Spring Cycle - Large Grants

Grants of up to $25,000 to New Jersey nonprofit organizations for services, projects, and programs that address the needs of local women and girls in eligible counties. Applicants must submit a letter of intent prior to submitting a full application. The Foundation primarily focuses its support in the following counties: Essex, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren. Occasionally, the Foundation will consider requests outside these geographic areas.

• Self-esteem: including body image, healthy behaviors, interpersonal relations
• Abuse prevention: including domestic violence, substance and sexual abuse, human trafficking, bullying
• Empowerment in the workplace, educational system, and family: including leadership development, improving communications skills, job readiness and search, educational advocacy
• Financial self-sufficiency: including education, workforce development
• Special needs: including those of women veterans
• Civic involvement/political engagement

Considerations: 

• JWF funds projects through a gender lens.
  
• JWF favors projects that address the challenges that women and girls face and promote social change, rather than requests for general support of an overall program budget.
• Projects with an advocacy component are welcome.
• JWF values and encourages leveraging other funds, collaborations, or other partnerships.
• JWF considers an organization’s overall support and inclusion of women and girls, as well as the specific project or program for which they are seeking a grant. This includes the extent to which women and girls are included among your leadership and key staff.
  

An agency must use funds to support women, girls, or mothers and their children exclusively.