Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expecting Relief | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support perishable food distribution and household essentials to 150-200 Black and Latinx Brooklyn residents. | Bushwick |
| New York Immigration Coalition | 2019 | $5,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | For a re-printing of the organization's Know Your Rights cards, supplies of which were completely depleted in the lead up to recent ICE raids | Boroughwide |
| Progress Playbook | 2015 | $5,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | Progress Playbook designs customized learning experiences for entrepreneurs so that they can accomplish their business goals. A $5,000 grant will provide 10 Crown Heights youth with a three-month entrepreneur training program, through which each will develop a comprehensive business plan. Three plans selected by community members will receive financial and technical assistance to launch or expand their business within Crown Heights. | Crown Heights |
| Brooklyn Community Pride Center | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support programming that empowers LGBTQIA+ youth to make positive choices around substance use via counseling, support groups, and participating in the Lighthouse Learning Collective, a group which engages LGBTQIA+ service providers and harm reduction organizations. | Boroughwide |
| Service Workers' Coalition | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide weekly grocery deliveries or reimbursements to unemployed food service workers unable to access benefits. | Boroughwide |
| Simone Leigh | 2015 | $5,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | Resident Simone Leigh is receiving a $5,000 grant to support an innovative series of drumming classes and workshops for black women and girls in Crown Heights, which seeks to build bridges across cultures and communities and provide a nurturing environment where participants can relax, learn new skills, exercise, and connect in a non-competitive way. | Crown Heights |
| JMAC for Families | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support harm reduction efforts and advocacy for birthing people who use substances, including working on the Informed Consent BIll (4285A), which would require NY hospitals to obtain consent from pregnant and birthing patients before drug testing them and their babies. | Boroughwide |
| Prospect Lefferts Gardens Heritage Council Inc. | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide free care packages of food and household essentials to vulnerable people of color in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, delivered by local youth. | Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
| American Council of Minority Women, Inc | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency food and PPE distribution to immigrant and low-income families in Flatbush and Midwood. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Hope For Desperate Hearts INC | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide hot meals to African students and low-wage workers who rent rooms and do not have access to kitchen facilities needed to cook or refrigerate food in partnership with local African restaurants. | Boroughwide |
| The Hannah Legacy | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support holistic harm reduction programming including overdose education, counseling, referrals to treatment for infectious diseases and substance use disorders, distribution of opioid overdose reversal medications, and more. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Center for Quality Life | 2020 | $6,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support food pantry and food delivery programs, community PPE distribution, and virtual health, nutrition, and wellness class for residents in East Flatbush and Flatbush | East Flatbush, Flatbush |
| Friends of Marcy Houses | 2020 | $6,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For food delivery for vulnerable residents, and to engage youth in documenting firsthand accounts of life at Marcy Houses during the COVID-19 pandemic to expose the impacts of systemic racism. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Represented Foundation | 2020 | $7,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For an intensive leadership development program for Black and Latinx social entrepreneurs working on community-generated solutions to the COVID-19 crisis, launching in June 2020. | Boroughwide |
| Apna Brooklyn Community Center, Inc. | 2020 | $7,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide benefits assistance to Muslim immigrant low-wage workers in Brighton Beach and Coney Island. | Brighton Beach, Coney Island |
| Afrolatin@ Project, Inc | 2020 | $7,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To manufacture and distribute medical grade PPE to Brooklyn hospitals serving communities of color. | Boroughwide |
| Haiti Cultural Exchange | 2020 | $7,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual platforms for artists and support to culture workers of Haitian descent. | Boroughwide |
| Fearless Femme 100 | 2020 | $7,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide free mental health services to queer Black and Indigenous residents in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| American Council of Minority Women | 2021 | $8,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency food and PPE distribution to immigrant and low-income families in Flatbush and Midwood. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Hope For Desperate Hearts | 2021 | $8,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To supply members of the African Diaspora community with access to hot food cooked by culturally relevant restaurants in their neighborhoods to meet the needs of those who cannot prepare a meal where they live. A portion of this grant will also help them with covering transportation costs for some of their program participants to accesses these food resources. | Boroughwide |
| People in Need | 2020 | $8,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a mutual aid network led by and serving low-income, immigrant families in Kensington, including a food pantry operating out of a restaurant on Coney Island Avenue. | Kensington |
| Documented | 2020 | $8,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide Spanish-language reporting on the specific impacts of COVID-19 on immigrants—especially those who are undocumented—and to combat the spread of misinformation on WhatsApp. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Community Services | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To hire graduates of the Brownsville Community Culinary Center, who have lost their restaurant jobs, to feed vulnerable residents with restricted access to food, including older adults, immune-compromised persons, and persons with intellectual disabilities. | Brownsville |
| Homecrest Community Services | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency meal delivery to Asian seniors in Southern Brooklyn, prepared by a local Chinese restaurant. | Boroughwide |
| Red Hook Art Project, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For on-site emergency food distribution and free virtual visual art and music instruction, academic assistance, and stress management for children and youth in Red Hook. | Red Hook |
| El Puente | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency food and financial aid to undocumented and food insecure immigrant families in Southside Williamsburg and Bushwick. | Williamsburg, Bushwick |
| Apex for Youth Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To create a series of initiatives to serve the social and emotional needs of Asian American youth who have been affected by the spread of COVID-19, with a focus on addressing racism and anti-Asian harassment. | Boroughwide |
| The Brave House | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To supply back to school packages to families within the Brave House network. | Boroughwide |
| Catholic Charities Archdiocese New York | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| AsylumConnect | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a free technology platform to connect LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, students, and other marginalized LGBTQ+ people to verified LGBTQ+ affirming and immigrant friendly legal, medical, mental health, and social services. | Boroughwide |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For their Mobile Healing Unit to provide food, toiletries, and general support to survivors of domestic violence of African descent quarantined in the same household as their abusers, as well as to purchase HIPAA-compliant software and create a reliable mass-text system for information sharing. | Boroughwide |
| GatherFor | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To improve access to healthcare and support services focused on covid-19 and the vaccine. Outreach efforts will focus on people living in the shelter system; those who are victims of domestic violence. | Boroughwide |
| Immigration Equality | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Brooklyn, including legal representation and resource referrals, and advocating for the release of immunocompromised persons with HIV in detention. | Boroughwide |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide care packages of food and cleaning supplies, laptops, mental health support, and financial assistance to its youth of color members. | Boroughwide |
| BUFU | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide stipends for communities’ artists, healers, and organizers who are leading programming on the CLOUD 9 rapid-response mutual aid platform. | Boroughwide |