Women’s Giving Circle

$39,146 total in grants awarded 

• Beit Ruth for Young Women & Girls At-Risk: Oral Health as a Path to Physical and Emotional Well-Being $4,128.00
• Crossroads: “COLORING THE STREETS” OUTREACH PROGRAM (CTS)  $4,000.00
• DVI- Dental Volunteers for Israel: Free Dental Care for At-Risk Youth and Abused Women  $4,878.00
• itworks-Empowering: People Single Mothers from Poverty to Careers  $4,878.00
• Kaima Nahalal Project Step Up:  An initiative to provide wrap-around services for highly troubled girls and young women in Israel’s peripheries $4,378.00
• Malki Foundation: Paramedical Therapies for Children with Disabilities $4,378.00
• No2 Violence Against Women: Starting Over  $4,128.00
• Orr Shalom for Children and Youth at Risk: Safe Haven Overnight Camp $4,378.00
• Ruach Dromit (Southern Wind): The Center for Complementary Treatment for Negev Citizens Fighting Cancer: Cancer Care for Children in Southern Israel  $4,000.00

$34,000 total in grants awarded 

• DVI – Dental Volunteers for Israel: Free Dental Care  for At-Risk Youth and Abused Women $6,000.00 
• Mavoi Satum: ”From Strength to Strength” empowerment program for Jewish women trapped in unwanted marriages $  6,000.00 
• Beit Ruth for Young Women and Girls At Risk: Computers for 21st Century Learning $5,000.00 
• ELEM – Youth in Distress: Young Women Activists Group $4,000.00 
• Beit Micha: Parent Assistance Program, for Families of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Infants $5,000.00 
• AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER (AFRMC): Rabin Medical Center’s Breast Cancer Unit – BRCA Multidisciplinary Breast & Ovarian Cancer Clinic $4,000.00 
• The Dr. Israel Goldstein Youth Village: Residence for Lone Soldiers $4,000.00 

$41,374 total in grants awarded 

• American Friends of Leket Israel:  Feeding Israel’s Children At Risk $6,000.00
• Dental Volunteers for Israel – DVI: Free Dental Care for At-Risk Youth and Abused Women $5,687.00
• The Dr. Israel Goldstein Youth Village:  Residence for Lone Soldiers $5,687.00
• IDF Widows and Orphans Organization: Otzma “Strength” Camps $4,000.00
• Friends for the Comunity in Israel: “Project Petel” in the city of Sderot near the Gaza Strip $4,000.00
• Machshava Tova: Let’s Tech! for Teenage Girls at Risk $4,000.00
• Crossroads: Teen Crisis Hotline $4,000.00
• Beit Micha, Tel-Aviv:  Replenishment of Beit Micha’s Loaner Bank of Hearing Aids $4,000.00
• RESPECS Frames for the Needy: Prescription eyeglasses for women in need $4,000.00

$57,844 total in grants awarded 

• Mavoi Satum: Building a New Future—Emotional Support for mesoravot get (Jewish women denied a divorce) $5,922.00
• DVI – Dental Volunteers for Israel: Free Dental Care for At-Risk Youth and Abused Women $5,000.00 
• YEDID -The Association for Community Empowerment in Israel: Women’s Voices $4,500.00 
• Jerusalem Rape Crisis Center in memory of founding member Linda Feldman: Sexual Violence Prevention Education Afterschool Program for At-Risk Youth $4,500.00
• ELI: Israel Association for Child Protection: School-based Cyberbullying Prevention and Awareness $5,500.00
• JobKatif Achotenu: academic nurses training program for Ethiopian-Israelis $5,922.00
• ZAKA – Search and Rescue: K-9 Leadership Training and Empowerment Program for Youth at Risk $5,500.00
• Orr Shalom for Children and Youth at Risk:  Orr Shalom Safe Haven Camps for Orphans $4,500.00 
• Kaima Nahalal: Project Lavender $4,500.00  
• RES-SPECS Frames for the Needy: Prescription eyeglasses for women in need $6,000.00
• Yozmot Atid:  Taking the Leap—A small business incubator program for Israeli women earners from the lowest income brackets $6,000.00 

