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, synagogues, 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 Jewish Education (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 Jews 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 Keshet 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 North America 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 New York City. 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