A Single Impact
Founder(s): Shoshi Glazer Year Founded: 2020 Creates community, resources, and networking opportunities for frum singles to foster meaningful connections. https://asingleimpact.com/
Archives: Finalist
Atzmi
Founder(s): Dr. Marcy Forta Year Founded: 2021 Empowers Orthodox teens with positive self-esteem and body image to reduce vulnerability to eating disorders. https://atzmi.org/
Chazkeinu
Founder(s): Zahava List Year Founded: 2017 Offers Jewish women a supportive community to navigate mental health challenges and find healing together. https://chazkeinu.org/
Chesed Connects
Founder(s): Jack Huberfeld Year Founded: 2023 Links volunteers eager to help with individuals and families in need of acts of chesed. https://www.chesedconnects.org/
Lifnai V’Lifnim
Founder(s): Rabbi Yehuda Chanales Year Founded: 2021 Equips educators with tools and training to deepen spiritual and personal connections within their communities. https://lifnaivlifnim.org/
Shifrah
Founder(s): Shayna Safran Year Founded: 2024 Provides education and support around hyperemesis gravidarum for women, families, rabbis, and medical professionals. https://shifrah.org/
Team Protect
Founder(s): Rabbi Zvi Boyarsky and Zalmy Cohen Year Founded: 2024 Promotes child safety through advocacy, awareness, preventive solutions, and grief support. https://teamprotect.org/
Tikvaseinu
Founder(s): Elke Pollak Year Founded: 2022 Supports women facing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders with resources, groups, and individual guidance. https://tikvaseinu.org/
Ray of Hope
Founder(s): Zeldy Broyde and David Kohn Year Founded: 2019 Ray of Hope is here to serve all members of the Jewish community. They gear toward males and females’ that have experienced sexual abuse and its effects. Ray of Hope’s mission is to provide professionally facilitated support groups and other programming wherever there are established Jewish communities […]
Living Lchaim
Founder(s): Yaakov Langer Year Founded: 2021 Living Lchaim utilizes a variety of platforms – including but not limited to YouTube and podcasts, their website, and live events – to curate and disseminate educational content and facilitate engaging experiences. Their efforts are geared towards equipping those who desire knowledge with the tools they need to enhance […]
Imo Anochi
Founder(s): Rabbi Eli Portal Year Founded: 2020 Imo Anochi provides mentorship, support, and education to members of the Jewish community who are facing adversity in their lives. Our vision is a world where members of the Jewish community can receive the support and guidance they need to overcome their challenges, regardless of their financial circumstances. By […]
frum.finance
Founder(s): Baruch Niebloom Year Founded: 2021 Frum.finance is a community-centric organization committed to elevating financial literacy and fostering financial independence in the frum community. By offering resources, education, and support in key areas such as budgeting, debt management, retirement planning, and investing, Frum.finance strengthens the financial acumen of individuals and families. With online resources, personalized guidance, […]
Code Kevudah
Founder(s): Mindy Sabel Year Founded: 2020 Code Kevudah programs enable women to gain valuable technology skills in a dignified and culturally sensitive atmosphere. Participants are empowered to use software development and data science to increase their earning potential by bringing immense value to their organizations. We envision a community where technology education for women is both […]
Ashir
Founder(s): Rivky Rothenberg and Tsippi Gross Year Founded: 2023 Ashir is a new organization creating financial literacy programming, training, and education for the Jewish community. With a strong focus on empowering Jewish women, young professionals, marriage units and parenting the next generation with financial know how, Ashir teaches a combination of mindset and skill set to […]
Lech Lecha
Founder(s): Nadav Slovin Year Founded: 2019 Lech-Lecha facilitates empowering outdoor adventures and wilderness journeys that catalyze personal development and spiritual growth, connection with the wonder of Hashem’s creation, meaningful interpersonal relationships, and joyful community deeply rooted in Torah and a holistic approach to Jewish life and practice. Our Vision Lech Lecha envisions a vibrant community of […]
Kochvei HaShamayim
Founder(s): Daniel Lazarev Year Founded: 2021 Kochvei HaShamayim is a nonprofit organization aimed at championing the values of family, community, and education by supporting young Jewish couples who must otherwise choose between family life (getting married or having kids) or continuing their education. Specifically, Kochvei supports couples where one or both spouses are pursuing professional or […]
JOWMA
Jewish Orthodox Women’s Medical Association Founder(s): Dr. Mimi Knoll Year Founded: 2019 The Jewish Orthodox Women’s Medical Association (JOWMA) provides free health education to the Orthodox Jewishcommunity and supports a network of current and future Jewish female physician leaders. http://jowma.org
Foundations Curriculum
Founder(s): Chana Noa Gelbfish Year Founded: 2011 Our mission is to combat the lack of spiritual connection in our communities by providing a curriculum framework for participants to realize their spiritual potential. Our vision is a community of connected, fulfilled, and inspired individuals, from students through seniors, who understand their unique and indispensable role as […]
After the School Bell
Founder(s): Leah Solomon Year Founded: 2020 After The School Bell aims to empower students with accessible, after-school academic support and to provide an opportunity for volunteer tutors to gain experience and skills while helping others. https://aftertheschoolbell.org
My Tzedakah Fund
Founder(s): Carly Friedman Year Founded: 2016 MyTzedakah is the tzedakah subscription service that aggregates and automates your charitable giving. MyTzedakah’s mission is to empower every Jew to give the most charity possible, with no technological barriers. It is the platform where all Jews engage meaningfully and personally with the charities they love, ensuring financial sustainability […]
Last Kindness
Founder(s): Yael Davidowitz Year Founded: 2021 Lasting Kindness is a full force effort to stem the staggering rise in cremation amongst American Jewry through awareness, education, and practical assistance. https://endcremation.org/ https://lastkindness.org/
Torah Institute Beyond Campus (TIBC)
Founder(s): Arieh Friedner Year Founded: 2019 TIBC is a virtual Beit Midrash for college students with the motivation and need for a community of spiritual growth and Torah study.
