Caring Neighbors Fund
Description:
Challenge grant to encourage new donors to support rider subsidies, which enable low-income children and adults with disabilities to experience the benefits of therapeutic horseback riding.
Challenge grant to encourage new donors to support rider subsidies, which enable low-income children and adults with disabilities to experience the benefits of therapeutic horseback riding.
Grant Amount: $10,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Developmentally Disabled
Domestic Violence Survivors
Physically Disabled
Children
Youth
Adults
Ages Served: Children (5-12)
Youth (12-18)
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (24-65)
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
Description:
Grant to support leadership and training for 525 girls living in NYCHA complexes, homeless shelters and detention centers. Girls will participate in the Girls in At Risk Communities Initiative; program encourages girls to discover, connect & take action.
Grant to support leadership and training for 525 girls living in NYCHA complexes, homeless shelters and detention centers. Girls will participate in the Girls in At Risk Communities Initiative; program encourages girls to discover, connect & take action.
Grant Amount: $20,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Immigrants, Newcomers, Refugees
NYCHA Resident
Youth
Ages Served: Children (5-12)
Youth (12-18)
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
Description:
Renewal grant to support the Brooklyn Girls Collaborative. BCF seeded the collaborative to encourage resource sharing among youth serving organizations. Now in its third year the groups created a shared curriculum and will host a 2nd youth led conference.
Renewal grant to support the Brooklyn Girls Collaborative. BCF seeded the collaborative to encourage resource sharing among youth serving organizations. Now in its third year the groups created a shared curriculum and will host a 2nd youth led conference.
Grant Amount: $20,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: Educators and Teachers
Youth
Adults
Ages Served: Elementary School Students
Middle School Students
High School Students
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
Description:
Evidence requests support for its annual Summer Dance Workshop Series at Medgar Evers College (MEC) Preparatory School and its dance education partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation's Youth Arts Academy in 2011.
Evidence requests support for its annual Summer Dance Workshop Series at Medgar Evers College (MEC) Preparatory School and its dance education partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation's Youth Arts Academy in 2011.
Grant Amount: $5,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Crown Heights
Fort Greene
Population Served: Children
Youth
Adults
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
Description:
Renewal grant to support a highly successful educational internship program targeting court involved youth ages 15-19. Program will serve 150 NYC youth, majority live in Brooklyn.
Renewal grant to support a highly successful educational internship program targeting court involved youth ages 15-19. Program will serve 150 NYC youth, majority live in Brooklyn.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
East New York
Flatbush
Population Served: Court Involved Youth
Youth
Ages Served: High School Students
Youth (12-18)
Young Adults (18-24)
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
Description:
Support to conduct outreach at local senior centers and food pantries; provide case management for community residents; and educate tenants in foreclosed multi-family properties of their rights.
Support to conduct outreach at local senior centers and food pantries; provide case management for community residents; and educate tenants in foreclosed multi-family properties of their rights.
Grant Amount: $20,000
Neighborhoods Served: East Flatbush
Flatbush
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (24-65)
Aging, Elderly, Senior Citizens (65+)
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
Description:
Support for community outreach programs including the Mark Morris Dance, Music & Literacy Project, Dance for Parkinson Disease, the MMDG/NYCHA Partnership, the Subsidized Studio Rental Program and The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center.
Support for community outreach programs including the Mark Morris Dance, Music & Literacy Project, Dance for Parkinson Disease, the MMDG/NYCHA Partnership, the Subsidized Studio Rental Program and The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Boroughwide
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: All Ages
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
Description:
Second year of funding to support Plan Ahead Brooklyn; a program created to help industrial businesses develop plans for long term growth and improve job development in Sunset Park and Williamsburg. BCF provided seed funding in 2010.
Second year of funding to support Plan Ahead Brooklyn; a program created to help industrial businesses develop plans for long term growth and improve job development in Sunset Park and Williamsburg. BCF provided seed funding in 2010.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Greenpoint
Sunset Park
Williamsburg
Population Served: All Populations
Ages Served: Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (24-65)
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
Description:
Funding will be used to strengthen the capacity of the Haitian American Empowerment Program by supporting an outreach staffer to provide mental health and counseling services to client population of low-income Haitian residents.
Funding will be used to strengthen the capacity of the Haitian American Empowerment Program by supporting an outreach staffer to provide mental health and counseling services to client population of low-income Haitian residents.
Grant Amount: $25,000
Neighborhoods Served: Crown Heights
East Flatbush
Flatbush
Population Served: Alcohol, Drug, Substance Abusers
Domestic Violence Survivors
Families
Formerly Homeless
Immigrants, Newcomers, Refugees
Children
Youth
Adults
Ages Served: High School Students
Infant/Children (0-5)
Youth (12-18)
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (24-65)
Aging, Elderly, Senior Citizens (65+)
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund
Description:
Renewal grant for Exploring Leadership; a civic leadership program targeting 100 low income students at four public high schools. The program is a model for how civic education helps youth become agents of social change in their schools & community.
Renewal grant for Exploring Leadership; a civic leadership program targeting 100 low income students at four public high schools. The program is a model for how civic education helps youth become agents of social change in their schools & community.
Grant Amount: $10,000
Neighborhoods Served: Bedford Stuyvesant
Bushwick
Crown Heights
Population Served: Educators and Teachers
Youth
Ages Served: High School Students
Fund: Caring Neighbors Fund