Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lineage Project | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Green City Force | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| United Community Centers | 2017 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Programs that strengthen Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian immigrant youth’s academic achievement, creative expression and healthy behaviors. | Boroughwide |
| S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2015 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Red Hook Youth Leaders Program, a 4-year program that provides job readiness and leadership training, part-time employment, academic support, and services to assist young people toward high school graduation, college, and/or meaningful employment. | Red Hook |
| Make the Road New York | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| New York Immigration Coalition | 2018 | $40,000 | Advocacy | Census 2020 | New York Counts 2020 is a broad-based, statewide coalition composed of racial, ethnic, immigrant, religious, health, education, labor, housing, social services, and business groups working in partnership with state and local government officials. The aim is to ensure that New Yorkers across the state—particularly marginalized communities in hard-to-count districts—can fully maximize their participation in the 2020 Census. | Boroughwide |
| Common Justice: Vera Institute of Justice | 2015 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for Common Justice, an innovative victim service and alternative-to-incarceration program based on restorative justice principles that works with young people who commit violent felonies and those they harm. | Boroughwide |
| exalt | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| New York State Youth Leadership Council | 2018 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support undocumented immigration youth-led organization around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Job readiness and leadership training, part-time employment, academic support, and services to assist young people toward graduation, college, and career. | Red Hook |
| Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2015 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for comprehensive anti-violence, empowerment, and leadership programming for young people, including the expansion of services for LGBTQ homeless youth and a violence prevention program for immigrant young women. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Law and Social Justice | 2018 | $40,000 | Advocacy | Census 2020 | The NYC Black Leadership Advisory Coalition for Census 2020 (NYC BLAC) is the current focus of the CLSJ’s larger Census Justice 2020 and Redistricting Project. NYC BLAC is a community organizing and education project that aims to engage leaders, activists, and organizations of NYC’s very diverse communities of African descent towards a complete count of their communities in the 2020 Census. | Boroughwide, Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York |
| Green City Force | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that strengthen Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian immigrant youth’s academic achievement, creative expression and healthy behaviors | Boroughwide |
| United Community Centers | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Global Action Project | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2017 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Center for Family Life | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a community school model that engages youth, families and educators to mobilize resources and develop programs for high school success and college access and retention | Sunset Park |
| The Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Comprehensive anti-violence, empowerment, and leadership programming for young people, including the expansion of services for LGBTQ homeless youth and service providers. | Boroughwide |
| Mexican Coalition for the Empowerment of Youth & Families | 2021 | $40,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund | To increase language access and provide culturally relevant food, health and legal services to Latinx indigenous New Yorkers. | Sunset Park, Bushwick, Coney Island, Park Slope |
| Exalt | 2016 | $40,000 | 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 |
| United Community Centers | 2015 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to advance youth internship programs, a pipeline of leadership opportunities for participants as they age out of programs, a new youth advisory board, and youth engagement in the City's development plan for East New York. | East New York |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2018 | $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 |
| Carroll Gardens Association | 2021 | $40,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support tenants and immigrant domestic workers in their advocacy for permanent affordable housing, cooperative economics, and domestic worker rights. | Bay Ridge, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Prospect Heights, Red Hook, Sunset Park | |
| 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 |
| United Community Centers | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Sakhi for South Asian Women | 2021 | $40,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support culturally-relevant and linguistically-accessible services for South Asian survivors of gender-based violence, including case management, economic empowerment, mental health services, food justice grants, transitional and emergency housing, and housing placement. | Boroughwide | |
| Make the Road New York | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Immigrant youth-led organizing programs focused on the school-to-prison pipeline, community schools, and greater police accountability and transparency. | Bushwick |
| Lineage Project | 2017 | $40,000 | 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 |