Community Fund Grants
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| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girl Be Heard | 2021 | $45,000 | 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 |
| The Ladies of Hope Ministries | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase the number of care packages being provided to justice involved women and girls in and out of the Hope House network. | Boroughwide |
| Youth Justice Network | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the establishment of a Youth ReEntry Network hub office in Downtown Brooklyn to provide educational, social service, and workforce development supports for young people transitioning out of incarceration. Youth Justice Network was formerly known as “Friends of Island Academy.” | Boroughwide |
| Expecting Relief | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To hire a Vaccine Outreach Coordinator to provide older adults in Bushwick and East New York with accurate information about COVID-19 and the vaccine, navigation with setting up vaccination appointments, and transportation to appointments. | East New York, Bushwick |
| United Chinese Association of Brooklyn | 2021 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To provide cultural activities, food, crafts and games, English and naturalization classes, and social assistance for older east-Asian immigrants while combating anti-Asian violence and addressing community safety concerns. | Southwest Brooklyn |
| 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 |
| Student Dream | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs for college-bound students of color that provide them with the necessary financial literacy skills to close the racial and economic gap which benefits their white counterparts. | Boroughwide |
| Mexican Coalition | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide culturally appropriate food distribution and preventative health support for non-English and non-Spanish speaking indigenous people of K’iche’ (Guatemala and southern Mexico) in Bushwick. | Bushwick |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2021 | $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 |
| Precious Dreams Foundation | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide care packages to youth living in foster care or transitioning from foster care systems. | Boroughwide |
| Pure Legacee Inc. | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide care packages to young women and girls living in underserved communities across Brooklyn, with a focus will be placed on justice involved young women and girls. | Boroughwide |
| Good Call NYC | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the launch of a technology-enabled hotline in Brooklyn to provide immediate legal support in case of arrest, and to hire Brooklyn youth who have benefited from the program as organizers. | Boroughwide |
| Flatbush Development Corp | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To train all organization staff to become vaccine ambassadors and serve as credible messengers across Central Brooklyn neighborhoods. | Boroughwide |
| Mixteca | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To continue uplifting indigenous Latinx immigrant Brooklynites, provide food security support, vaccine access and information, and advocate for change through community empowerment and educational services. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Midwood, Prospect Park South, Windsor Terrace |
| 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 |
| The Wyckoff House & Association, Inc | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support innovative educational and farm-based programs that build cultural and agricultural connections within the community through the teaching of Brooklyn’s rich history as a leader in urban farming, with an emphasis on: community, the immigrant experience, supporting family, and understanding the health benefits of sustainable food. | East Flatbush, Canarsie |
| Hope For Desperate Hearts | 2021 | $8,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To supply members of the African Diaspora community with access to hot food cooked by culturally relevant restaurants in their neighborhoods to meet the needs of those who cannot prepare a meal where they live. A portion of this grant will also help them with covering transportation costs for some of their program participants to accesses these food resources. | Boroughwide |
| Groundswell Community Mural Project | 2021 | $50,000 | 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 |
| The Brave House | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To supply back to school packages to families within the Brave House network. | Boroughwide |
| JLUSA | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To empower court-involved youth to drive policy reforms, including #buildCOMMUNITIES Campaign to reinvest money divested from the NYC justice system through closure of Rikers back into communities to support proven community-based solutions and services. JLUSA was formerly known as “JustLeadershipUSA.” | Boroughwide |
| GatherFor | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To improve access to healthcare and support services focused on covid-19 and the vaccine. Outreach efforts will focus on people living in the shelter system; those who are victims of domestic violence. | Boroughwide |
| Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide support, direct services, and community for LGBTQIA+ individuals currently in, recently released from, or at risk of entering immigration detention. | 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 |
| Recess Activities | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a youth-led alternative to incarceration program that uses contemporary art to give voices to young people. Using visual storytelling, youth cohorts dismantle the narrative of the “criminal” in their community, creating long term solutions to catalyze generational wealth within their communities. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Bushwick, Canarsie, Flatbush, Coney Island |
| Homecrest Community Services | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency meal delivery to Asian seniors in Southern Brooklyn, prepared by a local Chinese restaurant. | Boroughwide |
| IntegrateNYC | 2021 | $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 Healing Center | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide support services and emergency food boxes to immigrant survivors of family violence in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge |
| S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth leadership and development programs for systems-involved girls and young women in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| GenSpace | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To create the Community Health Ambassadors Program, which will serve as both an educational and youth development tool for residents of Sunset Park to understand more about the vaccine and the science that is used to create vaccines, while empowering them to make informed decisions about their health. | Sunset Park |
| Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support Haitian refugees’ access to Temporary Protected Status through education, community organizing, leadership development, collective action, and advocacy. | 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 |
| Urban Youth Collaborative | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a coalition focused on the advancement of school discipline reform through legislation aimed at reducing racial disparities and significantly limiting the use of suspensions. | Boroughwide |
| Pakistani American Youth Organization | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide food to communities in need across Brooklyn. The organization will also implement a food delivery service to cater for those who might not be able to access their mobile units. | Boroughwide |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | 2021 | $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 |
| The Alex House Project | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase vaccine outreach, education, and support to at least 300 more young parents in central and southern Brooklyn with a focus on parents living in communities at high risk for spread of the virus. | Boroughwide |