Deadline: 15-Jul-22
The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, and culture has launched the humanitarian assistance program to support Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, and Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon.
This 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.
Through educational events, humanitarian support, and cultural preservation, the Jerusalem Fund is helping build the movement for Palestinian liberation.
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.
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/