Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To engage court-involved youth as actors and playwrights in a comprehensive theatre-for-social justice program that uses real life stories of the youth actors. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| CASES | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2015 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Red Hook Youth Leaders Program, a 4-year program that provides job readiness and leadership training, part-time employment, academic support, and services to assist young people toward high school graduation, college, and/or meaningful employment. | Red Hook |
| YWCA Brooklyn | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the YW LEAD youth development and college access, and social justice education program for low-income and immigrant young women of color | Boroughwide |
| Atlas: DIY | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Community-based "cooperative model" that provides free legal, educational, and social services for undocumented youth and their allies. | Sunset Park |
| Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Brooklyn Youth Justice Programs in Downtown Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Coney Island, which help young people avoid contact with the criminal justice system, detention, incarceration, and recidivism by providing education and employment services, behavioral health treatment, community service projects, and links to other community-based providers. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island |
| 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 |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| FUREE | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| H.O.L.L.A (How Our Lives Link Altogether) | 2018 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a social justice education, leadership, and organizing program for low income youth of color focused on trauma recovery and healing. | Boroughwide |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | 2017 | $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 |
| 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 |
| Truthworker Theater Company | 2019 | $35,000 | 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 |
| Common Justice | 2018 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a victim-service and alternative-to-incarceration program based on restorative justice principles that works with young people who commit violent felonies and those they harm. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Lineage Project | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |