Mazel tov to the Jewish Fund for Abortion Access section grant recipients!
Learn about our Fall 2025 grantees:
NCJW Louisville
NCJW Louisville ($7,500) to launch their new teen Jewish and interfaith education program focused on medically accurate information about contraception, pregnancy, and abortion and the landscape for accessing reproductive health care in Kentucky.
NCJW Virginia SPA
NCJW’s Virginia Action Team ($7,500) to support the launch of a new Virginia Reproductive Freedom Interfaith Coalition to engage clergy and lay leaders in advocating for and protecting reproductive health care access in Virginia. The funds will also support NCJW’s participation in the Virginians for Reproductive Freedom coalition, specifically supporting the statewide campaign for a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom in Virginia.
NCJW Colorado
NCJW Colorado ($2,500) to support their annual Havdalah and Hora for Repro Shabbat program and an IVF Happy Hour event in partnership with the Jewish Fertility Foundation (JFF). The Havdalah and Hora for Repro Shabbat is an annual gathering that brings together the local Jewish community around reproductive freedom. The IVF event will explore the challenges surrounding fertility care access today.
NCJW San Antonio
NCJW San Antonio ($5,250) to support community education and service around Texas’ restrictive abortion laws. The section will engage the community through Repro Shabbat programming and year-round efforts to educate advocates about the landscape of accessing care and will distribute Plan B (emergency contraception) as part of their outreach.
NCJW Essex County and NCJW Bergen County
NCJW Essex County and NCJW Bergen County ($4,000) to support their campaign in collaboration with New Jersey Family Planning League to educate New Jerseyans about family planning services including abortion care in the state.
NCJW Pittsburgh
NCJW Pittsburgh ($4,000) to support their Tikkun Yachad (Repairing Together) program, which is laying the foundation for deeper community engagement for Reproductive Justice. The grant will also support NCJW Pittsburgh’s leadership in a Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) coalition, working in deep partnership to educate the public about the dangers of CPCs and to offer trusted, compassionate alternatives for care.
NCJW St. Louis
NCJW St. Louis ($4,000) to support their recently launched PATH (Protect Abortion and Truth in Healthcare) Coalition, which is leading a coordinated, community-driven effort to defeat Amendment 3, a measure that puts the legal right to abortion in Missouri at risk. This new grant builds on NCJW St. Louis’s previous Jewish Fund support, which helped secure the successful 2024 ballot initiative restoring the legal right to abortion in Missouri. With opponents now mobilizing to reverse that victory, the PATH Coalition is organizing the community to ensure Missourians don’t lose the rights they just regained.
NCJW Minnesota
NCJW Minnesota ($4,000) to help develop a cohort of skilled volunteers committed to protecting abortion access and reproductive health care in Minnesota, in partnership with coalition partners Jewish Community Action Minnesota and Unrestrict Minnesota. Through education and training, they will build a cadre of informed and confident advocates equipped to protect and advance reproductive freedom in the state.
Learn how past NCJW section grantees have advanced reproductive freedom:
NCJW New York
NCJW New York ($5,000) to support work on the New York Equal Rights Amendment which would enshrine abortion access in the state constitution.
NCJW Atlanta
NCJW Atlanta ($2,500) to support their 2024-2025 Teens 4 Repro Health program, a school-year-long program that empowers high school-age Jewish leaders to be positive change agents in the area of reproductive health for their peers and community.
NCJW Rochester
NCJW Rochester ($1,500) to support the launch of their “Come to the Table” Initiative to encourage men to support the New York Equal Rights Amendment on the ballot in November 2024. In partnership with Men4Choice and Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York (PPCWNY)
NCWJ Minnesota
NCWJ Minnesota ($2,000) to lay the groundwork for the future passage of the Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment, which would enshrine abortion access and reproductive freedom in the state constitution.
NCJW St. Louis
NCJW St. Louis ($5,000) grant for their work to mobilize advocacy efforts to support Missouri’s ballot initiative on the ballot this November to end Missouri’s abortion ban.
NCJW Chicago North Shore
NCJW Chicago North Shore ($1,000) to support the Chicago Metro Abortion Access Project, which in addition to other work, provides abortion after-care kits to abortion clinics across Illinois.
NCJW Sacramento
NCJW Sacramento ($1,000) for postage for postcarding to abortion providers, get-out-the-vote postcarding to states where abortion is on the ballot, and providing maxi pads for the local Planned Parenthood.
NCJW Cleveland
NCJW Cleveland ($7,500) mobilized advocacy efforts for this past November’s ballot initiative to enshrine reproductive rights in the Ohio constitution.
NCJW Arizona
NCJW Arizona ($7,500) mobilized a signature drive to help ensure Arizona secures a 2024 ballot measure to legalize abortion in Arizona.
NCJW Greater Dallas
NCJW Greater Dallas ($1,000) engaged young professionals in leadership training and education for abortion justice.
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