Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Advocacy strategies led by LGBTQ youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| Good Call NYC | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
| 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 |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Comprehensive free legal representation to court-involved youth with a focus on school discipline and reentry, special education placements, alternative pathways to graduation, alternatives to incarceration, and counseling. | Boroughwide |
| Groundswell Community Mural Project | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the organization's unique mission to bring together youth, artists, and community partners' through a collective impact model that uses public art as a tool for social change. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Urban Youth Collaborative | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize youth of color who have been the victims of school-based over-policing to advance youth justice alternatives and promote wellbeing of both youth and their communities. | Boroughwide |
| Green City Force | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the implementation of two major "green jobs" workforce initiatives in Brooklyn: a partnership with the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice to recruit and train young adults from NYCHA Developments with the highest crime rates and the build-out of two urban farms on NYCHA developments in Brooklyn. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Churches United For Fair Housing | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2018 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For comprehensive anti-violence, empowerment, and leadership programming for young people, including the expansion of services for LGBTQ homeless youth and service providers. | 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 |
| Green City Force | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| STEM from Dance | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a cohesive learning experience in which dance is used to introduce girls of color to computer science. | Boroughwide |
| CASES | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that divert youth from the criminal justice system by providing education and employment services, behavioral health treatment, service projects, and links to other providers. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island |
| 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 |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| JustLeadershipUSA | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Make the Road New York | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to advance organizing to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, foster restorative justice in schools, implement and expand community schools, and bring about reforms for greater police accountability and transparency. | Bushwick |
| Teachers Unite | 2018 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
| 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 |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to advance programs through which Central Brooklyn youth deepen their cultural identity, build assets, save money for college, develop artistic, personal and leadership skills, and advocate for solutions to pressing social justice issues. | Flatbush, East Flatbush, Bedford Stuyvesant, Canarsie, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Brownsville |
| 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 |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Programs that strengthen Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian immigrant youth’s academic achievement, creative expression and healthy behaviors. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Brooklyn Adolescent Representation Team Project, which provides comprehensive legal representation to court-involved youth with focus on school discipline and reentry, special education placements, alternative pathways to graduation, alternatives to incarceration, and counseling. | Boroughwide |
| viBe Theater Experience | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programming that engages girls and young women of color to write, create, publish, direct, and perform personal collaborative theater and music. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Footsteps | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Neighbors in Action | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets and Justice Community Plus, two of the Center’s holistic, anti-violence and work readiness youth development programs. | Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Osborne Association | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs for children of incarcerated parents as well as a council that engages young people impacted by incarceration to develop campaigns around issues affecting their lives and communities | Boroughwide |
| Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | An entrepreneurship and mentoring program that connects NYCHA youth with their first jobs at small businesses along Myrtle Avenue. | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill |