Community Fund Grants
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| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYC NOWC | 2023 | $25,000 | Fishman Family Fund for Economic Opportunity | For programming that supports New York City worker cooperatives and worker-owners — particualatly in historically marginalized communities — throughorganizing, advocacy, technical assistance, leadership development, training, and by providing direct grants. | Boroughwide | |
| Global Trauma Research Inc. | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To provide 24-hour crisis intervention and culturally and spiritually specific individual long-term trauma counseling to participants with histories of substance misuse. | Boroughwide |
| NYC Together | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To co-create and implement a harm reduction training guide with impacted population to use in programming. | Boroughwide |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2023 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | Arab-American Family Support Center (AAFSC) has provided culturally and linguistically competent, trauma-informed social services to low-income immigrants and refugees in New York City since 1994. AAFSC's services promote mental and physical well-being, prevent child abuse and work to end gender-based violence, provide the tools for learners of every age to succeed, and uplift the voices and needs of under-represented communities. Their programs include adult education, youth enrichment, mental health counseling, domestic violence support, health insurance enrollment and education, legal services, and more. In addition to offering direct services, the AAFSC Research Institute is a trusted source for information and publications on the voices and experiences of Arab, Middle Eastern, North African, Muslim, and South Asian (AMENAMSA) communities. Their staff speak over 30 languages, enabling them to serve populations that mainstream providers struggle to reach. | Boroughwide, Cobble Hill, Downtown |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative | 2023 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) was founded in 2009 by Dr. Robert Gore, an Emergency Room physician who felt compelled to address the rising incidence of violence among youth in Central Brooklyn. KAVI works to prevent and eliminate interpersonal violence from the lives of young people through social justice advocacy, peer leadership, and community mobilization in hospitals, schools, and community settings. Through community and school programs, they serve over 300 youth annually, and have helped hundreds of youth overcome a history of violence and behavioral issues to graduate from high school and attend college. Through their hospital program, they engage and support over 750 patients each year and have reduced hospital recidivism rates by over 75% percent by providing up to a year of follow-up support and care for youth patients admitted with assault-related injuries. | Bedford Stuyvesant, East Flatbush, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Brownsville |
| Mixteca | 2023 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | Mixteca Organization was established in 2000 in Sunset Park to address critical needs in health care, mental health, education, social and legal issues facing the growing Mexican and Latin American immigrant community in Brooklyn. In 2016, in response to the increasingly hostile, anti-immigrant political climate, Mixteca increased efforts to provide information, support, and build a grassroots advocacy group led by staff, volunteers, and Promotoras (community advocates). During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mixteca was among the first to respond and provide emergency relief to the Latinx and Indigenous immigrant community, providing a lifeline to the disproportionately impacted undocumented immigrant community who were largely excluded from federal and state aid. | Sunset Park |
| STEM From Dance | 2023 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | STEM From Dance was founded in Brooklyn in 2012 to empower girls of color with the know-how, experience, and confidence to dream big in STEM—all through the power of dance. STEM from Dance offers programs for girls of color ages 10-18: afterschool residencies in partnership with NYC Title I schools, and Girls Rise Up, an intensive three-week summer program. Through both programs, girls learn the fundamentals of dance and technology and use technology to create unique, engaging choreographed dances. Participants learn how to use circuits to create outfits that light up with their dancing, code drones to dance alongside them, code a brand-new song to dance to, and more. | Boroughwide |
| Workers Justice Project | 2023 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | Workers Justice Project (WJP) is a New York City workers’ rights hub that has been spearheading new ways of labor organizing and empowering workers to gain a voice in the workplace since 2010. WJP is building a diverse membership base and developing the skills of worker leaders who understand the connection between the barriers they face and systemic racism, while providing Spanish-language services, training and organizing. WJP has created over 5,000 construction and house cleaning jobs in the past five years that have resulted in $4.9 million in salaries. Additional achievements include securing six landmark policies to “Deliver Justice'' for 65,000 app-based delivery workers in 2021, and distributing $2.5 million in cash relief to essential workers and excluded workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Williamsburg, Bushwick, Sunset Park |
| Brooklyn Community Pride Center | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support programming that empowers LGBTQIA+ youth to make positive choices around substance use via counseling, support groups, and participating in the Lighthouse Learning Collective, a group which engages LGBTQIA+ service providers and harm reduction organizations. | Boroughwide |
| JMAC for Families | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support harm reduction efforts and advocacy for birthing people who use substances, including working on the Informed Consent BIll (4285A), which would require NY hospitals to obtain consent from pregnant and birthing patients before drug testing them and their babies. | Boroughwide |
| The Hannah Legacy | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support holistic harm reduction programming including overdose education, counseling, referrals to treatment for infectious diseases and substance use disorders, distribution of opioid overdose reversal medications, and more. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Workforce Innovations (BWI) | 2023 | $25,000 | Fishman Family Fund for Economic Opportunity | To support workforce development programming that connects low- and moderate-income people with living wage employment opportunities in commercial driving, film and television production and post-production, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), Information and Communications Technology (ICT), woodworking, and tech industries. | Boroughwide | |
| 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 |
| Ali Forney Center | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support services provided to 2,000+ LGBTQIA+ youth at a 24/7 drop-in center, and 17 emergency and transitional housing sites, as well as to hire a substance misuse treatment counselor to work at 14 housing sites, including 9 in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| The New York Immigration Coalition | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | 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 | |
| First Tech Fund, Inc | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | For programs to close the digital divide for low-income high schoolers by providing access to technology, career and college guidance, and engaging youth as part of an advisory board. Students receive free laptops and internet access, targeted advising and networking, and mentorship from industry-specific professionals. | Boroughwide |
| Council of Peoples Organization | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | For ongoing case management and supportive services to the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian community, with a specific focus on serving older adults through their halal senior center and a halal meals-on-wheels program, the first in New York City. | Midwood, Kensington |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs that serve Haitian immigrant youth to develop their capacity as productive community members, and understand their collective power to fight for their right to quality education, ensuring long-term access to other resources for a better life outcome. | Boroughwide |
| United Community Centers | 2022 | $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 |
| YVote/Next Gen Politics | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For youth-led civic engagement programming including organizing and creating policy proposals around economic mobility, food justice, housing security, civic opportunities, and mental health; peer-led workshops for schools and community groups; regular teen summits and cohort-based institutes; and training to become peer facilitators. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Community Housing and Services | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support housing for 1,000+ people who experience homelessness annually, including transitional and permanent housing, as well as substance misuse counselors and skilled clinicians for all new housing developments. | Boroughwide |
| 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 | |
| GrowHouse NYC | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support arts and activism programming that connects young Black creatives and activists to older artists for support and mentorship, including a gap year program for Black high school graduates to learn about equitable design, power, organizing, and history through workshops, travel, and a community design school. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Flatbush Tenant Coalition organizes older adults across 300 buildings in Central Brooklyn, with a focus on educating the community on housing laws and tenants’ rights, advocating for policy change, and expanding access to entitlements and benefits. | Flatbush, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
| Flex Dance Program | 2022 | $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 |
| UPROSE | 2022 | $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 |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programming that connects justice-involved youth in Brownsville to community-based support services, paid training, internships, and jobs, and develops their leadership through a youth council that focuses on community issues and opportunities, including running a community garden. | Brownsville |
| Community Counseling & Mediation | 2022 | $72,500 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support a wide range of social services, counseling, physical and mental healthcare, education, and supportive housing services for individuals and families in extremely low-income areas of Brooklyn. Services include treatment, early intervention, wrap-around services, and recovery support services for people living with substance misuse disorders and/or co-occurring mental health disorders. | Boroughwide, Downtown, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Brownsville |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| GRIOT Circle | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To ensure that all LGBTQ+ elders of color experience a just and abundant quality of life through a variety of services within its adult daycare programs, monthly social and support groups, and outreach to homebound seniors—as well as through partnerships with other eldercare organizations to increase their competency of care around race, gender, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS, and sexual health. | Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Brownsville, Boroughwide |
| Footsteps | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth transitioning into mainstream society with resources, leadership development, and peer connections. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
| Youth Justice Network | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Invest in Youth | 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 Advocacy Corps | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Invest in Youth | To support YAC’s core youth advocacy programs: the Youth Advocacy Summer Institute and Mental Health Awareness Project. | Boroughwide, East New York |
| Coney Island Anti Violence Collaborative | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Black and Latinx youth in Coney Island through mentoring, advocacy, and organizing, school-based violence prevention programs and STEM programs, visual and performing arts, anti-bullying workshops, community outreach, and counseling and trauma therapy, including the launch of a garden project to address and heal trauma. | Coney Island |