Community Fund Grants
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Organization |
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Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
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JustLeadershipUSA | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To empower court-involved youth to drive policy reforms, including the campaign to #CloseRikers, a comprehensive multiyear effort to close Rikers Island Detention Facility. | Boroughwide |
CABS Home Attendants Service | 2019 | $40,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Boroughwide |
Nurun Foundation | 2019 | $5,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support computer/ESL classes, civic engagement, and community outreach for Bangladeshi immigrant communities in Brooklyn | Cypress Hills, East New York |
FUREE | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
Truthworker Theater Company | 2019 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a theater program that uses first person narratives to bring the stories of young people impacted by incarceration to the forefront and drive awareness of the need for policy reform. | Boroughwide |
Lineage Project | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For mindfulness and yoga programs for incarcerated and highly-vulnerable young people, including those in living in secure and non-secure detention facilities, as well as a Brooklyn-based program for young people on probation. | Boroughwide |
University Settlement Society of New York | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Clinton Hill, East Flatbush, East New York, Fort Greene, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace |
New Sanctuary Coalition | 2019 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For person-to-person support to hundreds of immigrants facing detention and deportation. This includes staffing a pro se legal clinic; maintaining a bond fund to free immigrants being held in in private, for-profit, overcrowded detention centers; and expanding its community-based, citywide “Sanctuary Hood” program to organize safe spaces for immigrants at more than 100 churches, and countless businesses and homes. | Boroughwide |
Global Action Project | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For an intersectional youth organizing and activism program that uses media and storytelling to help young people, specifically immigrant and LGBTQ youth, advocate for themselves and their communities. | Boroughwide |
United Community Centers | 2019 | $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 |
Osborne Association | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
RiseBoro Community Partnership | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Boroughwide |
Families for Freedom | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For work to fight against laws that have made misdemeanors "aggravated felonies" and introduced mandatory detention and deportation | Boroughwide |
Global Kids | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For after-school programming that aims to increase exposure to local and international human rights and social justice issues. | Boroughwide |
UPROSE | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For community organizing, public education, and leadership programs for youth that advance environmental sustainability and resiliency. | Sunset Park, South Slope, Gowanus |
S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2019 | $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 |
Southside United H.D.F.C | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
UnLocal | 2019 | $5,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | For a collaboration with fellow IRF grantees Queer Detainee Empowerment Project, BAJI, DRUM, and Make the Road New York for a convening on efforts to abolish immigrant detention centers in New York state | Boroughwide |
Girl Be Heard | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
viBe Theater Experience | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programming that engages girls and young women of color to write, create, publish, direct, and perform personal collaborative theater and music. | Boroughwide |
Young New Yorkers | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide court-mandated arts diversion programs for youth that engage them in social justice issues through the creation of large-scale public art projects. | Boroughwide |
Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project LDC | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill |
New York Immigration Coalition | 2019 | $5,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | For a re-printing of the organization's Know Your Rights cards, supplies of which were completely depleted in the lead up to recent ICE raids | Boroughwide |
Girls for Gender Equity | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by LGBTQIA youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
Youth Advocacy Corps | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support YAC’s core youth advocacy programs: the Youth Advocacy Summer Institute and Mental Health Awareness Project. | Boroughwide, East New York |
Youth Represent | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support direct legal representation and workshops for system-involved youth who face employment discrimination, school suspension, summonses, and other criminal and civil legal issues. | Boroughwide |
Ellery Court Senior HDFC | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Bushwick |
Alex House Project | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide pregnancy and parenting groups for teens and other young, low-income, first time mothers and fathers in Red Hook. | Red Hook |
Green City Force | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a service and training program that aims to create ladders to careers in the green economy for NYCHA youth, focused on development of two urban farms. | Red Hook, Brownsville |
BRIC Arts Media | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the enrollment of court-involved youth in the Project Re-Direct media apprenticeship program, a pilot alternative-to-incarceration initiative with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. | Boroughwide |
Arab American Association of New York | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership fellowship for Arab and Muslim youth that provides resources and tools to address advocacy issues including immigration, police accountability, and racial justice. | Boroughwide, Bay Ridge |
St. Nicks Alliance | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
The Ali Forney Center | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Youth Advocacy Internship Program for homeless LGBTQIA youth of color. | Citywide |
Groundswell Community Mural Project | 2019 | $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 |
Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide off-ramps for young people who come into contact with the justice system, including educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |