Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating Support for to advance advocacy strategies led by young people with a focus on young cis and trans women of color, gender fluid, and LGBTQI youth in the quest for justice and equity within the racial justice movement. | Boroughwide |
| Drive Change | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for a unique food service employment model for formerly incarcerated youth. Drive Change aims to build a food truck commissary/garage in Central Brooklyn through which other food trucks will hire young people out of its program. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth-led programs and advocacy for LGBTQ people of color that build leadership and organizing skills, reduce surveillance policing, and promote safer communities. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Atlas: DIY | 2017 | $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 |
| Drive Change | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Provide training and first job experience for formerly incarcerated and court-involved young people through a nonprofit food truck. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Boroughwide | |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support community organizing, legal clinics, and language access for Black immigrants. | Boroughwide |
| Reconnect | 2016 | $30,000 | 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 |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2017 | $30,000 | 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 |
| Participatory Budgeting Project | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a pilot project to expand engagement and participatory budgeting in high-need Brooklyn public high schools in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights |
| Turning Point Brooklyn | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For social, educational, medical, and economic support services to low income, immigrant residents focused on building advocacy and leadership skills and establishing strong mentoring relationships | Sunset Park |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Creative, educational, and vocational development of Black and Caribbean youth in Central Brooklyn. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| Council of Peoples Organization | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Join In, Find Out high school after-school program, which provides South Asian and Muslim immigrant and second generation students in Flatbush and Midwood with resources and support needed to address the pressures of family, assimilation, and education. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Equality for Flatbush | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support anti-displacement campaigns, tenants rights and discriminatory policing in immigrant communities and communities of color. | Flatbush |
| JustLeadership USA | 2016 | $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 |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to prevent unnecessary pretrial detention based on poverty by paying bail for indigent Brooklyn youth and adults accused of misdemeanors, and providing and facilitating access to social and legal services for clients. | Boroughwide |
| Resilience Advocacy Project | 2018 | $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 |
| Documented | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide a dedicated source of constant and accurate reporting via various platforms on the immigration systems' impact on local communities. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Court Innovation | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Brownsville Community Justice Center's Brownsville Leadership Project, which provides court-involved youth with educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership roles in the community and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $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 |
| Families for Freedom | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support organizing and advocacy fighting deportations and unjust immigration policies. | Boroughwide |
| ReConnect | 2018 | $30,000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Freedom to Thrive | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support a network of national and local immigrant rights groups organizing to end punishment-based criminal and immigration systems. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| JustLeadershipUSA | 2018 | $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 |
| New Sanctuary Coalition | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide pro se immigration clinic, volunteer accompaniment for ICE check-ins, anti-detention work, and community organizing and advocacy. | Boroughwide |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A youth organizing group that seeks to address racial and educational injustice through a campaign to implement restorative justice practices at a local high school campus. | Cypress Hills |