Grantee Organizations by Country
In 25+ years, the Hadassah Foundation’s grantmaking has built a vibrant network of feminist organizations in Israel and the U.S. Below, view current and past grant recipients by country.
Current Israeli Grantees
Funded initiatives in Israel serve Jews and non-Jews.
Empowering Ethiopian Women
Grant Cycle: 2025-2028
One of the few Ethiopian-led feminist organizations in Israel, Empowering Ethiopian Women offers specialized programs to foster self-confidence and provide mentorship and peer support, as well as improve participants’ career readiness, financial literacy, and communication and negotiation skills.
Forum Dvorah
Grant Cycle: 2023-2026
Forum Dvorah is the only organization in Israel focusing on gender equality in key decision-making positions in the fields of national security and foreign policy. It manages a network of over 200 leading women in Israel in these fields and supports the next generation of leadership among young women.
Future Holders
Grant Cycle: 2025-2026
The only organization that combines women’s advancement coexistence, innovative AI technologies, and the environmental sector, Future Holders runs a unique training program in Israel’s periphery for Arab and Jewish girls, guiding them in Artificial Intelligence systems development, launching initiatives to address local climate challenges, and collaborating with senior women in high-tech companies like Amdocs and Microsoft.
Institute for Gender Equity in Education
Grant Cycle: 2025-2028
An initiative of the Society for the Advancement of Education, the Institute for Gender Equity in Education seeks to foster an equitable educational environment where every student in Israel can fulfill their potential free from gender bias. Its grant, which is underwritten in part by the Andrea Silagi Fund for Education, Advocacy and Outreach, funds a program focusing on girls in fifth and sixth grade, a critical developmental stage when many girls shy away from leadership roles.
Institute for Law and Philanthropy at Tel Aviv University
The institute conducts research and education on the role of philanthropy in Israel and provides legal guidance in integrating philanthropy into Israeli policies. All its research reports remark on the distinctions that gender plays in all aspects of philanthropy, including individual giving, the philanthropic process utilized by donors, the organizations selected for philanthropic support, and society’s overall perceptions of philanthropy.
Current U.S. Grantees
Funded organizations in the United States must have a portion of their programming directed to the Jewish community.
Moving Traditions
Grant Cycle: 2023-2028
Moving Traditions emboldens Jewish youth to thrive through the pursuit of personal wellbeing (shleimut), caring relationships (hesed), and a Jewish and feminist vision of equity and justice (tzedek). It combines positive psychology with Jewish values and partners with Jewish institutions across North America to engage Jewish teens, families, and communities.
Organization for the Resolution of Agunot
Grant Cycle: 2025-2028
Organization for the Resolution of Agunot seeks to eliminate abuse from the Jewish divorce process by advocating for the timely and unconditional issuance of a get, or a Jewish divorce. It pursues its mission through three main strategies: advocacy on behalf of agunot (women denied a divorce), early intervention, and prevention.
Sacred Spaces
Grant Cycle: 2025-2028
Sacred Spaces equips Jewish institutions with the tools, training, and guidance to prevent and respond to abuse, creating safer and more accountable communities. Working with schools, camps, synagogues, and other organizations, Sacred Spaces is building a future where abuse prevention and response are prioritized across the Jewish communal landscape, safety is an expected standard, and institutions are prepared to protect, respond, and support with integrity and accountability.
Shalom Task Force
Grant Cycle: 2025-2028
Shalom Task Force combats and prevents domestic violence while fostering healthy and safe relationships and families, particularly in the Orthodox and insular Jewish communities. The Hadassah Foundation grant will support Shalom Task Force’s Purple Fellowship and Future Community Leaders programs, which empower Jewish high school students, especially young women, to prevent intimate partner violence, promote gender equity, and lead with empathy and strength.
Yeshivat Maharat
Grant Cycle: 2024-2027
Yeshivat Maharat is the first institution to ordain Orthodox, female rabbis. Its mission — “to educate, ordain and invest in passionate and committed Orthodox women who model a dynamic Judaism to inspire and support individuals and communities” — guides each aspect of Maharat, from its classes to its programs to its staff culture.
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Past Visionary Partners
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COVID Response Grants
2020-2021
PHASE 1:
With a dramatic increase in calls to Israel’s domestic abuse hotlines since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the Hadassah Foundation quickly launched a COVID-19 Response Fund. The selected grant recipients were:
Association of Rape Crisis Centers: The convener of Israel’s rape crisis centers that advocates on behalf of policies that promote women’s safety and support survivors of gender-based violence.
Israel Women’s Network: An organization focused on women’s equality that is lobbying the new Knesset and national government administration to implement needed domestic violence reforms.
