Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTs East New York | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Public Art Apprenticeship Program and Young Artist Institute for young people interested in the arts as a tool for social change. | East New York |
| New York State Youth Leadership Council | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support undocumented immigration youth-led organization around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights |
| Churches United For Fair Housing | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For youth development programming focused on housing-related issues and other challenges impacting low-income communities of color | Bushwick |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs that serve Haitian immigrant youth to develop their capacity as productive community members, and understand their collective power to fight for their right to quality education, ensuring long-term access to other resources for a better life outcome. | Boroughwide |
| Sanctuary for Families | 2018 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the establishment of the Mishkan Project, a peer support group and work development program for Ultra-Orthodox young women who have been rejected by their families due to histories of abuse, addiction, sex trafficking, and other forms of gendered violence. | Citywide |
| Churches United For Fair Housing | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For youth development programming focused on housing-related issues and other challenges impacting low-income communities of color. | Bushwick |
| Young New Yorkers | 2017 | $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 |
| Flex Dance Program | 2022 | $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 |
| Youth Design Center | 2021 | $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. Youth Design Center was formerly known as “Made in Brownsville.” | Brownsville |
| Youth Advocacy Corps | 2018 | $25,000 | 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 |
| STEM from Dance | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a cohesive learning experience in which dance is used to introduce girls of color to computer science. | Boroughwide |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2019 | $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 |
| DRUM | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize South Asian youth, families, and immigrant workers to win campaigns focused on educational equity, economic justice, legalization, workplace rights, and an end to racial profiling and anti-immigrant enforcement | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Center for NuLeadership | 2018 | $25,000 | 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 |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
| Truthworker Theater Company | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A theater program that uses first person narratives to bring the stories of young people impacted by incarceration to the forefront and drive awareness of the need for policy reform. | Boroughwide |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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, Bay Ridge |
| El Puente | 2015 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to help strengthen and expand the capacity to engage and empower youth in North Brooklyn to be leaders through campaigns and initiatives that focus on environmental justice, climate change, community safety, and racial/cultural equity in education, the arts, and wellness. | Williamsburg |
| JustLeadershipUSA | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Teachers Unite | 2018 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For members' work with students and teachers to lead the shift from punitive to transformative justice in NYC public schools. | Brownsville, East New York, Bushwick, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, East Williamsburg, Sunset Park |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the hospital-based violence interruption program and in-school and community-based discussion groups and workshops. | East New York, Brownsville, Flatbush |
| Green City Force | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a service and training program that aims to create ladders to careers in the green economy for NYCHA youth, focused on development of two urban farms | Red Hook, Brownsville |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programming that connects justice-involved youth in Brownsville to community-based support services, paid training, internships, and jobs, and develops their leadership through a youth council that focuses on community issues and opportunities, including running a community garden. | Brownsville |
| FUREE | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| Brooklyn Workforce Innovations | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Youth Pathway Out of Poverty, which will provide Central Brooklyn youth with access to employer-demanded skills, career credentials, job placement, and long-term career development support. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| exalt | 2020 | $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 |
| Alex House Project | 2017 | $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 | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 | |
| Teachers Unite | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Youth-led Transformative Justice initiative to organize alternatives to suspension in up to five public schools in under-resourced and over-policed Brooklyn communities. | Brownsville, East New York, Bushwick, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, East Williamsburg, Sunset Park |
| Hook Arts Media | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
| Safe Passage Project | 2020 | $45,000 | 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 |
| FUREE | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth | Red Hook, Gowanus |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a Cultural Arts program that provides multi disciplinary instruction and intergenerational programming that celebrates the rich heritage of the African Diaspora. | Boroughwide |
| The Ali Forney Center | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Youth Advocacy Internship Program for homeless LGBTQIA youth of color. | Citywide |
| Footsteps | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |