The Jacquie Bayley Fund for Leadership, Opportunity, and Sisterhood
About the Fund
Established in 2025, the Bayley Fund supports initiatives that help girls and youth become influential leaders, grow the number of opportunities available for meaningful education and engagement, and build supportive networks embracing shared values and collective strength. The Bayley Fund underwrites one grant each year, and supports initiatives in both the United States and in Israel.
The inaugural recipient of the Bayley Fund grant was jGirls+ Magazine.
About Jacquie Bayley
Jacquie has been an active supporter of the Hadassah Foundation for many years. She served as a board member from 2017-2022, helping to shape its grantmaking strategies and spearheading fundraising efforts, which more than doubled the Hadassah Foundation’s annual contributions. She continues to guide ongoing programming and engage a network of more than 70 former board members. Among Jacquie’s numerous involvements, she is a board member of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and is a past region president of the Pacific Northwest region of Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America.
She lives in Bellevue, Washington.
Bayley Fund Grant Recipients
Since its establishment, the Bayley Fund has underwritten grants to two initiatives:
jGirls+ Magazine brings together an online community of self-identifying Jewish girls, young women, and nonbinary teens ages 13-19 across all backgrounds. Its programs enable teens to share their voices with the world and each other, provide space to hone their communication skills, and experiences to explore identities, talk across differences, and engage with a wide circle of peers on their own terms. In 2025 jGirls+ became a program of Moving Traditions, a longtime grant recipient of the Hadassah Foundation.
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.
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Hadassah Foundation's 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