We’re excited to formally announce Jewish Liberation Fund’s slate of Fall 2021 Grantees! Our third grantmaking cycle— and only our second open application round of grantmaking— was also our most competitive to date. We’re excited to announce that we were able to make out grants to 14 organizations, including 11 new grantees, doing amazing progressive work all across the country. The following are the names and brief details of these organizations.
New Grantees
Achvat Amim - Solidarity of Nations
A peer-led movement building platform that brings Jewish internationals to live int he heart of Jerusalem for half a year to engage in tikkun olam (repairing the world) and tikkun adam (repairing oneself). Their mission is to bridge the movement for justice and liberation in Israel / Palestine and movements for justice and liberation in the diaspora.
Center for Jewish Nonviolence
CJNV brings Jewish activists together to resist the Israeli Occupation through nonviolent direct action and sustained solidarity with Palestinian communities through ten-day delegations and three-month extended solidarity stays.
Collaborative for Jewish Organizing
The Collaborative is a network of nine independent Jewish groups organizing in 19 states and the District of Columbia, each of which organizes thousands of Jews and non-Jewish allies to work in partnership and in solidarity with communities of color in campaigns for social change.
Detroit Jews for Justice
DJJ organizes the Metro Detroit Jewish community to participate in movements for racial and economic justice. DJJ uses the tools of community organizing to make life in Michigan more sustainable, equitable, and joyous for all.
Hinenu
Hinenu is a spiritual community and synagogue that celebrates Diaspora Judaism through ritual, learning, song, and prayer. They are a Baltimore community committed to pursuing justice and to acting in fierce solidarity with their neighbors.
Jewtina y Co.
Jewtina y Co. is an anti-oppressive Jewish and Latin organization on a mission to nurture Latin-Jewish community, identity, leadership and resiliency, and celebrate Latin-Jewish heritage and multiculturalism. They envision a world in which the global Jewish and Latin communities joyfully celebrate their intersectional story, and work together to interrupt inequities within their communities.
Never Again Action
Never Again Action was formed in 2019 to direct outrage at the violence and injustice of family separation felt by thousands of Jews into strategic nonviolent action. Today, they are the first and only national organization specifically focused on activating allies of immigrants; what started as a single action in Elizabeth NJ has erupted into 47 actions across the country under their banner.
Queer Mikveh Project
The Queer Mikveh Project is a group of artists, organizers, clergy, filmmakers, and scholars who, together, are enlivening the ancient practice of mikveh for Queer, Trans and Gender Diverse Jews who seek deep connection to their roots. Since their conception over six years ago, they have served 3,000+ people through online resources and in person events, all while raising money for local Indigenous and Black Liberation Organizations.
The Workshop
The Workshop is a new arts fellowship that will center the work of professional JOCiSM (Jews of Color, Indigenous Jews, Sephardi & Mizrahi) artists & culture-makers. House ad Jewish Theological Seminary, fellows receive artistic mentorship, financial support, research support, and access to work and performance space over the course of 10 months.
Tisch PDX
Based in Portland, Oregon, TischPDX provides Jews from backgrounds that have been historically marginalized in Jewish life with an 18 month cohort program, providing Jewish text study, anti-oppression skills-building, leadership and organizing training, personal mentorship and financial resources to support our leaders in seeing themselves as a central force, guiding our community into the Jewish future.
Tiyuv
The Tiyuv (“improvement” in Hebrew) Initiative is an effort to create a culturally responsive, Jews of Color (JOC)-led model and hub for formal program evaluation of racial justice work in the Jewish community. They are working to create a cadre of JOC professional evaluators who are trained in Culturally Responsive Evaluation for Jewish communities.
Returning Grantees
Black Jewish Liberation Collective
Black Jewish Liberation Collective is a collective of Black Jews based in the United States who amplify Black voices and uplift cultural and political organizing. They do this by creating space for community building and strategizing to support Black people who are working towards liberation and dismantling white supremacist patriarchy, racialized capitalism, and antisemitic violence.
Rimonim Liturgy Project
Rimonin is a collectively sponsored poet-in-residence project for Puerto Rican Jewish poet Aurora Levins Morales to create new liturgy that is fully inclusive of Indigenous Jews and Jews of Color, rooted in global, diasporic Jewish cultures, is in accountable relationship with local indigenous people wherever we're located, and recognizes and responds to the danger and opportunity of our ecological crisis.
Tzedek Lab
Tzedek Lab is a national multiracial network of political education trainers, organizers, spiritual leaders, and cultural workers, Jews and allies, established to build collective competency to better politicize, transform, and inspire the Jewish community into collective action against racism, antisemitism, and white supremacy.