Community Fund Grants
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Organization |
Year | Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Community Services | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a project that engages young people, primarily immigrant youth, in activities to help them develop job skills, improve their academic performance, and become community leaders. | Coney Island |
| #SavetheFrontline | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To distribute free, washable face covers at local community centers, public housing developments, health clinics, religious institutions, food banks, and homeless shelters in high risk Brooklyn neighborhoods. | 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 |
| Academy of Medical & Public Health Services | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide free mental health counseling services to immigrants in Sunset Park to meet the high demand by COVID-19. | Sunset Park |
| Access Justice Brooklyn | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To expand legal programming for older adults and assign a staff attorney to guide older clients through estate planning, guardianship, homeowner assistance and foreclosure prevention, advanced life planning, asset assistance, and more. | Boroughwide |
| Accion East Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide support to 115 entrepreneurs in Brooklyn and launch an emergency relief fund for small businesses. | Boroughwide |
| ACE Integration Head Start | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide grocery gift cards to immigrant families in Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant enrolled in the organization’s early childhood programs. | Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Active Citizen Project | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For Project EATS, a youth leadership initiative centered at the organization’s community farm that aims to help young people improve the conditions that determine their quality of life and ability to thrive. | Brownsville, East New York, Crown Heights |
| Active Citizen Project | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A youth leadership initiative centered at the organization’s community farm that aims to help young people improve the conditions that determine their quality of life and ability to thrive. | Brownsville, East New York, Crown Heights |
| Active Citizen Project | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a youth leadership initiative centered at the organization’s community farm that aims to help young people improve the conditions that determine their quality of life and ability to thrive | Brownsville, East New York, Crown Heights |
| Active Citizen Project | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Taking Charge/Leading Change, a youth leadership initiative in Brownsville, East New York and Crown Heights that aims to help young people improve the conditions that determine their quality of life and ability to thrive. | Brownsville, East New York, Crown Heights |
| Added Value | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Urban farming and youth empowerment program, which hires a cohort of teens to run the farm, farmers market, and community food events as they develop leadership on food justice issues. | Red Hook |
| Added Value | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the urban farming and youth empowerment program in Red Hook, which hires a cohort of teens to run the farm, farmers market, and community food events as they develop leadership on food justice issues. | Red Hook |
| Adhikaar | 2019 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | For the National Nail Salon Workers Exchange, taking place on March 25, 2019 at Barnard College | Boroughwide |
| Adhikaar | 2018 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To support community legal clinics and advocacy efforts for Nepali immigrants with Temporary Protected Status | Boroughwide |
| Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide emergency grants to nail salon worker-members in need of urgent cash assistance, as well as to hire a nail salon member leader to enhance outreach to Brooklyn workers. | Boroughwide |
| Afrolatin@ Project, Inc | 2020 | $7,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To manufacture and distribute medical grade PPE to Brooklyn hospitals serving communities of color. | Boroughwide |
| After Hours Project | 2022 | $70,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support an array of health and social services including: behavioral health education; sexual health and wellness; HIV/AIDs Linkage to Care; harm reduction; housing, food, and family wellness; community outreach; advocacy and referral services, and more. Clients primarily have little or no contact with traditional service providers, and include persons who inject drugs, sex workers, and people who are homeless. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Bushwick, Crown Heights North, Crown Heights South, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, East Williamsburg, Flatbush |
| After Hours Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide up to date guidance, cleaning and hygiene supplies, and food to vulnerable clients, including older adults and people with compromised immune systems who are homeless, living with AIDS or HIV, have a serious mental illness, or are active substance users. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Alex House Project | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide pregnancy and parenting groups for teens and other young, low-income, first time mothers and fathers in Red Hook. Red Hook | Red Hook |
| Alex House Project | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide pregnancy and parenting groups for teens and other young, low-income, first time mothers and fathers in Red Hook. | Red Hook |
| Alex House Project | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide pregnancy and parenting groups for teens and other young, low-income, first time mothers and fathers in Red Hook. | Red Hook |
| Alex House Project | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide pregnancy and parenting groups for teens and other young, low-income, first time mothers and fathers in Red Hook | Red Hook |
| Ali Forney Center | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase COVID-19 vaccine outreach, education, and navigation led by the organization’s Health Counselor both online and to individuals visiting the drop-in center. | 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 |
| America on Tech | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the East New York/Brownsville Summer Tech Camp, and the Youth Design Center, a gateway for young people to learn marketable hard skills in STEAM, access post-secondary education, achieve mobility, and engage in place-based community revitalization. | East New York, Brownsville |
| America on Tech | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the East New York/Brownsville Summer Tech Camp, and the Youth Design Center, a gateway for young people to learn marketable hard skills in STEAM, access post-secondary education, achieve mobility, and engage in place-based community revitalization. | East New York, Brownsville |
| American Council of Minority Women | 2021 | $8,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency food and PPE distribution to immigrant and low-income families in Flatbush and Midwood. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| American Council of Minority Women, Inc | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency food and PPE distribution to immigrant and low-income families in Flatbush and Midwood. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Ancient Song Doula Services | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Awarded to Sevonna Marie Brown with Ancient Song Doula Services for "Reproductive Renaissance," which uses grassroots political philosophy to foster a restorative space for women of color to come together and seek refuge in reproductive justice and education. Black girls and women of color have a history of using their personal spaces—the living room, grandma’s bedroom, the kitchen, the beauty salon, the front porch—as spaces for women-centered empowerment and healing. | Bedford Stuyvesant | |
| Apex for Youth | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To create a series of initiatives to serve the social and emotional needs of Asian American youth who have been affected by the spread of COVID-19, with a focus on addressing racism and anti-Asian harassment. | Boroughwide |
| Apex for Youth Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To create a series of initiatives to serve the social and emotional needs of Asian American youth who have been affected by the spread of COVID-19, with a focus on addressing racism and anti-Asian harassment. | Boroughwide |
| Apna Brooklyn Community Center, Inc. | 2020 | $7,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide benefits assistance to Muslim immigrant low-wage workers in Brighton Beach and Coney Island. | Brighton Beach, Coney Island |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2019 | $25,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support immigration legal services for the Arab American community that has been deeply impacted by ongoing changes, including the removal of re-designation for Temporary Protective Status for Syrian and Yemeni arrivals post-2017 | Bay Ridge, Boroughwide |