Community Fund Grants
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| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Immigration Coalition | 2018 | $40,000 | Advocacy | Census 2020 | New York Counts 2020 is a broad-based, statewide coalition composed of racial, ethnic, immigrant, religious, health, education, labor, housing, social services, and business groups working in partnership with state and local government officials. The aim is to ensure that New Yorkers across the state—particularly marginalized communities in hard-to-count districts—can fully maximize their participation in the 2020 Census. | Boroughwide |
| Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger | 2018 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Green Teens sustainable farming paid apprenticeship program for Brooklyn youth ages 15-24. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Churches United For Fair Housing | 2018 | $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 |
| Youth Represent | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support direct legal representation and workshops for system-involved youth who face employment discrimination, school suspension, summonses, and other criminal and civil legal issues. | Boroughwide |
| Griot Circle | 2018 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | Founded in 1996 by a group of LGBTQ elders of color living in Brooklyn to address the systemic racial, social, and economic injustices that LGBTQ elders of color experience, GRIOT Circle now offers culturally-sensitive, innovative programming to over 400 members throughout the year, | Boroughwide |
| Atlas: DIY | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the community-based "cooperative model" that provides free legal, educational, and social services for undocumented youth and their allies. | Sunset Park |
| KIND | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| Center for Law and Social Justice | 2018 | $40,000 | Advocacy | Census 2020 | The NYC Black Leadership Advisory Coalition for Census 2020 (NYC BLAC) is the current focus of the CLSJ’s larger Census Justice 2020 and Redistricting Project. NYC BLAC is a community organizing and education project that aims to engage leaders, activists, and organizations of NYC’s very diverse communities of African descent towards a complete count of their communities in the 2020 Census. | Boroughwide, Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | 2018 | $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 |
| FUREE | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| 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 |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2018 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | Founded in 2002 as a program of a local hospital in response to the severity of health and social issues in Red Hook, RHI has become a neighborhood stronghold and nationally recognized model for youth and community development, providing safe and enriching opportunities for young people ages 11- 24 primarily living in the Red Hook Houses—New York City’s largest NYCHA housing development. | Red Hook |
| Center for Family Life | 2018 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a community school model that engages youth, families and educators to mobilize resources and develop programs for high school success and college access and retention. | Sunset Park |
| The Door | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| Green City Force | 2018 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a service and training program that aims to create ladders to careers in the green economy for NYCHA youth, focused on development of two urban farms. | Red Hook, Brownsville |
| UPROSE | 2018 | $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 |
| Global Action Project | 2018 | $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 |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support counseling, life skills courses, and after-school arts-based activities for youth living in secure and non-secure detention facilities. | Boroughwide |
| Safe Passage Project | 2018 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For free legal services and representation to meet the unmet needs of immigrant and undocumented children in partnership with community high schools. | Boroughwide |
| Central American Legal Assistance | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Global Kids | 2018 | $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 |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| Chinese Staff and Workers' Association | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support outreach and organizing work reaching 3,000 community members living and/or working in Brooklyn's Chinatowns, with a focus on service workers--including home attendants, restaurant and delivery workers. CSWA will partner with legal services and pro bono attorneys to assist workers in seeking legal recourse for stolen wages and involved workers in education and advocacy efforts to improve state policy on wage theft. | Sunset Park, Bensonhurst |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2018 | $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, Bay Ridge |
| Safe Passage Project | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2018 | $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 |
| IntegrateNYC | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the leadership and capacity of students working to end segregation in New York City public schools. | Boroughwide |
| Lineage Project | 2018 | $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 |
| Chinese-American Planning Council | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | For the "Advancing Our CommUNITY" strategy in Brooklyn to connect the organization's long-term social services work to new social change strategies, including civic engagement (Know Your Rights, Voter Registration, Census 2020) , policy/advocacy (increased advocacy around legislative priorities), and community mobilization (training for staff on immigrant rights, economic and racial justice, policy advocacy, and community organizing)/ | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Bensonhurst |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2018 | $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 |
| Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support a convening of the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project's NYC Chapter in Fall 2018, aimed at promoting leadership development, capacity building, and organizing to address the ways in which community members are targeted by the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems | Boroughwide |
| Footsteps | 2018 | $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 |