Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To develop the leadership and empowerment of the borough's Black immigrant youth and families in order to end racism, criminalization, and economic disenfranchisement | 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 |
| 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 |
| New York Communities for Change | 2017 | $30,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | For supporting the inclusion of community voices to inform the development plan of the city-owned Bedford-Union Armory. | Crown Heights |
| ReConnect | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To connect youth to employment, entrepreneurship training, and access to college credit to help navigate systemic challenges that make it hard to find sustainable employment. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Brooklyn Community Services | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a project that engages young people, primarily immigrant youth, in activities to help them develop job skills, improve their academic performance, and become community leaders | Coney Island |
| 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 |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A youth organizing group that seeks to address racial and educational injustice through a campaign to implement restorative justice practices at a local high school campus. | Cypress Hills |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the creative, educational, and vocational development of Black and Caribbean youth in Central Brooklyn. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| JustLeadershipUSA | 2018 | $30,000 | 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 |
| Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide legal support, social services, and advocacy organizing for LGBTQIA+ persons recently release from immigration detention. | Boroughwide |
| Resilience Advocacy Project | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide leadership development programs, legal education, and peer-to-peer trainings for youth of color, particularly those living in ACS care or detention, focused on advocating for community change | Boroughwide |
| Groundswell Community Mural Project | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the organization's unique mission to bring together youth, artists, and community partners' through a collective impact model that uses public art as a tool for social change. | Boroughwide |
| Surveillance Technology Oversight Project | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To end excessive local and state-level surveillance of Muslim Americans, immigrants, and communities of color. | Boroughwide |
| Urban Youth Collaborative | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize youth of color who have been the victims of school-based over-policing to advance youth justice alternatives and promote wellbeing of both youth and their communities. | Boroughwide |
| JustLeadership USA | 2017 | $30,000 | 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 |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a youth organizing group that seeks to address racial and educational injustice through a campaign to implement restorative justice practices at a local high school campus. | Cypress Hills |
| ¡Oye! Group | 2022 | $33,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support free arts programming that engages primarily Black and Latinx youth in Bushwick, including the creation of original plays about topics relevant to the community, an annual Shakespeare program, teen poetry workshops, and acting classes and re-entry support for youth in juvenile detention facilities. | Bushwick |
| Parent-Child Relationship Association Inc. | 2022 | $33,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a comprehensive range of services to improve parent-child relationships in families with teenagers, promote youth empowerment and positive development, and address the social needs of Chinese immigrant families in Sunset Park via social services and support, civic and community engagement, and youth-led community programming. | Sunset Park |
| Osborne Association | 2017 | $35,000 | 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 |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Brooklyn-based summer leadership institute that engages young women in political education and empowerment programs to equip them to be agents for social change. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island, Crown Heights, East New York |
| 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 |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Provide off-ramps for young people who come into contact with the justice system, including educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |
| Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Brooklyn Youth Justice Programs in Downtown Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Coney Island, which help young people avoid contact with the criminal justice system, detention, incarceration, and recidivism by providing education and employment services, behavioral health treatment, community service projects, and links to other community-based providers. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To prevent unnecessary pretrial detention based on poverty by paying bail for indigent Brooklyn youth and adults accused of misdemeanors, and providing and facilitating access to social and legal services for clients | Boroughwide |
| Truthworker Theater Company | 2019 | $35,000 | 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 |
| CASES | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Programs that divert youth from the criminal justice system by providing education and employment services, behavioral health treatment, service projects, and links to other providers. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island |
| Center for Nu Leadership | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Programs that divert neighborhood youth from arrest proceedings by developing pre-arrest diversion options for law-officers. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| The Ali Forney Center | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Youth Advocacy Internship Program for homeless LGBTQIA youth of color | Citywide |
| Center for NuLeadership | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support to advance planning for Bedford-Stuyvesant Human Justice Initiative, an arrest diversion pilot program in partnership with the NYPD, 79th Precinct, and NYC Office of Probation. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | 2018 | $35,000 | 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 |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Racial Justice Youth Fellowship, an Arab and Muslim youth leadership bootcamp that provides resources and tools to address advocacy issues including immigration, police accountability, and racial justice. | Boroughwide |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2017 | $35,000 | 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 |
| CASES | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that divert youth from the criminal justice system by providing education and employment services, behavioral health treatment, service projects, and links to other providers | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island |
| Churches United For Fair Housing | 2018 | $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 |