The Jewish Fund for Abortion Access grounds its grantmaking in the enduring wisdom of Rabbi Hillel, who taught in Pirkei Avot 1:14:
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
But if I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now, when?”
Guided by this teaching, the Jewish Fund for Abortion Access drives change through three core grant-making areas:
Strengthening NCJW Movement-Building
Funding local Jewish communities to advance reproductive freedom in statehouses, through direct advocacy, coalition campaigns, and ballot measure fights across the country.
Direct Service Grants
Supporting organizations that help patients access essential care, from contraception and fertility care to prenatal, doula, and postpartum services, with a focus on states where access has been stripped away.
Emergency Resource Grants
Rapidly deploying funds to trusted partners when crises arise, so essential services stay open and communities can respond when it matters most.
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Voices from the field
Strengthening NCJW Movement-Building: In 2024, the Jewish Fund granted $5,000 to NCJW St. Louis to support their work passing a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights in Missouri. Their goal was to collect 2,000 petition signatures — they gathered 15,000.
"The Jewish Fund for Abortion Access grant allowed us to expand our efforts to get Amendment 3 on the ballot, ensuring that all Missourians, regardless of background or circumstance, have the right to make decisions about their bodies and futures."
— Wendy Flusser, Board Member, NCJW St. Louis
Providing Direct Services: When abortion was banned in Alabama, West Alabama Women's Center became a lifeline — going from 20 patients a month to nearly 100, providing free and sliding-scale reproductive care to a community with few other options. A Jewish Fund grant helped expand their birth doula program, with remarkable results.
"If there was any doubt that this was an essential service, that was dispelled just last month when one of our patients went into the hospital in active labor and was told she would be discharged if she wouldn't agree to pitocin to speed up her labor. With a doula to advocate for her, she refused their intervention — and they successfully stalled... her baby was born less than three hours later."
— Robin Marty, Executive Director, West Alabama Women's Center
Providing Emergency Resources: When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in 2024 that IVF embryos must be considered children, clinics across the state suspended treatment — leaving dozens of families mid-process. The Jewish Fund moved within days to provide a $15,000 emergency grant to the Jewish Fertility Foundation, covering travel costs so families could continue care out of state. In March 2025, one of those families welcomed their daughter, Fia.
"When everything felt uncertain, JFF and NCJW stepped in to ensure we could continue our journey to parenthood."
— Nikki Mirova, IVF grant recipient, Jewish Fertility Foundation
Help us continue to leverage communal impact. Please donate to the Jewish Fund for Abortion Access today.