Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health and Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT) Program | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support developmentally and culturally competent wraparound services for LGBTQ+ youth of color, centering clients in all decisions about their treatment and care plans, with services spanning STI and HIV prevention and treatment (including PEP and PreP), hormone therapy for trans and gender non-conforming youth, and mental healthcare. | Boroughwide |
| Health and Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT) Program | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support developmentally and culturally competent wraparound services for LGBTQ+ youth of color, centering clients in all decisions about their treatment and care plans, with services spanning STI and HIV prevention and treatment (including PEP and PreP), hormone therapy for trans and gender non-conforming youth, and mental healthcare. | Boroughwide |
| Housing Plus | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support justice-involved women in an alternative-to-detention program that provides community-based housing and comprehensive services to help them overcome poverty, homelessness, and the effects of incarceration, and build stable lives. The program also seeks to reunite and reconnect parents and caregivers with children in foster care, and to prevent separation in as many families as possible. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East New York, Flatbush |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a Cultural Arts program that provides multi disciplinary instruction and intergenerational programming that celebrates the rich heritage of the African Diaspora. | Boroughwide, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| 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 |
| Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| JobsFirstNYC | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs to strengthen the capacity of workforce development institutions and create systems-level change through partnerships with employers and local government, with a goal of improving economic mobility and opportunities for young adults. | 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 |
| Lantern Community Services | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To provide comprehensive harm reduction services to improve the overall quality of life for clients, including at two supportive housing sites in Brooklyn that serve formerly unhoused residents living with chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and/or diagnosed mental health conditions. Staff also provide Naloxone training and kits and overdose prevention education to residents. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville |
| Mexican Coalition for the Empowerment of Youth & Families | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To increase language access and provide culturally relevant food, health and legal services to Latinx indigenous New Yorkers. | Sunset Park, Bushwick, Coney Island, Park Slope | |
| Mixteca | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To continue uplifting indigenous Latinx immigrant Brooklynites, provide food security support, vaccine access and information, and advocate for change through community empowerment and educational services. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Midwood, Prospect Park South, Windsor Terrace | |
| Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership | 2022 | $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 |
| New York State Youth Leadership Council | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support undocumented immigrant youth organizing around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights |
| New York Therapeutic Communities - Stay’n Out | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support substance misuse treatment for adults in the criminal legal system through licensed community-based residential and outpatient programs that use a therapeutic community model, as well as to add more peer recovery advocates to connect persons using substances with needed services | East New York, Brownsville, 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 |
| Parent-Child Relationship Association Inc. | 2022 | $33,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a comprehensive range of services to improve parent-child relationships in families with teenagers, promote youth empowerment and positive development, and address the social needs of Chinese immigrant families in Sunset Park via social services and support, civic and community engagement, and youth-led community programming. | Sunset Park |
| Project Guardianship | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To increase the availability of exemplary guardianship services, increase the use of alternatives to guardianship, and correct gaps in the guardianship system in order to enable self-determination and preserve dignity for older adults in the least restrictive setting possible | Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Brownsville, Boroughwide, Citywide |
| Pure Legacee, Inc. | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support young women and new mothers (16-21) in Brownsville who are directly impacted by the criminal justice and foster care systems and are facing homelessness, with comprehensive trauma-formed support that includes: peer mentorship, employment, housing, and transportation assistance; mental health and substance misuse support; access to a computer lab; and training on advocacy and community organizing. | Brownsville |
| Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To provide support, direct services, and community for LGBTQIA+ individuals currently in, recently released from, or at risk of entering immigration detention. | Boroughwide | |
| Recess | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a youth-led alternative to incarceration program that uses contemporary art to give voices to young people. Using visual storytelling, youth cohorts dismantle the narrative of the “criminal” in their community, creating long term solutions to catalyze generational wealth within their communities. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Bushwick, Canarsie, Flatbush, Coney Island |
| Red Hook Community Justice Center | 2022 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | Launched in 2000, the Red Hook Community Justice Center works to strengthen Red Hook and surrounding areas by reducing crime and the use of incarceration, improving public trust in justice, and collaborating with the community to solve local problems. At the Justice Center, a single judge hears cases that ordinarily would go to three different courts: civil, family, and criminal. Whenever possible, cases are resolved through a restorative, problem-solving approach that seeks to repair harm and address the underlying issues that bring individuals into the justice system. The Justice Center also serves as a hub for an array of unconventional programs that are available to litigants as a means of resolving their cases, as well as to the community at large. | Red Hook |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2022 | $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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Safe Passage Project | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For free legal services and representation to meet the unmet needs of immigrant and undocumented children in partnership with community high schools. | Boroughwide |
| Sakhi for South Asian Women | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support culturally-relevant and linguistically-accessible services for South Asian survivors of gender-based violence, including case management, economic empowerment, mental health services, food justice grants, transitional and emergency housing, and housing placement. | Boroughwide | |
| Sauti Yetu | 2022 | $45,000 | 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 | |
| Spanish Speaking Elderly Council - RAICES | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To provide a continuum of linguistic and culturally-relevant services for older adults across five Brooklyn senior centers, an outpatient behavioral health clinic, a case assistance program, and an in-development tele-mental health services model for homebound seniors. | Boroughwide |
| STEM From Dance | 2022 | $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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Student Dream | 2022 | $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 |
| 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 |