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Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community

www.advancingwomen.org
This grant helps to promote the leadership of women at Jewish communal institutions. The goals include leveraging the talents of women; inspiring new models of shared leadership; and advocating for intelligent work-life policies that allow women and men to pursue meaningful careers and also balance the needs of home life.

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps

www.avodah.net
This program works with current participants and alumni to expand their understanding of the root causes of poverty, in particular as they relate to gender. It introduces strategies for addressing these issues and works towards developing a cadre of young women dedicated to social justice work.

Be’chol Lashon

www.bechollashon.org
This grant helps to grow and strengthen the Jewish community through ethnic, cultural and racial inclusiveness and advocates for an expanding Jewish community that embraces its differences.

Edith and Carl Marks JCH of Bensonhurst

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.

Hebrew Free Loan Society

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.

Jewish Child Care Association

www.jccany.org
This two year culturally sensitive program provides mostly immigrant Jewish women with an opportunity to open independent, home-based day care businesses.

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

www.jfrej.org
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.

Kveller

www.kveller.com
Kveller.com is a website for young families who want to add a Jewish twist to their parenting.  A JWFNY grant supports an month-long online series called “Work, Home, and Money” characterized by articles, blog posts and online conversations exploring the financial challenges faced by Jewish women raising young children.

Matan

www.matankids.org
This grant funds the Leadership Institute and the Teacher Institute to bring awareness and education to hundreds of Jewish educators and administrators and help thousands of families who are affected by developmental and learning disabilities.

Mechon Hadar

www.mechonhadar.org
This grant supports the mentorship and coaching of Mechon Hadar female teachers and students to help develop the next generation of female scholars and leaders.

 Moving Traditions

www.movingtraditions.org
This grant supports the training and coaching of adult mentors from synagogues, JCCs, other Jewish institutions and from all walks of life. The mentors are trained to facilitate a group of teen girls in the program Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing!, which focuses on key issues for girls.

National Association for Jewish Chaplains

www.najc.org
The National Association for Jewish Chaplains (NAJC) is the professional organization of Jewish chaplains worldwide. The funds further enable NAJC to recruit female candidates seeking to become Jewish chaplains and place them in appropriate health care training facilities, conduct certification and assist in job placement.

PresenTense

www.presentense.org
PresenTense engages and inspires the most creative minds of the rising generation, investing in their ideas and mobilizing their networks to revitalize the Jewish community. The grant helps train and support female social entrepreneurs who are developing social ventures aimed at supporting the needs of women.

Sharsheret

www.sharsheret.org
Sharsheret is a national not-for-profit organization supporting young women and their families, of all Jewish backgrounds, facing breast cancer. The grant supports their programs that empower Jewish women to take control of their financial well-being during a health crisis and navigate financial planning and wellness.

Slingshot

www.slingshotfund.org
This grant will support the creation of a supplement to the Slingshot Guide which highlights the most innovative Jewish organizations in North America that support the needs of women and girls. 

Thypin Oltchick Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship at FEGS

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.

Yeshivat Maharat

www.yeshivatmaharat.org
This grant supports the first institution to train Orthodox Jewish women to become halakhic and spiritual leaders for the community. Its mission is to actualize the potential of Orthodox women and accustom the Jewish community to the benefits of having Orthodox women as religious and spiritual leaders.

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Adva Center

www.adva.org
This program teaches women how to read local budgets to identify gender disparities, analyze salary figures and lobby local officials to initiate change. The goal is to increase women's political and economic power and participation by helping to ensure that local budgets and social services reflect the needs of women.

Center for Women's Justice

www.cwj.org.il
This grant trains attorneys to file damage suits in civil courts on behalf of women whose husbands have refused to give them a get or Jewish divorce. This proven litigation method has so far resulted in $1.35 million giving women the resources to rebuild their lives.

Shutafot

JWFNY is part of the Jewish Women's Collaborative International Fund, which consists of 17 Jewish women's foundations that joined together to make a collaborative grant in support of women's issues in Israel. The partnership of eight leading Israeli feminist organizations called Shutafot, is uniting to develop a strong feminist voice whose aim is to promote gender equality and women's rights, to fight to eradicate exclusion and discrimination of women in Israel, and to minimize gender gaps on a variety of issues.

Olim B'Yachad

www.olim-beyahad.org
This project assists Ethiopian Israeli female university graduates and students in finding suitable jobs in the forefront of Israel's workforce, overcoming the specific challenges faced by women in the job market and becoming leaders in their community.

WePower

www.ken.org.il
This project encourages and promotes young, motivated women to take on leadership roles in local politics in order to create and lead social efforts and to enforce policy that benefits women and girls.

 

Current Isha Koach Grantees:

Global Goods Partners

www.globalgoodspartners.org
Global Goods Partners provides a reliable, fair market for women artisans around the world and supports their women-operated community cooperatives, which provide vital services to their communities. GGP will increase inventory levels and fund the production of large custom orders that will directly benefit women in India, Nepal, Bolivia, and Guatemala.

Goods for Good

www.goods4good.org
Goods for Good turns excess into progress by distributing donated surplus goods to community centers and schools in Malawi, enabling the institutions to care for and support vulnerable children and community members. GFG will build a community-owned and women-operated agriculture business whose proceeds will be invested in the care of local orphans in Malawi.

Jewish Heart for Africa

www.jhasol.org
Jewish Heart for Africa brings Israeli technologies to rural African villages in order to improve quality of life and promote sustainable development, supporting Israeli innovation and fostering a positive image of Israel abroad. The Isha Koach grant will be used to install and monitor a solar-powered water pumping system in an African community, freeing thousands of women and girls from the grueling and time-consuming task of collecting water miles away and allowing them to instead attend school.

Project Muso

www.projectmuso.org
Project Muso empowers Malian women to care for the health and well being of themselves and their families through education, microfinance and community based malaria early-detection programs. The Isha Koach grant trains, hires and supports 20 Malian women as Community Health Workers who will reduce maternal and infant mortality in the Yirimadjo community of Bamako, Mali through door-to-door health visits.

WE CARE Solar

www.wecaresolar.org
WE CARE Solar reduces maternal mortality in developing countries by providing health workers and centers with reliable lighting, mobile communication, and blood bank refrigeration through solar electricity using the revolutionary "solar suitcase." The Isha Koach grant will allow WE CARE Solar to continue this work in Nigeria and bring the same solar technology and life-saving equipment to Sierra Leone.