$117,000 in Grants Awarded for 2023-2024
JWF-NJ is pleased to announce that it has awarded five large grants in its 2023-24 Spring Grants Cycle:
$25K to the Barat Foundation for Creation Nation Girls in Tech – a Newark-based project to teach girls arts, engineering and entrepreneurship skills; $17K to Girls Helping Girls. Period. for Period Equity and Sustainability – a project to introduce the use of menstrual cups to women and girls and provide necessary hygiene products; $25K to KinderSmile for Perinatal Health and Wellness Program at KinderSmile Community Oral Health Center Bloomfield – a project to provide free dental care to perinatal and postpartum women and educate them in the importance of oral health; $25K to Montclair State Foundation’s Global Center on Human Trafficking for The Possibilities Program—Building Human Trafficking Survivor Leadership – a project that gathers teen victims of trafficking for workshops on self-sufficiency, college and career-readiness; and $25K to Sharsheret for Customized Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer Quality of Life Kits – a project that provides free, customizable support kits to women facing cancer.
Three Grants of $25,000 Each Awarded for 2022-23
JWF-NJ is pleased to announce that it has awarded three large grants in its 2022-23 Spring Grants Cycle: Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey for “Teen LINKS and School Sexual Health Education,” which will provide intensive training to high school girls in sexual education, peer advocacy and digital impact; The Safe House affiliated with Clara Maass Medical Center for “The Safe House Kitchen Renovation,” which will allow for necessary upgrades at a shelter that provides temporary housing for women and children; SHE Wins Inc. for the “#SELF Program,” which will assist high school girls in the Newark area to develop their social emotional learning, leadership, and college and career readiness skills.
