Community Fund Grants
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Organization |
Year | Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) | 2022 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) is a Black-led, membership-based organization of primarily low-to-moderate income Central Brooklyn residents founded in 2011. BMC builds power and self-determination in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights’ Black communities by nurturing local leadership, waging campaigns, and winning concrete improvements in people’s lives. Through intersectional organizing, BMC addresses a range of issues that define a whole community, including police accountability and community safety, food sovereignty, environmental justice, anti-gentrification media production, electoral justice, and tenant organizing. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Workforce Innovations | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Youth Pathway Out of Poverty, which will provide Central Brooklyn youth with access to employer-demanded skills, career credentials, job placement, and long-term career development support. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Brownsville Community Culinary Center | 2021 | $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 |
| Brownsville Community Culinary Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To expand the organization’s capacity to serve as a hub for the preparation and distribution of healthy, culturally appropriate foods and meals to Brownsville residents. | Brownsville |
| Brownsville Community Culinary Center | 2018 | $30,000 | 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 |
| Brownsville Community Culinary Center | 2019 | $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 |
| Brownsville Community Culinary Center | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To create a public health information campaign to address legitimate concerns over the vaccination roll-out and the history of medical racism, to engage residents with dignity, to work to dispel fears around the vaccination, and work to increase the number of vaccinations made available and received in the Black community. | Brownsville, Boroughwide |
| Brownsville Community Development Corporation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support COVID-19 testing and health education outreach for low-income people of color at the organization’s Brownsville location. | Brownsville |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide off-ramps for young people who come into contact with the justice system, including educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide off-ramps for young people who come into contact with the justice system, including educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency services and supplies to vulnerable youth and families | Brownsville |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Provide off-ramps for young people who come into contact with the justice system, including educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide off-ramps for young people who come into contact with the justice system, including educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide off-ramps for young people who come into contact with the justice system, including educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide off-ramps for young people who come into contact with the justice system, including educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership and increase community members' sense of public safety | Brownsville |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2020 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | For a multi-faceted initiative that seeks to re-engineer how the justice system works in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The Justice Center addresses systemic inequities by helping young people disengage from the justice system and discover routes to economic security, so they can, in turn, reinvest in their community. | Brownsville |
| Brownsville Think Tank Matters | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide people returning from incarceration with PPE, gift cards, food packages, transportation, and restorative justice circles with fellow community members and police officers in partnership with Incredible Credible Messengers. | Boroughwide |
| BUFU | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide stipends for communities’ artists, healers, and organizers who are leading programming on the CLOUD 9 rapid-response mutual aid platform. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Building Beats | 2021 | $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 |
| Building Beats | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support DJ and music programs that teach entrepreneurial, leadership, and life skills to young people of color. | Boroughwide |
| Building Beats | 2019 | $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 |
| Bushwick Mutual Aid | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide weekly groceries delivered by volunteers to more than 300 immigrant families in Bushwick. | Bushwick |
| Business Center for New Americans | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support immigrant and refugee small and micro business owners with client services, webinars, assistance in accessing relief programs, emergency loans, and cash grants. | Boroughwide |
| Business Center for New Americans | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support immigrant and refugee small and micro business owners with client services, webinars, assistance in accessing relief programs, emergency loans, and cash grants. | Boroughwide |
| CABS Health Network | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support older adults, especially BIPOC, Latinx, and immigrant residents, providing homecare services and training home health aides, expanding access to food and vaccines, raising awareness on scams and abuse, providing education on nutrition and mobility, collaborating with local doctors to track service success and client health outcomes, and more. | Boroughwide |
| CABS Home Attendants Service | 2019 | $40,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Boroughwide |
| CABS Home Attendants Service, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide supplies to protect frontline home care workers and enable the continuous provision of care to over 830 vulnerable Brooklyn residents. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| CAMBA | 2018 | $25,000 | 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 |
| CAMBA | 2019 | $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 |
| CAMBA | 2017 | $25,000 | 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 |
| Caribbean Women's Health Association | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide financial support and baby supplies for vulnerable pregnant or postpartum clients in Central and East Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |