Community Fund Grants

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Organization Year Amount Initiative Programsort descending Project Description Neighborhoods
New York Communities for Change 2017 $2,500 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants In May 2017, NYCC will launch a member-led community defense network in Flatbush to protect its Latinx, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern immigrant members and neighbors from deportations, police brutality, and mass incarceration—all of which disproportionately affect Brooklyn’s immigrant, especially Black immigrant, populations. Flatbush
UnLocal 2019 $5,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants For a collaboration with fellow IRF grantees Queer Detainee Empowerment Project, BAJI, DRUM, and Make the Road New York for a convening on efforts to abolish immigrant detention centers in New York state Boroughwide
OCA-NY Asian Pacific American Advocates 2017 $2,500 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants In June 2017, OCA will host "Where Can Immigrants Living in Fear and Uncertainty Get Help?” a forum that brings together elected officials, government agencies, law professional, and community organizations to assist Asian immigrant communities in Brooklyn with legal advice and immigration fraud alert. The forum will be held at the Chinese Promise Baptist Church in Sunset Park. Sunset Park
New York Immigration Coalition 2019 $5,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants For a re-printing of the organization's Know Your Rights cards, supplies of which were completely depleted in the lead up to recent ICE raids Boroughwide
Black Women's Blueprint 2017 $2,500 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants Support for the 2017 Black Women's March on Washington Boroughwide
Safe Horizon 2017 $10,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants For Safe Horizon’s Immigration Law Project (ILP) to expand services to immigrant victims of crime, abuse, domestic violence, trafficking, and torture in Brooklyn—particularly those with complex immigration matters, at risk of being removed from the United States. Funds will also increase training for frontline staff at community-based social service agencies so that they are informed on current immigration policies and practices. This includes staff at local hospitals, schools, shelters, and places of worship. Boroughwide
Chinese-American Planning Council 2018 $20,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants For the "Advancing Our CommUNITY" strategy in Brooklyn to connect the organization's long-term social services work to new social change strategies, including civic engagement (Know Your Rights, Voter Registration, Census 2020) , policy/advocacy (increased advocacy around legislative priorities), and community mobilization (training for staff on immigrant rights, economic and racial justice, policy advocacy, and community organizing)/ Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Bensonhurst
Churches United for Fair Housing 2017 $20,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants Continued legal, organizing, and social supports for undocumented immigrants including Know Your Rights workshops, legal services, and sanctuary planning Boroughwide, Bushwick
AsylumConnect 2019 $10,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support the development of their resource catalog for LGBTQ individuals seeking asylum across Brooklyn and New York City Boroughwide
Laundry Workers Center 2018 $15,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support the Laundromat Campaign, a multifaceted, immigrant women-led campaign that provides training and resources so that laundromat workers can advocate for equitable, safe, and dignified workplaces through workplace organizing and city-wide legislation. Funds will focus on Brooklyn’s Latinx immigrant workers in retail, laundromat, and food service industries. Boroughwide, Flatbush, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Sunset Park, Borough Park
Womankind 2017 $20,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants Direct service and advocacy support for immigrant survivors of domestic violence in Sunset Park, with specific focus on advocacy and Asian communities Sunset Park
Asian American Writers’ Workshop 2018 $10,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support the Open City Fellowship program and magazine, focused on publishing stories about low-income Asian immigrant communities and incubating Asian American writers and activists 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
Black Alliance for Just Immigration 2019 $15,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support community organizing, legal clinics and language access for Black Muslim immigrants Flatbush, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Bedford Stuyvesant
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) 2018 $15,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support advocacy and immigration legal services Boroughwide
Queer Detainee Empowerment Project 2017 $15,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants Organizing and Advocacy support, and legal assistance and representation for queer immigrant detainees ($15,000) 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
Brooklyn Defender Services 2019 $25,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support rapid response legal efforts and their role in suing ICE to improve legal representation for those in custody. Boroughwide
Equality for Flatbush 2018 $10,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support multilingual organizing and advocacy work around anti-gentrification, police accountability, and ICE-FREE NYC East Flatbush, Flatbush, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Crown Heights, Park Slope, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York, Sunset Park
Emma’s Torch 2017 $10,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants A social enterprise that provides hospitality workforce development program for refugees Boroughwide
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
DRUM 2019 $15,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support advocacy, organizing, community-defense and the “Hate Free Zone” initiative launched in Kensington, Brooklyn Kensington
Enlace 2018 $15,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support leadership development and organizing work of the New York Worker Center Federation Boroughwide
Atlas: DIY 2018 $20,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support increased organizational capacity to meet the legal, social service, and advocacy needs of Brooklyn’s young undocumented immigrants. Boroughwide, Sunset Park
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
Muslim Community Network 2019 $15,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support community outreach/education efforts, and self-defense workshops in response to rising Islamophobia Boroughwide
The Legal Aid Society 2018 $20,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support immigrant clients within the Immigration Law Unit’s various projects including the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, Immigration Representation Project, Immigrant Youth Project, and the affirmative benefits project Boroughwide
Mixteca 2021 $45,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To continue uplifting indigenous Latinx immigrant Brooklynites, provide food security support, vaccine access and information, and advocate for change through community empowerment and educational services. Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Midwood, Prospect Park South, Windsor Terrace
Arab-American Family Support Center 2019 $15,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support and sustain their free Legal Services Program, which prioritizes family reunification and has provided assistance to families—especially Yemeni families—affected by the travel ban. Boroughwide, Bay Ridge
Brandworkers 2018 $10,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support the transformative power and leadership of Brooklyn’s immigrant local food production industry workers. Boroughwide
Center for Family Life 2018 $15,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants For the Sanctuary Families Project, which supports Sunset Park immigrant parents at risk of deportation and mobilizes local Brooklyn community member allies to create long-term guardianship and child care plans for immigrant children living in Brooklyn. Sunset Park
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
Sakhi for South Asian Women 2019 $15,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants To support community outreach efforts for planned expansion of services for Bangladeshi women in Kensington, Brooklyn Kensington
Safe Horizon 2019 $20,000 Immigrant Rights Fund Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants For Safe Horizon’s Immigration Law Project (ILP) to expand services to immigrant victims of crime, abuse, domestic violence, trafficking, and torture in Brooklyn—particularly those with complex immigration matters, at risk of being removed from the United States. Funds will also increase training for frontline staff at community-based social service agencies so that they are informed on current immigration policies and practices. This includes staff at local hospitals, schools, shelters, and places of worship. Boroughwide

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