program • Moving Traditions emboldens teens by • Supports the rollout of a village strengthening fostering self-discovery, challenging sexism, program with a new village partner in northern and inspiring a commitment to Jewish life and Uganda and working with the Rwanda learning. government to increase female leadership.

NY State Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NYSCASA) Sundara Amount: $1,800 Amount: $10,000 Project: Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault Project: Soap Recycling Workshops • NYSCASA provides technical assistance and • Supports the expansion of soap recycling policy advocacy for rape crisis programs, sister workshops in India to provide women with fair agencies, and collaborators statewide that wage jobs and reduce preventable hygiene work with survivors of sexual violence. related diseases and deaths in vulnerable populations. Resonate Amount: $10,000 The Op-Ed Project • Supports workshops that unlock the leadership Amount: $3,950 potential of women and girls in East Africa so Project: Seminar for Female Rabbis and Thought they are leaders in creating the changes they Leaders want to see in their lives, communities, and • Supports a two-day training seminary to the world. empower female rabbis and other thought leaders in the Jewish community to find their S.O.U.L. Foundation voices and make a public case for the ideas Amount: $15,000 and causes they believe in. Project: Ambulance for Uganda Communities • Supports a village emergency transport system Vital Health Africa and a mobile messaging platform to address Amount: $15,000 the delay in accessing quality medical care in Project: Maternal and Child Health Care southeast Uganda. • Supports a humanitarian, medical, and educational mission providing low cost, high Sacred Spaces impact intervention in maternal, newborn, and Amount: $15,000 child health in Sub-Saharan Africa. Project: Infrastructure and Organizational Growth • Supports the expansion of Sacred Spaces, a new initiative to prevent abuse in Jewish institutions through the development of comprehensive policies and community-wide education.

Youthaiti AVODAH Amount: $12,000 Amount: $40,000 Project: Ecological Sanitation in Haiti Project: The Jewish Service Corps • Supports the expansion of ecological • Avodah is building a new generation of Jewish sanitation and menstrual hygiene projects in leaders to take on our country's most pressing southwest Haiti with the goal of creating a social and economic issues. This grant cultural shift away from open-defecation supports The Jewish Service Corps, a women’s practices. leadership development program for program alumnae to create their own career and Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) & Women’s leadership strategies, receive ongoing one-on- Rabbinical Network (WRN) one and group coaching and engage in Jewish Amount: $78,450 learning webinars. Project: Pay Equity Initiative • Supports a collaborative to address the Bend the Arc documented wage gap among all women Amount: $1,800 professionals employed in the Reform Project: Pursuing Justice National Conference Movement. • Bend the Arc engages people and communities throughout the United States in creating World Without Exploitation economic opportunity and promoting social Amount: $5,000 justice. This grant supports a conference which Project: will convene influential leaders in government, • World Without Exploitation works to create a progressive allies and activists to harness the world where no person is bought, sold, or power of the Jewish movement for justice in exploited. The Foundation’s grant supports a America. movement-building event to convene, engage, and strategize with survivors of sex trafficking Challah for Hunger on how to influence public policy at the state Amount: $5,000 and national levels. Project: Alumni Programming • Challah for Hunger builds communities Yeshivat inspired and equipped to take action against Amount: $40,000 hunger. This grant supports an alumni Project: General Operating Support program for graduates of Challah for Hunger’s • Yeshivat Maharat is the first and only programs on college campuses that bake and institution to ordain Orthodox women as sell challah to raise money and awareness for clergy, offering education in Jewish law, social justice causes. leadership development, and pastoral counseling. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun Amount: $ 5,000 Project: Meet Me at Sinai Conference 2016 • Co-sponsors the day-long conference “Meet Me at Sinai”, which celebrated the 25th Art Kibbutz anniversary of Judith Plaskow’s book Standing Amount: $10,000 Again at Sinai and discussed how far Jewish Project: Women Artist Fellowships feminism has come, what hasn’t changed and • Art Kibbutz is an international Jewish artists’ our vision for the future. residency, community and hub which supports artists exploring women’s issues and gender equality from a Jewish perspective.

Eshel Itach-Maaki Women Lawyers for Social Justice Amount: $15,000 Amount: $30,000 Project: Programming Support Project: Women’s Voices = Women’s Impact • Eshel educates and advocates for acceptance • Itach-Maaki increases the legal rights and of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy skills of marginalized women in (LGBT) Jews and their families in the Orthodox Israel. This grant supports the integration of and traditional Jewish communities. The grant women’s voices in decision making in the supports a Mommy and Me group for divorced fields of peace and security. women facing custody battles, Merchav Batuach: A Safe Space Training for college Jewish Women International students, trainings for Orthodox educational Amount: $18,900 institutions, and more. Project: Safe Smart Dating • This grant supports a program to educate Hillel – The Right to Choose young men and women on New York area Amount: $30,000 college campuses about the realities of sexual Project: Services for Former-Haredi Women and assault and dating abuse and empower Single-Mothers students to step in and support survivors. • Supports skill-building for women who have left ultra-Orthodox communities to enable JOIN for Justice them to succeed in Israel’s educational and Amount: $2,500 employment frameworks. Project: Scholarships for Don’t Kvetch, Organize! • Supports scholarships for women taking the ImmerseNYC online course Don’t Kvetch, Organize!, a Amount: $5,000 course that teaches women the fundamentals Project: General Operating Support of community organizing and how it relates to • ImmerseNYC is a pluralistic Jewish Jewish traditions. organization in New York City that facilitates deep ritual experiences, supportive peer Moving Traditions communities and educational programs. This Amount: $5,000 grant supports the reframing of and Project: Helping Jewish Tweens Navigate a Changing facilitating Jewish ritual, convening peer World communities, organizing education programs, • Moving Traditions emboldens teens by and the creation of High Holiday Immersion fostering self-discovery, challenging sexism, toolkit for clergy and mikveh guides. and inspiring a commitment to Jewish life and learning. Funds from this grant support a Israel Women’s Network collaborative leadership development program Amount: $13,158 that engages parents, educators and pre-teens Project: Mind the Gap – Lowering Israel’s Gendered in conversations based in Jewish ethics to help Pay Gap them navigate the decisions ahead. • This project works toward the elimination of the gendered pay gap in Israel by advocating National Council of Jewish Women New York Section for policy change, encouraging employers to Amount: $40,000 increase transparency and fair employment Project: We Were Slaves Education and Outreach standards and generating public interest and • Supports the coalition “We Were Slaves: The support to reduce the pay gap. Jewish Community Unites Against Sex Trafficking” outreach, education and empowerment work with Jewish women and girls.

Rabbis Without Borders Yerushalmit Movement Amount: $3,400 Amount: $15,000 Project: The Op-Ed Project Project: Women Changing Jerusalem • RWB envisions a world where Jewish wisdom • The Yerushalmit Movement encourages the is a source for wellbeing for anyone anywhere. growth of Jerusalem into a vibrant, pluralistic The rabbis in the RWB Network are committed and inclusive city using a grassroots approach. to pushing the borders of what it means to be This grant will support the Yerushalmit a rabbi today. This grant supports a two-day Movement in empowering women to become training seminar that empowers female rabbis leaders in their communities as well as and other thought leaders to find their voices providing the tools necessary to promote and and make a public case for the ideas and foster women’s social activism, businesses and causes they believe in. social initiatives.

Revitalization Community Involvement Initiative 2015 Amount: $5,000 Project: Jewish Parent Academy AFYA Foundation Amount: $35,000 • Supports an initiative to provide Russian- Project: Maternal Health and Ebola Relief speaking parents in New York City and opportunity to study a wide range of Jewish • Supports providing birthing kits for more than topics. 3,000 women in rural Ghana to reduce maternal and newborn death, and emergency Sanctuary for Families medical supplies to the Ebola-affected Amount: $80,00 communities in Sierra Leone. Project: The Mishkan Project • Supports comprehensive services, outreach, Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village professional training and advocacy for Amount: $5,000 Orthodox women survivors of domestic Project: In Memory of Anne Hayman z”l violence and teenage girls who have been • Support for the female students and the expelled from their communities. “Mamas” who care for them, in memory of Anne Heyman z”l, a pioneer in the field of Shalom Hartman Institute of North America Jewish women’s social entrepreneurship. Amount: $80,000 Project: Created Equal ANU • Supports Created Equal: A Project on Men, Amount: $20,000 Women, and the Ethics of Shared Leadership, a Project: The Women’s Media Center Israel curriculum which will engage individuals in • ANU is dedicated to amplifying the new ways of thinking about power and marginalized voices of civil society in Israel. authority in Jewish life, situating the question This grant supports The Women’s Media of gender equity as an underlying concern. Center Israel, which monitors, identifies and targets areas requiring media reform in order Temech to make the Israeli media industry more equal, Amount: $15,000 diverse, inclusive and friendly towards women. Project: Career Exposure Tours • Temech aims to raise the employability and professional competence of ultra-Orthodox girls by introducing 12th grade girls to a broad range of professional opportunities with high career potential. The project will serve 500 girls from Beit Yaakov ultra-Orthodox educational system. Central Queens Y Eshel Amount: $80,000 Amount: 15,000 Project: Young Women Tech Leaders Project: Merchav Batuah: A Safe Space Training • Provides computer programming training for • Eshel educates and advocates for acceptance young women in high school, pairing them of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender with women mentors in related technology (LGBT) Jews and their families in the Orthodox fields and placing them in paid summer and traditional Jewish communities. Merchav internships. Central Queens Y aims to create a Batuah was developed by a student at Stern space where girls are exposed to female College for Women and educates students on leaders with similar cultural and religious how to become a straight ally to LGBT backgrounds who have been successful in individuals. The program will be offered on navigating Jewish identity in the workplace. four college campuses, two of which are primarily female, Stern College and Barnard Children’s Oral Health and Nutrition Program College. Amount: $10,000 Project: India Smiles Global Goods Partners • Supports the expansion of the India Smiles Amount: $10,000 Program that improves dental care for 30+ Project: Program Support mothers and pregnant women in Mumbai, • Supports training and business support to India, in partnership with the Foundation for improve the quality of merchandise produced Mother and Child Health. by women-artisans in rural Peru, Guatemala and India. Congregation B'nai Jeshurun Amount: $5,000 goods for good Project: Meet Me at Sinai Day of Learning Amount: $10,000 • Supports Meet Me at Sinai Day of Learning, a Project: Poultry Business conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary • Supports the expansion of a poultry business of Judith Plaskow’s book Standing Again at for communities in Malawi to support their Sinai and to discuss how far own orphans and vulnerable children. has come, what hasn’t changed and our vision for the future. Ikamva Labantu Amount: $25,000 Empower Generation Project: Orphans and Vulnerable Children Support Amount: $25,000 • Supports weekly home visits, health care, food Project: EmpowerGrid and education for orphans and vulnerable • Supports the training of over 100 women and children in townships of . girls in rural Nepal to become clean energy entrepreneurs, earning their own incomes ImmerseNYC from the sale of energy-efficient lighting. Amount: $5,000 Project: High-Holiday Immersions • ImmerseNYC is a pluralistic Jewish organization in New York City that facilitates deep ritual experiences, supportive peer communities and educational programs. This grant supports the creation of a High Holiday immersion toolkit for clergy and mikveh guides, and will increase outreach so at least 12 groups of women can be welcomed to the mikveh during the 2015 High Holiday season.

Innovation: Africa Ohr Stone Amount: $25,000 Amount: $30,000 Project: Solar Water Pump Instillation Project: Susi Bradfield Women's Institute for Halakhic • Supports the instillation of Israeli solar Leadership powered water pumps for the 1,600 members • Ohr Torah Stone is the only modern Orthodox of Nakaloke village in Uganda, which neighbors Israeli enterprise which is training women as Kolonyi village, the site of a previous JWFNY spiritual leaders. This grant will support the investment. creation of internship and job opportunities that will enable women to enter this field. Jevaia Amount: $10,000 Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA) Project: Leadership and Impact Development Amount: $70,000 • Supports the strengthening of Jevaia’s leadership Project: Prevention Initiative to enable the organization to deepen its impact • ORA empowers women who are denied a among poor rural families in Nepal. Jewish divorce () to free themselves from the shackles of abusive marriages. Funding Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clini supports the Agunah Prevention Initiative, a Amount: $20,000 multifaceted campaign aimed at empowering Project: Study of Women’s and Children’s Health thousands of Jewish women and girls in New • Supports the first study of women’s and York with the knowledge, tools and support to children’s health and wellbeing in the isolated protect themselves from domestic abuse in Fizi Territory on Lake Tanganyika in the general and get-refusal in particular. Democratic Republic of Congo. Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA) Mechon Hadar Amount: $15,000 Amount: $40,000 Project: General Operating Support Project: New Voices • Funding will help the organization continue to • Mechon Hadar is a center of innovative Jewish advocate on behalf of agunot and promote the thinking and learning that seeks to revitalize use of the Jewish prenuptial agreement for the Jewish life in North America. This grant prevention of get-refusal. supports a week-long program that aims to shift the culture so more women feel Rabbis Without Borders confident and able to lead prayer services. Amount: $3,500 Mechon Hadar will also offer the first online Project: The Op-Ed Project recordings of women leading the High Holiday • RWB envisions a world where Jewish wisdom prayers, enabling participants to practice from is a source for wellbeing for anyone anywhere. home throughout the year. The rabbis in the RWB Network are committed to pushing the borders of what it means to be Muso a rabbi today. This grant supports a two-day Amount: $30,000 training seminar that empowers female rabbis Project: Community Health Worker Training and other thought leaders to find their voices • Supports the hiring and training of 30 local and make a public case for the ideas and mothers to become Community Health causes they believe in. Workers who will reduce maternal and child mortality in the Yirimadjo community of Mali.

S.O.U.L. Foundation The Netanya Foundation Amount: $15,000 Amount: $30,000 Project: Women’s Healthcare in Uganda Project: You Are Not Alone • Supports improving safe pregnancy and • Supports single mothers of Ethiopian origin in childbirth for 700 women and girls living along Netanya to build their self-confidence and the Nile River in Uganda, with a special focus parental skills, as well as develop vocational on family planning, immunization, HIV testing skills and advance in their careers. The and pre- and postnatal care. program will help the women integrate into Israeli society by encouraging their interaction Sexual Health Innovations with single mothers across the city of various Amount: $15,000 backgrounds. Project: Callisto: A College Sexual Assault Reporting System TrueChild, Inc. • Sexual Health Innovations creates technology Amount: $80,000 that advances sexual health and wellbeing in Project: Improving Outcomes Among Jewish Girls the United States. Funds will support the • TrueChild helps donors, policy-makers and evaluation of the one-year pilot of Callisto, a practitioners reconnect race, class and gender sexual assault recording and reporting system through gender transformative approaches for colleges that will be put in place on three that challenge rigid gender norms and college campuses. inequities. This grant supports TrueChild’s partnership with Ma’yan in efforts to raise Sharsheret awareness and shift the dialogue on feminine Amount: $5,000 norms in Jewish communities in New York City Project: In Memory of Rochelle Shoretz z"l through the development of a model • Sharsheret supports young women and their curriculum, pilot program and white paper families, of all Jewish backgrounds, facing report on the curriculum and data collection. breast cancer. The grant is in memory of the organization's Founder and Executive Director WE CARE Solar Rochelle Shoretzz"l and will be used to further Amount: $25,000 the organization’s work to improve the lives of Project: Solar Power for Maternal Health Facilities women and girls in the Jewish community. • Supports the expansion of solar suitcase technology for maternal health facilities in Shining Hope for Communities Ethiopia, Philippines, and Tanzania. Amount: $25,000 Project: Maternal and Child Health Program in Kenya Yerushalmit Movement • Supports enhancing the Maternal and Child Amount: $15,000 Health Program at the Community Health Project: Women Changing Jerusalem Clinic in Kibera, Kenya, to include cervical • The Yerushalmit Movement encourages the cancer screening, vitamin supplementation for growth of Jerusalem into a vibrant, pluralistic pregnant women, prenatal care, skilled and inclusive city using a grassroots approach. childbirth and breastfeeding. This grant will support the Yerushalmit Movement in empowering women to become Slingshot leaders in their communities as well as Amount: $25,000 providing the tools necessary to promote and Project: 3rd Edition of the Supplement on Women foster women’s social activism, businesses and and Girls social initiatives. • Supports the third edition of the Slingshot Supplement on Women and Girls, highlighting the most innovative Jewish organizations in North America that support the needs of women and girls.

2014 Challah for Hunger AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps Amount: $12,000 Amount: $50,000 Project: Program Support Project: The AVODAH Fellowship • Challah for Hunger brings college students • Supports the second and third cohorts of together to bake and sell challah, in an effort AVODAH’s new Fellowship initiative. The to raise money and awareness for social AVODAH Fellowship is a nine-month justice causes. Funds will help grow and educational and community building program strengthen the Challah for Hunger chapters in that builds and strengthens a broad network New York and support the development of a of young Jewish adults working in antipoverty Challah for Hunger alumni network in the New fields. York Metropolitan area.

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice Hidden Sparks Amount: $55,000 Amount: $15,000 Project: Online Base Building: Engaging Jewish Project: Parent Connection Women Activists in the New York City Region with • Hidden Sparks helps children with learning New Technology differences reach their full potential in school • Bend the Arc mobilizes American Jews and and in life. Funds will support the Hidden allies to build a more equitable and just Sparks Without Walls Parent Connection America. This grant supports an advanced webinar series that helps parents enhance technology platform that will engage over their knowledge for teaching children ranging 10,000 individuals, the majority of which will from preschool through high school. be women, in the New York area over the next two years. This platform will connect many ImmerseNYC disengaged Jewish people to the Jewish Amount: $15,000 community by linking their social Justice Project: General Operating Support beliefs with Jewish values. • ImmerseNYC is the only community mikveh

project in New York City. This funding will Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at the NYU support staff salaries, which in turn allows School of Continuing and Professional Studies them to facilitate more immersions, train Amount: $2,500 volunteers, create new community Project: The First Annual Women in Philanthropy connections, educate its constituency, and Summit explore new program ideas. • Sponsors a day-long summit featuring prominent leaders in a broad array of Itach-Maaki Women Lawyers for Social Justice professions, who are working locally, Amount: $30,000 nationally, and globally to improve the status Project: Advancing Justice for Teenage Girls in Israel of women and to change the face of • Itach-Maaki increases the legal rights and philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. advocacy skills of marginalized . This grant will support an advocacy program teenage girls and young women to

create change on issues faced by their peers

throughout Israel.

Kashouvot Sharsheret Amount: $30,000 Amount: $5,000 Project: Education and Outreach Project: Healthcare Webinar “Health Care Reform: • Kashouvot provides previously unavailable What Does it Mean for me?” professional pastoral care to hospital patients, • Supports a webinar that addresses questions staff and families in Israel. This grant supports and concerns of women and families in the outreach and education that raises awareness wake of the new laws of the Affordable Care of the benefits of pastoral care in order to Act. JWFNY previously funded Sharsheret’s professionalize and gain recognition for the Financial Wellness Toolkit and this webinar field of chaplaincy. content will be included in the toolkit as a new resource. Mavoi Satum Amount: $30,000 Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom Project: Legislation for Change Amount: $8,000 • Supports the passage of legislation promoting Project: General Opperating gender equality in marriage and divorce in • Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom provides Israel. Mavoi Satum will engage in an intense American Muslim and Jewish women with the lobbying campaign within the Knesset as well resources and effective programs needed to as a public awareness and media campaign. engage in communication, develop alliances that transcend the boundaries of formal Mosaic of Westchester religious institutions, and to limit acts of anti- Amount: $15,000 Muslim and anti-Jewish sentiment. Project: General Operating Support • Mosaic’s vision is the full integration of Slingshot Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Amount: $25,000 Questioning (LGBTQ) Jews into Westchester Project: Women and Girls Supplement Jewish life. This grant will help fund website, • Slingshot will create the 2nd edition of the marketing and social media expenses. Supplement on Women and Girls highlighting the 50 most innovative Jewish organizations Moving Traditions across North America working to improve the Amount: $75,000 lives of women and girls. This grant will create Project: Embodied Teens: Removing Barriers to Girls’ a supplement of the guide which highlights the Leadership 15 most innovative organizations serving the • Moving Traditions inspires people to live fuller needs of women and girls. lives – and to work for a better world for all – by advocating for a more expansive view of Yeshivat Maharat gender in Jewish learning and practice. This Amount: $80,000 grant will fund the curriculum development, Project: Internship and Leadership Development coaching and pilot implementation in New • Yeshivat Maharat is the first yeshiva to ordain York of a new model of sexuality education for Orthodox women as clergy. This grant Moving Traditions programs. supports community internships and classroom leadership training seminars that prepare students for practical elements of the rabbinate that include officiating lifecycle events, pastoral care and teaching.

Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture COJECO Amount: $2,500 Amount: $4,900 Project: Female Freelance Writers and Women’s Project: Jewish Education Project Issues • This program targets Russian speaking • Zeek is an online magazine that covers the mothers who are seeking to integrate Judaism domestic Jewish social justice movement and into their home and pass down Jewish values showcases the people, ideas and and traditions to their children. conversations driving an inclusive and diverse progressive Jewish community. These funds Footsteps support their female writers and their articles Amount: $60,000 that cover issues on women and girls. Project: Women’s Career Empowerment Program • Footsteps is an organization dedicated to helping individuals seeking to transition out of 2013 the ultra-orthodox community in which they were raised. This gender sensitive program will A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center help female Footsteps members obtain and Amount: $70,000 retain jobs in mainstream society. Project: Educating Jewish Women about their

Workplace Rights Hebrew Free Loan Society • ABB will partner with synagogues and Jewish Amount: $42,000 organizations across NYC to raise Jewish Program: Core Business Training for Charedi Women women’s awareness of policies that support • Through a matching grant opportunity, JWFNY working families and will also help Jewish continues to support this micro-enterprise women identify policy gaps and improve training course for Charedi women in workplace practices. which empowers women to achieve economic

self-sufficiency. Advancing Women Professionals and the

Jewish Community Jewish Women’s Archive Amount: $15,000 Amount: $750 Project: AWP 2013 Advocacy & Action Conference: Project: Institute for NYC Educators Changing the Future Now: Leadership Strategies That • This grant supports the institute for NYC Work Educators which provides teachers the • Supports a major convening that will bring opportunity to encounter new content, be together more than 100 change agents who inspired by the stores of Jewish women, have participated in AWP programs to share rethink what constitutes a Jewish text and to lessons learned, develop collaborative acquire new pedagogic skills. strategies for achieving gender equity and

expand the reach of their work. Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

Amount: $65,000 Ashalim Project: Seniors and Workers Transforming Home Amount: $30,000 Care Together Project: Ready, Set, Go! • In partnership with the National Domestic • This program targets 50 Ethiopian-Israeli Worker Alliance and Congregation B’nai young women in their second year of army Jeshurun, JFREJ will improve the senior care service and helps them integrate into the industry by linking seniors and domestic workforce after their military service is workers together to create a new consumer completed. directed training program.

Nehirim Women in International Security Israel Amount: $10,000 Amount: $30,000 Project: Women's Programming for LGBTQ Jews, Project: Israel Mentorship Program Partners, and Allies • Provides entry and mid-level women in the • Nehirim is a national community of lesbian, fields of peace and security with female gay, bisexual and transgender Jews, families mentors who are senior professionals in the and allies committed to a more just and same line of work. This program aims to inclusive world. Funds will support women’s increase the number of women in Israel who programming. hold peace and security positions.

New Israel Fund – Shatil Yeshivat Maharat Amount: $15,000 Amount: $1,000 Project: Safeguarding the Rights of Israel's Care Project: Pastoral Torah Curriculum Professionals • Supports the leadership development • This program supports subcontracted component of the Yeshivat Maharat caregivers – a disadvantaged, heavily female curriculum. population, known for being underpaid, undervalued and unaware of their rights – by utilizing advocacy and outreach to policy 2012 makers, educating caregivers, and engaging the media and the general public. Adva Center Amount: $30,000 T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights Project: Creating a Model for Intervention at the Amount: $15,000 Local Level – and Intervening! Project: Rabbinic Human Rights Training: Fighting • This program teaches women how to read Modern-Day Slavery local budgets to identify gender disparities, • Supports a day-long conference for NYC rabbis analyze salary figures and lobby local officials on human trafficking. Rabbis will study Jewish to initiate change. The goal is to increase texts about forced labor, learn about slavery in women’s political and economic power and New York, develop the tools to teach their participation by helping to ensure that local communities about the signs of trafficking and budgets and social services reflect the needs gain skills to take action on appropriate of women. legislation. Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Unchained at Last Community Amount: $10,000 Amount: $10,000 Project: Legal Services Program Project: General Operating Support • Unchained at Last is dedicated to helping • AWP’s mission is to promote the leadership of women leave arranged and forced marriages. women within Jewish communal institutions. Funds will help hire expert witnesses during This grant allows AWP to continue its work on divorce proceedings to help ensure mothers the Better Work, Better Life Campaign, as well maintain legal custody of children and secure as their Action Learning Teams and their Men- adequate financial support. As-Allies Initiative.

