Deadline: 15-Apr-22
The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development is inviting applications from Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) for its grants program to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, and to Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon.
The Fund also support projects that help Palestinians highlight their history and struggle to Western audiences.
The Jerusalem Fund works to educate the United States’ public and policymakers about Palestine’s past, present and future, and provide community development support to communities in Palestine.
The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development is an independent, registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It aims to foster greater awareness about Palestine, in the United States and abroad, and to ameliorate the lives of Palestinians in Palestine and the diaspora. The Fund accomplishes these goals through three programs: the Humanitarian Link raises funds to provide relief, medical services, and community development support; the Palestine Center hosts educational and policy analysis lectures and conferences in the DC area and disseminates information online; and the cultural arm features an active art gallery called Gallery Al-Quds, a film series, and musical and literary offerings.
Focus Areas
- Education: The Palestine Center comprises the educational programs. They give voice to the Palestinian narrative through policy briefings, lecture series, conferences, symposia, scholarly research publications and an extensive research library. The Palestine Center’s analysis emphasizes a Palestinian perspective on the peace process, the Right of Return and final status negotiations, elections, international law, media coverage of Israel and Palestine and U.S. foreign policy in the region.
- Community Development: The Humanitarian Link program extends grants to hospitals, orphanages, clinics, schools, universities and civil society organizations in the Occupied Territory and surrounding refugee camps in an effort to sustain the basic conditions of life in Palestine and to overcome the burdens of occupation.
- Culture: The cultural program of the Jerusalem Fund, showcases the rich culture and national heritage of the Palestinian people, as well as that of surrounding Arab societies. The Gallery hosts bi-monthly exhibits of fine art and/or photography, an annual juried art competition, a summer film screening series, evening musical performances, art workshops and an annual souk and olive harvest celebration.
The Jerusalem Fund extends grants to non-governmental organizations working in the Fund’s three focus areas of education, community development, and culture.
Funding Information
Maximum award amount is $5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Jerusalem Fund extends grants to non-governmental organizations working in the Fund’s three focus areas of education, community development, and culture.
- The primary focus is on helping improve the lives of Palestinians through vetted civil society organizations that work on the ground in Gaza, the West Bank and refugee camps in neighboring countries.
For more information, visit https://thejerusalemfund.org/what-we-do/grants/application/