2021-2022 Grants

AHAverim: Hawaiian Jews

Building better relationships between Ashkenazi Jews in Hawai’i and the Kānaka Maoli community, while confronting our complex relationships as Jews to the land, and by extension, our ideas of wealth and identity.

The Associated

The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore is supporting their new JoC Engagement Fellow

Uri L’Tzedek

Uri L'Tzedek is collaborating with Jewtina y. Co to bring JoC leaders together at a 4-day immersive leadership retreat and cohort experience

Kavod v’Nichum

Kavod v'Nichum is supporting JoC research to learn how JoC engage in Jewish end-of-life rituals and practices including Chevrot Kadisha, funerals and burials, and grief and mourning rituals, and support the creation of new JoC chevra kadisha resources

Kamochah

Kamochah, fiscally sponsored by JFNA, is creating spaces where Black Orthodox Jews can embrace their racial/cultural identity and their religious observance 

JQ International

JQ International is elevating the LGBTQ+ Iranian experience (93% of whom self-identify as JoC) for a Persian Pride national event and fellowship program in Los Angeles, New York, and the Bay Area

The Forward

The Forward is sponsoring JoC authors of op-eds, JoC journalists and independent reporters, and providing professional development support for their JoC Editor-at-Large

JOIN for Justice

JOIN for Justice is providing JoC executive coaching for JOIN’s new co-Executive Director, a Korean American Jew who brings decades of nonprofit management experience and wishes to deepen the intersection of JoC identity in this work

Theater J

Theater J's "Expanding the Canon," a project of Eldavitch DCJCC, is convening JoC rabbis, cantors, and thought leaders to guide 7 JoC playwrights through a curriculum of Jewish life, liturgy, history, and literature at an immersive 3-day Beit Midrash

Linke Fligl

Linke Fligl, fiscally sponsored by Allied Media Projects, is providing queer JoC leadership with a 5-day immersive farm gathering, sharing out experiences as LGBTQI+ JoC, and building a deeper connection to the outdoors

Rimonim Liturgy Project

Rimonim Liturgy Project, fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, is amplifying 10 JoC artists whose work is included in Rimonim's collection of Jewish liturgy, poetry, and art

Mosaic Visions

Mosaic Visions organized the “Spirit of Humanity | Ein Sof Virtual Festival,” a cultural and artistic festival that showcased  Jews of Color through art, music, poetry, writing, songs, and short films

The Jews of Color Mishpacha Project

The Jews of Color Mishpacha Project created and ran the "We Are Family" JoCSM (Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews) Shabbaton at the Pearlstone Retreat Center

SHIN D.C.

SHIN DC will establish leadership development for a JoC executive director

Sandra Caplan Community Beit Din

Sandra Caplan Community Beit Din will be developing a mentorship program for Jews of Color for during and after the conversion process

Lab/Shul

Lab/Shul will be supporting the leadership of JoC artist Luis Burgos in leading a JoC-centered virtual national Passover seder

TischPDX

Hosting a Sigd celebratory and educational event in Portland, Oregon led by an Ethiopian Jewish creative director

Hebrew Seminary

Supporting outreach to Jews of Color and the deaf community for “The Kindness Project,” a class and spirituality group led by the first hard of hearing African American rabbi in Illinois

Mitsui

JoC series on mind-body resiliency and embodied practice concerning conversations on safety and security in Jewish communal settings

Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute

Supporting monthly gatherings for a JoC clergy affinity space to foster holistic wellness, solidarity, and mutual support for Kohenet Priestesses of Color