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Jewish Women's Foundation Grants

JEWISH UNITED FUND

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Funding Amount

$413,000 (2021 allocation)

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

Jewish Women's Foundation Grants

Funder: Jewish Women's Foundation (independent project of JUF)

Geographic Scope: Chicago and Israel

Focus Areas:

  • Reproductive health care

  • Lifting women and girls out of poverty

  • Health, non-violence, and career development for women and girls

  • Gender equality and women's leadership

  • Child protection in Jewish institutions

  • Domestic violence prevention and support

    • Key Information:

  • Launched in 1997

  • Expands and improves opportunities and choices for Jewish women and girls through strategic grantmaking

  • Empowers Jewish women as leaders, funders, and decision-makers

  • 2021 allocation: $413,000 supporting 27 organizations

  • Includes grants through the Ellie Fund focused on reproductive health, poverty reduction, and health/non-violence

  • Participates in Jewish Women's Collective Response Fund (partnership with five foundations)

    • Recent Grantees (2021):

  • New Grants: Itach Maaki Women Lawyers for Social Justice, City For All (Israel), Jewish Women's Collective Response Fund, The Rackman Center at Bar Ilan University, Protecting Protective Mothers, Sacred Spaces Aleinu: Safeguarding Our Children

  • Renewal Grants: Adva Center, ACLU Roger Baldwin Foundation, Center for Advancement of Women in the Public Sphere, La'Ofek – Hope for the Future, and others

    • Contact: Annette Lidawer, JWF Grants Committee Chair (as of 2021)

    Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    jewishwomenreproductive-healthdomestic-violencepoverty-alleviation

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