Giving Hope and Creating Futures
The Hope Program works with some of Brooklyn's most hard-to-serve clients: 55% are without a high school diploma, 58% are former addicts and 66% are in shelters.
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Caring Neighbors Fund
Doing Good Right Here: Brooklyn Grants Report 2010
June 16, 2011
Across Brooklyn, high school seniors are readying for an occasion that we hope they remember with a sense of pride for the rest of their lives: Commencement. It’s a day to reflect on the achievements of the past while kicking off the start of a new, exciting chapter.
Caring for Our Older Neighbors
November 11, 2011
November 11, 2011
With over 300,000 of our residents now over age 65, Brooklyn is home to a senior community rapidly on the rise—which means more of our neighbors will be facing the challenges of aging in a time when government funding for programs and services is increasingly unsteady.
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Final Round of Grants for 2011; Year’s Giving Totals $4.5 Million to Brooklyn’s Nonprofit Community
December 14, 2011
The Brooklyn Community Foundation has announced 37 new grants to Brooklyn-serving nonprofits totaling $668,000, bringing its 2011 giving to $4.5 million to Brooklyn’s nonprofit community.
Time Warner Cable Presents Gift to Brooklyn Community Foundation to Boost Services for Seniors
November 7, 2011
This morning at the New York Memory Center in Park Slope, Time Warner Cable’s Regional Vice President of Government Relations Rory Whelan presented Brooklyn Community Foundation President Marilyn Gelber with a check for $10,000 directed toward the charitable organization’s Caring Neighbors Fund.
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island
A Transformational Difference in Lives of Seniors
The relationship between the Brooklyn Community Foundation and the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island began years ago, before the Community Foundation even had its name.
First Brooklyn Food Atlas Maps Local Eating Resources
October 1, 2011
A new Brooklyn Food Atlas, available in both paper copies and on-line (PDF download), provides the first-ever comprehensive sets of maps of food resources borough-wide in Brooklyn, showing the location of diverse resources including farmers’ markets, soup kitchens and food pantries, community gardens, food retailers, and food stamp
Brooklyn Community Foundation Sponsors First-Ever Bedford Stuyvesant Food and Family Day
September 15, 2011
Join the Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford-Stuyvesant (CIBS) in partnership with Council Member Albert Vann and the Brooklyn Community Foundation on Saturday, October 1, 2011 from 9:30am to 4pm at Restoration Plaza for an all day fun-filled educational event focusing on Bedford-Stuyvesant and healthy eating.
Doing Good in a Post 9-11 World
Date:
September 11, 2011 - 2:00pm
Location:
128 Pierrepont Street, First Floor On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Brooklyn Community Foundation is proud to present a discussion with author Julie Salamon about her book Rambam’s Ladder: A Meditation on Generosity and Why It is Necessary to Give.
Groundwork, Inc.
Description:
Renewal grant for Groundwork for Success; a 4 year comprehensive program providing intensive college preparation services, workforce and leadership development activities for 180 high school students.
Renewal grant for Groundwork for Success; a 4 year comprehensive program providing intensive college preparation services, workforce and leadership development activities for 180 high school students.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
East New York
Population Served: Children of Incarcerated Parents
NYCHA Resident
Youth
Ages Served: High School Students
Youth (12-18)
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
Green Guerillas
Description:
Two part grant: $20K operating grant (renewal) to support Harvest for Neighborhoods Campaign serving 90 gardens and $20K for the Brooklyn Community Garden Fund, a new program created to help garden groups improve their gardens and engage more people.
Two part grant: $20K operating grant (renewal) to support Harvest for Neighborhoods Campaign serving 90 gardens and $20K for the Brooklyn Community Garden Fund, a new program created to help garden groups improve their gardens and engage more people.
Grant Amount: $40,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Children
Youth
Adults
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
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