Community Fund Grants
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| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VOCAL-NY | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support the growth of outreach and testing programs for people who use drugs, increased operating hours for syringe services programs, expansion of service delivery teams by transitioning part-time peer outreach workers and Hepatitis C care coordinators to full-time salaried positions, and hiring additional peer outreach workers. | Boroughwide |
| viBe Theater Experience | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support programming that engages girls and young women of color to write, create, publish, direct, and perform personal collaborative theater and music.` | Boroughwide |
| America on Tech | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the East New York/Brownsville Summer Tech Camp, and the Youth Design Center, a gateway for young people to learn marketable hard skills in STEAM, access post-secondary education, achieve mobility, and engage in place-based community revitalization. | East New York, Brownsville |
| ImmSchools | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a program that advocates for the interest of the immigrant community by creating internships for students that do not qualify for city programs, including undocumented students. | Boroughwide |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs that engage youth of color and their experiences to discuss race, identity, power, and privilege, and to build community, critical consciousness, and college and career readiness. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, East New York, Canarsie, Brownsville |
| Caribbean Women's Health Association | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To provide immigration legal support, classes to expectant and new mothers, doulas to low-income women, as well as access to a food pantry and HIV/AIDS prevention education, testing, and counseling. | Boroughwide | |
| Youth Design Center | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | For a community-based creative agency and community design center that provides a gateway for young people to learn marketable skills in STEAM, access higher education, achieve economic mobility, and become civic leaders. Youth Design Center was formerly known as “Made in Brownsville.” | Brownsville |
| Brooklyn College Community Partnership | 2022 | $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 |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the hospital-based violence interruption program and in-school and community-based discussion groups and workshops. | East New York, Brownsville, Flatbush |
| ¡Oye! Group | 2022 | $33,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support free arts programming that engages primarily Black and Latinx youth in Bushwick, including the creation of original plays about topics relevant to the community, an annual Shakespeare program, teen poetry workshops, and acting classes and re-entry support for youth in juvenile detention facilities. | Bushwick |
| Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) | 2022 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) was founded in 2001 by Arab immigrant and Arab American leaders in Bay Ridge to advocate for the community in the wake of the September 11th attacks. Today, AAANY serves Brooklyn’s Arab immigrant, refugee, and Muslim communities, helping over 6,000 beneficiaries annually through its women’s empowerment and adult literacy programs, immigration legal assistance, mental health and domestic violence support services, and youth programming. During the COVID-19 pandemic, AAANY has transitioned to virtual programming and has transformed its office into a direct relief hub, distributing 22,000+ food boxes and $450,000 in direct cash for clients in crisis, creating a laptop lending program, and working with community partners to provide relief to domestic violence survivors. | Boroughwide |
| Carroll Gardens Association | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support tenants and immigrant domestic workers in their advocacy for permanent affordable housing, cooperative economics, and domestic worker rights. | Bay Ridge, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Prospect Heights, Red Hook, Sunset Park | |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support an initiative that promotes social and economic justice in Red Hook while cultivating local leadership and strengthening the future of youth development through academic support, leadership training, part-time employment, college guidance, emotional health support, opportunities, and services that prepare youths for a self-sufficient, civically-active adulthood. | Red Hook |
| 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 |
| Fifth Avenue Committee | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| Caribbean Women's Health Association | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide financial support and baby supplies for vulnerable pregnant or postpartum clients in Central and East Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Flex Dance Program | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a Flex Dance and creative mentorship program aimed at reducing the likelihood of recidivism and re-entry for young people in secure detention centers. | Boroughwide |
| Elite Learners | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To expand community outreach in Brownsville, Crown Heights, and East Flatbush about COVID-19 prevention, and through a virtual town hall series to promote accurate information about the virus and the vaccine. | Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush |
| Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership | 2021 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To increase economic and physical accessibility of local businesses and green spaces as well as support age-friendly advocacy days, socialization and active events, and political education. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Fort Greene |
| Sauti Yetu | 2021 | $40,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support the building of a new Brooklyn center offering direct services, public education, and advocacy to provide low-income immigrant women and girls access to life skills and leadership opportunities. | Boroughwide | |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs that engage youth of color and their experiences to discuss race, identity, power, and privilege, and to build community, critical consciousness, and college and career readiness. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, East New York, Canarsie, Brownsville |
| Business Center for New Americans | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support immigrant and refugee small and micro business owners with client services, webinars, assistance in accessing relief programs, emergency loans, and cash grants. | Boroughwide |
| Girl Be Heard | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For multidisciplinary arts opportunities designed to engage young women in social justice education and develop their leadership skills. | 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 |
| Youth Advocacy Corps | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support YAC’s core youth advocacy programs: the Youth Advocacy Summer Institute and Mental Health Awareness Project. | Boroughwide, East New York |
| 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 |
| UHAB (Urban Homesteading Assistance, U-hab Inc.) | 2021 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support intergenerational tenant organizing, provide administrative support and offer educational opportunities to allow long-term residents of color to age in place in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. | Brownsville, Crown Heights, East New York |
| Brooklyn Movement Center | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To support movement-building among Black communities in Central Brooklyn and affect policy targeting civic education and engagement, economic opportunity, and housing justice as part of The Black Freedom Project agenda. | Boroughwide |
| Student Dream | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs for college-bound students of color that provide them with the necessary financial literacy skills to close the racial and economic gap which benefits their white counterparts. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by girls and young women of color and gender expansive youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Youth Justice Network | 2021 | $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. Youth Justice Network was formerly known as “Friends of Island Academy.” | 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 |
| United Chinese Association of Brooklyn | 2021 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To provide cultural activities, food, crafts and games, English and naturalization classes, and social assistance for older east-Asian immigrants while combating anti-Asian violence and addressing community safety concerns. | Southwest Brooklyn |