TJF Grants to support Humanitarian Assistance in Palestine

Deadline: 15-Apr-24

The Jerusalem Fund is seeking applications for grants to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, and to Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon.

They also support projects that help Palestinians highlight their history and struggle to Western audiences.

The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development is an independent, registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It aims to foster greater awareness about Palestine, in the United States and abroad, and to ameliorate the lives of Palestinians in Palestine and the diaspora. The Fund accomplishes these goals through three programs: the Humanitarian Link raises funds to provide relief, medical services, and community development support; the Palestine Center hosts educational and policy analysis lectures and conferences in the DC area and disseminates information online; and the cultural arm features an active art gallery called Gallery Al-Quds, a film series, and musical and literary offerings.

Focus Areas

• Education
  • The Palestine Center comprises their reducational 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.
  • Since 1979, the program has extended grants to hospitals, orphanages, clinics, schools, universities and civil society organizations. Their grantees work sustain the basic conditions of life in Palestine and to overcome the burdens of occupation.
  • In addition to regular grant making throughout the year, the Humanitarian Link program supports its special project, the Palestine Diabetes Institute. Its medical facilities in Al-Bireh and Nablus, Palestine, works to combat the epidemic of diabetes among Palestinians.
• Culture
  • Gallery Al-Quds, 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.

For more information, visit The Jerusalem Fund.