ATARA – the Arts & Torah Association (for Religious Artists)
Founder(s): Miriam Leah Gamliel, Esther Leah Marchette Year Founded: 2016 ATARA is a network of Torah observant female creative and performing artists of all ages, all hashkafot within Orthodoxy, and varied levels of training and experience. Through conferences, concerts, workshops, online forums, a monthly newsletter and networking organized by our volunteer leaders, we build community […]
Torah Live
Founder(s): Rabbi Dan Roth, Rabbi Yaacov Deyo Year Founded: 2014 and earlier Torah Live is a self-paced, educational platform for children to craft their own journey through Torah learning by completing an endless playlist of short films, infographics, quizzes, and real-world challenges — and, by doing so, unlock real world donations to the poor of […]
Penimi Inc
Founder(s): Faigie Zelcer Year Founded: 2013 Penimi’s mission is to confront contemporary challenges facing Jewish youth who are growing up in the Digital Age. By providing relevant curricula, workshops, and comprehensive trainings to educators and parents across the globe, our youth are empowered to navigate their lives as Torah true individuals with strong core values […]
Ani Tefillah /The Voice of Jewish Education
Founder(s): Tamar Nusbaum Year Founded: 2018 Ani Tefillah is a Tefillah-enhancement curriculum that imbues the process of prayer with deeper meaning and connection for school-age children, making the experience one that children can look forward to on a daily basis. A program for all children from all backgrounds, ANI TEFILLAH utilizes classroom strategies in conjunction […]
CCSA at Ohel
Founder(s): Lianne and Etiel Forman Year Founded: 2018 Communities Confronting Substance Use and Addiction (“CCSA”), a division of Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services, is a not-for-profit organization founded with the goals of bringing awareness, education, prevention and programming regarding substance abuse and addiction to local Jewish communities. To date, CCSA has launched a professionally […]
Chinuch Yehudi
Founder(s): Chaim Bernstein Year Founded: 2017 Chinuch Yehudi was founded to educate the 750,000-1,000,000 Israelis in the United States about the critical need of providing their children with a Jewish day school education and assist them, financially and otherwise, in transferring their children to Orthodox Jewish day schools. https://chinuchyehudiusa.org
Daily Giving
Founder(s): Jonathan Donath Year Founded: 2019 DailyGiving.org is a platform where you sign up and are guaranteed the mitzvah of Tzedaka every day for as little as $1 a day. Daily Giving is able to give meaningful donations to worthy, vetted Jewish charities worldwide. Whether it’s feeding the poor, helping those with special needs, or […]
GrowTorah
Founder(s): Yosef Gillers Year Founded: 2015 GrowTorah develops educational Torah garden programs for Jewish schools and communal organizations, incubating emunah, environmental stewardship, compassion for creatures, and Tzedakah. https://www.growtorah.org/
Kanfei Faiga (Formerly Imadi)
Founder(s): Chana Esther Schechter, Zeldy Oppen, and Goldy Jaroslawicz Year Founded: 2018 Providing specially trained dedicated advocates who serve as supportive confidantes and mentors for spouses as well as for those suffering from chronic behavioral health challenges. Under the direct guidance of a team of clinical professionals, advocates are carefully selected for their understanding, empathy, […]
NechamaComfort
Founder(s): Reva Judas Year Founded: 2016 NechamaComfort supports families who have suffered miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss. Services include immediate help at the time of the loss and ongoing individual, family and group support. Training programs for medical personnel, therapists and clergy help them better address the needs of their clients and congregants. Awareness programs […]
Work At It (Formerly Yedei Moshe)
Founder(s): Yael Wedeck, MSW and Rivka Ariel Year Founded: 2018 Yedei Moshe is a program that seeks out and helps businesses hire at risk youth. It matches at risk youth and employers and provides personal mentoring and support for both to help facilitate success. https://workatit.org/