Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grow Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For remote Free Tax Prep Services for low income, communities of color to ensure maximum access to CARES Act stimulus payments. | Boroughwide |
| Grow Brooklyn | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Grow Brooklyn provides intensive outreach, compassionate counseling, and direct assistance aimed at keeping older adult homeowners in their homes in the face of financial exploitation, particularly in communities of color. | Bushwick, Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Brownsville, Boroughwide |
| H.O.L.L.A (How Our Lives Link Altogether) | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a social justice education, leadership, and organizing program for low income youth of color focused on trauma recovery and healing. | 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 |
| Haitian Americans United for Progress, Inc | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency cash assistance, support and counseling, and up-to-date COVID-19 health information to undocumented, low-wage workers who have been laid off or furloughed and cannot access government benefits. | Boroughwide, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To build a mutual aid group for Haitian refugees and undocumented communities, to provide emergency food, health care information, and cash assistance, as well continuous provision of interpreters for remote legal support. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide emergency food, grab and go meals, and personal protective equipment for vulnerable residents in Canarsie and the Flatlands. | Canarsie, Flatlands |
| Heights and Hills, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support food and household items for over 2,000 older adult clients, and expansion of the volunteer force including 300 new background checks. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Homecrest Community Services | 2020 | $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. | Homecrest, Bensonhurst, Sunset Park, Coney Island |
| 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 |
| HousingPlus | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide comprehensive support for women and children transitioning out of homelessness living in the organization’s transitional buildings in Central Brooklyn. | 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 |
| IMPACCT Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide financial assistance, protective supplies, food, and travel assistance to Black and Latinx, low-income households in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights |
| IntegrateNYC | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the leadership and capacity of students working to end segregation in New York City public schools. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jeremiah Program Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide Brownsville families headed by single mothers food, cleaning, and infant supplies, as well as virtual family programming and technology to support school and work from home. | Brownsville |
| Jewish Community Council of Canarsie, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the distribution of personal care packages, nutrient-dense foods, and fresh produce, as well as case management and outreach to families throughout Starrett City and a Southern portion of East New York. | Starrett City, East New York |
| Jews for Racial & Economic Justice | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | JFREJ’s 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 |
| Jews for Racial and Economic Justice | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support Mutual Aid NYC, a hotline to connect vulnerable residents in communities of color who have limited access to technology with volunteers delivering groceries and prescriptions. | Boroughwide |
| John Jay College Foundation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For emergency grants for undocumented and immigrant John Jay College students living Brooklyn, who are ineligible for government support. | Boroughwide |
| JustLeadershipUSA | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To empower court-involved youth to drive policy reforms, including #buildCOMMUNITIES Campaign to reinvest money divested from the NYC justice system through closure of Rikers back into communities to support proven community-based solutions and services. | Boroughwide |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative | 2020 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide continuous support to vulnerable youth in Central Brooklyn through a secure telehealth platform for one-on-one counseling, social worker participation in webinars, technology updates, and emergency transportation and food assistance. | Boroughwide | |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | 2020 | $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 |
| Kings Bay Y | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide services and support to vulnerable populations in southern Brooklyn, including emergency food delivery for older adults and remote wellness checks for members. | Boroughwide |
| Kingsborough Community College | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support operational expenses of the KCC Urban Farm to be able to grow, harvest, and distribute organic produce for CUNY students and people facing food insecurity referred by Ancient Song Doula Services and We Keep Us Safe Abolitionist Network. | Boroughwide |
| La Nueva Esperanza, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency financial assistance and PPE for undocumented, unstably housed, Black and Latinx HIV+ residents of Bushwick and Williamsburg. | Bushwick, Williamsburg |
| 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 |
| Lineage Project | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For mindfulness and yoga programs for incarcerated and highly-vulnerable young people, including those in living in secure and non-secure detention facilities, as well as a Brooklyn-based program for young people on probation. | Boroughwide |
| LiveOn NY | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support advocacy efforts to bridge crisis-level issues between nonprofit services providers and government officials on behalf of older New Yorkers in need. | Boroughwide |
| Made in Brownsville | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide cash assistance for program alumni and creatives in East Brooklyn, particularly those in shelters and other vulnerable populations. | Boroughwide |