Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAMBA | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth-led programs and advocacy for LGBTQIA people of color that build leadership and organizing skills, reduce surveillance policing, and promote safer communities. | Boroughwide |
| exalt | 2017 | $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 |
| Made in Brownsville | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a community-based creative agency and community design center that provides a gateway for young people to learn marketable skills in STEAM, access higher education, achieve economic mobility, and become civic leaders. | Brownsville |
| Alex House Project | 2020 | $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 | Red Hook |
| El Puente | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize communities of color to fight gentrification through youth-led community campaigns and initiatives focused on environmental justice, climate change, community safety, and racial/cultural equity in education, the arts, and wellness | Williamsburg |
| Alex House | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Pregnancy and parenting groups for teens and other young, low-income, first time mothers and fathers in Red Hook. | Red Hook |
| exalt | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to help transform the lives of Haitian newcomer youth in Crown Heights, East Flatbush and Canarsie through education and leadership development and raising awareness of immigrant education issues in the community and citywide. | East Flatbush, Canarsie, Crown Heights |
| 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 |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by girls and young women of color and gender expansive youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| Groundswell Community Mural Project | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For school year and summer programs that engage youth from underserved communities in public mural making as a means of social change while developing their leadership and creative skills. | Boroughwide |
| Footsteps | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth transitioning into mainstream society with resources, leadership development, and peer connections | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
| Global Kids | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | After-school programming that aims to increase exposure to local and international human rights and social justice issues. | Boroughwide |
| EcoStation:NY | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the Bushwick-based urban farming and food justice organization which provides educational and mentorship programs for high school students at the Bushwick Educational Campus. | Bushwick |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2020 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Girl Be Heard | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For multidisciplinary arts opportunities designed to engage young women in social justice education and develop their leadership skills | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| JustLeadership USA | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Campaign to #CloseRikers, a comprehensive multiyear effort to close Rikers Island, which includes the immediate removal of all 16 and 17-year-olds. | Boroughwide |
| El Puente | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize communities of color to fight gentrification through youth-led community campaigns and initiatives focused on environmental justice, climate change, community safety, and racial/cultural equity in education, the arts, and wellness. | Williamsburg |
| 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 |
| Global Kids | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For after-school programming that aims to increase exposure to local and international human rights and social justice issues | Boroughwide |
| The Campaign Against Hunger | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Green Teens sustainable farming paid apprenticeship program for Brooklyn youth ages 15-24. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Brooklyn Community Pride Center | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Pride Path Program to connect underemployed Brooklyn LGBTQ+ young adults, ages 18-24, to paid professional development, internships, and employment opportunities. | Boroughwide |
| ReConnect | 2017 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Neighbors in Action | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets and Justice Community Plus, two of the Center’s holistic, anti-violence and work readiness youth development programs. | Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| The Ali Forney Center | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Youth Advocacy Internship Program for homeless LGBTQIA youth of color. | Citywide |
| Make the Road New York | 2017 | $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 |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A partnership with student organizers to pilot campus-based transformative justice practices that hold harm-doers accountable and support sexual violence survivors in their healing and development. | Crown Heights |
| Flex Dance Program | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a Flex Dance and creative mentorship program aimed at reducing the likelihood of recidivism and re-entry for young people in secure detention centers. | Boroughwide |
| Polish American Community Services | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Immigration Options for Victims of Domestic Violence, which aims to increase awareness of resources for victims of domestic violence and to provide free legal services for immigrants in Greenpoint. | Greenpoint |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| H.O.L.L.A (How Our Lives Link Altogether) | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a social justice education, leadership, and organizing program for low income youth of color focused on trauma recovery and healing. | Boroughwide |