Women of Vision, an affinity group of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, recently announced its grants for the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years. As part of the grantmaking process, all Women of Vision members have the opportunity to cast a vote on programs they believe deserve funding to create and inspire social change and justice for self-identifying women and girls.

"The Women of Vision members awarded grants this year to programs that represent a wide-range of societal issues facing self-identifying women and girls: providing health education for Orthodox women to empowering women to be in control of their finances to inspiring the next generation of women leaders and thinkers,” said Women of Vision Grants Co-Chairs Amy Cohen and Andi Barsky in a joint statement. "We are proud that Women of Vision continues to make important strides in the fight for economic and educational equity.”

Since 1994, Women of Vision has collectively decided and distributed through its endowment fund more than $1 million to 40 nonprofit organizations in Greater Philadelphia and Israel (rotating annually).

For this year's grantmaking cycle, Women of Vision members voted to award funds to the following three organizations:

Einstein Healthcare Network
$36,000/year for two years
Empowering Orthodox Women Through Sexual Health Education

Empowering Orthodox women to take charge of their health and well-being with informed, culturally sensitive education. Einstein seeks to develop and implement a three-pronged program which will provide tailored women’s health curriculum in Jewish day schools through workshops for both elementary and high school aged students and their parents.

Jewish Women International
$20,000/FY 23 & $25,000/FY 24
Financial Fitness for Young Women

Financial Fitness gathers women in their 20s and 30s for 4-5 workshops, designed to unpack emotional barriers that often make women hesitant to address money issues and consider financial fitness as a component of physical and emotional well-being. This helps prepare women to prioritize their goals, organize finances, create a realistic budget, learn how to negotiate and invest strategically.

jGirls+ Magazine
$34,000/year for two years Feminist Teen Leadership Training Program
Each year, jGirls+ Magazine invites teens entering 10th, 11th, and 12th grades throughout North America to join their staff as editors and photographers and to participate in their robust feminist leadership development program. The teen staff members are trained in an experiential educational curriculum within a Jewish context and learn how to set the editorial agenda for publication content.

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