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The Foundation is no longer accepting applications for the 2011 docket.  Please check back with this site in February 2012.

As with his profits from Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg earmarked his profits from the film Munich to charity and designated $5 million over five years to establish a Fund for Coexistence.

Launched in 2006, the Fund supports co-existence efforts focused on the United States and the Middle East that leverage media and technology to help:

• Humanize the “other” by lending insight into another’s experience;
• Amplify the voices of those working towards common ground and understanding; and/or
• Bring people of different backgrounds together around a shared purpose and over a sustained period of time. 

This fund has supported a diverse range of projects such as a television series that exposes children to the ethnic, religious and cultural diversity within Israeli society, a workshop that brings together Arab and Jewish youth from Jerusalem to explore film, filmmaking, and personal identity, and a U.S. based effort that uses media to engage young Christian, Jewish, and Muslim youth around community service.

For more information about the Foundation’s coexistence funding, please see Featured Coexistence Grants and Coexistence Archive.