BrooklynCommunityFoundation

Crown Heights

Settlement Housing Fund, Inc.

Description:
Renewal grant to support 75 youth in a 2 year educational and vocational program. Participants enroll in a 10 month pre-GED and/or GED class and a Youth Build program: building and apartment renovations & maintenance. Also includes mental health services.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
Neighborhoods Served: East New York
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: Youth (12-18)
Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)
Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Pratt Area Community

Description:
Renewal grant to support economic development initiatives serving business owners on Fulton Street in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. PACC was instrumental in the creation of the BID and continues to solicit funding for capital improvements.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Clinton Hill
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
Population Served: Formerly Homeless
Population Served: Homeless
Population Served: Adults
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Lefferts Community Food Cooperative

Description:
Grant to support creation, production and printing of outreach materials. LCFC is one of a handful of burgeoning coops seeking to build membership. They will institute a buyers club by Fall 2011 to engage early members and raise awareness.
Grant Amount: $5,000
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
Neighborhoods Served: Flatbush
Neighborhoods Served: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Community Development Fund

Heights and Hills

Description:
Heights and Hills continues to build a sustainable fundraising program through the development of executable plans to retain current donors and to acquire new support. Grant funding will be used to help cover the costs of a fundraising professional.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
Neighborhoods Served: Fort Greene
Population Served: Families
Population Served: Adults
Ages Served: Aging, Elderly, Senior Citizens (65+)
Fund: Community Development Fund

iMentor

Description:
Renewal grant to support 38 students in 4 year mentoring relationships at Catherine McAuley High School. BCF provided seed funding to engage iMentor at this successful boarding school serving young women. All graduating students attend college.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bensonhurst
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
Neighborhoods Served: East Flatbush
Population Served: Youth
Ages Served: High School Students
Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)
Fund: Community Development Fund

Evidence Inc.

Description:
Evidence requests support for its annual Summer Dance Workshop Series at Medgar Evers College (MEC) Preparatory School and its dance education partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation's Youth Arts Academy in 2011.
Grant Amount: $5,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
Neighborhoods Served: Fort Greene
Population Served: Children
Population Served: Youth
Population Served: Adults
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

Diaspora Community Services

Description:
Funding will be used to strengthen the capacity of the Haitian American Empowerment Program by supporting an outreach staffer to provide mental health and counseling services to client population of low-income Haitian residents.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
Neighborhoods Served: East Flatbush
Neighborhoods Served: Flatbush
Population Served: Alcohol, Drug, Substance Abusers
Population Served: Domestic Violence Survivors
Population Served: Families
Population Served: Formerly Homeless
Population Served: Immigrants, Newcomers, Refugees
Population Served: Children
Population Served: Youth
Population Served: Adults
Ages Served: High School Students
Ages Served: Infant/Children (0-5)
Ages Served: Youth (12-18)
Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)
Ages Served: Adults (24-65)
Ages Served: Aging, Elderly, Senior Citizens (65+)
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund

Coro New York Leadership Center

Description:
Renewal grant for Exploring Leadership; a civic leadership program targeting 100 low income students at four public high schools. The program is a model for how civic education helps youth become agents of social change in their schools & community.
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: Caring Neighbors Fund

Brooklyn Workforce Innovations

Description:
General operating support for workforce development programs that help unemployed New Yorkers obtain skills training, certification and job placement, and that provide access to career ladders in important sectors of the city's economy.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
Neighborhoods Served: East Flatbush
Population Served: Alcohol, Drug, Substance Abusers
Population Served: Ex Offenders
Population Served: NYCHA Resident
Population Served: Adults
Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)
Ages Served: Adults (24-65)
Fund: Arts for All Fund

Brooklyn Kindergarten Society

Description:
Grant to support high-quality preschool educational program (Creative Curriculum) serving 300 children and their families. BKS operates 5 centers in NYCHA housing; 2 centers have National Association for the Education of Young Children accreditation.
Grant Amount: $20,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Brownsville
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
Population Served: Children
Ages Served: Preschool Students
Fund: Arts for All 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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