Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Street Vendor Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide political education and leadership training for vendors to mobilize campaigns for social justice and economic opportunity. | 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 |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide comprehensive social and economic support to Bangladeshi immigrants in City Line. | City Line, East New York |
| Nurun Foundation | 2019 | $5,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support computer/ESL classes, civic engagement, and community outreach for Bangladeshi immigrant communities in Brooklyn | Cypress Hills, East New York |
| The New York Immigration Coalition | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To advocate for New York’s immigrants and refugees and push for equitable legislation by partnering with national and regional advocates, nonprofits, and bipartisan elected officials. | Boroughwide |
| UnLocal | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support legal representation and community legal education in school, workplace, and community settings for undocumented immigrants in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Chinese-American Planning Council | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support programs and campaigns that promote social and economic empowerment of Asian American and immigrant communities of color. | Boroughwide |
| Atlas:DIY | 2017 | $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 New York City’s young immigrants | Sunset Park, Boroughwide |
| Surveillance Technology Oversight Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support ending discriminatory surveillance on immigrants, Muslim Americans, the LGBTQ+ community, and BIPOC individuals through advocacy and litigating for privacy. | Boroughwide |
| Mixteca Organization | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide wraparound services for indigenous Mexican and Central American immigrants in Southwest Brooklyn. | Sunset Park |
| Brandworkers | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the transformative power and leadership of Brooklyn’s immigrant food production industry workers | Boroughwide |
| Freedom to Thrive | 2021 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Sakhi for South Asian Women | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide holistic support services for women survivors of domestic violence. | Boroughwide |
| Community Healthcare Network | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support a partnership between Community Healthcare Network and Volunteers of Legal Service to provide legal counseling to immigrant patients at CHN’s Brooklyn health clinics | Crown Heights, East New York, Williamsburg |
| Documented | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To expand its collaborative, culturally-relevant investigative news model to the Chinese and Caribbean communities in NYC. | Boroughwide |
| Street Vendor Project | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | For organizing among street vendors to promote legal rights, fight for policy change, and business development assistance. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Family Life | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | For the Sanctuary Families Project at Center for Family Life (CFL), which supports immigrant parents at risk of deportation and mobilizes community allies to create long-term child care plans for children remaining in the United States. CFL will work with up to 100 immigrant families in Sunset Park and will recruit, train and certify a cohort of neighborhood-based kinship and foster parents who will be prepared to serve as sanctuary families for children. Funding will also support a partnership with the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) to develop and distribute 1,000 “Visual Guardianship Guides” that illustrate guardianship choices for immigrant families. | Sunset Park |
| Unlocal, Inc. | 2017 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To meet the increased demand for community legal aid and school, workplace, and community-based educational workshops for undocumented immigrants in Brooklyn | Boroughwide |
| Faith in New York | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To mobilize local congregations in support of immigrant rights. Key strategies include the Faith Over Fear Emergency Response Network, which provides immediate legal aid, mobilizes supporters in the faith community, and builds awareness of mass deportation issues; monthly trainings for congregations that have offered their houses of worship as a safe sanctuary for immigrants in case of large-scale deportations; Know Your Rights workshops for immigrant communities; and a civic engagement strategy to mobilize support for an immigrant justice platform, including a municipal voting campaign, candidate forums, boot camps for congregations and faith leaders, and voter outreach. | Boroughwide |
| Chinese Staff and Workers' Association | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support outreach and organizing work reaching 3,000 community members living and/or working in Brooklyn's Chinatowns, with a focus on service workers--including home attendants, restaurant and delivery workers. CSWA will partner with legal services and pro bono attorneys to assist workers in seeking legal recourse for stolen wages and involved workers in education and advocacy efforts to improve state policy on wage theft. | Sunset Park, Bensonhurst |
| New Sanctuary Coalition | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support immigrant-led efforts that mobilize interfaith congregations to defend families facing deportation, build awareness of unjust immigration policies, and serve as witnesses in immigration court and detention centers. NSC is developing a cohort of Sanctuary Congregations in Brooklyn and citywide to provide housing for individuals and families at risk of deportation while they pursue a stay of deportation or suspension of their case entirely. Funds also support leadership trainings, ongoing legal clinics, and a rapid response volunteer network of immigrants and allies. | Boroughwide |
| Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support a convening of the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project's NYC Chapter in Fall 2018, aimed at promoting leadership development, capacity building, and organizing to address the ways in which community members are targeted by the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems | Boroughwide |
| Enlace | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | Support for the National Freedom Cities Convening which aims to strengthen relationships between leaders spanning issues from fighting mass incarceration to supporting immigrant families and building Black youth leadership; map the changing political landscape; and create a strategic plan to mobilize thousands of people in New York and across the country in the Freedom Cities movement. The Freedom Cities movement was created in January 2017 by immigrants and communities of color to make entire cities, towns, and communities safe for immigrants, Black people, Muslims, workers and all oppressed communities. | Boroughwide |
| Adhikaar | 2019 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | For the National Nail Salon Workers Exchange, taking place on March 25, 2019 at Barnard College | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To fund the organization of a political education session highlighting issues affecting Black immigrant workers—including economic inequality, unemployment, racial discrimination, and the impact of harsh immigration enforcement practices—as well as mobilizing a Black contingent for May Day 2017 that lifts up unique issues facing Black immigrant workers . | Boroughwide |
| Yemeni American Merchants Association | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support a board and staff strategic planning retreat for short-term and long-term activities in light of the Muslim Ban | Boroughwide, Bay Ridge |
| The New American Leaders Project | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | On June 9, 2017, NALP will host “Ready to Rise,” a training for 120 first- and second-generation immigrants in New York City that will demystify the political process and embolden immigrant women to run for public office. | Boroughwide |
| Arab American Family Support Center | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support “Stomp Out the Muslim Ban!”, an art protest and dance rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall, presented by young women activists using traditional Arabic dance as a tool to protest anti-Muslim bigotry | Boroughwide, Downtown |
| The Black Institute | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support the Black Immigrant Forum to be held in Brooklyn on August 28, 2018. The all-day event aims to educate Afro-Caribbean, Afro Latino, and African immigrants on current immigration policies, provide on-site legal consultation/screenings in collaboration with the NYU Immigration Clinic, train participants on "Know Your Rights", and offer referrals to pro-bono services. | Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Flatbush |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | From April–June 2017, BACDYS will offer 4 free "Know Your Rights" workshops for East New York's Bangladeshi community, designed to empower immigrants and address fears by providing accurate legal education in Bengali. | East New York, City Line |
| 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 |