Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
Organization | Year |
Amount![]() |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Churches United For Fair Housing | 2019 | $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 |
GrowHouse NYC | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support arts and activism programming that connects young Black creatives and activists to older artists for support and mentorship, including a gap year program for Black high school graduates to learn about equitable design, power, organizing, and history through workshops, travel, and a community design school. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support ending discriminatory surveillance on immigrants, Muslim Americans, the LGBTQ+ community, and BIPOC individuals through advocacy and litigating for privacy. | Boroughwide |
Friends of Island Academy | 2020 | $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. | Boroughwide |
STEM from Dance | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a cohesive learning experience in which dance is used to introduce girls of color to computer science. | Boroughwide |
Street Vendor Project | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To provide political education and leadership training for vendors to mobilize campaigns for social justice and economic opportunity. | Boroughwide | |
Opening Act NYC | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | For free, professionally designed theater programming for students of color in under-resourced public schools, as well as youth in the NYCDOE’s Alternative High School program who are pursuing their GED following a disruption in their education for reasons such as homelessness, teen parenthood, incarceration, and/or court involvement. | Boroughwide |
Court Appointed Special Advocates of New York City (CASA-NYC) | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Youth Leadership Council (YLC), a program of currently or formerly in foster care youth that plan advocacy and training activities, advise on policies and practices, and receive ongoing support regarding their own personal and professional development and stability while serving as advisors and ambassadors of CASA-NYC to volunteers and supporters, the broader child welfare/court community, and the general public. | Boroughwide |
Good Call NYC | 2019 | $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 |
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 |
The Brave House | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide immigrant-friendly resources and services for survivors of gender-based violence, particularly young immigrant women and gender expansive youth. | Boroughwide |
Good Call NYC | 2022 | $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 |
UPROSE | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For community organizing, public education, and leadership programs for youth that advance environmental sustainability and resiliency. | Sunset Park, South Slope, Gowanus |
CAMBA | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Brownsville In, Violence Out, a community-based youth development and gun-violence reduction program. | Brownsville |
Urban Youth Collaborative | 2022 | $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 |
El Puente de Williamsburg | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize communities of color to fight gentrification through youth-led community campaigns and initiatives focused on environmental justice, climate change, community safety, and racial/cultural equity in education, the arts, and wellness. | Williamsburg |
Sanctuary for Families | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a peer support group and workforce development for Ultra-Orthodox young women who have been rejected by their families due to histories of abuse, addiction, sex trafficking, and other forms of gendered violence. | Citywide |
Footsteps | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth transitioning into mainstream society with resources, leadership development, and peer connections. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For dance and cross-disciplinary arts education, performance, and cultural programming led by teaching artists serving under-resourced and Title-1 schools, a professional youth dance company, and scholarships and employment programs that train students of color in dance, theater, music, arts administration, performance, and production. | Boroughwide |
Freedom to Thrive | 2021 | $45,000 | 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 |
Good Call NYC | 2020 | $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 |
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To engage court-involved youth as actors and playwrights in a comprehensive theatre-for-social justice program that uses real life stories of the youth actors. | Boroughwide |
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support ending discriminatory surveillance on immigrants, Muslim Americans, the LGBTQ+ community, and BIPOC individuals through advocacy and litigating for privacy. | Boroughwide | |
El Puente | 2015 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to help strengthen and expand the capacity to engage and empower youth in North Brooklyn to be leaders through campaigns and initiatives that focus on environmental justice, climate change, community safety, and racial/cultural equity in education, the arts, and wellness. | Williamsburg |
STEM from Dance | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support a cohesive learning experience in which dance is used to introduce girls of color to computer science. | Boroughwide |
Brooklyn College Community Partnership | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support an after school program that provides mentorship, access to Brooklyn College's resources, and dedicated, year-round academic and interdisciplinary support to under-resourced students across Brooklyn schools. | Boroughwide |
JustLeadershipUSA | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
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 |
Audre Lorde Project | 2021 | $45,000 | 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 |
Green City Force | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support an environmental initiative that advances the city’s climate and equity goals, and connects high school graduates to employment opportunities and sectoral apprenticeships. | Boroughwide |
viBe Theater Experience | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programming that engages girls and young women of color to write, create, publish, direct, and perform personal collaborative theater and music. | Boroughwide |
The Campaign Against Hunger | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Green Teens sustainable farming paid apprenticeship program for Brooklyn youth ages 15-24. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
The Brave House | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Invest in Youth | To provide immigrant-friendly resources and services for survivors of gender-based violence, particularly young immigrant women and gender expansive youth. | Boroughwide |
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 |
STEM from Dance | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a cohesive learning experience in which dance is used to introduce girls of color to computer science. | Boroughwide |