Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandworkers | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the transformative power and leadership of Brooklyn’s immigrant local food production industry workers. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Documented | 2019 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the nonprofit news site solely devoted to covering New York City’s immigrants and the policies that affect their lives. | 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 |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2019 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support coalition building efforts to strengthen organizational capacity and to build networks and working groups to better serve the diverse, complex needs of the growing Bangladeshi immigrant community | Cypress Hills, East New York |
| New York Immigration Coalition | 2018 | $40,000 | Advocacy | Census 2020 | New York Counts 2020 is a broad-based, statewide coalition composed of racial, ethnic, immigrant, religious, health, education, labor, housing, social services, and business groups working in partnership with state and local government officials. The aim is to ensure that New Yorkers across the state—particularly marginalized communities in hard-to-count districts—can fully maximize their participation in the 2020 Census. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Law and Social Justice | 2018 | $40,000 | Advocacy | Census 2020 | The NYC Black Leadership Advisory Coalition for Census 2020 (NYC BLAC) is the current focus of the CLSJ’s larger Census Justice 2020 and Redistricting Project. NYC BLAC is a community organizing and education project that aims to engage leaders, activists, and organizations of NYC’s very diverse communities of African descent towards a complete count of their communities in the 2020 Census. | Boroughwide, Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Flatbush Tenant Coalition organizes older adults across 300 buildings in Central Brooklyn, with a focus on educating the community on housing laws and tenants’ rights, advocating for policy change, and expanding access to entitlements and benefits. | Flatbush, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
| CABS Home Attendants Service | 2019 | $40,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Boroughwide |
| GRIOT Circle | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To ensure that all LGBTQ+ elders of color experience a just and abundant quality of life through a variety of services within its adult daycare programs, monthly social and support groups, and outreach to homebound seniors—as well as through partnerships with other eldercare organizations to increase their competency of care around race, gender, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS, and sexual health. | Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Brownsville, 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 |
| Access Justice Brooklyn | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To expand legal programming for older adults and assign a staff attorney to guide older clients through estate planning, guardianship, homeowner assistance and foreclosure prevention, advanced life planning, asset assistance, and more. | Boroughwide |
| Grow Brooklyn | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To provide intensive outreach, compassionate counseling, and direct assistance aimed at keeping older adult homeowners in their homes in the face of financial exploitation, particularly in communities of color. | Bushwick, Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Brownsville, Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Asian American Federation | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support a range of direct services and policy campaigns focused on Asian American older adults, including the creation of a culturally competent, multilingual mental health directory and leading the only advocacy coalition in NY State focused on AAPI older adults. | Boroughwide |
| Jews for Racial & Economic Justice | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | 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 |
| 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 |
| Brooklyn Community Pride Center | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To engage older adults through community forums and focus groups, training and resources, policy advocacy, support groups, legal services, mental health counseling, and HIV testing and prevention services. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights North, Crown Heights |
| Release Aging People in Prison Campaign | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To organize older adults both in prison and in the community to bring systemic change to the parole process, advocating for fair and timely parole and an end to death by incarceration, so that they can positively influence the Brooklyn communities they once harmed. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Boroughwide, Citywide |
| 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 |
| CABS Health Network | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support older adults, especially BIPOC, Latinx, and immigrant residents, providing homecare services and training home health aides, expanding access to food and vaccines, raising awareness on scams and abuse, providing education on nutrition and mobility, collaborating with local doctors to track service success and client health outcomes, and more. | Boroughwide |
| Spanish Speaking Elderly Council - RAICES | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To provide a continuum of linguistic and culturally-relevant services for older adults across five Brooklyn senior centers, an outpatient behavioral health clinic, a case assistance program, and an in-development tele-mental health services model for homebound seniors. | Boroughwide |
| Project Guardianship | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | 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 |
| 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 |
| Heights and Hills | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To hire more bilingual staff and expand their caregiver support programming, access to referral and respite services, home visit volunteer program, and older adult center services that holistically promote aging in place and social support to prevent isolation. | Boroughwide |
| The Osborne Association | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Case management services for formerly incarcerated older adults and families of those currently imprisoned, advocates for sentencing and parole reforms, and trains older adults to use their experience in the justice system to become outspoken voices for change. | Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Brownsville, 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 |
| 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 |
| The YWCA of Brooklyn | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To expand aging in place programming for older adults living in YWCA housing, supporting independent living skills, medical needs, and end-of-life preparation for residents, many of whom are women of color that have experienced gender-based violence, racism, homelessness, and poverty. | Boroughwide |
| Spanish Speaking Elderly Council - RAICES | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | RAICES provides a continuum of linguistic and culturally-relevant services for older adults across five Brooklyn senior centers, an outpatient behavioral health clinic, a case assistance program, and an in-development tele-mental health services model for homebound seniors. | Boroughwide |
| Bloom Again Brooklyn | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support programming that provides older Brooklynites with upcycled flowers on a weekly basis, which requires purchasing and securing refrigerators for flower arrangements, hiring drivers, and buying permanent transportation vehicles. | Boroughwide |
| The Brownsville Partnership | 2021 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support programs that engage, empower, and employ residents across the age spectrum on issues of housing, public space, community infrastructure, and economic development. | Brownsville |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Flatbush Development Corporation’s Flatbush Tenant Coalition organizes older adults across 300 buildings in Central Brooklyn, with a focus on educating the community on housing laws and tenants’ rights, advocating for policy change, and expanding access to entitlements and benefits. | Flatbush, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
| Breaking Ground | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To expand their Aging Services Department that serves clients over the age of 50 who have experienced homelessness, providing wraparound services that include case management, securing housing and entitlements, assessing benefits (Medicaid and SNAP), assisting with applications, and more. | Boroughwide |
| Bridge Street Development Corporation | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To engage traditionally underserved low-income and immigrant older adults at the Quincy Senior Residences, pairing affordable housing with comprehensive services for general and mental healthcare, decreased isolation, early intervention, financial literacy, estate planning, stigma-reducing education, tenant advocacy, and more. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Crown Heights North, Crown Heights South, Fort Greene |