Meet Our Israel and Gaza Relief and Recovery Fund Grantee Partners

The CDP Israel and Gaza Relief and Recovery Fund provides strategic immediate and long-term recovery support to people disproportionately affected by the region’s humanitarian crisis.

A wall at Netiv HaAsara facing the Gaza border reads the words “Path to Peace” in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Photo by Cole Keister on Unsplash

Anera received $400,000 to address public health risks in Gaza’s informal displacement camps, where 85% of water and sanitation infrastructure has been destroyed, by implementing a comprehensive cleaning, sterilization and solid-waste management campaign. Activities include disinfecting shelters and communal spaces, safely collecting waste, and delivering hygiene-promotion sessions for vulnerable groups, such as children and the elderly. The project will employ displaced community members as cleaners, hygiene promoters and field monitors, providing critical income while restoring sanitary living conditions through community-informed planning.

Ground Truth Solutions received $99,997 to collect self-prioritized community data on needs and perceptions, elevate community voice and agency, and ensure that humanitarian response and resilience program planning, implementation, monitoring, advocacy and funding decisions are informed by the views, priorities and perceptions of the conflict-affected people in Gaza. This project was funded because of the importance of capturing independent, first-hand evidence and a holistic snapshot of the situation, needs, perceptions and priorities directly from the community. When needs are so immense and difficult decisions on prioritization must be taken, independent findings are critical to help ensure the limited funds available are prioritized and spent on programs that are informed and decided by the affected communities.

IsraAID received $200,000 to establish and operate roving art therapy studios to serve southern Israeli communities severely affected by the devastating Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, many of whom are starting to return home after months of protracted displacement in temporary evacuation centers where they have been coping with grief, trauma, uncertainty and stress. IsraAID will provide safe spaces for people to express and process difficult emotions through creativity, and foster peer support networks geared toward intracommunal self-reliance, creating a foundation for vulnerable, grieving, crisis-affected communities to recover and start to rebuild their sense of safety, normalcy, hope and happiness.

IsraAID received an additional $400,000 in 2025 to strengthen conflict-affected communities in Israel and Gaza by providing psychosocial support for former hostages and their families and capacity strengthening for the organization “255 – Support for the Hostages and Their Families,” in Israel, and work through trusted local partners in Gaza to provide essential services and relief items for displaced and vulnerable populations in Gaza.

Norwegian Refugee Council, USA (NRC) received $250,000 to deliver education in emergencies and psychosocial support to young children, youth, teachers, parents and caregivers in Gaza and Syria as part of the Right to Wellbeing 2025 initiative. The intervention will leverage NRC’s signature classroom-based Better Learning Program, which rigorous research has proven is effective and has a tangible positive impact on children caught in crisis, giving them an improved chance and hope for recovery from protracted exposure to stress and trauma.

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) received an additional $400,000 in 2025 to implement the Gaza Learning Bridge: Transitioning Children Back to School and Community project. The program supports displacement- and conflict-affected children and youth by maintaining temporary learning spaces, providing education, psychosocial support and life-skills training. Through teacher capacity building, youth engagement and community participation, NRC helps restore learning continuity, emotional resilience and a sense of safety for Gaza’s most vulnerable learners.

New grantee partners will be posted as additional grant funds are awarded.