Community Fund Grants
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Organization |
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Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
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Make the Road New York | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For immigrant youth-led organizing programs focused on the school-to-prison pipeline, community schools, and greater police accountability and transparency. | Bushwick |
Day One New York | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual supportive services and emergency services to Brooklyn-based survivors of domestic violence and dating abuse, as well as online resources, training, and tools to students and teachers to address spiking rates of tech-based abuse and harm within households. | Boroughwide |
Worker's Justice Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support and protect day laborers and domestic workers, including providing direct cash assistance and personal protective equipment. | Boroughwide |
People in Need | 2020 | $8,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a mutual aid network led by and serving low-income, immigrant families in Kensington, including a food pantry operating out of a restaurant on Coney Island Avenue. | Kensington |
LiveOn NY | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support advocacy efforts to bridge crisis-level issues between nonprofit services providers and government officials on behalf of older New Yorkers in need. | Boroughwide |
City Limits, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support reporting coverage on the health, economic, social, and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the hardest hit neighborhoods in New York City. | Citywide |
Community Options New York Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support in-home and resident-based care for persons with disabilities, including enhanced measures to reduce the spread of disease, training for essential workers, staff reimbursements, and the purchase of cleaning supplies. | 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 |
Equality Labs | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide South Asian specific public health materials on Coronavirus in 10 languages, digital security for South Asian-serving CBOs, and a blueprint for how to set up Mutual Aid networks. | Boroughwide |
The Alex House Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual programming and support for vulnerable expecting young mothers and young parents. | 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 |
Freedom to Thrive | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support a network of national and local immigrant rights groups organizing to end punishment-based criminal and immigration systems. | Boroughwide |
Kings Bay Y | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide services and support to vulnerable populations in southern Brooklyn, including emergency food delivery for older adults and remote wellness checks for members. | Boroughwide |
Drive Change | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide training and first job experience for formerly incarcerated and court-involved young people through a nonprofit food truck. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick |
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | RAPP organizes older adults both in prison and in the community to bring systemic change to the parole process, advocating for fair and timely parole and an end to death by incarceration, so that they can positively influence the Brooklyn communities they once harmed. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Boroughwide, Citywide |
East New York Church of God of Prophecy | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a soup kitchen and food pantry providing hot meals, food staples and fresh groceries to the residents of East New York, Spring Creek, Starrett City, and New Lots. | East New York, Spring Creek, Starrett City, New Lots |
Made in Brownsville | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide cash assistance for program alumni and creatives in East Brooklyn, particularly those in shelters and other vulnerable populations. | Boroughwide |
New York State Youth Leadership Council | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support undocumented immigration you-led organization around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights |
Diaspora Community Services | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide food and food vouchers to vulnerable clients including older adults, young mothers, and LGBTQIA youth. | Boroughwide |
Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To create a centralized free online source of validated, accurate, culturally competent, and up-to-date information and resources on COVID-19 for a network of 70 CBOs focused on addressing the social determinants of health. | Flatbush, East Flatbush |
Refoundry | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the Mask Makers Project, which provides people who are formerly incarcerated with the tools and supplies to sew washable and adjustable fabric masks for people incarcerated at Rikers Island. | Boroughwide |
Friends of Island Academy | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support the immediate needs of its young people during the crisis, including 45 Brooklyn-based youth currently in custody at Rikers Island’s Horizon Juvenile Center. | Boroughwide |
Elite Learners, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To purchase and deliver emergency food for youth and their families in Brownsville and East Flatbush. | Brownsville, East Flatbush |
Girls for Gender Equity | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide stipends to its youth members, including funds for food, phone and internet, support for remote learning and other emerging challenges, and convening over 100 youth service providers weekly to coordinate resources and strategies. | Boroughwide |
Audre Lorde Project | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth-led programs and advocacy for LGBTQIA people of color that build leadership and organizing skills, reduce surveillance policing, and promote safer communities. | Boroughwide |
Jewish Community Council of Canarsie, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the distribution of personal care packages, nutrient-dense foods, and fresh produce, as well as case management and outreach to families throughout Starrett City and a Southern portion of East New York. | Starrett City, East New York |
Volunteers of Legal Services (VOLS) | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To maintain critical legal services for Brooklyn clients and to launch emergency response efforts, including securing economic relief for unemployed workers and small businesses. | Boroughwide |
IntegrateNYC | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the leadership and capacity of students working to end segregation in New York City public schools. | Boroughwide |
New Sanctuary Coalition | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide pro se immigration clinic, volunteer accompaniment for ICE check-ins, anti-detention work, and community organizing and advocacy. | Boroughwide |
HousingPlus | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide comprehensive support for women and children transitioning out of homelessness living in the organization’s transitional buildings in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
exalt | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To counteract the school-to-prison pipeline by elevating expectations of personal success for court-involved youth through job skills courses, individualized support, paid internships, and alumni network. | Boroughwide |
The Osborne Association | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | The Osborne Association provides case management services for formerly incarcerated older adults and families of those currently imprisoned, advocates for sentencing and parole reforms, and trains older adults to use their experience in the justice system to become outspoken voices for change. | Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Brownsville, Boroughwide |
Food Issues Group | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the Frontline Community Food Relief initiative that matches independent food businesses with grassroots organizations to provide emergency meal distribution to LGBTQIA+ youths, immigrant food workers, domestic workers, and people experiencing housing insecurity. | Boroughwide |
New York Cares, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To expand its Brooklyn programs focusing on volunteer-led emergency food distribution and wellness checks for low-income, isolated seniors and individuals with disabilities. | Boroughwide |
Safe Passage Project | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For free legal services and representation to meet the unmet needs of immigrant and undocumented children in partnership with community high schools. | Boroughwide |