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Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Description:
Founded in 1994, the annual Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest is a borough-wide neighborhood greening and beautification project of GreenBridge, the community horticulture program of Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG).

Grant Amount: $5,000

Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide

Population Served: All Populations

Ages Served: All Ages

Fund: Green Communities Fund

Bay Ridge Food Coop

Description:
Support for potential new coop serving all residents in Bay Ridge. Funding will support their outreach and organizing efforts to build awareness about the food coop.

Grant Amount: $5,000

Neighborhoods Served: Bay Ridge

Neighborhoods Served: Bensonhurst

Neighborhoods Served: Sunset Park

Population Served: All Populations

Ages Served: All Ages

Fund: Green Communities Fund

Hands and Heart Garden

Description:
Support to create children's garden where kids create their own memories of gardening.

Grant Amount: $500

Neighborhoods Served: East New York

Population Served: Children of Incarcerated Parents

Population Served: Educators and Teachers

Population Served: Families

Population Served: Children

Population Served: Youth

Population Served: Adults

Ages Served: Preschool Students

Ages Served: Elementary School Students

Ages Served: Middle School Students

Ages Served: High School Students

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: Green Communities Fund

Brooklyn Food Coalition

Description:
Support to hire a full time coordinator (currently part time) to support 10 neighborhood groups and outreach to 5 new neighborhood groups. Goal is to increase knowledge about and access to fresh and affordable food.

Grant Amount: $10,000

Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide

Population Served: All Populations

Ages Served: All Ages

Fund: Green Communities Fund

Green Guerillas

Description:
Support for Harvest for Neighborhoods Campaign - a campaign to strengthen food-growing community gardens, increase the harvest in central Brooklyn, and bring garden leaders together.

Grant Amount: $10,000

Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant

Neighborhoods Served: Bushwick

Neighborhoods Served: East New York

Population Served: All Populations

Ages Served: All Ages

Fund: Green Communities Fund

Just Food

Description:
Operating support to create of 4-6 new CSA's, to support 5 new EFP who will provide fresh produce to over 8,500 people, to support 5 community farmers markets, and to educate residents about healthy cooking habits.

Grant Amount: $20,000

Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide

Population Served: All Populations

Ages Served: All Ages

Fund: Green Communities Fund

Added Value

Description:
Operating grant to support the growth of a new generation of young leaders, to expand the Youth Empowerment Program and to pilot new projects in the Farm-Based Learning Program, which will ultimately serve 1,500 children in 2010.

Grant Amount: $35,000

Neighborhoods Served: Carroll Gardens

Neighborhoods Served: Gowanus

Neighborhoods Served: Red Hook

Population Served: All Populations

Ages Served: All Ages

Fund: Green Communities Fund

Prospect Park Alliance

Description:
Opeating grant to support the restoration, maintenance, and operations of Prospect Park, including environmental education programs, youth employment programs, and the care and restoration of the Park's natural environment.

Grant Amount: $15,000

Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide

Population Served: All Populations

Ages Served: All Ages

Fund: Green Communities Fund

United Community Centers

Description:
Support for an internship program for youth ages 13-18 since 2000. ENY Farms engage 24 youth each year in an intensive, 9-month internship program in which the youth learn leadership development through operating urban gardens and farmers markets.

Grant Amount: $35,000

Neighborhoods Served: Brownsville

Neighborhoods Served: Canarsie

Neighborhoods Served: East New York

Population Served: All Populations

Ages Served: All Ages

Fund: Green Communities Fund