Brooklyn Community Foundation and our fellow GoVoteNYC funder collaborative members are proud to announce $475,000 in grants for nonpartisan get-out-the-vote activities to the following nine nonprofits: 

• The Asian American Federation

• Center for Law & Social Justice at Medgar Evers College

• El Puente

• Faith in New York

• Hispanic Federation

• MinKwon Center for Community Action

• New York Civic Engagement Table

• New York Immigration Coalition

• United Neighborhood Houses

This marks the third year of grants by the GoVoteNYC funder collaborative, which we joined earlier this year. GoVoteNYC’s investments have produced tangible, concrete change in New Yorkers’ voter engagement: In 2021, BIPOC voters canvassed by GoVoteNYC grantees voted at almost double the rate (increasing from 20% to 37%) of BIPOC voters who were not contacted. Together, we have been able to increase voter turnout across all five NYC boroughs.

This year’s grant awards build on an evaluation of the first two years of grantmaking by the funder collaborative showing success in increasing voter turnout through local nonprofits using relational voter outreach, which are methods emphasizing conversations and other types of one-to-one engagement with friends, family, colleagues, members, and clients.