Associated’s Jewish Women’s Giving Foundation Announces Latest Grants
The Associated’s Jewish Women’s Giving Foundation (JWGF) recently completed its 20th grantmaking cycle, funding grants to eight organizations to improve the lives of underserved women and girls. Here are their latest grants:
!Adelante Latina¡
Baltimore
$20,000
¡Adelante Latina! strives to prepare high-achieving 10th-12th grade Baltimore City Latina girls for college and careers. Their free-of-charge, afterschool program is tailored to the cultural and academic needs of their students by providing highly personalized guidance and instruction. Our funds will provide general operating support.
Building Our Nation’s Daughters (BOND)
Baltimore
$20,000
BOND’s mission is to engage, mentor and develop Black single mothers to cultivate positive mother-daughter relationships, strengthen Black single-mother families, and increase their economic mobility two generations at a time. Our multi-year grant will support BOND’s signature program, the BOND Circle, at 3 schools and two housing sites. This is the second year of a three-year grant.
HER Resilience Center
Baltimore
$16,674
HER Resiliency Center supports the immediate and future needs of transitional-aged young women (ages 18-25) in Baltimore City who have experienced victimization, trauma and especially human trafficking. Our funds will provide general operating support.
Jewish Agency for Israel
Israel
$20,000
Our funds will support the Jewish Agency as they offer Ukrainian and Russian immigrant women in Israel vocational training that will help them find fulfilling employment so they can support their families and rebuild their lives after fleeing war.
Planned Parenthood of Maryland
Baltimore
$20,000
Planned Parenthood (PPM) provides high quality, compassionate, and affordable reproductive health care in Maryland. Our funds will provide general operating support as PPM assures access to all of their services, family planning and abortion care.
Project Kesher
Ukraine
$20,000
Project Kesher supports a network of multi-generational, trained leaders in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Israel who share feminist, pluralist, and Jewish values. Our funds will support prenatal care and period poverty for women in Ukraine.
The Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women
Israel
$20,000
The Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women will use the funds will promote the protection and welfare of Israeli women exiting abusive marriages by providing direct legal support in divorce cases and advocating for system change aimed at altering attitudes of decision makers and the justice system.
Women’s Law Center of Maryland
Baltimore
$16,000
The Women’s Law Center of Maryland will use this grant to support the Multi-Ethnic Domestic Violence (MEDOVI) Project which provides immigration legal services to foreign-born Maryland residents who have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault or human trafficking.
During the decision-making process, JWGF women complete a comprehensive grant proposal review, which includes site visits. Since its establishment in 2003, JWGF has given out more than $2 million in grants to almost 70 nonprofits in Baltimore and Israel.
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