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps Goods for Good (GFG) Amount: $25,000 Amount: $18,000 Project: Jewish Women’s Professional and Leadership Project: Women-Operated Agriculture in Malawi Development Initiative • Goods for Good turns excess into progress by • This program will work to expand participants’ distributing donated surplus goods to understanding of the root causes of poverty, community centers and schools in Malawi, prepare participants to be leaders within the enabling the institutions to care for and Jewish and social justice communities through support vulnerable children and community skill building and leadership training, expand members. GFG will build a community-owned the participants’ access to female professional and women-operated agriculture business role models and develop a cadre of young whose proceeds will be invested in the care of women leaders. local orphans in Malawi.

Be’chol Lashon Innovation: Africa Amount: $10,000 Amount: $25,000 Project: General Operating Support Project: Solar Power in Rural Africa • Be’chol Lashon aims to grow and strengthen Innovation: Africa brings Israeli technologies to rural the Jewish community through ethnic, cultural African villages in order to improve quality of life and and racial inclusiveness and advocates for an promote sustainable development, supporting Israeli expanding Jewish community that embraces innovation and fostering a positive image of Israel its differences. abroad. Innovation: Africa will install and monitor a solar-powered water pumping system in an African Center for Women’s Justice community. Amount: $30,000 Project: Legal Education Unit Initiative Jewish Child Care Association • This grant trains attorneys to file damage suits Amount: $58,478 in civil courts on behalf of women whose Project: Family Day Care husbands have refused to give them a get or • Family Day Care is a two-year culturally Jewish divorce. This proven litigation method sensitive program aimed to provide mostly has resulted in $1.35 million so far, giving immigrant Jewish women with an opportunity women resources to rebuild their lives. to open independent, home-based day care businesses. The goal of this program is to Global Goods Partners offer financial and career stability to the Amount: $15,000 business owners, but also help ensure that the Project: Opportunities for Women Artists parents of the children in day care maintain • Global Goods Partners provides a reliable, fair their ability to work. market for women artisans around the world and supports their women-operated Jews for Racial and Economic Justice community cooperatives, which provide vital Amount: $7,500 services to their communities. This grant Project: General Operating Support increases inventory levels and funds the • JFREJ is a member-based, feminist, community production of large custom orders that will organization founded in 1990 to fill the need directly benefit women in India, Nepal, Bolivia for Jewish leadership in confronting racial and and Guatemala. ethnic tension and economic disparity in New York City. This grant will help bring in 100 new members and expand JFREJ’s core membership.

Kveller National Association of Jewish Chaplains Amount: $5,000 Amount: $68,500 Project: Financial Information for Mothers Project: Women’s Advancement through Training in • Kveller.com is a Jewish parenting website Chaplaincy and Health Care thank launched in 2010 and is quickly become • This program will recruit 10 female candidates the most vibrant online community of Jewish per year who are seeking to become Jewish women, engaging 100,000 people every chaplains and place them in appropriate month. Funds will support Kveller's "Work, health care training facilities. This program will Home, and Money" month, a month of provide. The women will be given training and articles, blog posts, and online conversations support toward their new career, which is exploring the financial challenges faced by traditionally dominated by men. Jewish women raising young children. PresenTense MATAN Amount: $40,000 Amount: $7,500 Project: By Women, For Women Project: Program Support • PresenTense will recruit 6-10 women social • Matan’s mission is ensure that every Jewish entrepreneurs in New York City and provide student has access to meaningful Jewish them with the tools, connections and education and that one’s special needs never resources need to launch their new ventures. become a barrier to full participation in Jewish Participants will be trained in vision life. This grant will be used towards the Matan clarification, strategic planning, business Leadership Institute and the Matan Teacher modeling, budgeting, board development, Institute. project planning, fundraising, and public speaking. Mechon Hadar Amount $3,500 Sharsheret Project: Mentoring and Coaching for Female Amount: $50,000 Teachers and Students Project: Financial Health and Wellness During Times • Supports the mentorship and coaching of of Health Crisis: A Program for Jewish Women and Mechon Hadar female teachers and students Families to help develop the next generation of female • Supports Sharsheret’s programs that empower scholars and leaders. Jewish women to take control of their financial well-being during a health crisis and navigate Moving Traditions financial planning and wellness. Amount: $5,000 Project: Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing! Shutafot • Supports the training and coaching of adult Amount: $10,000 ($150,000 total) mentors from synagogues, JCCs, other Jewish Project: Inter-Organization Collaboration institutions and from all walks of life. The • JWFNY is part of the Jewish Women's mentors are trained to facilitate a group of Collaborative International Fund, which teen girls in activities that focus on key issues consists of 17 Jewish women's foundations for girls and their connection to their Jewish that joined together to make a collaborative identity. grant in support of women's issues in Israel. Shutafot, the recipient of the 2012 grant, is creating a new partnership of seven leading feminist organizations that are uniting to develop a strong feminist voice whose aim is to promote gender equality and women's rights, to fight to eradicate exclusion and discrimination of women in Israel, and to minimize gender gaps on a variety of issues. Slingshot FEGS Amount: $25,000 Amount: $90,000 Project: Women and Girls Supplement Project: Thypin Oltchick Institute for Women’s • Slingshot creates an annual guide highlighting Entrepreneurship the 50 most innovative Jewish organizations • The grant allows the institute to offer an array across North America. This grant will create a of no cost services to help women start or supplement of the guide which highlights the expand successful businesses. 15 most innovative organizations serving the needs of women and girls. Footsteps, Inc. Amount: $10,000 WePower Project: General Operating Support Amount: $15,000 • Footsteps is dedicated to supporting the needs Project: Young Women for Future Leadership of individuals seeking to transition out of the • This project encourages and promotes young, ultra-Orthodox community into a more secular motivated women to take on leadership roles one. in local politics in order to create and lead social efforts and to enforce policy that Hebrew Free Loan Society benefits women and girls. Amount: $80,985 Project: HFLS Upgraded Charedi Women’s Yeshivat Maharat Microenterprise Course Amount: $15,000 • This gender-sensitive micro-enterprise training Project: Program Support course aims to maximize the number of low- • Yeshivat Maharat is the first institution to train income Charedi women who successfully learned Orthodox Jewish women to become launch home based businesses. Halakhic or Spiritual leaders for the community through rigorous training in text Israel Women’s Network study, halakhic decision making, pastoral Amount: $15,000 counseling and leadership skills. This grant will Project: Women at Work – Promoting Work Life be allocated towards supporting the Pastoral Balance Values in Israeli Society Torah program. • This multi-pronged advocacy project seeks to raise awareness and pass legislation that 2011 mandates flexible and family friendly work environments in the private sector.

