Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyckoff House Museum | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support fresh produce delivery from its on-site farm to partner food programs in the East Flatbush and Canarsie. | East Flatbush, Canarsie |
| Haiti Cultural Exchange | 2017 | $10,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | To support local Haitian artists who will facilitate arts activities and programming in Westbrook Memorial Garden to bring community concerns to light. | Crown Heights |
| Reaching Out Community Services | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To meet the increasing demand for its Digital Client Choice Food Pantry System, and to match low-income and newly displaced individuals and families with social services, benefits assistance, and emergency items. | Boroughwide |
| The Ladies of Hope Ministries | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase the number of care packages being provided to justice involved women and girls in and out of the Hope House network. | Boroughwide |
| Carroll Gardens Association | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide PPE and sanitary supplies to domestic worker members and support the development of a network of member-leaders trained to run neighborhood-based weekly support circles. | Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus |
| Invisible Hands Deliver Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To bolster and sustain the volunteer-led organization’s ability to deliver groceries and prescriptions to homebound residents and provide social connection to offset impacts of isolation. | Boroughwide |
| Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide undocumented immigrant clients with emergency food and financial assistance with rent, utilities, and fees for medical services. | Boroughwide |
| Womankind | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide overtime and hazard pay for staff in its emergency residence for survivors of domestic violence as well as direct financial support for its clients. | Boroughwide |
| Exalt Youth | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To further develop the organization’s COVID-19 Vaccine Education Project by hiring a BIPOC medical professional to conduct an educational series about the vaccine for court-involved youth and their families. | Boroughwide |
| ACE Integration Head Start | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide grocery gift cards to immigrant families in Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant enrolled in the organization’s early childhood programs. | Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| IntegrateNYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For a multilingual youth hotline to connect NYC high school students to resources related to housing, food, healthcare, educational access, and community. | Boroughwide |
| Bushwick Mutual Aid | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide weekly groceries delivered by volunteers to more than 300 immigrant families in Bushwick. | Bushwick |
| Laundry Workers Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide immediate relief for essential laundromat workers from virus exposure and employer exploitation, including advocating for mandatory paid sick days, up-to-date health and workers’ rights information, and direct financial aid. | Boroughwide |
| National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For organizing, community healing, and mental health services for LGBTQ+ Asian American, South Asian, and Southeast Asian coalition leaders in Brooklyn, with a focus on responding to hate violence, harassment, and micro-aggressions against Asian Americans. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For rapid legal defense for affected individuals | Boroughwide |
| Equality for Flatbush | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For the #BrooklynShowsLove Mutual Aid Project in Flatbush to connect neighbors to emergency funds for hourly wage workers such as dollar van drivers, home health aides, and street vendors. | Flatbush |
| Mexican Coalition | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide culturally appropriate food distribution and preventative health support for non-English and non-Spanish speaking indigenous people of K’iche’ (Guatemala and southern Mexico) in Bushwick. | Bushwick |
| Her Justice Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide essential services for Brooklyn survivors of domestic and other gender-based violence in immigration, child support and consumer debt matters. | Boroughwide |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide increased translation services, adult and family counseling and screenings, and food distribution via Red Hook Farms. | Red Hook |
| Precious Dreams Foundation | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide care packages to youth living in foster care or transitioning from foster care systems. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Urban Pedagogy | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide parents with information on their rights while navigating NYC Administration for Children’s Services during the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with Brooklyn Defender Services. | Boroughwide |
| Isabahlia Ladies of Elegance Foundation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide freshly grown produce and accurate health information to residents of Brownsville. | Brownsville |
| Children of Promise, NYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support Bedford-Stuyvesant children and families with a parent who is incarcerated through the provision of daily hot meals, food pantry items, and fresh groceries. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Riseboro Community Partnership | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide meal delivery to 800 seniors who previously received congregate meals in nine now-closed senior centers. | Boroughwide |
| Expecting Relief | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To hire a Vaccine Outreach Coordinator to provide older adults in Bushwick and East New York with accurate information about COVID-19 and the vaccine, navigation with setting up vaccination appointments, and transportation to appointments. | East New York, Bushwick |
| Brandworkers | 2018 | $10,000 | 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 |
| NIA Community Services Network | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide wellness care packages, grocery gift cards, and individualized assistance to 200 immigrant families and families of color with low incomes. | Boroughwide |
| Jack Arts, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To purchase, store, and distribute supplies and food to vulnerable residents of public housing in Brooklyn in partnership with We Keep Us Safe Abolitionist Network, a BIPOC-led mutual aid group. | Boroughwide |
| Extreme Kids & Crew | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For continuous support and supplies for families of children with developmental disabilities, who are facing greater challenges without the resources and structure schools provide. | Boroughwide |
| New York Communities Organizing Fund | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide food and supply drops in working class communities of color, host web-based seminars, and help residents navigate financial assistance programs. | Boroughwide |
| SupChina | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support reporting on the growing tide of anti-Asian and anti-Chinese sentiment and to raise legal funds for Chinese-American scientists unjustly accused of being spies. | Boroughwide |
| DRUM, Desis Rising up and Moving | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For advocacy, organizing, and the “Hate Free Zone” initiative launched in Kensington, Brooklyn | Boroughwide, Kensington |
| Haitian-American Community Coalition | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For virtual care technologies to provide continuity of care and client services for older adults, HIV-positive clients, and formerly homeless individuals. | Boroughwide, Crown Heights |
| Brownsville Think Tank Matters | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide people returning from incarceration with PPE, gift cards, food packages, transportation, and restorative justice circles with fellow community members and police officers in partnership with Incredible Credible Messengers. | Boroughwide |
| Asian American Federation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the Advocate, Educate, and Mitigate Against Hate Initiative to coordinate protections for the Asian community in Brooklyn. | Sunset Park, Boroughwide |