Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Caribbean Women’s Health Association | 2021 | $40,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To provide immigration legal support, classes to expectant and new mothers, doulas to low-income women, as well as access to a food pantry and HIV/AIDS prevention education, testing, and counseling. | Boroughwide | |
| Sauti Yetu | 2021 | $40,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support the building of a new Brooklyn center offering direct services, public education, and advocacy to provide low-income immigrant women and girls access to life skills and leadership opportunities. | Boroughwide | |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2018 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Brooklyn Accelerator | Based in Brooklyn since its founding in 2002, Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is an intergenerational organization committed to the physical, psychological, social, and economic development of girls and women. GGE develops the advocacy skills of over 200 young people annually to eradicate structural, state, racial, and sexual violence and criminalization. GGE encourages youth to become agents of change through civic engagement and leadership opportunities, and campaigns focused on improving the systemic and interpersonal rights of trans and cis girls and young women of color, and gender non-conforming youth of color. | Boroughwide |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2021 | $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 |
| University Settlement Society of New York | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A program offering low-income youth a safe space to discover a positive sense of self and community and develop leadership skills to inspire others to collaborate toward community change. | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill |
| 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 |
| DRUM | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the expansion of programs that serve low-wage South Asian immigrant workers, youth, and families in Flatbush and Midwood organizing for social and economic justice--with a focus on building the leadership of undocumented women and girls. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support counseling, life skills courses, and after-school arts-based activities for youth living in secure and non-secure detention facilities. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2020 | $45,000 | 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 |
| New York State Youth Leadership Council | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support undocumented immigrant youth organizing around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth-led programs and advocacy for LGBTQ people of color that build leadership and organizing skills, reduce surveillance policing, and promote safer communities. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| UPROSE | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for community organizing, community-building, public education, and leadership development programs for youth that advance sustainability and resiliency in Sunset Park. | Sunset Park, Gowanus |
| Safe Passage Project | 2018 | $50,000 | 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 |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To engage court-involved youth as actors and playwrights in a comprehensive theatre-for-social justice program that uses real life stories of the youth actors. | Boroughwide |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To engage court-involved youth as actors and playwrights in a comprehensive theatre-for-social justice program that uses real life stories of the youth actors | Boroughwide |
| Young New Yorkers | 2016 | $20,000 | 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 |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Youth Justice Troupes Program, which comprises four Brooklyn-based theatre troupes and engages court-involved youth as actors and playwrights in a comprehensive theatre-for-social justice program. | Boroughwide |
| Lineage Project | 2020 | $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 |
| Brooklyn Community Services | 2018 | $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 |
| CAMBA | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Brownsville In, Violence Out, a community-based youth development and gun-violence reduction program | Brownsville |
| 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 |
| Educational Video Center | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support culturally-responsive documentary film and media arts programs for historically excluded youth who are disengaged with their education by teaching them documentary filmmaking to develop their artistic, critical literacy, and leadership skills. | Boroughwide |
| Vernon Avenue Project/Reconnect | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating Support for the neighborhood-based entrepreneurship program in Central Brooklyn which creates jobs that serve as the engagement point for court-involved young men. | Boroughwide, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| 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 |
| Alex House Project | 2018 | $35,000 | 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 |
| Common Justice | 2017 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a 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 |
| Brownsville Community Culinary Center | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the culinary training and apprenticeship program for young people, ages 18-34, from Brownsville. | Brownsville |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Atlas: DIY | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the community-based "cooperative model" that provides free legal, educational, and social services for undocumented youth and their allies | Sunset Park |
| Center for NuLeadership | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that divert neighborhood youth from arrest proceedings by developing pre-arrest diversion options for law-officers. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Dance Theatre Etcetera | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | In-school, after-school, and summer-based multi-disciplinary arts programs serving low-income youth of color, with a focus on overage, under-credited students and disconnected youth. | Red Hook |