Beit Shalom IT Works Amount: $10,000 Amount: $15,000 Project: Capacity Building Support Project: Women’s Empowerment Program • Beit Shalom's mission is to raise awareness • This is an eight-month technological vocational and help stop domestic violence in the training program for unemployed women from Bukharian community in Queens. This grant the social and geographic periphery. The award helps to improve Beit Shalom's program includes personal and professional computer technology. development workshops and placement in a

skilled, entry-level position in the technological Edith and Carl Marks JCH of Bensonhurst sector. Amount: $85,924

Project: Women to Women/Nashim L’Nashim

• This project provides personalized case management to the Russian émigré female community in South Brooklyn to help them obtain employment or launch small businesses. Olim Beyahad Amount: $20,000 2010 Project: Olim Beyahad for Excelling Ethiopian Israeli Women Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish • This project assists Ethiopian-Israeli female Community university graduates and students with finding Amount: $10,000 suitable jobs in the forefront of Israel's Project: Better Work, Better Life Campaign workforce, overcoming the specific challenges • This progam works to improve parental leave faced by women in the job market and and flexibility policies in 100 Jewish becoming leaders in their community. organizations.

Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Artists Ashalim Amount: $7,500 Amount: $25,000 Project: General Operating Support Project: Girls at Work: Empowerment through • Six Points Fellowship was created in 2006 to Employment for Teenage Girls at Risk support emerging artists and promotes the • This is a leadership development and belief that artistic expression, including visual, employment readiness program for at-risk performing and musical arts, is important to adolescent girls in Israel. Jewish identity and community. Fellows receive Jewish education, professional Education and Social Project, Hapoel Tel Aviv development and mentoring, a living stipend Amount: $25,000 and significant project funding for two years. Project: "Youth Leadership through Sports for Girls" • This project uses organized soccer training and Slingshot coaching as a setting in which to provide a Amount: $10,000 mentoring and leadership program specifically Project: General Operating Support designed for adolescent girls. • The mission of Slingshot is to build the next generation of Jewish philanthropy and Lillith Publications, Inc. leadership and to highlight the work and Amount: $10,000 support the 50 most inspiring and innovative Project: Capacity Building organizations, projects and programs in the • Supports the creation of an interactive online North American Jewish Community. version of Lilith’s quarterly magazine.

Uri L’Tzedek Samuel Field/Bay Terrace YM & YWHA Amount: $7,500 Amount: $77,250 Project: General Operating Support Project: The Poyntelle Connection: Working Together • Uri L’Tzedek supports and transforms social to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships justice within the Orthodox movement • In collaboration with the New York Board of through education, activism and leadership Rabbis, this project utilizes the Jewish camping development. Their social action agenda setting and implements a curriculum-based includes the Tav HaYosher program, which program that trains older teen leaders to assigns an “ethical seal of approval” to kosher facilitate a peer-led program on healthy restaurants that pay employees fairly and relationships for younger teen campers. adhere to safe working conditions.

Shalom Task Force Jewish Women International Amount: $49,998 Amount: $90,000 Project: Design Your Life, A Relationship Education Project: LifeSavings: Financial Literacy for Teen Girls Program for Jewish High School Girls • This financial literacy program for post-bat • This is a curriculum-based program designed mitzvah teens provides core skills that for girls who attend schools for Orthodox empower girls to "own" their own money and students in NYC to promote self-esteem, gain opportunity and power. personal responsibility and enhance effective communication skills and other tools needed for healthy lifelong relationships and marriage. 2008

Uri L'Tzedek Footsteps, Inc. Amount: $10,000 Amount: $25,000 Project: General Operating Project: The Footsteps Women’s Program • This grant award supports general operating • This project provided professional and peer expenses. support to ultra-Orthodox young women seeking to transition to a more modern, Jewish community. 2009 Jewish Outreach Institute Girl Scouts of Nassau County Amount: $18,000 Amount: $40,000 Project: Summit on a More Welcoming Community Project: Critical Issues Initiative, Expansion in the • The conference educated 75 professionals and Jewish Community lay leaders about the critical need of outreach • This project works with girls and adults to to the unaffiliated and unengaged Jewish spread awareness about the dangers of populations. relational aggression (bullying) in Jewish Day Schools, other Jewish agencies and the larger Jewish Theological Seminary community. Amount: $35,000 Project: Learning to Address the Evaded Curriculum Hiyot • The Evaded Curriculum, a compilation of Amount: $20,000 modules that addresses topics such as eating Project: Her Own Way - Intersexual Relations for disorders, sexuality, violence, emotional Ethiopian Girls abuse, and suicide has already been • This project provides Ethiopian-Israeli teenage developed. In this second year, the project will girls with a safe and open environment to focus on improving and expanding the training discuss issues of gender and sexuality, while and written materials for day school teachers. preserving their Ethiopian traditions. New York University Medical Center Israel Women's Network Amount: $35,000 Amount: $15,100 Project: Jewish Women’s Breast and Ovarian Cancer Project: EGO - Expanding Gender Opportunities - A Project gender seminar for youth leaders • One thousand women over the age of 70 will • This project is a one-day gender be encouraged to participate in the first large- empowerment seminar for leaders of the scale study to investigate women with BRCA 1 Israeli Scouts to provide knowledge on issues & 2 mutations who have lived life free of of gender inequality and stereotypes. breast or ovarian cancer. The research will offer Ashkenazi women improved assessment of their risk of acquiring breast or ovarian cancer.

The Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center 2007 Amount: $10,000 Project: Things to Know Before you Get Married” AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps Promoting Respect and Equality Amount: $50,000 • This project was designed to encourage Project: Alumni Leadership Program engaged couples to sign prenuptial • This project provided young Jewish women agreements in order to avoid the decline of with the skills necessary to assume leadership women's financial situations in the event of a positions in the Jewish and social justice divorce. communities.

