CJP’s Center for Combating Antisemitism Grant Pool Winners Announced 

CJP’s Center for Combating Antisemitism (CCA) just released $245,000 of fighting antisemitism grants into our community through our Ally Challenge and Campus Education & Allyships grants. 

Both grant opportunities were geared toward investing in and increasing hyper-local community engagement and mobilization in this work. Notably, there were a diverse range of applicants, from artists to congregations to interfaith initiatives with projects designed to increase allyship between Jewish communities and other marginalized communities.  

“After extensive vetting and assessment, we are awarding this support to seven strategic community-based projects well-positioned for moving the needle toward our shared vision of making antisemitism politically and socially unacceptable in Greater Boston,” says Melissa Garlick, CJP’s senior director of combating antisemitism and building civic engagement. “We’re grateful for the incredible staff and volunteers at CCA who are helping us shape a more joyful, safe, and healthy future for our community.” 

Here are the details:  

Ally Challenge grant winners: 

CJP’s CCA is granting $105,000 to three organizations and grassroot initiatives as part of our inaugural Ally Challenge grant pool launched this spring. We are proud to support these artists, interfaith congregations, and hyper-local projects in our ongoing fight against antisemitism. 

Grantees: 

• Arts for Social Cohesion: For In Our Words (IOW), a moving multimedia performance of real-world stories, told by community members via theatrical projection, together with live original score and narration crafted by a world-class artistic team. IOW will deepen relationships between members of a Boston-area synagogue and neighboring church through stirring stories around what unites them. 

• Lexington United Against Antisemitism (LUAA): An interfaith and cross-community initiative to build relationships through events and dialogue across Lexington.  

• Temple Shir Tikva (in partnership with Greater Framingham Community Church): For “Our Civil Rights Story”—programming and dialogues between temple and church communities, building on a history of solidarity and allyship, with a capstone civil rights journey to the South with teen and adult cohorts.

Campus Education & Allyship grant winners: 

CJP’s CCA is granting $140,000 to four campus organizations as part of the inaugural Campus Education & Allyship Challenge grant pool launched this spring. We are proud to invest in these innovative, wide-reaching campus organizations and hone our strategy to support Boston-area campuses with high potential and high impact.   

Grantees: 

• BU Hillel: To expand their existing program targeting Jewish and non-Jewish students on antisemitism education and advocacy. 

• Jewish on Campus: To expand their work and establish Jewish on Campus chapters at two Boston-area campuses.   

• MEOR : To support a new fellowship program for students and in collaboration with Jewish and non-Jewish faculty at Harvard University. 

• Northeastern Hillel: To pilot an antisemitism peer education program at Northeastern University, developing a cohort of student peer educators.