Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participatory Budgeting Project | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a pilot project to expand engagement and participatory budgeting in high-need Brooklyn public high schools in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights |
| Turning Point Brooklyn | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For social, educational, medical, and economic support services to low income, immigrant residents focused on building advocacy and leadership skills and establishing strong mentoring relationships | Sunset Park |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Creative, educational, and vocational development of Black and Caribbean youth in Central Brooklyn. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| Reconnect | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To connect youth to employment, entrepreneurship training, and access to college credit to help navigate systemic challenges that make it hard to find sustainable employment. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To develop the leadership and empowerment of the borough's Black immigrant youth and families in order to end racism, criminalization, and economic disenfranchisement. | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support community organizing, legal clinics, and language access for Black immigrants. | Boroughwide |
| Resilience Advocacy Project | 2018 | $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 |
| Council of Peoples Organization | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Join In, Find Out high school after-school program, which provides South Asian and Muslim immigrant and second generation students in Flatbush and Midwood with resources and support needed to address the pressures of family, assimilation, and education. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| JustLeadership USA | 2016 | $30,000 | 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 |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to prevent unnecessary pretrial detention based on poverty by paying bail for indigent Brooklyn youth and adults accused of misdemeanors, and providing and facilitating access to social and legal services for clients. | Boroughwide |
| Equality for Flatbush | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support anti-displacement campaigns, tenants rights and discriminatory policing in immigrant communities and communities of color. | Flatbush |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To develop the leadership and empowerment of the borough's Black immigrant youth and families in order to end racism, criminalization, and economic disenfranchisement | Boroughwide |
| Center for Court Innovation | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Brownsville Community Justice Center's Brownsville Leadership Project, which provides court-involved youth with educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership roles in the community and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |
| Documented | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide a dedicated source of constant and accurate reporting via various platforms on the immigration systems' impact on local communities. | Boroughwide |
| Families for Freedom | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support organizing and advocacy fighting deportations and unjust immigration policies. | Boroughwide |
| New York Communities for Change | 2017 | $30,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | For supporting the inclusion of community voices to inform the development plan of the city-owned Bedford-Union Armory. | Crown Heights |
| Brooklyn Community Services | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a project that engages young people, primarily immigrant youth, in activities to help them develop job skills, improve their academic performance, and become community leaders | Coney Island |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ReConnect | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To connect youth to employment, entrepreneurship training, and access to college credit to help navigate systemic challenges that make it hard to find sustainable employment. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| JustLeadershipUSA | 2018 | $30,000 | 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 |
| Parent-Child Relationship Association Inc. | 2022 | $33,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a comprehensive range of services to improve parent-child relationships in families with teenagers, promote youth empowerment and positive development, and address the social needs of Chinese immigrant families in Sunset Park via social services and support, civic and community engagement, and youth-led community programming. | Sunset Park |
| ¡Oye! Group | 2022 | $33,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support free arts programming that engages primarily Black and Latinx youth in Bushwick, including the creation of original plays about topics relevant to the community, an annual Shakespeare program, teen poetry workshops, and acting classes and re-entry support for youth in juvenile detention facilities. | Bushwick |
| Green City Force | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the implementation of two major "green jobs" workforce initiatives in Brooklyn: a partnership with the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice to recruit and train young adults from NYCHA Developments with the highest crime rates and the build-out of two urban farms on NYCHA developments in Brooklyn. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Advocacy strategies led by LGBTQ youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| 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 |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a Brooklyn-based summer leadership institute that engages young women in political education and empowerment programs to equip them to be agents for social change | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island, Crown Heights, East New York |
| Osborne Association | 2017 | $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 |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Brooklyn-based summer leadership institute that engages young women in political education and empowerment programs to equip them to be agents for social change. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island, Crown Heights, East New York |
| Make the Road New York | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to advance organizing to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, foster restorative justice in schools, implement and expand community schools, and bring about reforms for greater police accountability and transparency. | Bushwick |
| CASES | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that divert youth from the criminal justice system by providing education and employment services, behavioral health treatment, service projects, and links to other providers. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island |