Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown Heights Community Mediation Center | 2017 | $25,000 | 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 |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Boroughwide | |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For advocacy and organizing in Brooklyn’s Muslims communities | Bay Ridge, Sunset Park |
| Turning Point Brooklyn | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For social, educational, medical, and economic support services to low income, immigrant residents focused on building advocacy and leadership skills and establishing strong mentoring relationships | Sunset Park |
| Womankind | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | Direct service and advocacy support for immigrant survivors of domestic violence in Sunset Park, with specific focus on advocacy and Asian communities | Sunset Park |
| Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger | 2017 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Green Teens sustainable farming paid apprenticeship program for Brooklyn youth aged 15-24 | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| H.O.L.L.A - How Our Lives Link Altogether | 2017 | $20,000 | 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 |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2017 | $30,000 | 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 |
| Lineage Project | 2017 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Arab American Family Support Center | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For outreach, social services, and leadership development in Brooklyn’s Muslims communities, particularly for Yemeni residents | Boroughwide |
| Arab American Association of New York: | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership fellowship for Arab and Muslim youth that provides resources and tools to address advocacy issues including immigration, police accountability, and racial justice | Boroughwide |
| 596 Acres | 2017 | $20,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | To support stewardship, preservation, and transformation of two neighborhood lots into community gardens. | Crown Heights |
| Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | 2017 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | Organizing and Advocacy support, and legal assistance and representation for queer immigrant detainees ($15,000) | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For an apprentice program through which teens work under the guidance of skilled professionals and receive mentorship from top horticulturalists and environmental educators | Boroughwide |
| KAVI - Kings Against Violence Initiative | 2017 | $35,000 | 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, Flatbush, Brownsville |
| Young New Yorkers | 2017 | $20,000 | 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 |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For organizing and legal clinics and language support of Black Muslim immigrants | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To develop the leadership and empowerment of the borough's Black immigrant youth and families in order to end racism, criminalization, and economic disenfranchisement | Boroughwide |
| Bethany United Methodist Church | 2017 | $20,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | To support services, workshops, and cultural programming that engage residents around issues in the community. | Crown Heights |
| Emma’s Torch | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | A social enterprise that provides hospitality workforce development program for refugees | Boroughwide |
| UPROSE | 2017 | $35,000 | 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 |
| Churches United For Fair Housing | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For youth development programming focused on housing-related issues and other challenges impacting low-income communities of color | Bushwick |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2017 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | An inter-generational organizing center for LGBT people of color that promotes community wellness and progressive social and economic justice in New York City. Founded in Brooklyn in 1996, ALP works with over 8,000 members on issues including creating safety models against police brutality and hate crimes, as well as training small businesses, community organizations, and neighborhood leaders on de-escalation and safety strategies. | Boroughwide |
| Eco:StationNY | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient Iyeshima Harris with Eco:StationNY for "Farm to Cafeteria," a student-led outreach project focusing on healthy eating and self-empowerment that engages students at a place and time they are thinking about food: the lunchroom. The project will use school lunch and culturally relevant food to teach youth how to healthfully and affordably prepare meals they love. Through cooking demos, students will learn how they can combine fresh produce with goods from their supermarket, instilling in them the knowledge, access, and creativity to needed to transcend and redefine what food means in a low-income neighborhood. | Bushwick | |
| Truthworker Theater Company | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A theater program that uses first person narratives to bring the stories of young people impacted by incarceration to the forefront and drive awareness of the need for policy reform. | Boroughwide |
| FUREE | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| Common Justice | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 | |
| Center for NuLeadership | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient Yamil Torres with the Center for NuLeadership for “Bridging the Healing Gap,” which will facilitate gatherings that provide space and educate youth who are affiliated with gangs and/or are street involved about how, why, and where gangs originated, explain political and racial history, and principles of what gangs were founded on. The second half of the project will focus on changing the way the larger community views the youth by opening up dialogue with an intergenerational event. | Bedford Stuyvesant | |
| Alex House | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Pregnancy and parenting groups for teens and other young, low-income, first time mothers and fathers in Red Hook. | Red Hook |
| Global Action Project | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Lineage Project | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Off the Page, Inc | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient Shaqur Williams with Off the Page, Inc for "All American Boys," a show adapted from the book by the same name that addresses different points of view between a black teenager and a white teenager in a community and the way police officers approach them. The project brings black and white actors together to work on this production and to talk about the problem facing the black community and how to work together to address it. | Park Slope | |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A partnership with student organizers to pilot campus-based transformative justice practices that hold harm-doers accountable and support sexual violence survivors in their healing and development. | Crown Heights |
| Global Kids | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | After-school programming that aims to increase exposure to local and international human rights and social justice issues. | Boroughwide |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A youth organizing group that seeks to address racial and educational injustice through a campaign to implement restorative justice practices at a local high school campus. | Cypress Hills |