Our mission is to improve the status of Jewish women and girls through funding female-centered social change initiatives. We realize our vision and mission by funding four interdependent approaches to social change:

1. Increasing public awareness of issues that directly and adversely affect the lives of women;
2. Funding research that identifies and examines the impact of that issue on the lives of women and girls;
3. Supporting leading-edge initiatives that are designed to change the attitudes, behaviors and practices of individuals and systems;
4. Advocating for changes in institutional or community practices, social policy and the law.

Vision:

We believe that:

• the key to strong and equitable Jewish communities is to ensure that women and girls are physically safe and empowered to achieve their potential.
• investing our influence and resources in social change will make a difference in the lives of women and girls locally, nationally and internationally in ways that are consistent with the Jewish value of tikkun olam, a call to all Jews to help make the world a better place.
• advocating for an increase in funding for services that alleviate the hardships faced by marginalized woman and girls is critically important, given the chronic under-funding of such programs.
• social change is a complex process that generally takes place incrementally over time and we will support work over three timeframes – immediate, medium and long-term.
• the long-term outcome of our work will be changes in community practices and programming, public policy, Jewish education and practice, laws and the practice of philanthropy.