Kayan: A feminist movement that advances the status and protects the rights of Arab women in Israel, is translating important domestic violence information into Arabic, expanding their culturally responsive helpline, and advising local Arab-women leaders on the ways to respond to COVID-19 and the domestic violence crisis.
PHASE 2:
Jewish Women’s Collective Response Fund
The Jewish Women’s Collective Response Fund, convened and facilitated by The Hadassah Foundation, was comprised of five women’s funds – Greater Miami Jewish Federation Women’s Amutot Initiative, Israel Lions of Judah, Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jewish Women’s Fund of Atlanta, and The Hadassah Foundation. The Collective Response Fund was created to provide sorely needed financial resources during this pandemic to Israeli nonprofit organizations that support survivors of domestic violence.
Tahel: The Crisis Center for Religious Women and Children: With 85 percent of its clientele coming from the Haredi population, Tahel provides emotional support, advice, and referrals for women and children in times of crisis.
Women’s Spirit: Providing tools, knowledge, and support for the economic independence and personal development of women survivors of violence.
MASLAN: The Negev’s Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Support Center: One of nine crisis centers in Israel, offers emergency services and counseling for people located throughout the Negev region.
Past Israel Grantees
Year of most recent grant is listed in parentheses.
A Step Forward (2007)
Achoti (2008)
Adva Center (2022)
AJEEC-NISPED (2020)
Al Zahraa Organization for Women (2001)
ANU (2018)
ASLI Israel White Ribbon (2024)
Beit Ruth (2023)
Center for Jewish Arab Economic Development (2012)
Center for Women’s Justice (2021)
Citizens’ Accord Forum Between Jews and Arabs (2008)
Counseling Center for Women (2007)
Economic Empowerment for Women (2022)
The Falk Institute (2002)
Friendship League of Culture and Sport (2024)
The Haifa Battered Women’s Hotline (2002)
Hebrew University NCJW Research (2017) Institute for Innovation in Education
Isha L’Isha (2017)
Israel Association for the Advancement of Women’s Health (2003)
Israel Religious Action Center (2007)
IT Works (2018)
Jasmine (2020)
Jerusalem Intercultural Center (2015)
Kav LaOved—Worker’s Hotline (2017)
Kayan (2020)
Kol Ha-Isha (2008)
Koret Israel Economic Development Funds (2007)
Latet (2016)
Machshava Tova (2017)
Mahut Center
Mavoi Satum (2002)
Merchavim (2022)
Microfy (2018)
Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development (2020)
Nivcharot (2020)
Olim Beyahad (2014)
PresenTense (2017)
Project Kesher Israel (2022)
Rabbis for Human Rights (2013)
Shatil—New Israel Fund (2018)
SHIN (2019)
Sidreh (2015)
Supportive Community (2013)
The Taub Center (2018)
Tel Aviv University Law School (2007)
Theatre Company Jerusalem (2002)
Tishreen (2018)
The Tmura Center (2018)
Turning the Tables (2018)
Van Leer Institute, The Center for the Advancement of Women in the Public Sphere (2015)
Women Against Violence (2014)
Women of the Wall (2002)
Workers’ Advice Center—Ma’an (2017)
Yedid (2018)
Yozmot Atid (2021)
Past United States Grantees
Year of most recent grant is listed in parentheses.
AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps (2015)
Challah for Hunger (2017)
District of Columbia JCC (2002)
Edith and Carl Marks JCH of Bensonhurst (2018)
F.E.G.S. Long Island Division (2005)
Hazon (2011)
Hebrew Free Loan Society, New York City (2011)
Hillel UCLA (2014)
JCC Chicago (2018)
JCC Manhattan (2003)
Jewish Community Relations Council of NY (2015)
Jewish Family & Life (2002)
Jewish Family Service of San Diego (2016)
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago (2018)
Jewish Free Loan Association, Los Angeles (2011)
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (2013)
Jewish Theological Seminary (2008)
Jewish Women’s Archive (2019)
Keshet (2013)
Kamochah (2024)
Lilith Magazine (2018)
Lookstein Virtual Jewish Academy (2018)
Mayyim Hayyim (2008)
McLean Hospital (2008)
Nishmah (2017)
Ohio State University Hillel (2001)
Reclaiming Judaism (2002)
Shalom Bayit (2013)
Shalom Hartman Institute of North America (2016)
Shalom Task Force (2021)
Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale (2002)
St. Louis JCC/Nishmah (2017)
UCLA Hillel (2014)
Union for Reform Judaism (2006)
Women’s Sports Foundation (2007)