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.
BrooklynCommunityFoundation
Education and Youth Achievement Fund
Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, Inc.
Description:
Support for innovative arts and culture program serving over 300 youth. Funding will allow them to expand from 10 to 15 schools and they will implement a database to track outcomes.
Support for innovative arts and culture program serving over 300 youth. Funding will allow them to expand from 10 to 15 schools and they will implement a database to track outcomes.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
East Flatbush
Flatbush
Population Served: Families
Children
Youth
Ages Served: Children (5-12)
Youth (12-18)
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (24-65)
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls
Description:
Support for a year-round youth leadership and music education programming for Brooklyn youth, including the launch of expanded programs at the Willie Mae Music Lab, a new home for arts education in Brooklyn, and their summer camp.
Support for a year-round youth leadership and music education programming for Brooklyn youth, including the launch of expanded programs at the Willie Mae Music Lab, a new home for arts education in Brooklyn, and their summer camp.
Grant Amount: $15,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Children of Incarcerated Parents
Youth
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgendered
Ages Served: Children (5-12)
Youth (12-18)
Dance Theatre Etcetera
Description:
Support for the Youth Engagement Through the Arts program, which uses arts-based strategies to help chronically truant teens at three recently-opened public transfer high schools in Brooklyn stay in school and off the streets.
Support for the Youth Engagement Through the Arts program, which uses arts-based strategies to help chronically truant teens at three recently-opened public transfer high schools in Brooklyn stay in school and off the streets.
Grant Amount: $7,500
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Canarsie
Red Hook
Population Served: Youth
Adults
Ages Served: High School Students
Adults (24-65)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Description:
Support for education programming that interprets the richly textured history of Brooklyn and professional development workshops that instruct teachers in inquiry-based learning and how to use BHS materials in classroom-based activities.
Support for education programming that interprets the richly textured history of Brooklyn and professional development workshops that instruct teachers in inquiry-based learning and how to use BHS materials in classroom-based activities.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Developmentally Disabled
Educators and Teachers
Children
Youth
Adults
Ages Served: Children (5-12)
Youth (12-18)
Young Adults (18-24)
Quest Youth Organization, Inc.
Description:
Support to purchase musical equipment. The Youth Jazz Connection project provides a direct correlation between school-age generations and the study of the history of jazz music. The study of Jazz and instrumental music positively benefits educational institutions and music programs alike.
Support to purchase musical equipment. The Youth Jazz Connection project provides a direct correlation between school-age generations and the study of the history of jazz music. The study of Jazz and instrumental music positively benefits educational institutions and music programs alike.
Grant Amount: $500
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Population Served: Youth
Ages Served: Middle School Students
High School Students
Cypress Hills Community School/PS89
Description:
Support for school's collaboration with the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and the implementation of a comprehensive after school band program for grades 3 through 8.
Support for school's collaboration with the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and the implementation of a comprehensive after school band program for grades 3 through 8.
Grant Amount: $5,000
Neighborhoods Served: Cypress Hills
East New York
Population Served: Immigrants, Newcomers, Refugees
Children
Ages Served: Elementary School Students
Middle School Students
Brooklyn Museum Community Committee
Description:
Support of the museum's Women in the Arts Program. Proceeds go to support the Museum's educational programs.
Support of the museum's Women in the Arts Program. Proceeds go to support the Museum's educational programs.
Grant Amount: $500
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: All Ages
MS 51 Instrumental Music
Description:
Challenge grant to school's PA to raise additional funds for new / repaired instrument for the school's new but quite accomplished band program serving over 180 students.
Challenge grant to school's PA to raise additional funds for new / repaired instrument for the school's new but quite accomplished band program serving over 180 students.
Grant Amount: $5,000
Neighborhoods Served: Carroll Gardens
Park Slope
Sunset Park
Population Served: Developmentally Disabled
Educators and Teachers
Children
Ages Served: Middle School Students
Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens
Description:
Support for CC Early Child Care services: Head Start, UPK, Family HS, day care & teacher training. ECS serves 1312 Brooklyn children. BCF funds will be used for extensive and comprehensive Montessori training for preschool teachers.
Support for CC Early Child Care services: Head Start, UPK, Family HS, day care & teacher training. ECS serves 1312 Brooklyn children. BCF funds will be used for extensive and comprehensive Montessori training for preschool teachers.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Children
Ages Served: Preschool Students
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society
Description:
To support BKS in accelerating the development of children's language, literacy, and cognitive skills by enhancing classroom environments, providing training to teachers and administrators and supporting parents.
To support BKS in accelerating the development of children's language, literacy, and cognitive skills by enhancing classroom environments, providing training to teachers and administrators and supporting parents.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Brownsville
Crown Heights
Population Served: Families
Children
Ages Served: Preschool Students
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