Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sakhi for South Asian Women | 2021 | $40,000 | 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 | 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 | |
| Siren - Protectors of the Rainforest, Inc. | 2021 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide food relief for the residents of Rehab Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| STEM from Dance | 2021 | $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 |
| Street Vendor Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide political education and leadership training for vendors to mobilize campaigns for social justice and economic opportunity. | 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 |
| Surveillance Technology Oversight Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support ending discriminatory surveillance on immigrants, Muslim Americans, the LGBTQ+ community, and BIPOC individuals through advocacy and litigating for privacy. | Boroughwide |
| The Alex House Project | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase vaccine outreach, education, and support to at least 300 more young parents in central and southern Brooklyn with a focus on parents living in communities at high risk for spread of the virus. | Boroughwide |
| The Black Institute | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To conduct research, provide educational opportunities that encourage political awareness and stir public debate, train new leadership, develop initiatives to build wealth and power for Black people and all people of color. The Black Institute will continue its environmental and housing justice work in Black communities across the borough. | Boroughwide |
| The Black Institute | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For outreach efforts in Black communities via in-person and social media campaigns to increase confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine. | 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 |
| The Brave House | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide immigrant-friendly resources and services for survivors of gender-based violence, particularly young immigrant women and gender expansive youth. | Boroughwide |
| The Brownsville Partnership | 2021 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support programs that engage, empower, and employ residents across the age spectrum on issues of housing, public space, community infrastructure, and economic development. | Brownsville |
| The Healing Center | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide support services and emergency food boxes to immigrant survivors of family violence in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge |
| 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 |
| The New York Immigration Coalition | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To advocate for New York’s immigrants and refugees and push for equitable legislation by partnering with national and regional advocates, nonprofits, and bipartisan elected officials. | Boroughwide |
| The Wyckoff House & Association, Inc | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support innovative educational and farm-based programs that build cultural and agricultural connections within the community through the teaching of Brooklyn’s rich history as a leader in urban farming, with an emphasis on: community, the immigrant experience, supporting family, and understanding the health benefits of sustainable food. | East Flatbush, Canarsie |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To engage court-involved youth as actors and playwrights in a comprehensive theatre-for-social justice program that uses real life stories of the youth actors. | Boroughwide |
| Translatinx Networks | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide PPP and financial assistance to members of underserved communities in Brooklyn and to implement a telehealth program to support their access to healthcare services with the use of a mobile device. | 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 |
| UNITE HERE Local 100 | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support unemployed hospitality workers, with financial assistance and food. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| United Community Centers | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the operation and management of one of the city’s largest youth-led farms as well as a sexual health-focused peer education program. | East New York |
| United Community Centers | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a long-term vaccine education program in East New York conducted in both English and Spanish. | East New York |
| UPROSE | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For community organizing, public education, and leadership programs for youth that advance environmental sustainability and resiliency. | Sunset Park, South Slope, Gowanus |
| Urban Youth Collaborative | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a coalition focused on the advancement of school discipline reform through legislation aimed at reducing racial disparities and significantly limiting the use of suspensions. | Boroughwide |
| viBe Theater Experience | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programming that engages girls and young women of color to write, create, publish, direct, and perform personal collaborative theater and music. | Boroughwide |
| Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY) | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To build power among low-income people impacted by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness and mobilize for legislative change through community organizing, leadership development, advocacy, direct services, and direct action. The organization will continue to build organizing around its housing and economic justice campaigns. | Boroughwide |
| Worker's Justice Project | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support and protect food delivery workers and domestic workers, including providing direct cash assistance and personal protective equipment. | Boroughwide |
| Workers Justice Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support worker-led education, organizing, leadership development, and grassroots economic alternatives to improve the social, economic, and political conditions of Latinx immigrant families in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Young New Yorkers | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide court-mandated arts diversion programs for youth that engage them in social justice issues through the creation of large-scale public art projects. | 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 |
| Youth Design Center | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| 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 |
| Youth Represent | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support direct legal representation and workshops for system-involved youth who face employment discrimination, school suspension, summonses, and other criminal and civil legal issues. +Partially funded by ELMA Music Foundation | Boroughwide |