Does your organization dream about engaging Jewish young adults in a new way? Well, do we have a grant for you! CJP's Young Adult Community Impact Grants provide up to $15,000 in funding to non-profits in support of programs that bring Jewish young adults (ages 18-40) together to connect with one another, engage with the Jewish tradition and culture, and make something awesome happen!
CJP is pleased to announce our Young Adult Community Impact Grant (YACIG). This Grant was developed in order to maximize our awareness and response to the changing needs of the young adult community. Our transparent, efficient, and consistent process will ensure that organizations can identify and address needs, opportunities, and innovations within the communities that CJP serves. We will review applications with critical attention to:
Your organization is eligible to apply for a Young Adult Community Impact Grant if they serve young adults (ages 18-40), including:
Further guidelines to apply for a grant are below. Before starting your application, we highly recommend you reach out to our staff to talk through your idea. Email our Community Connectors, Caleb or Rachel; they are happy to help your organization through the process.
Our grant process is entirely online. If this is your first time applying for a YACIG, you will need to create an account with our system.
Please note:
CJP 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.
CJP Community Impact Grant Fund Goals
CJP directs financial investments and services to organizational partners who are instrumental in helping us to achieve our goals. With our community investments, we:
Caring for the Vulnerable: Ensuring more people are financially, physically, and emotionally secure, able to meet or exceed their basic needs in a community that preserves dignity for all
Broader and Deeper Engagement: Ensuring more people are deeply involved in Jewish life such that they attribute life choices to a growing and/or sustained sense of belonging to our community
Optimizing the Ecosystem: Ensuring more people are supported, engaged, and/or served by collaborative networks of healthy institutions and organizations whose work together advances our goals above
Within our overarching Priority Focus Areas for the FY 2021 (July 2020-June 2021), CJP has Areas of Interest which require attention and inspired communal solutions.
The Fund welcomes applications for new and ongoing results-oriented projects or initiatives which support CJP’s Priority Focus Areas (listed above); can demonstrate a measurable and sustainable impact; and involve one of the following areas:
Organizational Capacity Building that brings a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity. Organizational capacity building reflects an investment in the effectiveness and future sustainability of a nonprofit to effectively deliver its mission. This may also include an urgent or acute need that an organization can demonstrate how it provides unique and critical services to one or more CJP regions.
Community Enhancement Initiatives are the creation of events, actions, programs, or initiatives — virtual or otherwise — that strengthen or enhance a community-building effort to support communities of any type, including those based in geography, spirituality, interest, age, or identity. Community Enhancement Initiatives may include innovative pilots, small-scale programs, or initiatives that help an organization learn how a large-scale project might work in practice and help provide learnings for the Greater Boston Jewish community more broadly. A pilot program provides a platform for the organization to test ideas, prove value, and reveal deficiencies.
All applications for a YACIG are reviewed by a committee of young adult lay leaders who have been trained in the grant review process, and who have a variety of experiences and perspectives on young Jewish life in Greater Boston.
Questions? Contact Caleb at caleba@cjp.org