Mechon Hadar 2006 Amount: $10,000 Project: Women’s Empowerment Prayer Series American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee • This course helped train a select group of Amount: $15,000 young women to advance and strengthen their Project: Israel Emergency Grant – Support after the prayer leading skills. War • This project offered support groups for Moving Traditions children, individual counseling sessions for Amount: $25,000 severe cases, and training for teachers to help Project: Leadership Stages of Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl students deal with post traumatic stress Thing! In New York disorder after the Lebanon war. • This project aimed to empower adolescent girls to stay healthy and Jewish by building Economic Empowerment for Women self-esteem, leadership skills and Jewish Amount: $10,000 identity. Project: The Day After – Finding the Path Back to Economic Empowerment FEGS • This conference helped women in Israel begin Amount: $23,000 to reorganize their businesses and life in Project: NoBody’s Perfect – Elementary School general after the Lebanon war ended. Project • This elementary school project for Jewish girls Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance was designed to positively influence Amount: $22,000 knowledge and attitudes related to body Project: Agunah Awareness and Advocacy Project image, size and shape, dieting and unrealistic • Educational programs for rabbis and the media images. halakhic community, creation of agunah support groups to empower agunot, a Itach-Maaki symposium for rabbis and other stakeholders, Amount: 10,000 and a comprehensive monthly ad campaign. Project: Access to Justice in the Negev: Working Towards Stability for Low-Income Women • This project was designed to protect the employment rights of marginalized women in the south of Israel by creating long-lasting change on the individual, community and policy levels.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Counseling Center for Women Amount: $25,000 Amount: $10,000 Project: Real Time Testing for BRCA Mutations among Project: Working It Through Jewish Women Recently Diagnosed with Breast • This project taught coping skills to female Cancer soldiers in an effort to better manage the • This project offered Ashkenazi women who stresses and challenges of working in male- come to MSKCC to confirm a suspected dominated technological professions, with an diagnosis of breast cancer the option of taking aim to ensure their future leadership within a new rapid turn-around test for BRCA gene the high-tech workplace. mutations before treatment decisions are made. It allowed women the option of Economic Empowerment for Women changing their surgical decision based on test Amount: $10,000 results. Project: A Business of One’s Own • This project trained economically and socially Pace University Women’s Justice Center disadvantaged women in Israel how to start Amount: $5,000 their own micro-enterprises. Project: Teen Dating Violence Institute • This project taught high school student leaders in Westchester how to educate their peers 2005 about dating violence in order to reduce its occurrence and inform them of the legal American Jewish World Service resource and assistance available. Amount: $10,000 • Project: Social Justice Training for Young Jewish Girls Jewish Theological Seminary • In an effort to cultivate and develop future lay Amount: $22,000 and professional leaders in the Jewish Project: The Evaded Curriculum community, AJWS service program alumni engaged approximately 75 young Jewish • To address the problem of the “evaded women in meaningful social justice and social curriculum,” including eating disorders, action activities. substance abuse, unintended pregnancy, suicide, gender politics and identity, sexuality, violence, physical and emotional abuse, and Jewish Community Center in Manhattan bullying in Jewish schools leading Jewish Amount: $25,000 educators were brought together to develop Project: Judaism: Through Women’s Eyes an action plan and create training modules to • This project exposed hundreds of people each be piloted in the Davidson School for graduate day with a unique photography exhibit where students and professionals in Jewish they saw an expanded sense of Judaism and education. Jewish life as seen through the eyes of women.

The Rabbinical Assembly Community Advocacy Amount: $50,000 Amount: $10,000 Project: Women Rabbis Closing the Gender Gap Project: Home-based Business Training for Low- • This project aimed to increase the number of income Women women rabbis in major positions of influence • In a partnership with the Israeli Lions of Judah, and offered women intensive support in their this grant enabled women from low-income new roles by hiring expert consultants to work families to gain economic independence by with synagogues and assisted women rabbis to opening home-based businesses and gain pulpit positions in significant synagogues. cooperatives in Beersheva. In addition, the program provided on going support to the women rabbis who accepted new positions.

Trickle Up Program Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Amount: $10,500 Amount: $20,000 Project: Micro-enterprise Assistance for Bukharian Project: A Gender Sensitive Curriculum for Orthodox Jewish Women Day Schools • This project enabled fifteen Bukharian Jewish This project addresses the critical need for a gender women refugees in Israel to become sensitive curriculum for Orthodox day schools and financially secure and self-reliant in their new creates two curricular modules, developes a plan for homeland through the start or expansion of their dissemination & implementation, and formulates their own micro-enterprises. guidelines for teacher training & evaluation.

Westchester Jewish Community Services Jewish Outreach Institute Amount: $25,000 Amount: $20,000 Project: Break the Cycle of Violence Project: Empowering Ruth • This project aimed to empower the Jewish • A Jewish education and experience program community to break the cycle of domestic designed to benefit Jewish women who are violence by providing presentations, new to Judaism. Program components counseling and consultations to Jewish included: classroom education, practicum in women, Jewish Community Centers, and Jewish living and group work in family synagogues. dynamics.

New York Legal Assistance Group 2004 Amount: $25,000 Project: Financial and Vocational Support for Recently Yad L’isha Legal Aid Center and Hotline for Women Separated or Divorced Women Amount: $10,000 • This project assists newly divorced and Project: Legal Assistance for Women Trying to Obtain recently separated women obtain and enforce a Get support orders, accessing governmental • Economically disadvantaged women in Haifa benefits and offered the financial and were provided with free legal representation vocational services necessary to ensure in the rabbinical courts when trying to obtain a economic self-sufficiency. Jewish divorce. Sharsheret Foundation for Jewish Camping Amount: $10,000 Amount: $15,000 Project: Symposium on Breast Cancer Genetics Project: Against Destructive Behavior of Young Girls: • This project helped implement a symposium Training for Camp Staff on breast cancer genetics and determine its • This project aimed to design a comprehensive impact on the lives of young Jewish women curriculum that camps could utilize during staff facing breast cancer as well as the women in training to deal with young girls’ self- their lives affected by genetics test results. The destructive behavior. A program coordinator expert panel featured the latest research on developed a resource guide and training breast cancer genetics in Jewish women; the manual and presented a workshop to staff. unique concerns of young Jewish women facing breast cancer; and the related concerns of Jewish women considering genetic counseling/testing.

Women’s Electoral Power [WE Power] CUNY TV Amount: $10,000 Amount: $22,000 Project: Workshops for Women Seeking Public Office Project: Jewish Women in America in Israel • This project established a new television • This project provided workshops for women program, “Jewish Women in America,” seeking public office in Israel. These training comprised of 13 half-hour programs featuring sessions covered topics including electoral interviews with notable women of Jewish strategy, debate and media training. heritage.

Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA) 2003 Amount: $18,000 Project: Ametz Single Women’s Adoption Resource FD HOPE Center Amount: $15,000 • This project created a resource center, based Project: Jewish Genetic Diseases Screening Program in Brooklyn, for Jewish single women planning • This project supported a conference that to adopt. The project included four offered education about Jewish genetic components: education, support, information diseases. The goal was to heighten public and referral and community resposibility. awareness about the importance of screening for Jewish genetic diseases. The Counseling Center for Women (CCW) Amount: $9,500 Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons and Project: Women in the Line of Duty Significant Others (JACS) • The CCW implemented forums to help wives Amount: $18,000 (Israeli women ages 23 – 50) of men who work Project: Spiritual Book for Jewish Women in Recovery in the security field and on the front line • This projected compiled a “Big Book for Jewish (police officers, security guards, bus drivers, Women in Recovery” which was researched, reservist soldiers) learn how to deal with life written and edited by Jewish women in changes and their anxiety. Workshops recovery. In the past, recovery has drawn on provided: forum for expression of feelings, Christian spiritual concepts and language and strategies for coping with day-to-day has featured a predominantly male difficulties and stress reduction techniques perspective on healing, relationships and spirituality. 2002 Rabbinical Assembly Amount: $17,000 Samuel Field/Bay Terrace YM & YWHA Project: Women in the Rabbinate: Compensation, Amount: $20,000 Career Advancement and Status Project: The Four R’s: Relaxation, Recreation, • This project conducted research to find out Renewal & Resources about the professional options open to female • The grant contributed to a multi-faceted members of the R.A., explored the reasons project designed for caregivers of adults with women make the career choices they do and disabilities. Programming included support traced patterns of employment and career and resource groups, well-planned growth, particularly beyond entry level. socialization activities and clergy-led spiritual renewal experiences.

Sephardic Community Center JBFCS: Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services Amount: $20,000 Amount: $17,000 Project: Almanah: A Program to Empower Widows Project: Project KOGS: Keep Our Girls Safe • This project assisted Almanot (widows) in • This project established workshops and Brooklyn’s Sephardic community. It provided support groups for teenage girls at four resources and support services to help cope Yeshivot in Brooklyn. There was an emphasis with emotional, legal and economic burdens of on development of self-esteem and decision- widowhood while helping to make the making to help reduce the possibility of Almanot more independent. exposure to victimization and abuse. Individual counseling was provided when The Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center, Inc. necessary. Amount: $10,000 Project: Choosing to Parent at a Later Age Riverdale YM-YWHA • The project provided ongoing pre and post- Amount: $16,000 natal support groups for mothers choosing to Project: You Are Not Alone Project to Train parent at a later age. Parenting workshops Volunteers to Assist Victims of Domestic Violence and and classes structured for older mothers Elder Abuse addressed various issues. • 8-12 women volunteers participated in a training program conducted by JBFCS on subjects of domestic violence and elder abuse. 2001 Ongoing backup and supervision allowed volunteers to conduct community information YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood sessions and provide individual client support Amount: $20,000 and referral assistance. Project: The Nashim Project • The Nashim Project aided single Jewish mothers and grandmothers from the former 2000 Soviet Union acting as caregivers in establishing a formal and informal social Shalom Task Force support system through social, recreational Amount: $19,000 and educational programs. Project: The Castle is Burning: Preparing Mental Health Professionals to Help Create Safety in the DIN Legal Center, Inc. Lives of Jewish Victims of Domestic Violence Amount: $18,000 • Twenty-four mental health professional Project: Beis Din Survey Project women participated in a training program to • This project aimed to develop and publish a provide assistance and counseling to victims of handbook of basic information on Beis Din in family violence in immigrant and orthodox the five boroughs. This guide was made communities in Manhattan and Queens. available for Jewish women and their attorneys to familiarize them with the Schneider Children’s Hospital different rules, procedures and reputations of Amount: $22,000 the many and varied Beis Din, or religious Project: Primary and Secondary Prevention of Eating courts. Disorders in Women • A one-day conference was held to educate teachers and professional staff from New York area high schools, junior high schools and community centers on the subject of eating disorders.

Lilith Publications Amount: $19,000 1998 Project: Spotlight on Jewish Women’s Mental Health: Research and Dissemination Project Union of American Hebrew Congregations, • Lillith Magazine published articles relevant to Department of Jewish Family Concerns topics, raised the consciousness about Jewish Amount: $17,000 women’s mental and physical health. Project: “Litapayach/To Nourish Hope” Eating Disorders Pilot Workshop

New York Service Program for Older People • This project developed an eating disorder Amount: $19,000 resource guide as curriculum for 10 pilot Project: Senior Outreach Program at the Educational workshops to be held at camps and Alliance Senior Village Center, Cooperative Village synagogues in New York. Workshops focused • SPOP provided individual and group mental on 13 – 18 year old girls as part of religious health counseling and treatment to older training. All materials and information were Jewish women on site at Cooperative Village made available at Reform, Conservative, Senior Center and offsite to community Reconstructionalist, and Jewish Family Service Agencies. homebound elderly. NYLAG: New York Legal Assistance Group

Amount: $25,000 1999 Project: The Jewish Women’s Empowerment Project Through Legal Assistance Jewish Community House of Besonhurst • This project provided representation to low- Amount: $21,000 income Jewish women, ensured they receive Project: JCH Girls’ Chatroom-Creating Healthy entitlement to government funded job- Attitude for Teens training programs with child care services • This project offered a safe venue for while attending program. adolescent girls from immigrant families from the FSU to discuss and share physical and mental health issues of mutual concern in a 1997 professional supervised environment. Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Columbia University College of Physicians and Jewish Poverty Surgeons, Center for the Study of Society and Amount: $17,000 Medicine Project: Project New Leaf Amount: $22,000 • In cooperation with JBFCS, this project reached Project: Information Booklet for Ashkenazi Jewish out to Jewish women victims of family Women Considering Genetic Testing violence, helped them obtain employment • This project created a booklet offering through preparation for job readiness and Ashkenazi Jewish women information to supportive counseling. enable genetic testing for BRCA 1 & 2 mutations linked to breast and ovarian cancer. New York Association for New Americans Amount: $30,000 Project: Crisis Intervention Services for Vulnerable

Elderly Soviet Immigrant Jewish Women

• In cooperation with JBFCS, this project assisted

and advocated for elderly Jewish immigrant women facing the loss of benefits from government cut-backs.