CJP’s Center for Combating Antisemitism Grassroots Impact Grant

We define hyperlocal, grassroots groups as those doing work targeting the ecosystem of institutions and spaces that make up a local community. This could include neighborhoods, towns, municipalities, or other groups. If a group is not sure if they are eligible, please email CCA-info@cjp.org.

Efforts that target K-12 schools are eligible to apply, but please be aware that CCA’s K-12 work is focused on educating school leaders and educators, not necessarily students directly.

CCA serves as the local hub that unites efforts across Greater Boston working to make antisemitism socially and politically unacceptable across society. As a central resource for Jewish safety, we build a safety net against antisemitism in non-Jewish spaces by increasing understanding, education, and relationships in civic and private spaces about Jewish identity and combating antisemitism.

We focus on engaging institutional decision-makers while also mobilizing community members at the grassroots level. We do this through leadership training, funding opportunities, consultation, network building, and structural support.

To learn more about other ways to engage with CCA’s grassroots efforts, please email CCA-info@cjp.org. For more information on CJP’s CCA, visit our website.

If awarded, funding will be distributed via wire transfer. Groups must be a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit or have another nonprofit who will serve as a fiscal sponsor for your group. To learn more about the fiscal sponsorship process, please email CCA-info@cjp.org.

All groups must have their organization or fiscal sponsor complete CJP’s Grant Vetting Form as part of LOI submission.

FY26 Grantees

• Concord-Carlisle Against Antisemitism: A grassroots community-based initiative, funding will promote Jewish visibility, education, and community allyship for Concord and Carlisle residents and students through digital outreach, community events, and partnerships with local institutions
  
  
• Lexington United Against Antisemitism: With an interfaith, volunteer-led approach, Lexington United Against Antisemitism (LUAA) advocates for the well-being of Jewish residents through community education, relationship-building, and action. CCA's support will enable LUAA to deepen and broaden its engagement with local and neighboring houses of worship and civic organizations.
  
  
• Newton Interfaith Leaders Association: Funds will support a project to advance allyship training workshops for local interfaith clergy and lay leaders.
  
  
• Parents Diversity Council Bedford: The grant will support a project within the organization to deepen connections and learning between Jewish and non-Jewish Bedford residents through community-wide events that increase awareness and understanding of antisemitism.

FY25 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 is deepening relationships between members of a Boston-area synagogue and neighboring church through stirring stories around what unites them.
• Lexington United Against Antisemitism (LUAA): For continued growth of an interfaith and cross-community grassroots coalition building relationships through education, action, and reflection. Implemented by local volunteers, LUAA is striving to make Lexington a welcoming, supportive, and safe town for Jewish neighbors.
• 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.