Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After Hours Project | 2022 | $70,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support an array of health and social services including: behavioral health education; sexual health and wellness; HIV/AIDs Linkage to Care; harm reduction; housing, food, and family wellness; community outreach; advocacy and referral services, and more. Clients primarily have little or no contact with traditional service providers, and include persons who inject drugs, sex workers, and people who are homeless. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Bushwick, Crown Heights North, Crown Heights South, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, East Williamsburg, Flatbush |
| Ali Forney Center | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support services provided to 2,000+ LGBTQIA+ youth at a 24/7 drop-in center, and 17 emergency and transitional housing sites, as well as to hire a substance misuse treatment counselor to work at 14 housing sites, including 9 in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Community Housing and Services | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support housing for 1,000+ people who experience homelessness annually, including transitional and permanent housing, as well as substance misuse counselors and skilled clinicians for all new housing developments. | Boroughwide |
| Community Counseling & Mediation | 2022 | $72,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support a wide range of social services, counseling, physical and mental healthcare, education, and supportive housing services for individuals and families in extremely low-income areas of Brooklyn. Services include treatment, early intervention, wrap-around services, and recovery support services for people living with substance misuse disorders and/or co-occurring mental health disorders. | Boroughwide, Downtown, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Brownsville |
| Global Trauma Research | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support the “Stay Well” program, which provides 24-hour crisis intervention/hospital prevention and culturally/spiritually specific long-term trauma counseling to participants with a history of substance misuse, as well as a multilingual substance misuse and abuse community education campaign with 300 community partners. | Boroughwide |
| Housing Plus | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support justice-involved women in an alternative-to-detention program that provides community-based housing and comprehensive services to help them overcome poverty, homelessness, and the effects of incarceration, and build stable lives. The program also seeks to reunite and reconnect parents and caregivers with children in foster care, and to prevent separation in as many families as possible. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East New York, Flatbush |
| Lantern Community Services | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To provide comprehensive harm reduction services to improve the overall quality of life for clients, including at two supportive housing sites in Brooklyn that serve formerly unhoused residents living with chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and/or diagnosed mental health conditions. Staff also provide Naloxone training and kits and overdose prevention education to residents. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville |
| New York Therapeutic Communities - Stay’n Out | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support substance misuse treatment for adults in the criminal legal system through licensed community-based residential and outpatient programs that use a therapeutic community model, as well as to add more peer recovery advocates to connect persons using substances with needed services | East New York, Brownsville, Boroughwide |
| The Family Center | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support programs that provide comprehensive, culturally sensitive, and family-focused behavioral health treatment and recovery services for adults, children, and families with significant levels of trauma, chronic disease, extreme poverty, and barriers to care, as well as free childcare for parents and caregivers who are living with addiction, substance use challenges, and recovery while they are receiving treatment and health services. | Boroughwide |
| VOCAL-NY | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support the growth of outreach and testing programs for people who use drugs, increased operating hours for syringe services programs, expansion of service delivery teams by transitioning part-time peer outreach workers and Hepatitis C care coordinators to full-time salaried positions, and hiring additional peer outreach workers. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Movement Center | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To support movement-building among Black communities in Central Brooklyn and affect policy targeting civic education and engagement, economic opportunity, and housing justice as part of The Black Freedom Project agenda. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Law and Social Justice | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | For increasing civic engagement and voter participation of Black communities in Central Brooklyn through community education campaigns, facilitating research, and building organizing capacity. | Boroughwide |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To continue its Participatory Action Research (PAR), combat interpersonal and institutional violence against girls and TGNC youth of color in schools, and mobilize toward a vision for safe, holistic, welcoming, and affirming schools for all students. | Boroughwide |
| IntegrateNYC | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To support leadership training and youth development and mobilize youth to advocate for a more just public school system in NYC. The organization will continue its work to dismantle segregation in New York City public schools. | Boroughwide |
| Muslim Community Network | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To provide voter education and civic engagement resources to build education and awareness in Muslim communities and build partnerships with other community-based organizations to increase inclusivity and representation. | Bay Ridge, East New York, Midwood |
| The Black Institute | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To conduct research, provide educational opportunities that encourage political awareness and stir public debate, train new leadership, develop initiatives to build wealth and power for Black people and all people of color. The Black Institute will continue its environmental and housing justice work in Black communities across the borough. | Boroughwide |
| Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY) | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To build power among low-income people impacted by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness and mobilize for legislative change through community organizing, leadership development, advocacy, direct services, and direct action. The organization will continue to build organizing around its housing and economic justice campaigns. | Boroughwide |
| Isabahlia Ladies of Elegance Foundation | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide freshly grown produce and accurate health information to residents of Brownsville. | Brownsville |
| Prospect Lefferts Gardens Heritage Council Inc. | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide free care packages of food and household essentials to vulnerable people of color in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, delivered by local youth. | Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
| Chai4ever | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency food, supplies and financial aid to families of school aged children, with a parent living with a serious illness, isolated from their families due to increased risk of COVID-19. | Boroughwide |
| Chinese-American Planning Council | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide education and advocacy to address anti-Asian harassment, as well as disease prevention measures and support, particularly for vulnerable elderly populations. | Boroughwide |
| American Council of Minority Women, Inc | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency food and PPE distribution to immigrant and low-income families in Flatbush and Midwood. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Children of Promise, NYC | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To create a comprehensive vaccination awareness and access program for Black families with a parent in incarceration in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Hope For Desperate Hearts INC | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide hot meals to African students and low-wage workers who rent rooms and do not have access to kitchen facilities needed to cook or refrigerate food in partnership with local African restaurants. | Boroughwide |
| United Community Centers | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a long-term vaccine education program in East New York conducted in both English and Spanish. | East New York |
| Neighborhood Housing Services of Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To help prevent foreclosures among African-American homeowners, who are facing significant loss of income due to the pandemic. | Boroughwide |
| The Black Institute, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a COVID-19 small business response program that provides one-on-one counseling for MWBE and immigrant members and advocates for an equitable economic recovery program at the city and state levels. | Boroughwide |
| Siren - Protectors of the Rainforest, Inc. | 2021 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide food relief for the residents of Rehab Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Red Hook Art Project, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For on-site emergency food distribution and free virtual visual art and music instruction, academic assistance, and stress management for children and youth in Red Hook. | Red Hook |
| El Puente | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency food and financial aid to undocumented and food insecure immigrant families in Southside Williamsburg and Bushwick. | Williamsburg, Bushwick |
| National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For organizing, community healing, and mental health services for LGBTQ+ Asian American, South Asian, and Southeast Asian coalition leaders in Brooklyn, with a focus on responding to hate violence, harassment, and micro-aggressions against Asian Americans. | Boroughwide |
| Expecting Relief | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support perishable food distribution and household essentials to 150-200 Black and Latinx Brooklyn residents. | Bushwick |
| AsylumConnect | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a free technology platform to connect LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, students, and other marginalized LGBTQ+ people to verified LGBTQ+ affirming and immigrant friendly legal, medical, mental health, and social services. | Boroughwide |
| East New York Restoration Development Corporation | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To set up information tables at local train stations to share accurate information about the virus and the vaccine with a focus on reaching essential workers outside of the health field. | East New York, Boroughwide |
| Immigration Equality | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Brooklyn, including legal representation and resource referrals, and advocating for the release of immunocompromised persons with HIV in detention. | Boroughwide |