Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groundswell Community Mural Project | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For school year and summer programs that engage youth from underserved communities in public mural making as a means of social change while developing their leadership and creative skills. | Boroughwide |
| First Tech Fund, Inc | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs to close the digital divide for low-income high schoolers by providing access to technology, career and college guidance, and engaging youth as part of an advisory board. Students receive free laptops and internet access, targeted advising and networking, and mentorship from industry-specific professionals. | Boroughwide |
| Footsteps | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth transitioning into mainstream society with resources, leadership development, and peer connections | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
| Global Kids | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | After-school programming that aims to increase exposure to local and international human rights and social justice issues. | Boroughwide |
| EcoStation:NY | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the Bushwick-based urban farming and food justice organization which provides educational and mentorship programs for high school students at the Bushwick Educational Campus. | Bushwick |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support counseling, life skills courses, and after-school arts-based activities for youth living in secure and non-secure detention facilities. | Boroughwide |
| Girl Be Heard | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For multidisciplinary arts opportunities designed to engage young women in social justice education and develop their leadership skills | Boroughwide |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A youth organizing group that seeks to address racial and educational injustice through a campaign to implement restorative justice practices at a local high school campus. | Cypress Hills |
| JustLeadership USA | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Campaign to #CloseRikers, a comprehensive multiyear effort to close Rikers Island, which includes the immediate removal of all 16 and 17-year-olds. | Boroughwide |
| El Puente | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize communities of color to fight gentrification through youth-led community campaigns and initiatives focused on environmental justice, climate change, community safety, and racial/cultural equity in education, the arts, and wellness. | Williamsburg |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the creative, educational, and vocational development of Black and Caribbean youth in Central Brooklyn. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| Resilience Advocacy Project | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide leadership development programs, legal education, and peer-to-peer trainings for youth of color, particularly those living in ACS care or detention, focused on advocating for community change | Boroughwide |
| Urban Youth Collaborative | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a coalition focused on the advancement of school discipline reform through legislation aimed at reducing racial disparities and significantly limiting the use of suspensions. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For comprehensive anti-violence, empowerment, and leadership programming for young people, including the expansion of services for LGBTQ homeless youth and service providers. | Boroughwide |
| CAMBA | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Brownsville In, Violence Out, a community-based youth development and gun-violence reduction program. | Brownsville |
| Correctional Association of New York | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the implementation monitoring supports for the newly passed “Raise the Age” law taking minors off Rikers Island, as well as support for Safe Passages, a leadership development and peer support program for system-involved LGBTQIA young people of color, and the Youth Speakers Institute, a media training and advocacy program for system-impacted youth | Citywide |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs that serve Haitian immigrant youth to develop their capacity as productive community members, and understand their collective power to fight for their right to quality education, ensuring long-term access to other resources for a better life outcome. | Boroughwide |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the hospital-based violence interruption program and in-school and community-based discussion groups and workshops. | East New York, Brownsville, Flatbush |
| Sanctuary for Families | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a peer support group and workforce development for Ultra-Orthodox young women who have been rejected by their families due to histories of abuse, addiction, sex trafficking, and other forms of gendered violence. | Citywide |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2018 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For comprehensive free legal representation to court-involved youth with a focus on school discipline and reentry, special education placements, alternative pathways to graduation, alternatives to incarceration, and counseling. | Boroughwide |
| ARTs East New York | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Public Art Apprenticeship Program and Young Artist Institute for young people interested in the arts as a tool for social change. | East New York |
| United Community Centers | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the operation and management of one of the city’s largest youth-led farms as well as a sexual health-focused peer education program. | East New York |
| S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth leadership and development programs for systems-involved girls and young women in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Girl Be Heard | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Multidisciplinary arts opportunities designed to engage young women in social justice education and develop their leadership skills. | Boroughwide |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the establishment of a Youth ReEntry Network hub office in Downtown Brooklyn to provide educational, social service, and workforce development supports for young people transitioning out of incarceration. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Family Life | 2015 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for this innovative partnership with Sunset Park High School which engages largely immigrant youth, their families and educators in creating and implementing supports for academic success and college access and retention. | Sunset Park |
| Osborne Association | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs for children of incarcerated parents as well as a council that engages young people impacted by incarceration to develop campaigns around issues affecting their lives and communities. | Boroughwide |
| H.O.L.L.A (How Our Lives Link Altogether) | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a social justice education, leadership, and organizing program for low income youth of color focused on trauma recovery and healing. | Boroughwide |
| Health and Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT) Program | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support developmentally and culturally competent wraparound services for LGBTQ+ youth of color, centering clients in all decisions about their treatment and care plans, with services spanning STI and HIV prevention and treatment (including PEP and PreP), hormone therapy for trans and gender non-conforming youth, and mental healthcare. | Boroughwide |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide job readiness and leadership training, part-time employment, academic support, and services to assist young people toward graduation, college, and career | Red Hook |
| Resilience Advocacy Project | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Provide leadership development programs, legal education, and peer-to-peer trainings for youth of color, particularly those living in ACS care or detention, focused on advocating for community change. | Boroughwide |
| Footsteps | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Youth Empowerment Program to help ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn youth access resources to assist them in their journeys beyond their communities, develop leadership skills, and connect with one another. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush |
| Center for Nu Leadership | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that divert neighborhood youth from arrest proceedings by developing pre-arrest diversion options for law-officers. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Girls for Gender Equity: | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by LGBTQ youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism | Boroughwide |
| Teachers Unite | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Members' work with students and teachers to lead the shift from punitive to transformative justice in NYC public schools. | Brownsville, East New York, Bushwick, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, East Williamsburg, Sunset Park |