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Manhattan New Music Project

Description:
Arts in ed / professional development programs serving special needs students in 5 District 75 Bklyn schools. Thru teacher trainings and in-school support, MNMP helps teachers use the arts as a way to improve students' academic & socialization skills.
Grant Amount: $10,000
Neighborhoods Served: Borough Park
Neighborhoods Served: Coney Island
Neighborhoods Served: Gowanus
Population Served: Developmentally Disabled
Population Served: Educators and Teachers
Population Served: Youth
Ages Served: Elementary School Students
Ages Served: Middle School Students
Ages Served: High School Students
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

GALLOPNYC

Description:
We request support to provide subsidies to special-needs children of limited financial means. Reaching low-income riders has been a priority for GALLOPNYC since the beginning, and we have the most substantial subsidy program in the New York City area.
Grant Amount: $5,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Developmentally Disabled
Population Served: Physically Disabled
Population Served: Children
Ages Served: Children (5-12)
Ages Served: Youth (12-18)
Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, Inc.

Description:
Coordination of Bklyn Linkage to Care Coaltion of nonprofit and govt service providers, academics and researchers to identify hidden HIV populations and link them to ongoing care. BLCC is also creating a major HIV Strategic Plan for Brooklyn.
Grant Amount: $15,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Alcohol, Drug, Substance Abusers
Population Served: Homeless
Population Served: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgendered
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

Brooklyn Defender Services

Description:
Support for the Immigrant Justice Initiative; a program to advocate for immigrant clients placement into community based services, defend against deportation, and help them remain with their U.S. families.
Grant Amount: $15,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Domestic Violence Survivors
Population Served: Ex Offenders
Population Served: Immigrants, Newcomers, Refugees
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

Neighbors Together Corp.

Description:
General operating support for Brownsville-based soup kitchen that seeks to empower its members to become vital actors in its ongoing work to end hunger and poverty.
Grant Amount: $20,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Brownsville
Neighborhoods Served: Ocean Hill
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: Adults (24-65)
Ages Served: Aging, Elderly, Senior Citizens (65+)
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

Reaching-Out Community Services, Inc.

Description:
Support for Dyker Heights-based food pantry's parttime grant writer and Volunteer coordinator. Funds will also supplement organization's general operating expense needs, which have been increasing along with demand.
Grant Amount: $15,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bensonhurst
Neighborhoods Served: Dyker Heights
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

Myrtle Avenue Commercial Revitalization and Development Project Local Development Corporation

Description:
Support for the Myrtle Avenue - Healthy Food For All Initiative, which aims to create community-based solutions to the problem of food insecurity and lack of access to healthy, affordable food for public housing residents in Fort Greene.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Clinton Hill
Neighborhoods Served: Downtown
Neighborhoods Served: Fort Greene
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

Vera Institute of Justice - Common Justice project

Description:
Support for Common Justice; an innovative alternative to incarceration model that targets victims and perpertrators of violent crimes. Program engages younger adults (ages 16-24) facing at least one year in prison.
Grant Amount: $15,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Court Involved Youth
Population Served: Currently Incarcerated
Population Served: Ex Offenders
Population Served: Immigrants, Newcomers, Refugees
Population Served: Youth
Population Served: Adults
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

Guardians of the Sick

Description:
Medical Relief Program (financial assistance for direct medical costs) and Camp Scholarships for at-risk youth from this Boro Park organization providing staff and volunteer services addressing human service needs of families in crisis.
Grant Amount: $10,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bay Ridge
Neighborhoods Served: Bensonhurst
Neighborhoods Served: Borough Park
Neighborhoods Served: Coney Island
Neighborhoods Served: Flatbush
Neighborhoods Served: Kensington
Neighborhoods Served: Williamsburg
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

bedstuy campaign against hunger

Description:
General support for Bedford Stuyvesant food pantry, one of Brooklyn's largest, to provide food, benefits access, referrals, and innovative intergenerational programming around a three on-site garden plots that provide clients with fresh produce.
Grant Amount: $10,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

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Helping Build in Brooklyn

Habitat for Humanity is known throughout the world for recruiting volunteers to build homes for low-income people. However, this model faces challenges in an urban setting like Brooklyn, where open land is scarce and expensive. 

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