Giving Together & Granting for Change

What We Do

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.

JWF strives to bring 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.

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

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. 

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ALERT: please be advised that due to the emergent needs of COVID-19 we are awarding our 2021 JWF grant dollars to those organizations within our tri-county (Camden, Burlington and Gloucester) community who are dedicated to meeting the basic needs of Jewish women and Jewish children at risk of poverty.

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:

• 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 or a corporate gift)
   

• Make an additional commitment of $500 or more to JWF (paid in full by December 31)
   

• 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.