Deadline: 4-Jan-21
Combined Jewish Philanthropies is pleased to announce Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund (the “Fund”). The Fund was developed in order to support artists, enrich the community through culture, and explore the depth of Jewish experience and memory.
CJP’s Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund seeks to support art that:
- Embraces the diversity and complexity of Jewish identity, community, and tradition.
- Sparks questions foster curiosity or invite communal dialogue on a range of topics both within the Jewish community and/or across diverse communities.
- Creatively interprets or reinvents Jewish teachings, ritual, tradition, or Jewish life.
Goals
With their community investments, CJP aims to:
- Strengthen the health and increase the breadth of their community.
- Invest in key priority areas that will shape their future and shared communal vision.
- Use a data-informed approach to drive change and prioritize opportunities to facilitate collective impact.
- Be a national model of a community that inspires people to find joy and meaning in Jewish life and which brings their values to bear on injustices in their Jewish and broader communities.
- Provide unyielding and dignified support to all during challenging moments.
Funding Information
- Applicants may submit one application to each funding category below but will only be eligible to receive grant funding for one project application. Funding amounts are inclusive of project completion and presentation to the community in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.
- Categories
- $25,000 (one available): This grant will be awarded for a collaborative project led by at least three artists. This collaboration team should include Jewish artists and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) artists and employ multiple artistic mediums. Projects should address a current societal or cultural theme or issue relevant to both the Jewish and non-Jewish communities.
- $7,500 grants (10 available): These grants will be awarded to either individual artists or collaborative groups of artists. Artists of all artistic disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Mission
- To inspire and mobilize the diverse Boston Jewish community to engage in building communities of learning that strengthen Jewish life and improve the world.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must live within CJP’s catchment area.
- Applicants may apply as an individual or as a collaboration among multiple artists. For applications as a group, at least 70% of the artists must live within CJP’s catchment area.
- Applicants must have a proven track record of producing and presenting work in artistic mediums. Both self-taught and institutionally trained artists are welcome to apply. There is no requirement for the minimum years of experience.
- Applicants must be 18 years of age or older (including all members of a group application).
- Projects including hate speech, violence, or which discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, colour, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or age will not be considered.
- Projects that are part of an artist’s work for an employer or for educational credit are not eligible for consideration.
Grant Requirements
- Grantees will be required to sign a grant agreement outlining quarterly project check-ins, completion deadlines, and reporting/measurement requirements.
- Project and publicity materials for your program receiving funding must include the CJP logo and this tagline: This project is supported by a grant from the Combined Jewish Philanthropies Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund.
- Grantees will be required to engage community members through at least one communal engagement workshop/presentation/performance/installation/discussion, etc.
- All projects must be able to be shared in a virtual environment or in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.
For more information, visit https://www.cjp.org/arts-culture-community-impact-grant