Jewish Women’s Endowment Fund Announces 2024 Grant Recipients
Jewish Women’s Endowment Fund Announces 2024 Grant Recipients
Twenty-five organizations applied for a total of $59,411 to compete for $16,464 in JWEF grants. JWEF members approved $16,400 in grants for 2024.
The 2024 grants are going to the following 501(c)3 organizations:
Beacon Health Foundation – to purchase safe Pack & Play sleeping units for 24 babies to prevent needless suffocation from babies sleeping with their parents.
Cultivate Food Rescue – to prepare meals for Hannah’s House to help young women care for their children.
Ethiopian National Project – to provide language classes to help with the acculturation and socialization of Ethiopian girls in Israel.
Family and Children’s Center’s “Brain Train” Program – to purchase baby carriers to enable families to bring along their babies on family field trips.
Family Justice Center of St. Joseph County – for supplies and meals for clients and their families so they can participate in a safe meeting place.
Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley’s “Gan Ideal” Program– to purchase durable play equipment and a slushy machine for its summer camp for 3-5-year-olds.
Neighbor-to-Neighbor Afghan Resettlement Agency – to conduct a Craft ‘n’ Chat program to facilitate Afghan Women in bonding and learning English.
Planned Parenthood’s Mishawaka Clinic – to ensure that there is a safety net to provide critical HIV/STD testing services, which were defunded.
Reins of Life – to purchase therapeutic equipment enabling disabled children who lack the body strength to sit on a horse or to ride in a horse-drawn carriage.
South Bend Education Foundation – to enable teachers, who too often pay for their own supplies, to make purchases at the Teachers’ Store and for mini-grants for their wish lists.
St. Vincent DePaul Society of St. Joseph County - to purchase client-choice foods for their food pantry.
United Through Motherhood – for diapers, wipes, and diaper cream for the diaper bank in Benton Harbor, MI that a prior JWEF grant helped establish.