Community Fund Grants
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Organization | Year |
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Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
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Lantern Community Services | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To provide comprehensive harm reduction services to improve the overall quality of life for clients, including at two supportive housing sites in Brooklyn that serve formerly unhoused residents living with chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and/or diagnosed mental health conditions. Staff also provide Naloxone training and kits and overdose prevention education to residents. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville |
New York Therapeutic Communities - Stay’n Out | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support substance misuse treatment for adults in the criminal legal system through licensed community-based residential and outpatient programs that use a therapeutic community model, as well as to add more peer recovery advocates to connect persons using substances with needed services | East New York, Brownsville, Boroughwide |
The Family Center | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support programs that provide comprehensive, culturally sensitive, and family-focused behavioral health treatment and recovery services for adults, children, and families with significant levels of trauma, chronic disease, extreme poverty, and barriers to care, as well as free childcare for parents and caregivers who are living with addiction, substance use challenges, and recovery while they are receiving treatment and health services. | Boroughwide |
Brooklyn Movement Center | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To support movement-building among Black communities in Central Brooklyn and affect policy targeting civic education and engagement, economic opportunity, and housing justice as part of The Black Freedom Project agenda. | Boroughwide |
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 |
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 |
After Hours Project | 2022 | $70,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support an array of health and social services including: behavioral health education; sexual health and wellness; HIV/AIDs Linkage to Care; harm reduction; housing, food, and family wellness; community outreach; advocacy and referral services, and more. Clients primarily have little or no contact with traditional service providers, and include persons who inject drugs, sex workers, and people who are homeless. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Bushwick, Crown Heights North, Crown Heights South, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, East Williamsburg, Flatbush |
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 |
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 |
The Black Institute | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To conduct research, provide educational opportunities that encourage political awareness and stir public debate, train new leadership, develop initiatives to build wealth and power for Black people and all people of color. The Black Institute will continue its environmental and housing justice work in Black communities across the borough. | Boroughwide |
Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY) | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To build power among low-income people impacted by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness and mobilize for legislative change through community organizing, leadership development, advocacy, direct services, and direct action. The organization will continue to build organizing around its housing and economic justice campaigns. | Boroughwide |
St. Nicks Alliance | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
Safe Passage Project | 2017 | $50,000 | 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 |
Brooklyn Defender Services | 2016 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Comprehensive free legal representation to court-involved youth with a focus on school discipline and reentry, special education placements, alternative pathways to graduation, alternatives to incarceration, and counseling. | 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 |
Safe Passage Project | 2019 | $50,000 | 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 |
Brooklyn Defender Services | 2018 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For comprehensive free legal representation to court-involved youth with a focus on school discipline and reentry, special education placements, alternative pathways to graduation, alternatives to incarceration, and counseling. | Boroughwide |
University Settlement Society of New York | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Clinton Hill, East Flatbush, East New York, Fort Greene, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace |
RiseBoro Community Partnership | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Boroughwide |
Brooklyn Defender Services | 2017 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For comprehensive free legal representation to court-involved youth with a focus on school discipline and reentry, special education placements, alternative pathways to graduation, alternatives to incarceration, and counseling | Boroughwide |
Southside United H.D.F.C | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
Safe Passage Project | 2016 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Free legal services and representation to meet the unmet needs of immigrant and undocumented children in partnership with community high schools. | 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 |
Safe Passage Project | 2018 | $50,000 | 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 |
Ellery Court Senior HDFC | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Bushwick |
Green City Force | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 NuLeadership | 2021 | $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 |
BRIC Arts Media | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the enrollment of court-involved youth in the Project Re-Direct media apprenticeship program, a pilot alternative-to-incarceration initiative with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. | Boroughwide |
Churches United For Fair Housing | 2020 | $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 |
Safe Passage Project | 2021 | $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 |
Arab American Association of New York | 2019 | $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 |
Truthworker Theater Company | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
Council of Peoples Organization (COPO) | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | COPO provides ongoing case management and supportive services to the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian community, with a specific focus on serving older adults through their halal senior center and a halal meals-on-wheels program, the first in New York City. | Midwood, Kensington |
Osborne Association | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs for children of incarcerated parents as well as a council that engages young people impacted by incarceration to develop campaigns around issues affecting their lives and communities. | Boroughwide |
Genspace NYC | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a STEAM youth development internship program where youth gain hands-on experience to learn, create, and grow with the life sciences. | Sunset Park |