$40,788 total in grants awarded 

• Orr Shalom for Children and Youth at Risk: Essential Clothing and Equipment Packs for Children at Risk $6,000.00 
• Ethiopian National Project: ENP SPACE (School Performance and Community Empowerment) Scholastic Assistance Program for Ethiopian-Israeli Girls $6,000.00 
• Crossroads: Online Help Line and Crisis Intervention $5,000.00 
• Economic Empowerment for Women: Business of One’s Own  $5,000.00 
• Mavoi Satum: Building a New Future—Emotional Support for mesoravot get (Jewish women denied a divorce)  $4,697.00 
• TIKVOT: Abba’s friends   $4,697.00 
• ELI: Israel Association for Child Protection: ELI/ IDF partnership—working with female sexually abused soldiers  $4,697.00 
• American Friends of Leket Israel: Feeding Israel’s Youth At Risk $4,697.00 

$50,000 total in grants awarded 

• Israel Phliharmonic Orchestra: The Orchestra of the Little Hearts $6,000.00 
• Artist 4 Israel: Healing Arts Kits for Emergency First Aid for the Mind and Spirit $5,000.00 
• Ethiopian National Project (ENP): ENP SPACE   $5,000.00 
• Shabatai Levi Home: Sexual Abuse Survivor Therapy at the Mother/child Unit $6,000.00 
• Mavoi Satum: Building a New Future  $6,000.00 
• Orr Shalom: Essential Clothing & Equipment Packs for Orphans at Risk   $6,000.00 
• Krembo Wings: Support of Krembo Wings Young Community Leaders Counselor training Program – Tsfat Branch $6,000.00 
• Bat Melech:  Animal Therapy for Battered Orthodox Women and their children $2,000.00 
• Economic Empowerment for Women: A Business of One’s Own  $5,000.00 
• Crossroads: Teen Crisis Hotline $3,000.00 

$40,000 total in grants awarded 

• Friends for the Community in Israel : “Strengthening Sderot” $5,000.00
• Am. Friends of the Jordan River Village Family: Family Weekends & Support Networks for Israeli Families of Sick Children   $2,500.00 
• NATAL: Girls Under Fire – Social Empowerment and Resiliency for Girls at Risk  $2,500.00 
• First Hug Assn.  : Caring for Abandoned Babies in Israeli Hospitals  $2,500.00 
• Orr Shalom : Essential Clothing & Equipment Packs for Children At-Risk $5,000.00 
• Yad Ezra V’Shulamit: Weekly Food Baskets Food Security for Single Mothers and Families $5,000.00 
• Ethiopian National Project : ENP SPACE Scholastic Assistance Program for Ethiopian-Israeli Girls  $2,500.00 
• Tenufa Bakehila (Building Hope) : Transforming the Lives of Israel’s Needy Single Parent Mothers  $5,000.00 
• The Jewish Agency for Israel : Fund for Victims of Terror – Supporting Women  $2,500.00          
• Health and Community Service: Ethiopian Teen Dental Care Program  $5,000.00 
• Crossroads Jerusalem : Empowerment through Self-Defense  $2,500.00 

$25,000 total in grants awarded 

• Family Nest: Parenting Group and Musical Therapy – Connecting with Children $1,100.00 
• Latet:  Israeli Humanitarian Aid – Latet Atid – ‘to give a future’ $1,000.00 
• Health and Community Service Center: Ethiopian Teen Dental Care Program $5,000.00 
• Yad Ezra V Shulamit: Weekly food baskets to 300 poor single parent families and holiday food baskets to 11,000 single parent families. $5,000
• The Jerusalem Hills Therapeutic Centers: The Teen Girls’ Empowerment Program with a Focus on Self –Image, Body-Image and Life Skills  $2,000.00 
• Neve Hadassa Youth Village: “I am worth It” – The Bat Mitvza Year $1,000.00 
• American Friends of NATAL: Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War – Girls under Fire – Social Empowerment of Girls at-Risk  $2,000.00 
• American Friends of Leket Israel: Nutrition for Life: Empowering Mothers $4,400.00
• ZAKA: Emergency and Disaster Response in Kiryat Malachi-Hof Ashkelon $2,500.00
• Eden Association: Outdoor Adventure Therapy for At-Risk Teenage Girls $1,000.00 

$18,000 total in grants awarded 

• Nebga – Network of Houses of Hope for Children At-Risk in Israel: Empowerment Seminars for Girls and Their Mothers from At-Risk Families in Israel. $2,500.00 
• Family Nest Ashkelon: Parenting Group Workshop $3,000.00 
• Orr Shalom for Children and Youth at Risk:  Overcoming the trauma of rape and sexual abuse for girls in out-of-home care: rehabilitating the victims and rebuilding their relationships with their biological mothers.   $5,000.00 
• YEDID The Association for Community Empowerment: Megemeria $2,500.00
• Livnot U’Lehibanot: Lifting Single Parent Mothers out of Poverty and Stagnation $5,000.00