Deadline: 1-May-23
The Hadassah Foundation (the Foundation) is pleased to announce the start of its inaugural Spark Grants process.
Selected organizations will display innovation, address a gap in the field of gender equity, and/or focus on a timely societal issue that disproportionately impacts women and girls. These grants are designed to support organizations that are meeting pressing or emergent issues.
Funding Focus
- The Hadassah Foundation is requesting grant proposals from organizations that advance the status of women and girls in public and private spaces. These spaces include: workplaces, corporate and nonprofit boards, schools, social settings, and religious institutions.
- Specifically, the Foundation is looking to:
- Increase the number and influence of women and girls in leadership. Leadership being defined as a position of influence and power; someone who takes risks and challenges the status quo, and motivates others to do the same
- Addressing bias in hiring and advancement practices, norms, and policies to help provide more equitable:
- Access to positions that have been traditionally limited based on sex, religion, race, and ethnicity
- Opportunities in compensation, pay, benefits, and security
- Workplace practices and advancement trajectories that incorporate the realities of women’s lives
Funding Information
- These are grants of $20,000 awarded over 18 months, beginning on August 1, 2023, to organizations that are in Israel and the United States that are in the start-up or early stages of development (7 years old and younger).
Eligibility Criteria
- In addition, organizations in the U.S. must have an annual budget of $250,000 or less, and organizations in Israel must have an annual budget of $200,000 or less (in U.S. dollars).
- Funding is for general operating support. They will be awarding two Spark grants in 2023.
- Organization or its fiscal sponsor must have legal not-for-profit status
- Israel: Amutah or Mossad Tziburi status
- U.S.: 501(c)3 status.
- Target Population
- Israel: Organizations that work with people of all religious and ethnic backgrounds are welcome to apply.
- U.S.: Only organizations that work within the Jewish community are eligible.
- Gender Lens: Organization must place at the forefront of its decision-making the ways gender influences people’s needs, causes differing outcomes, and is associated with various assumptions and norms. Work that utilizes a gender lens may occur in genderspecific (girls/women only) and/or multigender environments.
- Social Change Approach: Organization should address the root causes of a problem, working to improve the conditions that lead to inequality.
For more information, visit Hadassah Foundation.