Team & Partners
We build upon our feminist and Jewish values in everything that we do. We strive to embody the feminist leadership values of inclusion, innovation, transparency, and trust-based philanthropy — acting as consistent, reliable support to our grantees and turning to them for insight into their greatest needs.
One-third of our board members are past or current members of the national leadership of Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Another third are HWZOA members, and the remaining third is drawn from the community at large.
Our Team
Board of Directors
Officers
Audrey Weiner, Chair
Ellen Soffar Steinberg, Vice Chair
Roni Schwartz, Treasurer
Edith Ginsberg, Secretary
Members
Amy Berler
Mindy Bloom
Olga Brawman-Mintzer
Stacey Aviva Flint
Michele Foster
Stephanie Garry
Susan Glicksberg
Joanna Golden
Avra Gordis
Kathy Hershfield
Michelle Krasner
Deborah Meyer
Rabbi Marianne Novak
Lida Sharlin
Negar Treister
Hadassah Foundation board members serve up to three consecutive two-year terms. After leaving the board, they become “alumnae” and remain active supporters of the Foundation.
Founding Director
Linda Altshuler
Past Board Chairs
Barbara Dobkin, Founding Chair
Sue Beller
Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson
Donna Gerson
Carol M. Joseph
Julie Morris z”l
Rabbi Suzanne Offit
Roz Garber Toledano
Staff
Stephanie
Blumenkranz
Director
Stephanie works in close partnership with the Board to implement the Foundation’s goals and deepen its impact. As the Director, she oversees all aspects of the Foundation, including its strategy, operations, development, and grantmaking. She previously served as Associate Director at the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York (JWFNY, now known as Elluminate), where she oversaw $3.2 million in grants to 137 programs in 21 countries. She played an instrumental role in strengthening the grantmaking practices, growing and engaging their donor base, and creating impactful education programming.
Stephanie was a Communications and Development Associate for a national think tank on family poverty and homelessness, and served as Special Assistant to the Commissioner of the New York City Administration for Children’s Services.
Stephanie was selected as one of The Jewish Week’s 36 Under 36 in 2020 and she was awarded the Nancy Schwartz Sternoff z”l Leadership Award from JWFNY in 1999. Stephanie received her BS from Vanderbilt University and her MS from NYU Steinhardt School. She lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband Greg and children Zach and Sasha.
Julie
Wiener
Assistant Director
Julie works closely with the Hadassah Foundation Director and Board to help expand the Foundation’s impact and raise its profile in the Jewish philanthropic community. In particular, she oversees marketing and communications, while assisting in many other aspects of the Foundation’s work.
Before joining the Foundation, Julie was Communications Director at Jewish Funders Network, planning and implementing all aspects of its communications, including newsletters, the website, social media, thought leadership, and marketing for its annual conference.
A longtime journalist, Julie worked as an editor and writer at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, New York Jewish Week, and MyJewishLearning. She also freelanced for the Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press. Julie lives in Jackson Heights, New York, with her husband and daughters. An avid cyclist, she enjoys cooking, reading, crossword puzzles and working to improve her Hebrew.
Kayla
Campbell
Administrative Assistant
Kayla performs a variety of administrative and customer-service tasks, assists with program logistics, including grantmaking processes, and supports our marketing and communications efforts. She graduated from the College of Mount Saint Vincent in 2022, where she double majored in English and Visual Arts/Experimental Media.
She lives in Brooklyn with her family. She enjoys drawing, photography and Nintendo video games.
Past Members
Maddie Adamson
Sara Adler
Debra Aleinikoff
Liz Alpert
Livia Asher
Dina Bakst
Ravit Barkama
Jacquie Bayley
Liz Bazini
Sue Beller
Froma Benerofe
Nancy Berman
Rhoda Bernstein
Sophie Blum
Betsy Brenner
Dorothy Bucksbaum
Ruth Cole
Georgianne Cutter
Lisa Davidson
Barbara Dobkin
Kathryn Edelstein
Rabbi Jacqueline Ellenson
Renee Evans
Aimee Falchuk
Sherri Falchuk
Rebekah Farber
Sylvana Foa
Amy Friedkin
Roz Garber Toledano
Donna Gerson
Dorothy Gitter Harman
Jennifer Goldsmith
Mirele Goldsmith
Lynda Goldstein
Kim Heiman
Karen Herman
Paula Jarnicki
Carol Joseph
Rabbi Naamah Kelman
Ellen Landis
Joan Leiman
Barbara Levin
Kathleen Levin
Ellyn Lyons
Dale Marcus
Trisha Margulies
Deborah Minkoff
Julie Morris (z”l)
Marcie Natan
Suzanne Offit
Donna Orender
Dalia Pollack Lerner
Marlene Post
Jill Prosky
Lonye Rasch
Dr. Julie Ratner
Linda Saker
Bella Savran
Willa Shalit
Rachel Sheinbein
Diane Sigel
Tracey Spiegelman
Judith Swartz
Diane Troderman
Roselle Ungar
Karen Venezky
Janice Weinman Shorenstein
Laurie Werner
Susan Wilkof
Michal Zellermayer
Our Partners
Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America
Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America (HWZOA) established the Hadassah Foundation in 1998 and provides generous in-kind assistance. While HWZOA and the Hadassah Foundation share a commitment to empowering women in Israel and the North American Jewish community, the Hadassah Foundation is an independent 501(c)3 with its own board of directors. The Hadassah Foundation does not raise funds for HWZOA or its programs.
Jewish Women’s Funding Network
The Hadassah Foundation is a founding member of the Jewish Women’s Funding Network, which brings together the boards and staff of 18 Jewish women’s foundations. The Network unleashes and leverages the power of members to act on behalf of gender justice in the Jewish and secular women’s funding movements through collaborative grant making, advocacy, shared learning, and expanded visibility.
Jewish Funders Network
The Hadassah Foundation is a member of Jewish Funders Network, a global community of private foundations and philanthropists whose mission is to promote meaningful giving and to improve philanthropy in the Jewish world.
SRE: Safety, Respect, Equity
The Hadassah Foundation is a member of SRE, an initiative to ensure safe, respectful, and equitable Jewish workplaces and communal spaces. Inspired by broader national movements and informed by Jewish values and traditions, SRE is specifically committed to addressing sexual harassment, sexism, and gender discrimination.
JPro
The Hadassah Foundation is an affiliate of JPro, which connects, educates, inspires, and empowers the people who work in the Jewish nonprofit sector in order to build their skills, advance their careers, and amplify their ability to contribute to the vitality of their communities.
Bernice S. Tannenbaum Award Recipients
From 2009 to 2018, the Hadassah Foundation gave an annual award recognizing innovative contributions to advance the status of women and girls in Israel and the United States. The award, underwritten by the Bernice S. Tannenbaum Fund for Education sought to reward emerging professionals who demonstrated a high degree of talent, commitment and accomplishments in their work to enhance the status of women and girls. Meet the 10 award recipients here.
News & Events
Grantmaking
Our Approach
We support organizations that work through a gender lens and that are creating social change. Learn what that means and about our grantmaking practices. Read more
Meet Our Grantees
Our grant recipients in Israel and the United States address a variety of issues affecting those who identify as women and girls. Learn about our current and past grant recipients. Read More