Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Womankind | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide overtime and hazard pay for staff in its emergency residence for survivors of domestic violence as well as direct financial support for its clients. | Boroughwide |
| Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To address the general lack of knowledge about the COVID-19 vaccine, and fear and misinformation about vaccine safety, in communities of color across the borough through outreach at neighborhood businesses and gathering spaces. | Boroughwide |
| ACE Integration Head Start | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide grocery gift cards to immigrant families in Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant enrolled in the organization’s early childhood programs. | Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| IntegrateNYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For a multilingual youth hotline to connect NYC high school students to resources related to housing, food, healthcare, educational access, and community. | Boroughwide |
| Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide COVID-19 vaccine education and outreach in partnership with community-based organizations in Coney Island. | Coney Island |
| Extreme Kids & Crew | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For continuous support and supplies for families of children with developmental disabilities, who are facing greater challenges without the resources and structure schools provide. | Boroughwide |
| New York Communities Organizing Fund | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide food and supply drops in working class communities of color, host web-based seminars, and help residents navigate financial assistance programs. | Boroughwide |
| Safe Horizon | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support expansion of services to immigrant victims of gender-based violence as well as increased training for frontline staff at social service agencies who are first responders to immigrants in need. | Boroughwide |
| SupChina | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support reporting on the growing tide of anti-Asian and anti-Chinese sentiment and to raise legal funds for Chinese-American scientists unjustly accused of being spies. | Boroughwide |
| Haitian-American Community Coalition | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For virtual care technologies to provide continuity of care and client services for older adults, HIV-positive clients, and formerly homeless individuals. | Boroughwide, Crown Heights |
| Black Excellence Collective | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide PPP, nonperishable goods and mini cash grants to members of marginalized communities. | Boroughwide |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | East New York, City Line |
| Her Justice Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide essential services for Brooklyn survivors of domestic and other gender-based violence in immigration, child support and consumer debt matters. | Boroughwide |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide increased translation services, adult and family counseling and screenings, and food distribution via Red Hook Farms. | Red Hook |
| NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency cash grant assistance to members across Brooklyn and Queens communities. These emergency cash grants will be paid to cover mostly rent and utility costs. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Urban Pedagogy | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide parents with information on their rights while navigating NYC Administration for Children’s Services during the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with Brooklyn Defender Services. | Boroughwide |
| Children of Promise, NYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support Bedford-Stuyvesant children and families with a parent who is incarcerated through the provision of daily hot meals, food pantry items, and fresh groceries. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Riseboro Community Partnership | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide meal delivery to 800 seniors who previously received congregate meals in nine now-closed senior centers. | Boroughwide |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To expand vaccination-related support services and free COVID testing to immigrant residents without insurance in East New York. | East New York |
| Atlas:DIY | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | Support for eligible youth applying for DACA renewals before October 5, 2017 deadline | Boroughwide, Sunset Park |
| NIA Community Services Network | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide wellness care packages, grocery gift cards, and individualized assistance to 200 immigrant families and families of color with low incomes. | Boroughwide |
| Jack Arts, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To purchase, store, and distribute supplies and food to vulnerable residents of public housing in Brooklyn in partnership with We Keep Us Safe Abolitionist Network, a BIPOC-led mutual aid group. | Boroughwide |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide COVID-19 education on testing and vaccine services to increase access, acceptance, and uptake in Black communities across the borough. | Boroughwide |
| NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYC NOWC INC) | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide a Worker Cooperative Emergency Fund that will support workers in the most vulnerable industries and communities, and prioritize those not able to access government benefits. | Boroughwide |
| Arts Business Collaborative | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For a partnership with For the Gworls to provide travel services for Black TGNC people to safely access medical care and financial support for co-pays, with priority for people with disabilities and those who are immunocompromised. | Boroughwide |
| Make the Road New York | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support newly unemployed low-wage workers as well as warehouse and delivery workers facing exposure, mandatory overtime, and demands to not call out sick. | Boroughwide, Bushwick |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To outfit a mobile support center that provides access to mental and other social support services to women and children with a focus on those harmed domestic violence. | Boroughwide |
| Council of Peoples Organization | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Brownsville Think Tank Matters | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide people returning from incarceration with PPE, gift cards, food packages, transportation, and restorative justice circles with fellow community members and police officers in partnership with Incredible Credible Messengers. | Boroughwide |
| Asian American Federation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the Advocate, Educate, and Mitigate Against Hate Initiative to coordinate protections for the Asian community in Brooklyn. | Sunset Park, Boroughwide |
| Sakhi for South Asian Women | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide social support to South Asian survivors of domestic abuse, as well as safe home delivery of food, direct emergency assistance, and one-time emergency purchases including emergency rent, bill payment. | Boroughwide |
| UNITE HERE Local 100 | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support unemployed hospitality workers, with financial assistance and food. | Boroughwide |
| Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide education on COVID-19 preventative practices and purchase PPE, sanitary supplies, and food for seniors, people with health issues, and low income residents of the Orthodox community in Flatbush. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Coney Island Lighthouse Mission | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency food distribution and deliveries to low-income residents of Coney Island. | Coney Island |
| The Ladies of Hope Ministries | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide stipends for food delivery for women recently released from Rikers Island and New York State prisons, as well as nutritious plant-based meal and care packages for 400 Woodhull and 2,500 Bellevue doctors and nurses. | Boroughwide |