Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young New Yorkers | 2017 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide court-mandated arts diversion programs for youth that engage them in social justice issues through the creation of large-scale public art projects | Boroughwide |
| Bethany United Methodist Church | 2017 | $20,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | To support services, workshops, and cultural programming that engage residents around issues in the community. | Crown Heights |
| Atlas: DIY | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support increased organizational capacity to meet the legal, social service, and advocacy needs of Brooklyn’s young undocumented immigrants. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park |
| Teachers Unite | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Youth-led Transformative Justice initiative to organize alternatives to suspension in up to five public schools in under-resourced and over-policed Brooklyn communities. | Brownsville, East New York, Bushwick, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, East Williamsburg, Sunset Park |
| Truthworker Theater Company | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A theater program that uses first person narratives to bring the stories of young people impacted by incarceration to the forefront and drive awareness of the need for policy reform. | Boroughwide |
| Urban Youth Collaborative | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Brooklyn Transformative Justice Network to advance youth justice alternatives that disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline as well as opportunities for healthy development and the wellbeing of both youth and the community at large. | Boroughwide |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to help transform the lives of Haitian newcomer youth in Crown Heights, East Flatbush and Canarsie through education and leadership development and raising awareness of immigrant education issues in the community and citywide. | East Flatbush, Canarsie, Crown Heights |
| The Legal Aid Society | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support immigrant clients within the Immigration Law Unit’s various projects including the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, Immigration Representation Project, Immigrant Youth Project, and the affirmative benefits project | Boroughwide |
| Safe Horizon | 2019 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | For Safe Horizon’s Immigration Law Project (ILP) to expand services to immigrant victims of crime, abuse, domestic violence, trafficking, and torture in Brooklyn—particularly those with complex immigration matters, at risk of being removed from the United States. Funds will also increase training for frontline staff at community-based social service agencies so that they are informed on current immigration policies and practices. This includes staff at local hospitals, schools, shelters, and places of worship. | Boroughwide |
| EcoStation:NY | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the Bushwick-based urban farming and food justice organization which provides educational and mentorship programs for high school students at the Bushwick Educational Campus. | 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 |
| Polish American Community Services | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Immigration Options for Victims of Domestic Violence, which aims to increase awareness of resources for victims of domestic violence and to provide free legal services for immigrants in Greenpoint. | Greenpoint |
| Churches United for Fair Housing | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support legal services, trainings, and coordinated advocacy efforts for immigrant communities in partnership with CUFFH’s network of membership churches. | Bushwick, Boroughwide |
| Teachers Unite | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Members' work with students and teachers to lead the shift from punitive to transformative justice in NYC public schools. | Brownsville, East New York, Bushwick, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, East Williamsburg, Sunset Park |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2019 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support coalition building efforts to strengthen organizational capacity and to build networks and working groups to better serve the diverse, complex needs of the growing Bangladeshi immigrant community | Cypress Hills, East New York |
| 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 |
| Truthworker Theater Company | 2018 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a theater program that uses first person narratives to bring the stories of young people impacted by incarceration to the forefront and drive awareness of the need for policy reform. | Boroughwide |
| NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color | 2016 | $20,000 | Girls of Color Fund | Girls of Color Fund Grant | A collaboration of 16 foundations that awarded $2.1 million to 28 nonprofit organizations working to cultivate the leadership of young women of color as change agents to advance cultural and systemic shifts. The grantees provide services, leadership development and advocacy in the areas of health, economic and workforce development, community support and opportunity, education, and anti-violence/criminal justice. | Boroughwide |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To create a network of service providers for more than 8,000 Bangladeshi clients a year to address domestic violence, mental health, and other health services in addition to housing, legal, and education support services. | East New York, City Line |
| 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 Chinese Association of Brooklyn | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Youth Leadership Team, which develops leadership, civic engagement, and advocacy among underserved Asian immigrant students in Gravesend, Bensonhurt, Sunset Park and Bath Beach. | Gravesend, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, 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 |
| 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 |
| Center for NuLeadership | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that divert neighborhood youth from arrest proceedings by developing pre-arrest diversion options for law-officers. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Brooklyn Children’s Museum | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Teen Arts and Advocacy Council program for Brooklyn teens interested in the intersections of arts, advocacy, and civic engagement | Crown Heights, Boroughwide |
| Active Citizen Project | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For Project EATS, a youth leadership initiative centered at the organization’s community farm that aims to help young people improve the conditions that determine their quality of life and ability to thrive. | Brownsville, East New York, Crown Heights |
| Bridge Street Development Corporation | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A civic engagement and internship program for youth interested in public service, service learning, leadership development, and activism. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene |
| Active Citizen Project | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A youth leadership initiative centered at the organization’s community farm that aims to help young people improve the conditions that determine their quality of life and ability to thrive. | Brownsville, East New York, Crown Heights |
| • Dance Theatre Etcetera | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For in-school, after-school, and summer-based multi-disciplinary arts programs serving low-income youth of color, with a focus on overage, under-credited students and disconnected youth | Red Hook |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Brooklyn Summer Institute and partnership classes in schools to strengthen, empower, and equip low-income young women from Central Brooklyn and Coney Island to be agents of change in their own lives and their communities. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island, Crown Heights, East New York |
| Good Call NYC | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the launch of a technology-enabled hotline in Brooklyn to provide immediate legal support in case of arrest, and to hire Brooklyn youth who have benefited from the program as organizers. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Atlas: DIY | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the the community-based "cooperative model" that provides legal, educational, and psycho social services for undocumented youth and their allies in Sunset Park. | Sunset Park |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | An apprentice program through which teens work under the guidance of skilled professionals and receive mentorship from top horticulturalists and environmental educators | Boroughwide |
| Center for Nu Leadership | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that divert neighborhood youth from arrest proceedings by developing pre-arrest diversion options for law-officers | Bedford Stuyvesant |