Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community

http://www.advancingwomen.org
The mission of AWP is to promote the leadership of women within Jewish communal institutions. This general operating grant will support AWP’s Better Work, Better Life Campaign, as well as their Action Learning Teams, which help women professionals advance in their careers and for their Men-as-Allies Initiative, which engages influential male professionals and volunteers on behalf of gender equity and shared leadership.  

Bechol Lashon

http://www.bechollashon.org
Bechol Lashon aims to grow and strengthen the Jewish community through ethnic, cultural and racial inclusiveness and advocates for an expanding Jewish community that embraces its differences. This general operating grant enables Bechol Lashon to conduct outreach, provide programming and pay for staff.

Edith and Carl Marks JCH of Bensonhurst

http://www.jchb.org
This program will provide personalized case management to the Russian émigré female community in South Brooklyn to help them obtain employment or launch small businesses.

FEGS (Thypin Oltchick Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship)

http://www.yourfutureinbusiness.org/
The grant will allow the institute to offer an array of no cost services to help women start or expand successful businesses.

Hebrew Free Loan Society

http://www.hfls.org
This gender sensitive micro-enterprise training course aims to maximize the number of low income Charedi women who successfully launch home based businesses.

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

www.jfrej.org
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) is a member-based, feminist, community organization founded in 1990 to fill the need for Jewish leadership in confronting racial and ethnic tension and economic disparity in New York City. This general operating grant will be used to bring in 100 new members and expand the core membership by at least 20 members. 

Matan

www.matan.org
The mission of Matan is to ensure that every Jewish student has access to meaningful Jewish education and that one’s special needs never become a barrier to full participation in Jewish life. This program support grant will help fund the Matan Leadership Institute and the Matan Teacher Institute which aims to bring awareness and education to hundreds of Jewish educators and administrators. 

Samuel Field YM & YWHA

www.sfy.org
In collaboration with the New York Board of Rabbis, The Poyntelle Connection: Working Together to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships utilizes the Jewish camping setting to implement a curriculum-based program that trains older teen leaders to facilitate a peer led program on healthy relationships for younger teen campers.

Shalom Task Force

www.shalomtaskforce.org
This is a curriculum-based program designed for girls who attend schools for Orthodox students in NYC to enhance self-esteem, enhance effective communication and personal responsibility and skills needed for healthy lifelong relationships and marriage. 

Yeshivat Maharat

www.yeshivatmaharat.org
Yeshivat Maharat is the first institution to train learned Orthodox Jewish women to become Halakhic and Spiritual leaders for the community through rigorous training in text study, halakhic decision making, pastoral counseling and leadership skills. This program support grant will be allocated towards supporting the Pastoral Torah program which teaches students how to integrate the study of Jewish texts with clinical training.