Impact Grants in Atlanta & Israel

Effecting Change Through Strategic Grantmaking

JWFA Trustees have allocated funding to organizations that are actively improving lives for Jewish women and girls. Through our collaborative grantmaking process, we support innovative solutions that address root causes and create systemic change.

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“The Fund, its mission, values, the passion for helping women, and collectively the Trustees, as a group of strong, brave, passionate women... I just can’t imagine not doing this.”

Barbara Leahy, JWFA Trustee

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2025 JWFA Grantee Partners

Working closely with our Grantee Partners, we address critical challenges facing Jewish women and girls:

  • Economic Equality
  • Expanded Legal Rights
  • Leadership Opportunities
  • Mental Health Equity
  • Professional Development
  • Sexual Violence Prevention

2025 Impact Grants

  • Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel - $17,500 granted
    ARCCI's project advances a trauma-informed response to sexual violence by influencing judicial, prosecutorial, and law enforcement practices, aiming to foster a justice system that upholds fairness, minimizes re-traumatization, and ensures that survivors' voices are heard.
  • ATZUM - Justice Works (Task Force on Human Trafficking and Prostitution) - $15,000 granted
    This pilot project will assess whether training city-wide professionals -- with a focus on building relationships and improving collaboration -- will increase results in combating human trafficking.
  • BeNetivey Udi (Nitzanim) - $27,000 granted
    Nitzanim: WomenTech tackles the gender gap in Israel's elite IDF cyber units (women comprise just 13% of personnel) by providing young women from peripheral communities with top-of-the-line tech skills through an intensive five-week training.
  • Israel Hofsheet - $12,500 granted
    This program addresses gender segregation in the public sphere by engaging with national and local decision-makers, litigating cases that will create precedents and wider-scale policy change and conducting media campaigns that keep issues of gender-based segregation in the news cycle.
  • Jewish Fertility Foundation (JFF)* - $7,500 granted
    "Empowering Young Women and Their Moms: Reproductive Health and Fertility Options" is a new initiative providing Jewish women (18-30) and their mothers with essential fertility education.
  • MATI Jerusalem - $13,500 granted
    Turning Point is MATI's flagship business empowerment program that tackles gender-specific barriers to social mobility, supporting women from diverse Jewish religious and social backgrounds.
  • Matirot (Formerly Mavoi Satum) - $18,000 granted
    Matirot responds to the dramatic rise in domestic violence and trapped marriages during wartime by intensifying public advocacy, legislative activism, and legal and psychosocial assistance to women combatting divorce refusal.
  • Moving Traditions* - $10,000 granted
    Moving Traditions will support Atlanta's teen girls as their needs change and face new challenges through listening sessions and workshops with teen girls, parents, and educators. Moving Traditions will then work with JWFA to develop new modalities for their Rosh Chodesh program.
  • Physicians for Human Rights Israel - $17,500 granted
    PHRI promotes gender equality in the Israeli healthcare system, pushes for broader access to contraceptives, and combats practices that limit women's reproductive rights.
  • SOJOURN* - $7,000 granted
    Focusing on education, advocacy, and community engagement, with an emphasis on protecting transgender girls and young women, SOJOURN's Atlanta summit will empower Jewish leaders to influence policy, mobilize support, and foster inclusive spaces, ensuring long-term, systemic change in the fight for LGBTQ+ and women's rights.
  • The Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women at Bar Ilan University - $19,000 granted
    The Rackman Center promotes justice for women through individual litigation, psycho-social support, training and research for legal professionals, legislative/policy reform in the Knesset and courts and justice for victims of Hamas' October 7th sexual violence.
  • The Schreiber LevTech Entrepreneurship Center at the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) - $16,000 granted
    The Intrapreneurship Program empowers Orthodox and Haredi women to advance professionally by developing leadership and innovation skills within established companies across various sectors, including technology, defense, and healthcare.
  • WePower - $18,000 granted
    Through leadership training, awareness and advocacy for legislative change, WePower empowers women to assume decision-making roles, breaking systemic barriers and fostering equitable decision-making, aiming for 50:50 representation in all levels of government leadership by 2030.
  • Women's Rabbinic Network (WRN)* - $14,000 granted
    WRN provides pastoral support, education, mentorship, networking, and advocacy for its 750+ female, nonbinary, and genderfluid rabbis.
  • Yeshivat Maharat* - $17,500 granted
    Maharat supports female Orthodox rabbis, providing them with ongoing professional support and connections, and addressing workplace policies to enhance these female rabbis' leadership.

*Denotes domestic Grantee with Atlanta impact.

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