Arts and culture community impact grant fund

Calling all artists!

Do you have a passion for creating artwork that explores Jewish identity?
Do you dream of sharing your art with the Greater Boston community?

CJP’s Arts and Culture Community Impact grants support individuals and collaborative groups in bringing their artistic visions to life. Together, we can explore and appreciate the beauty and power of Jewish arts and culture.

Created in 2020, 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, fosters curiosity, or invites 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

Each project must address at least two of these guiding principles.

Funding opportunities and requirements

Funding amounts are inclusive of project completion and presentation to the community.

Grant process timeline

• Letters of Intent (LOI) open: Monday, August 3, 2026
• Info Session: Thursday, August 6, 2026
• LOI Submission Deadline: Friday, September 4, 2026, by 5:00 p.m.
• Invitations to submit full grant application sent: October 2026
• Grant Applications Due: November 2026
• Grantees Notified: December 2026

Grant requirements and eligibility

• Applicants must be 18 years of age or older and live within CJP’s catchment area.
  • Applicants may apply as an individual or as a collaboration among multiple artists. For applications as a group, all members must be at least 18 years of age, with at least 70% of the artists living 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 minimum years of experience.
• Applicants who received funding from the Arts & Culture Community Impact Fund in the previous funding year (2025-2026) are not eligible to apply for the current funding cycle.
• Projects including hate speech, violence, or which discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, color, 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.
• Grantees will be required to sign a grant agreement outlining a mandatory initial virtual meetup, bi-annual and end-of-project reporting requirements.
• Grantees will have 12 months from the date the grant agreement is signed to complete their work (with the ability to apply for a slight extension if needed).
• 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.)
  • Finished projects must initially be presented in CJP’s catchment area.

Grant amount

$7,500 grants (10 available): These grants will be awarded to projects by either individual artists or collaborative groups of artists. Artists of all artistic disciplines are encouraged to apply.

Read about our FY26 cohort of Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund grantees.