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What You Need to Know: Grant Guidelines

We are pleased you are interested in applying for a grant from the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New Jersey (JWF). Before you proceed, please familiarize yourself with the following guidelines that may impact your eligibility.

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • JWF provides grants to local, regional, national, Israeli, and global organizations; they need not be a Jewish organization to receive funds.
  • JWF funds projects through a gender lens.
  • JWF favors projects that address the challenges that women and girls face and promote social change, rather than requests for general support of an overall program budget.
  • Projects with an advocacy component are welcome.
  • JWF values and encourages leveraging other funds, collaborations, or other partnerships.
  • JWF considers an organization’s overall support and inclusion of women and girls, as well as the specific project or program for which they are seeking a grant. This includes the extent to which women and girls are included among your leadership and key staff.
ELIGIBILITY AND RESTRICTIONS
  • Applicants must be 501(c)3 organizations or those with a fiscal agent with their own 501(c)3. Legal opinion letters of nonprofit status are not sufficient.
  • No grants are awarded to individuals.
  • JWF does not fund political campaigns or organizations such as PACs, capital campaigns, or endowments.
  • JWF does not make loans or award scholarships/tuition reimbursements, nor do we provide sponsorships or buy tickets/tables for special events or international travel.
POTENTIAL GRANT AWARDS
  • For its domestic grants, JWF will consider grant requests for programs or projects one year or less in duration and for amounts up to $2,500 for its small grants cycle in the fall and $25,000 for its spring large grants cycle in the spring.
  • Organizations will be considered for funding on a year-to-year basis. Projects funded in any given year are not guaranteed for renewal, nor are they disqualified from future funding.
GRANT FOCUS AREAS

JWF funds gender-based projects and programs that recognize that women and girls have unique needs and interests and address the following areas:

  • Self-esteem: including body image, healthy behaviors, interpersonal relations
  • Abuse prevention: including domestic violence, substance and sexual abuse, human trafficking, bullying
  • Empowerment in the workplace, educational system and family: including leadership development, improving communications skills, job readiness and search, educational advocacy
  • Financial self-sufficiency: including education, workforce development
  • Special needs: including those of women veterans
  • Civic involvement/political engagement

For questions or clarification, please contact Rosemarie Bendik at (973) 929-3062.

What They Say

“Less than 7% of foundation funding in the United States goes to women and girls.”

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Pam Greenwood, Director of Jewish Women's Foundation of New Jersey

Jewish Women's Foundation of New Jersey is an advisory council fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest NJ.

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