Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brownsville Community Culinary Center | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the culinary training and apprenticeship program for young people, ages 18-34, from Brownsville. | Brownsville |
| Osborne Association | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs for children of incarcerated parents as well as a council that engages young people impacted by incarceration to develop campaigns around issues affecting their lives and communities. | Boroughwide |
| Neighbors in Action | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | : To support Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets and Justice Community Plus, two of the Center’s holistic, anti-violence and work readiness youth development programs. | Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| 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 |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2020 | $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. | Boroughwide |
| Global Action Project | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For an intersectional youth organizing and activism program that uses media and storytelling to help young people, specifically immigrant and LGBTQ youth, advocate for themselves and their communities. | Boroughwide |
| United Community Centers | 2019 | $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 |
| Building Beats | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support DJ and music programs that teach entrepreneurial, leadership, and life skills to young people of color. | Boroughwide |
| S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth leadership and development programs for systems-involved girls and young women in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Sanctuary for Families | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a peer support group and workforce development for Ultra-Orthodox young women who have been rejected by their families due to histories of abuse, addiction, sex trafficking, and other forms of gendered violence. | Citywide |
| Common Justice | 2017 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a victim-service and alternative-to-incarceration program based on restorative justice principles that works with young people who commit violent felonies and those they harm | Boroughwide |
| Freedom to Thrive | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support a network of national and local immigrant rights groups organizing to end punishment-based criminal and immigration systems. | Boroughwide |
| Good Call NYC | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the launch of a technology-enabled hotline in Brooklyn to provide immediate legal support in case of arrest, and to hire Brooklyn youth who have benefited from the program as organizers. | Boroughwide |
| Global Kids | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For after-school programming that aims to increase exposure to local and international human rights and social justice issues. | Boroughwide |
| UPROSE | 2019 | $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 |
| CAMBA | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Brownsville In, Violence Out, a community-based youth development and gun-violence reduction program. | Brownsville |
| Young New Yorkers | 2019 | $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 |
| STEM from Dance | 2020 | $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 |
| Documented | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To expand its collaborative, culturally-relevant investigative news model to the Chinese and Caribbean communities in NYC. | 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 |
| Girl Be Heard | 2019 | $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 |
| viBe Theater Experience | 2019 | $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 |
| The Campaign Against Hunger | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Green Teens sustainable farming paid apprenticeship program for Brooklyn youth ages 15-24. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Safe Passage Project | 2018 | $50,000 | 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 |
| Ellery Court Senior HDFC | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Bushwick |
| Safe Passage Project | 2017 | $50,000 | 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 |
| St. Nicks Alliance | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2016 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Comprehensive free legal representation to court-involved youth with a focus on school discipline and reentry, special education placements, alternative pathways to graduation, alternatives to incarceration, and counseling. | Boroughwide |
| Safe Passage Project | 2019 | $50,000 | 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 |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2018 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For comprehensive free legal representation to court-involved youth with a focus on school discipline and reentry, special education placements, alternative pathways to graduation, alternatives to incarceration, and counseling. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2017 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For comprehensive free legal representation to court-involved youth with a focus on school discipline and reentry, special education placements, alternative pathways to graduation, alternatives to incarceration, and counseling | Boroughwide |
| Safe Passage Project | 2016 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Free legal services and representation to meet the unmet needs of immigrant and undocumented children in partnership with community high schools. | Boroughwide |
| University Settlement Society of New York | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Clinton Hill, East Flatbush, East New York, Fort Greene, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace |
| RiseBoro Community Partnership | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Boroughwide |
| Southside United H.D.F.C | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |