Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tomorrow's Leaders NYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual support for over-age middle and high-school students in East New York, monthly financial assistance to students and their family, and laptops for academic and creative interactive learning. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Center for Quality Life | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To train volunteers to serve as community liaisons to assist with outreach and education efforts as well as provide support services to make accessing vaccination appointments seamless. | Boroughwide |
| Jeremiah Program Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide Brownsville families headed by single mothers food, cleaning, and infant supplies, as well as virtual family programming and technology to support school and work from home. | Brownsville |
| New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To bring COVID-19 vaccine education to newly-arrived immigrants and their families in Crown Heights, Flatbush, and southern Brooklyn. | Crown Heights, Flatbush, Boroughwide |
| Day One New York | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual supportive services and emergency services to Brooklyn-based survivors of domestic violence and dating abuse, as well as online resources, training, and tools to students and teachers to address spiking rates of tech-based abuse and harm within households. | Boroughwide |
| Worker's Justice Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support and protect day laborers and domestic workers, including providing direct cash assistance and personal protective equipment. | Boroughwide |
| DRUM, Desis Rising up and Moving | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For advocacy, organizing, and the “Hate Free Zone” initiative launched in Kensington, Brooklyn | Boroughwide, Kensington |
| LiveOn NY | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support advocacy efforts to bridge crisis-level issues between nonprofit services providers and government officials on behalf of older New Yorkers in need. | Boroughwide |
| City Limits, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support reporting coverage on the health, economic, social, and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the hardest hit neighborhoods in New York City. | Citywide |
| Community Options New York Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support in-home and resident-based care for persons with disabilities, including enhanced measures to reduce the spread of disease, training for essential workers, staff reimbursements, and the purchase of cleaning supplies. | Boroughwide |
| G-M.A.C.C. Inc | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide mini-cash grants to members of underserved communities to cover utility cost, purchase PPP and also meet immediate needs costs. | Boroughwide |
| The Alex House Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual programming and support for vulnerable expecting young mothers and young parents. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Brandworkers | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the transformative power and leadership of Brooklyn’s immigrant local food production industry workers. | Boroughwide |
| Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide emergency food, grab and go meals, and personal protective equipment for vulnerable residents in Canarsie and the Flatlands. | Canarsie, Flatlands |
| 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 |
| Brooklyn Community Pride Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For COVID-19 Care Packages that food, sanitary products, and household essentials delivered to transgender and gender non-conforming people of color. | Boroughwide |
| Made in Brownsville | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide cash assistance for program alumni and creatives in East Brooklyn, particularly those in shelters and other vulnerable populations. | Boroughwide |
| Project EATS | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To address vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccine access in Brownsville and East New York through ongoing COVID-19 response programs, including outreach and education sessions at food pantries. | Brownsville, East New York |
| Diaspora Community Services | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide food and food vouchers to vulnerable clients including older adults, young mothers, and LGBTQIA youth. | Boroughwide |
| Global Kids | 2015 | $10,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | Global Kids’ mission is to educate and inspire underserved youth to become successful students, global citizens, and community leaders. Funds will be used for the Human Rights Activist Project in three Crown Heights public schools to empower youth to advocate for community and global issues through interactive workshops on community organizing, social action, digital and social media, policy, and root causes. | Crown Heights |
| Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To create a centralized free online source of validated, accurate, culturally competent, and up-to-date information and resources on COVID-19 for a network of 70 CBOs focused on addressing the social determinants of health. | Flatbush, East Flatbush |
| Refoundry | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the Mask Makers Project, which provides people who are formerly incarcerated with the tools and supplies to sew washable and adjustable fabric masks for people incarcerated at Rikers Island. | Boroughwide |
| Make the Road New York | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For advocacy and organizing across immigrant populations and support for multi-step “Our Plan to Resist Trump” initiative | Boroughwide, Bushwick |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support the immediate needs of its young people during the crisis, including 45 Brooklyn-based youth currently in custody at Rikers Island’s Horizon Juvenile Center. | Boroughwide |
| Elite Learners, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To purchase and deliver emergency food for youth and their families in Brownsville and East Flatbush. | Brownsville, East Flatbush |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide stipends to its youth members, including funds for food, phone and internet, support for remote learning and other emerging challenges, and convening over 100 youth service providers weekly to coordinate resources and strategies. | Boroughwide |
| Grameen America | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To offer a loan continuation program to members in Brooklyn communities who have been impacted by the pandemic and need assistance in maintaining their loans and credit to sustain their businesses. | Boroughwide |
| Jewish Community Council of Canarsie, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the distribution of personal care packages, nutrient-dense foods, and fresh produce, as well as case management and outreach to families throughout Starrett City and a Southern portion of East New York. | Starrett City, East New York |
| Volunteers of Legal Services (VOLS) | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To maintain critical legal services for Brooklyn clients and to launch emergency response efforts, including securing economic relief for unemployed workers and small businesses. | Boroughwide |
| Asian American Federation | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the Advocate, Educate, and Mitigate Against Hate Initiative to coordinate protections for the Asian community in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Emma’s Torch | 2019 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the 12-week, paid culinary training and apprenticeship program for refugees and asylees | Boroughwide |
| Kings Bay Y | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide services and support to vulnerable populations in southern Brooklyn, including emergency food delivery for older adults and remote wellness checks for members. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Nu Leadership on Human Justice and Healing | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To build a network of medical, clinical, mental health, and spiritual leaders who can serve as credible health information messengers to address the distrust, anger, and frustration prevalent in Bedford Stuyvesant. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| East New York Church of God of Prophecy | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a soup kitchen and food pantry providing hot meals, food staples and fresh groceries to the residents of East New York, Spring Creek, Starrett City, and New Lots. | East New York, Spring Creek, Starrett City, New Lots |