Community Fund Grants
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Organization |
Year | Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Sanctuary Coalition | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide pro se immigration clinic, volunteer accompaniment for ICE check-ins, anti-detention work, and community organizing and advocacy. | Boroughwide |
| New Sanctuary Coalition | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For a new Zoom pro se clinic for undocumented immigrants as well as a campaign among faith leaders to pressure ICE to release all detainees immediately. | Boroughwide |
| New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To bring COVID-19 vaccine education to newly-arrived immigrants and their families in Crown Heights, Flatbush, and southern Brooklyn. | Crown Heights, Flatbush, Boroughwide |
| Neighbors Together | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide for additional staff and costs related to transitioning its sit down community cafe to provide take out meals, as well as for advocacy outreach prioritizing the needs of homeless and low-income Brooklynites. | Boroughwide |
| Neighbors Together | 2017 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | A dynamic soup kitchen, social service provider, and community center committed to ending hunger and poverty in Ocean Hill, Brownsville, and Bedford Stuyvesant since 1982. It provides empowerment and community action programming to organize community members to advocate for policy change, in addition to serving 80,000 meals annually out of its community café. | Ocean Hill, Brownsville, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Neighbors in Action | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | : To support Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets and Justice Community Plus, two of the Center’s holistic, anti-violence and work readiness youth development programs. | Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Neighbors in Action | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets and Justice Community Plus, two of the Center’s holistic, anti-violence and work readiness youth development programs. | Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Neighbors in Action | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets and Justice Community Plus, two of the Center’s holistic, anti-violence and work readiness youth development programs. | Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Neighbors In Action | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To disseminate information about COVID-19 prevention, detection, and vaccination to help community members in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant access credible and accurate information. | Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| 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 |
| National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | 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 |
| 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 |
| Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project LDC | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill |
| Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | An entrepreneurship and mentoring program that connects NYCHA youth with their first jobs at small businesses along Myrtle Avenue. | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill |
| Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership | 2021 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To increase economic and physical accessibility of local businesses and green spaces as well as support age-friendly advocacy days, socialization and active events, and political education. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Fort Greene |
| Muslim Community Network | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To establish a hotline for vulnerable families and individuals to connect them with food and other resources, as well as stipends and materials for community members who can sew masks for essential workers. | Boroughwide |
| Muslim Community Network | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support community outreach/education efforts, and self-defense workshops in response to rising Islamophobia | 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 |
| MoCADA | 2017 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | A “museum without walls” that serves the African Diasporan community through art exhibitions, education, and community programs to promote African diasporan art, racial equity, and social justice in Brooklyn. Founded in 1999, this year it is expanding from 2,000 sq. ft. to a new 20,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Fort Greene. | 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 |
| Mixteca | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to help the Mexican and Latin-American immigrant organization expand to balance critical service provision with immigrant advocacy work, community building and organizing, and skills-building programs. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Park Slope, Red Hook |
| Mixteca | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Park Slope, Red Hook |
| 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 |
| Mixteca | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide financial relief to indigenous immigrant families in Sunset Park, prioritizing those who have recently lost their jobs as housekeepers, nannies, and restaurant workers. | Sunset Park |
| Milagros Day Worldwide | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For bilingual virtual support groups, summits and workshops, and referrals to shelters, food delivery, and crisis intervention for survivors of domestic violence. | Boroughwide |
| MHANY Management, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support its affordable housing residents through provision of food and disinfectant supplies, assembly and delivery of care packages, and converting a dozen units into “safe places” for self-isolation. | Boroughwide |
| Mexican Coalition for the Empowerment of Youth & Families | 2021 | $40,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund | To increase language access and provide culturally relevant food, health and legal services to Latinx indigenous New Yorkers. | Sunset Park, Bushwick, Coney Island, Park Slope |
| Mexican Coalition | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | 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 Borough Park, Bensonhurst, and Sunset Park. | Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Sunset Park |
| 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 |
| Mexican Coalition | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase staff outreach to help undocumented Latinx and indigenous residents get accurate information around COVID-19 testing and vaccination. | Boroughwide |
| Make the Road New York | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To support DACA legal action through the Batalla Vidal et al v. Baran class-action lawsuit, cover the costs of DACA renewal applications, as well as citywide town halls and "Know Your Rights" workshops | Boroughwide |
| Make the Road New York | 2018 | $25,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | In September 2018, the Department of Homeland Security announced a newly proposed regulation to dramatically expand the list of public benefits that the government would treat as “negative factors” in visa and green card applications. Funding will support advocacy and organizing across New York City’s immigrant populations to challenge the proposed public charge changes. | Boroughwide |
| Make the Road New York | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For immigrant youth-led organizing programs focused on the school-to-prison pipeline, community schools, and greater police accountability and transparency. | Bushwick |
| Make the Road New York | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For immigrant youth-led organizing programs focused on the school-to-prison pipeline, community schools, and greater police accountability and transparency. | Bushwick |
| Make the Road New York | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to advance organizing to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, foster restorative justice in schools, implement and expand community schools, and bring about reforms for greater police accountability and transparency. | Bushwick |