Jewish Women's Foundation
Bringing positive change to the lives of Jewish women and girls in South Jersey and around the world with funding for programs in education, self-esteem and empowerment, health, leadership, and Jewish identity.
The Jewish Women's Foundation (JWF) funds organizations that address issues through a gender and Jewish lens. We are interested in projects that recognize Jewish women and girls as having unique needs due to both their gender and their religious and cultural heritage.
What We Fund:
Leadership training for women | Shabbat boxes for families in need | Personal safety and well-being classes for women with special needs | Assistance and support services for victims of domestic violence | Women's counseling services on college campuses | Sexual abuse awareness videos | Economic empowerment tools for young women at risk | Respite care for female caregivers | STEM programs for girls at Jewish day schools | Assistance and support services for single mothers
About JWF
We started with a vision: Jewish women philanthropists in South Jersey pooling their resources and raising awareness on issues often unmet in the Jewish community.
A group of Lion of Judah donors formed the Jewish Women’s Foundation (JWF), believing that together, we can create opportunities to bring positive change to the lives of Jewish women and girls.
Today, our mission is to provide grants for programs and services that directly benefit or are of great importance to Jewish women and girls in South Jersey and around the world. Acting as a committee of the whole, our membership endeavors to empower women as funders, decision makers, and agents for change.
Membership
JWF members include women of all ages and with varied backgrounds and experience who all share a strong desire to expand and improve the lives of women and girls through strategic grant making. Membership dues create a funding pool from which innovative and evidence-based grants are made to qualified non-profit organizations each year.
JWF Members:
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Make a minimum annual commitment of $5,000 or more to the Jewish Federation's JFund (this can be an individual gift at the Lion of Judah level* or a household gift at the Major Gifts level)
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Make an additional commitment of $500 or more to JWF (paid in full by December 31)
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Are current in their financial obligations to the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey
To become a member, contact Martha Karasick at mkarasick@jfedsnj.org or 856.751.9500 x1291.
*Lion of Judah is an international honor society that recognizes women who make individual gifts of $5,000 or more to the Jewish Federation's JFund campaign.
Apply for a JWF Grant
JWF is a committee of the Funds Development Board of the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey and is partnering in this effort with the Jewish Community Foundation, Inc. (JCF).
JWF seeks to engage in strategic grant making to fund programs that will aim to bring positive change to the lives of Jewish women and girls in Southern New Jersey and around the world.
All applicants must be 501(c)3 organizations. Organizations from Israel or other countries must have a sponsoring American organization in order to be eligible to receive funding.
Jewish Women's Foundation Current Membership
LEADERSHIP
Peggy David
Chair
Joyce Lynn Branfman
Grants Chair
Alison Bell Keim
Membership Chair
2018-2019
Sydria Schaffer, M.D.
Past Chair
Janine M. Sobel, M.D.
Founding Chair
LIFETIME MEMBERS
Members who make an
endowed gift with a
minimum of $10,000 to JWF
Valerie Gladfelter
Sydria Schaffer, M.D.
Helene Blumenfeld
CURRENT MEMBERS
Roberta Abramowitz
Janice Apple
Donna Bell
Helene Blumenfeld
Joyce Lynn Branfman
Peggy David
Ceil Diamond
Marsha Z. Dollinger
Anita Farber
Stacy Lewin Farber
Joan Feinberg
Miriam Feldman
Judy Franken
Valerie Gladfelter
Sara-ellen Greenberg
Alison Bell Keim
Andrea Levin
Fran Levy
Marlene L. Levy
Judy Love
Susan Love
Judith Platt
Gerri Rudner
Gerrie Rudoler
Sydria Schaffer, M.D.
Janine M. Sobel, M.D.
Marjorie Sobel
Elaine Waxman
Jennifer Dubrow Weiss
Cindy Yellin
Vicki Zell
FOUNDING MEMBERS
Shelly Abramson
Janice Apple
Debby Baratz
Abby Belafsky
Donna Bell
Helene Blumenfeld
Sandy Brown
Stephanie Cahn
Anat Cohen
Peggy David
Ceil Diamond
Marsha Z. Dollinger
Anita Farber
Patricia Feinerman
Ruth Feldman
Judy Franken
Valerie Gladfelter
Amy Green
Sara-ellen Greenberg
Judy Auritt Klein *
Fran Levy
Marlene L. Levy
Judy Love
Nancy Morgenstern, Esq.
Judie Morrow
Barbara Pearlman *
Eileen Perice
Judith Platt
Fran Rebhun, D.M.D.
Dr. Mindy Goldberg Rose
Gerri Rudner
Gerrie Rudoler
Marcy Sanders
Sydria Schaffer, M.D.
Joan Shuster *
Janine M. Sobel, M.D.
Marjorie Sobel
Elaine Waxman
Hon. Judith Wizmur
Vicki Zell
* Of Blessed Memory
In Partnership with JCF
JWF is a committee of the Funds Development Board of the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey, in partnership with the Jewish Community Foundation, Inc. (JCF).
Questions?
For more information or to become a member, contact Martha Karasick, Director of Philanthropy, at mkarasick@jfedsnj.org or 856.751.9500 x1291.