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This Mother’s Day, honor a woman or girl you love while making a positive impact on women and children with a gift to the Lillian Fund.
With your $100 gift to the Lillian Fund, you can honor a woman or girl for Mother’s Day by giving her a vote on where to donate our annual grant.
Last year, our grant supported an advocacy program to reduce child homelessness at the Center for Children’s Advocacy in Hartford, the largest children’s legal rights organization in New England.
To celebrate our 25th anniversary year, we want to increase our impact. We invite you to add $25 to your $100 gift and help us create an additional grant of $2,500, allowing us to support more women and children.
The Lillian Fund, a giving circle of women at the Jewish Community Foundation, is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Members share a powerful vision: a world in which all women and children have equal opportunity for personal and professional achievement. They support this vision by funding education programs, domestic violence services and mental health counseling, to name a few, in Greater Hartford and Israel.
The Lillian Fund honors the accomplishments of Lillian D. Wald z”l, a Jewish woman, founding member of the NAACP, and advocate for women’s issues and child welfare.
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Lillian Fund Grants $10,000 to Center for Children’s Advocacy
The Lillian Fund awarded its annual grant to the Center for Children’s Advocacy in Hartford, the largest children’s legal rights organization in New England. The nonprofit will use the $10,000 grant toward its Advocacy Program to Reduce Child Homelessness.
Lillian Fund Supports Building for Equity Accelerator
A $10,000 Lillian Fund grant is helping Black and Brown female entrepreneurs overcome obstacles by receiving education, resources and funding through the program Building For Equity Accelerator, provided by Girls For Technology, a Hartford nonprofit.
Lillian Fund members witnessed their grant in action when they attended the Building For Equity Accelerator Pitch event and saw nine entrepreneurs present their ideas live to a panel of experts and a supportive audience.
Read the press release here.
Lillian Fund Empowers
Women and Children
Launched in 1999, the Lillian Fund is a giving circle of women who share a powerful vision: a world in which all women and children have equal opportunity for professional and personal achievement. They support this vision by awarding annual grants to children’s arts and education programs, domestic violence services, mental health counseling and job training, to name a few.
Members view philanthropy through a lens of Jewish values and gender equality, while expanding their impact and deepening their understanding of the community.
The Lillian Fund honors the accomplishments of Lillian D. Wald, z”l, a Jewish woman and a founding member of the NAACP, who dedicated her life’s work to advocating for women’s issues, child welfare reform, public health issues and world peace.
Recent grants from the Lillian Fund are supporting numerous nonprofits in Greater Hartford and in Israel.
Gifts to the Lillian Fund of all sizes are appreciated. With an annual gift of $100 or more, you can vote on the annual Lillian Fund project. You may also transfer your vote to another woman in your life, such as your mother, sister or daughter.
To find out more about the Lillian Fund, please email Kathryn Gonnerman at kgonnerman@jcfhartforddotorg
Our Non-Profit Partners
Prudence Crandall Center, Interval House, Foodshare
The Village for Families and Children, Charter Oak Cultural Center
Jonathan’s Dream, Aurora Women and Girls Foundation, CRT Women’s Empowerment Center, Healing Meals Community Project
Past Grants:
Center for Children’s Advocacy, Girls for Technology, Prudence Crandall Center, Interval House, Charter Oak Cultural Center
Jerusalem Hills Therapeutic Centers, Tenufa Bakila, UCONN Hillel
Solomon Schechter Day School, The Good People Fund, Jewish Family Services
Sarah Herzog Children’s Center, Girls Town Jerusalem, JTConnect, Maslan
Center for Women’s Justice, The Jerusalem Foundation, HaEmek Medical Center
Unistream, Keren Or Club