Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Council of Peoples Organization | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide meals to homebound older adults and a weekly food distribution, wellness calls to our senior center participants, and benefits assistance to low-wage workers. | Midwood, Kensington |
| Safe Horizon | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support expansion of services to immigrant victims of gender-based violence as well as increased training for frontline staff at social service agencies who are first responders to immigrants in need. | Boroughwide |
| Translatinx Networks | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide PPP and financial assistance to members of underserved communities in Brooklyn and to implement a telehealth program to support their access to healthcare services with the use of a mobile device. | Boroughwide |
| UA3 | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency fresh food delivery to underserved locations including senior homes, NYCHA residences, and other low-income housing in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park |
| IMPACCT Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide financial assistance, protective supplies, food, and travel assistance to Black and Latinx, low-income households in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights |
| 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 |
| The Alex House Project | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase vaccine outreach, education, and support to at least 300 more young parents in central and southern Brooklyn with a focus on parents living in communities at high risk for spread of the virus. | Boroughwide |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | East New York, City Line |
| 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 |
| Center for Family Life in Sunset Park | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide emergency cash assistance to 39 low-wage, undocumented worker-owners of CFL-supported cooperative small businesses in the cleaning industry to address the economic impact of lost wages. | Boroughwide |
| Global Trauma Research | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a safe space for Black and Latinx residents in Central Brooklyn to have access to social workers, who will provide health resources, referrals to COVID-19 testing sites, and help scheduling vaccine appointments. | Boroughwide |
| The Urban Justice Center, Domestic Violence Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For direct assistance and programmatic support for people experiencing domestic violence. | Boroughwide |
| St. Nicks Alliance Corp. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support a full-time delivery driver to bring food from local pantries to residents of two NYCHA developments with high concentrations of older adults. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To build a mutual aid group for Haitian refugees and undocumented communities, to provide emergency food, health care information, and cash assistance, as well continuous provision of interpreters for remote legal support. | Boroughwide |
| Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide very low income families with immediate financial assistance in the form of gift cards to local supermarkets and MetroCards. | Cypress Hills |
| Domestic Workers United | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide mini-grants "love offerings" to domestic workers who might not necessarily be eligible to receive or access government support. | Boroughwide |
| Public Housing Communities | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide personal protection equipment, including gloves and masks, to residents of NYCHA housing developments in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Jews for Racial and Economic Justice | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support Mutual Aid NYC, a hotline to connect vulnerable residents in communities of color who have limited access to technology with volunteers delivering groceries and prescriptions. | Boroughwide |
| Ali Forney Center | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase COVID-19 vaccine outreach, education, and navigation led by the organization’s Health Counselor both online and to individuals visiting the drop-in center. | Boroughwide |
| Council of Peoples Organization | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES) | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To purchase and distribute supplies to young people enrolled in the organization’s high school equivalency preparation classes and Jobs for American’s Graduates employment program. | Boroughwide |
| Community Food Advocates | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For advocacy to ensure that the Department of Education's food distribution program is scaled effectively, helping to identify problem areas and making key recommendations to meet families needs. | Boroughwide |
| Haitian American Community Coalition | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide remote care for clients and develop a team to provide COVID-19 testing referrals and health outreach. | Boroughwide |
| Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide COVID-19 vaccine education and outreach in partnership with community-based organizations in Coney Island. | Coney Island |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Catholic Charities Archdiocese New York | 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 |
| Ascendus | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide support to small business entrepreneurs of color in Brooklyn as they apply for PPP and NY Forward loan forgiveness in addition to continued lending for those excluded from traditional banking institutions. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Haitian Americans United for Progress, Inc. | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency cash assistance, support and counseling, and up-to-date COVID-19 health information to undocumented, low-wage workers. | 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 |
| 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 |