Overview
- Open Society Foundations announced Wednesday a three-year, $30 million plan, naming initial grantees and inviting more groups to apply.
- The money will support interfaith partnerships, safety for communities under threat, education on bias, leadership development, and protections for lawful speech.
- Early recipients include the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Jewish Social Justice Roundtable, the Nexus Project, Shoulder to Shoulder, and Bend the Arc.
- Several grantees back definitions that do not label criticism of Israeli government policy as antisemitic, and Nexus plans a new research center led by a former Anti-Defamation League analyst.
- The initiative channels funds toward progressive networks outside the legacy Jewish establishment, a shift that outlets note could influence campus and donor debates over how antisemitism is defined and tracked.