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Education and Youth Achievement Fund

The Reconstruction Period

Description:
Support of The Stoop, a program that provides students with access to successful professionals with potential internships in competitive fields on a weekly basis through workshops.

Grant Amount: $500

Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide

Population Served: Court Involved Youth

Population Served: Developmentally Disabled

Population Served: Educators and Teachers

Population Served: Youth

Ages Served: Middle School Students

Ages Served: High School Students

Ages Served: Youth (12-18)

Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Successful and Victorious Youth

Description:
S.A.V.Y is all about impacting the lives of girls through positive non traditional technology based approaches (e-mail journal writings, and online dialogues) that enables and prepares them to mature morally, emotionally, socially and cognitively.

Grant Amount: $500

Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide

Population Served: Youth

Ages Served: Youth (12-18)

Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Girl Scouts Council of Greater New York, Inc.

Description:
Support for the Brooklyn School Break Programs which serves 1,850 children and young women.

Grant Amount: $20,000

Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide

Population Served: Children

Population Served: Youth

Ages Served: Children (5-12)

Ages Served: Youth (12-18)

Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

iMentor

Description:
Support for 36 mentees at Catherine McAuley High School (CMHS) during the 2009-10 school year. This grant would continue to help them connect underserved young women at CMHS with mentors. All graduationg seniors are college bound.

Grant Amount: $20,000

Neighborhoods Served: Bensonhurst

Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights

Neighborhoods Served: Downtown

Neighborhoods Served: East Flatbush

Neighborhoods Served: Prospect Heights

Population Served: Youth

Ages Served: High School Students

Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Sadie Nash Leadership Project

Description:
Support for an intensive 2 year leadership program for 125 low income young women of Brooklyn. Women take college courses, participate in a year long internship and implement a final community action project in their neighborhood.

Grant Amount: $25,000

Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide

Population Served: Immigrants, Newcomers, Refugees

Population Served: Youth

Ages Served: High School Students

Ages Served: Youth (12-18)

Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)

Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Make the Road New York

Description:
Support for Education for Justice Initiative. It provides individual and group civics and organizing skill training to thousands, ESOL and computer training to thousands and after-school and college preparation to hundreds of young people each year.

Grant Amount: $25,000

Neighborhoods Served: Bushwick

Neighborhoods Served: East New York

Neighborhoods Served: Williamsburg

Population Served: Immigrants, Newcomers, Refugees

Population Served: Youth

Population Served: Adults

Ages Served: Youth (12-18)

Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)

Ages Served: Adults (24-65)

Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Groundwork, Inc.

Description:
Support to hire a managing director for the ENY/Canarsie campus. This grant will allow them to expand their program and serve children attending PS 260. And, $10K for Summer Matters program.

Grant Amount: $35,000

Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant

Neighborhoods Served: East New York

Population Served: NYCHA Resident

Population Served: Youth

Population Served: Adults

Ages Served: Infant/Children (0-5)

Ages Served: Children (5-12)

Ages Served: Youth (12-18)

Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)

Ages Served: Adults (24-65)

Ages Served: Aging, Elderly, Senior Citizens (65+)

Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Stoked Mentoring

Description:
Support for the 2010 mentoring programs in Brooklyn. Stoked combines mentoring, after-school programs, and life skills workshops within the framework of action sports culture to make at-risk youth better prepared for life and work.

Grant Amount: $10,000

Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide

Population Served: Youth

Population Served: Adults

Ages Served: High School Students

Ages Served: Adults (24-65)

Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Coro New York Leadership Center

Description:
Support for Exploring Leadership; a civic leadership program for low income, Brooklyn public high school students. The program is a model for how civic education can lead to more engaged and economically self-sufficient youth.

Grant Amount: $10,000

Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant

Neighborhoods Served: Bushwick

Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights

Population Served: Educators and Teachers

Population Served: Youth

Ages Served: High School Students

Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Foundation Receives First Annual "Petticoat" Award

June 18, 2010

Brooklyn Community Foundation was recently honored with the Sadie Nash Leadership Project's first annual Petticoat Award for leadership in nurturing Sadie Nash’s program for young women.