Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drive Change | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide training and first job experience for formerly incarcerated and court-involved young people through a nonprofit food truck | Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For rapid legal defense for affected individuals | Boroughwide |
| El Puente | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize communities of color to fight gentrification through youth-led community campaigns and initiatives focused on environmental justice, climate change, community safety, and racial/cultural equity in education, the arts, and wellness | Williamsburg |
| New York Communities for Change | 2017 | $30,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | For supporting the inclusion of community voices to inform the development plan of the city-owned Bedford-Union Armory. | Crown Heights |
| Brooklyn Community Services | 2017 | $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 |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 Action Project | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
| Make the Road New York | 2017 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | An immigrant-led organization that develops grassroots leadership to mobilize Latino and working class communities. It provides legal services, education, and employment access to achieve policy change. MRNY is dedicated to building community power and racial equity in Bushwick, where it was founded in 1997. It now has over 20,000 members and 200 staff working across New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. | Boroughwide |
| exalt | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To counteract the school-to-prison pipeline by elevating expectations of personal success for court-involved youth through job skills courses, individualized support, paid internships, and alumni network | 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 |
| Make the Road New York | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For immigrant youth-led organizing programs focused on the school-to-prison pipeline, community schools, and greater police accountability and transparency | Bushwick |
| Repair the World NYC | 2017 | $20,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | To support increased accessibility, programming and community partnerships that bring new and long-term residents together to meet community needs at its storefront space on Nostrand Avenue. | Crown Heights |
| Footsteps | 2017 | $25,000 | 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 |
| Girl Be Heard | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For multidisciplinary arts opportunities designed to engage young women in social justice education and develop their leadership skills | Boroughwide |
| Global Kids | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For after-school programming that aims to increase exposure to local and international human rights and social justice issues | Boroughwide |
| MoCADA | 2017 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | A “museum without walls” that serves the African Diasporan community through art exhibitions, education, and community programs to promote African diasporan art, racial equity, and social justice in Brooklyn. Founded in 1999, this year it is expanding from 2,000 sq. ft. to a new 20,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Fort Greene. | Boroughwide |
| ReConnect | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To connect youth to employment, entrepreneurship training, and access to college credit to help navigate systemic challenges that make it hard to find sustainable employment | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| 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 |
| Make the Road New York | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To support DACA legal action through the Batalla Vidal et al v. Baran class-action lawsuit, cover the costs of DACA renewal applications, as well as citywide town halls and "Know Your Rights" workshops | Boroughwide |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide job readiness and leadership training, part-time employment, academic support, and services to assist young people toward graduation, college, and career | Red Hook |
| Girls for Gender Equity: | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by LGBTQ youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism | Boroughwide |
| Resilience Advocacy Project | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide leadership development programs, legal education, and peer-to-peer trainings for youth of color, particularly those living in ACS care or detention, focused on advocating for community change | Boroughwide |
| Neighbors Together | 2017 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | A dynamic soup kitchen, social service provider, and community center committed to ending hunger and poverty in Ocean Hill, Brownsville, and Bedford Stuyvesant since 1982. It provides empowerment and community action programming to organize community members to advocate for policy change, in addition to serving 80,000 meals annually out of its community café. | Ocean Hill, Brownsville, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Correctional Association of New York | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the implementation monitoring supports for the newly passed “Raise the Age” law taking minors off Rikers Island, as well as support for Safe Passages, a leadership development and peer support program for system-involved LGBTQIA young people of color, and the Youth Speakers Institute, a media training and advocacy program for system-impacted youth | Citywide |
| Jews for Racial and Economic Justice | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For ally-building and trainings to create connections between anti-Islamophobia and anti-Semitism organizing | Boroughwide |
| New York Immigration Coalition | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For a three-tier response to DACA: policy and advocacy, community engagement and service coordination, including federal and state legislative advocacy, processing DACA renewals, and expanding mental health services for DACA recipients | Boroughwide |
| United Community Centers | 2017 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a Brooklyn-based summer leadership institute that engages young women in political education and empowerment programs to equip them to be agents for social change | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island, Crown Heights, East New York |
| Youth Advocacy Corps | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support YAC’s core youth advocacy programs: the Youth Advocacy Summer Institute and Mental Health Awareness Project | East New York, Boroughwide |
| JustLeadership USA | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To empower court-involved youth to drive policy reforms, including the campaign to #CloseRikers, a comprehensive multiyear effort to close Rikers Island Detention Facility | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To fund the organization of a political education session highlighting issues affecting Black immigrant workers—including economic inequality, unemployment, racial discrimination, and the impact of harsh immigration enforcement practices—as well as mobilizing a Black contingent for May Day 2017 that lifts up unique issues facing Black immigrant workers . | Boroughwide |
| Atlas:DIY | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | Support for eligible youth applying for DACA renewals before October 5, 2017 deadline | Boroughwide, Sunset Park |
| ARTs East New York | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Public Art Apprenticeship Program and Young Artist Institute for young people interested in the arts as a tool for social change | East New York |
| Sanctuary for Families | 2017 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the establishment of the Mishkan Project, a peer support group and work development program for Ultra-Orthodox young women who have been rejected by their families due to histories of abuse, addiction, sex trafficking, and other forms of gendered violence | Citywide |
| BRIC Arts Media | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the enrollment of court-involved youth in the Project Re-Direct media apprenticeship program, a pilot alternative-to-incarceration initiative between BRIC and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office | Boroughwide |