Community Fund Grants
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| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTs East New York | 2020 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Community Food Advocates | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For advocacy to ensure that the Department of Education's food distribution program is scaled effectively, helping to identify problem areas and making key recommendations to meet families needs. | Boroughwide |
| The Urban Justice Center, Domestic Violence Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For direct assistance and programmatic support for people experiencing domestic violence. | 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 |
| St. Nicks Alliance Corp. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support a full-time delivery driver to bring food from local pantries to residents of two NYCHA developments with high concentrations of older adults. | 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 |
| Center for Nu Leadership | 2020 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Tomorrow's Leaders NYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual support for over-age middle and high-school students in East New York, monthly financial assistance to students and their family, and laptops for academic and creative interactive learning. | Boroughwide |
| The Guardianship Project | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | The Guardianship Project works with older adults, caregivers, and systems to increase the availability of exemplary guardianship services, increase the use of alternatives to guardianship, and correct gaps in the guardianship system in order to enable self-determination and preserve dignity for older adults in the least restrictive setting possible. | Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Brownsville, Boroughwide, Citywide |
| Brooklyn Community Pride Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For COVID-19 Care Packages that food, sanitary products, and household essentials delivered to transgender and gender non-conforming people of color. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Jeremiah Program Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide Brownsville families headed by single mothers food, cleaning, and infant supplies, as well as virtual family programming and technology to support school and work from home. | Brownsville |
| Day One New York | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual supportive services and emergency services to Brooklyn-based survivors of domestic violence and dating abuse, as well as online resources, training, and tools to students and teachers to address spiking rates of tech-based abuse and harm within households. | Boroughwide |
| Worker's Justice Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support and protect day laborers and domestic workers, including providing direct cash assistance and personal protective equipment. | Boroughwide |
| People in Need | 2020 | $8,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a mutual aid network led by and serving low-income, immigrant families in Kensington, including a food pantry operating out of a restaurant on Coney Island Avenue. | Kensington |
| LiveOn NY | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support advocacy efforts to bridge crisis-level issues between nonprofit services providers and government officials on behalf of older New Yorkers in need. | Boroughwide |
| City Limits, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support reporting coverage on the health, economic, social, and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the hardest hit neighborhoods in New York City. | Citywide |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2020 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Community Options New York Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support in-home and resident-based care for persons with disabilities, including enhanced measures to reduce the spread of disease, training for essential workers, staff reimbursements, and the purchase of cleaning supplies. | Boroughwide |
| Equality Labs | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide South Asian specific public health materials on Coronavirus in 10 languages, digital security for South Asian-serving CBOs, and a blueprint for how to set up Mutual Aid networks. | Boroughwide |
| IntegrateNYC | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the leadership and capacity of students working to end segregation in New York City public schools. | Boroughwide |
| The Alex House Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual programming and support for vulnerable expecting young mothers and young parents. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Drive Change | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide training and first job experience for formerly incarcerated and court-involved young people through a nonprofit food truck. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick |
| Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide emergency food, grab and go meals, and personal protective equipment for vulnerable residents in Canarsie and the Flatlands. | Canarsie, Flatlands |
| Jews for Racial & Economic Justice | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | JFREJ’s Caring Majority Coalition organizes older adults, people with disabilities, caregivers, and home health workers to ensure that all Brooklynites have access to covered long-term care that prioritizes racial and gender justice as well as age justice, and invests in the home care workforce for quality, family sustaining jobs. | Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Boroughwide, Citywide |
| East New York Church of God of Prophecy | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a soup kitchen and food pantry providing hot meals, food staples and fresh groceries to the residents of East New York, Spring Creek, Starrett City, and New Lots. | East New York, Spring Creek, Starrett City, New Lots |
| 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 |
| Made in Brownsville | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide cash assistance for program alumni and creatives in East Brooklyn, particularly those in shelters and other vulnerable populations. | Boroughwide |
| Diaspora Community Services | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide food and food vouchers to vulnerable clients including older adults, young mothers, and LGBTQIA youth. | Boroughwide |
| Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To create a centralized free online source of validated, accurate, culturally competent, and up-to-date information and resources on COVID-19 for a network of 70 CBOs focused on addressing the social determinants of health. | Flatbush, East Flatbush |
| Refoundry | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the Mask Makers Project, which provides people who are formerly incarcerated with the tools and supplies to sew washable and adjustable fabric masks for people incarcerated at Rikers Island. | Boroughwide |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support the immediate needs of its young people during the crisis, including 45 Brooklyn-based youth currently in custody at Rikers Island’s Horizon Juvenile Center. | Boroughwide |
| Elite Learners, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To purchase and deliver emergency food for youth and their families in Brownsville and East Flatbush. | Brownsville, East Flatbush |
| 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 |