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The Forest Park Trust, Inc.

Description:
Support for Highland Park Summer 2010 Youth Enrichment Program. The program will take place in the Brooklyn portion of the park and include free summer sports clinics, park festivals and the Junior Garden Club.
Grant Amount: $5,000
Neighborhoods Served: East New York
Neighborhoods Served: Highland Park
Population Served: Children
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Green Communities Fund

Good Shepherds Community Garden

Description:
General operating support for community garden.
Grant Amount: $500
Neighborhoods Served: East New York
Population Served: Families
Population Served: Children
Population Served: Adults
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

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

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

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.
Grant Amount: $5,000
Neighborhoods Served: Cypress Hills
Neighborhoods Served: East New York
Population Served: Immigrants, Newcomers, Refugees
Population Served: Children
Ages Served: Elementary School Students
Ages Served: Middle School Students
Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

SCO Family of Services

Description:
Support for an early childhood programming in 3 high need Brooklyn communities. SCO offers the Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP), a home-based early literacy program, and the agency-developed parent and child playgroup, Baby & Me.
Grant Amount: $20,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Brownsville
Neighborhoods Served: East New York
Population Served: Families
Population Served: Children
Ages Served: Infant/Children (0-5)
Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Agenda for Children Tomorrow, Bushwick IMPACT

Description:
Support for the Early Childhood Program which targets families with children birth - age three who are at risk of educational failure. The Program promotes engaged and responsive parenting, family literacy and early learning through five key activities.
Grant Amount: $10,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Bushwick
Neighborhoods Served: East New York
Population Served: Families
Population Served: Immigrants, Newcomers, Refugees
Population Served: Children
Ages Served: Infant/Children (0-5)
Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

Exalt Youth

Description:
Support for innovative youth internship program which will serves 165 court-involved New York City youth, ages 15-19
Grant Amount: $10,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: East New York
Neighborhoods Served: Flatbush
Population Served: Court Involved Youth
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

Settlement Housing Fund, Inc.

Description:
Support for the relocation and continued operation of the DREAMS program; a pre GED/GED and job training program targeting disconnected youth. BCF seeded the program on Gates Avenue in 2007. New location in Crown Hts.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
Neighborhoods Served: East New York
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)
Fund: Education and Youth Achievement Fund

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