Community Fund Grants
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| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ¡Oye! Group | 2022 | $33,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support free arts programming that engages primarily Black and Latinx youth in Bushwick, including the creation of original plays about topics relevant to the community, an annual Shakespeare program, teen poetry workshops, and acting classes and re-entry support for youth in juvenile detention facilities. | Bushwick |
| Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) | 2022 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) was founded in 2001 by Arab immigrant and Arab American leaders in Bay Ridge to advocate for the community in the wake of the September 11th attacks. Today, AAANY serves Brooklyn’s Arab immigrant, refugee, and Muslim communities, helping over 6,000 beneficiaries annually through its women’s empowerment and adult literacy programs, immigration legal assistance, mental health and domestic violence support services, and youth programming. During the COVID-19 pandemic, AAANY has transitioned to virtual programming and has transformed its office into a direct relief hub, distributing 22,000+ food boxes and $450,000 in direct cash for clients in crisis, creating a laptop lending program, and working with community partners to provide relief to domestic violence survivors. | Boroughwide |
| Carroll Gardens Association | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support tenants and immigrant domestic workers in their advocacy for permanent affordable housing, cooperative economics, and domestic worker rights. | Bay Ridge, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Prospect Heights, Red Hook, Sunset Park | |
| YVote/Next Gen Politics | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | For youth-led civic engagement programming including organizing and creating policy proposals around economic mobility, food justice, housing security, civic opportunities, and mental health; peer-led workshops for schools and community groups; regular teen summits and cohort-based institutes; and training to become peer facilitators. | Boroughwide |
| Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice and Healing | 2022 | $45,000 | 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 |
| New York State Youth Leadership Council | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support undocumented immigrant youth organizing around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights |
| Parent-Child Relationship Association Inc. | 2022 | $33,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a comprehensive range of services to improve parent-child relationships in families with teenagers, promote youth empowerment and positive development, and address the social needs of Chinese immigrant families in Sunset Park via social services and support, civic and community engagement, and youth-led community programming. | Sunset Park |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2022 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | Black Women's Blueprint was founded in Brooklyn in 2008, and is a lifeline for survivors of gender-based violence, and provides birth education and maternal health support. The organization’s Sexual Abuse to Maternal Mortality Pipeline report and institute has pioneered a campaign to desilo these movements and affirm the link between trauma healing and maternal health. Each year, it engages doulas, midwives, birth-workers, and sexual assault advocates to reach 5,000 survivors at 50 different locations through its Sistas Van mobile health unit, and trains 800 clinicians and medical personnel. In addition, it is building a Reconciliation Center in Upstate New York to offer Brooklyn women space to heal and give birth safely. | Boroughwide |
| Documented | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To expand its collaborative, culturally-relevant investigative news model to the Chinese and Caribbean communities in NYC. | Boroughwide | |
| Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To increase economic and physical accessibility of local businesses and green spaces as well as support age-friendly advocacy days, socialization and active events, and political education. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Fort Greene |
| Center for Urban Pedagogy | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a program for high school students that centers on engaging young people to understand policies and structures that affect their neighborhood, promoting civic engagement and supporting their capacity as community leaders. | Boroughwide |
| Recess | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a youth-led alternative to incarceration program that uses contemporary art to give voices to young people. Using visual storytelling, youth cohorts dismantle the narrative of the “criminal” in their community, creating long term solutions to catalyze generational wealth within their communities. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Bushwick, Canarsie, Flatbush, Coney Island |
| Children’s Defense Fund-New York | 2022 | $24,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To address the disproportionate impact of poverty on children, with work that includes: partnering with young people on social justice advocacy; running a summer program in Brooklyn’s juvenile detention facilities; and launching a 2-year pilot project led by foster system-impacted youth that will be the first direct cash transfer program (Universal Basic Income) to support former foster youth who have “aged out” of care across the city. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) | 2022 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) is a Black-led, membership-based organization of primarily low-to-moderate income Central Brooklyn residents founded in 2011. BMC builds power and self-determination in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights’ Black communities by nurturing local leadership, waging campaigns, and winning concrete improvements in people’s lives. Through intersectional organizing, BMC addresses a range of issues that define a whole community, including police accountability and community safety, food sovereignty, environmental justice, anti-gentrification media production, electoral justice, and tenant organizing. | Boroughwide |
| Freedom To Thrive | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support a network of national and local immigrant rights groups organizing to end punishment-based criminal and immigration systems. | Boroughwide | |
| Red Hook Community Justice Center | 2022 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | Launched in 2000, the Red Hook Community Justice Center works to strengthen Red Hook and surrounding areas by reducing crime and the use of incarceration, improving public trust in justice, and collaborating with the community to solve local problems. At the Justice Center, a single judge hears cases that ordinarily would go to three different courts: civil, family, and criminal. Whenever possible, cases are resolved through a restorative, problem-solving approach that seeks to repair harm and address the underlying issues that bring individuals into the justice system. The Justice Center also serves as a hub for an array of unconventional programs that are available to litigants as a means of resolving their cases, as well as to the community at large. | Red Hook |
| JMAC for Families | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support harm reduction efforts and advocacy for birthing people who use substances, including working on the Informed Consent BIll (4285A), which would require NY hospitals to obtain consent from pregnant and birthing patients before drug testing them and their babies. | Boroughwide |
| Council of Peoples Organization | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Engaging Muslim, Arab, and South Asian older adults with a culturally competent food pantry and Meals on Wheels program (including Halal options) that support isolated community members, immigration legal services, health insurance and benefits screening and enrollments, civics classes, domestic violence prevention, an older adult center, and more. | Midwood |
| The Hannah Legacy | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To support holistic harm reduction programming including overdose education, counseling, referrals to treatment for infectious diseases and substance use disorders, distribution of opioid overdose reversal medications, and more. | Boroughwide |
| Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Advocating for incarcerated older adults — some of whom are the oldest and sickest people incarcerated in New York State — to have a more meaningful parole review process and the opportunity to be considered for parole release, campaigning for the proposed Elder Parole and Fair and Timely Parole Bills. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Workforce Innovations (BWI) | 2023 | $25,000 | Fishman Family Fund for Economic Opportunity | To support workforce development programming that connects low- and moderate-income people with living wage employment opportunities in commercial driving, film and television production and post-production, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), Information and Communications Technology (ICT), woodworking, and tech industries. | Boroughwide | |
| The Doula Program | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support increased and more diverse staffing for outreach, administration, and coordination to make training for end-of-life doula volunteers more diverse, as well as to hire an additional social worker to support its new referring model that recognizes and addresses the unique experiences of Black older adults who are nearing the end of their lives. | Boroughwide |
| NYC NOWC | 2023 | $25,000 | Fishman Family Fund for Economic Opportunity | For programming that supports New York City worker cooperatives and worker-owners — particualatly in historically marginalized communities — throughorganizing, advocacy, technical assistance, leadership development, training, and by providing direct grants. | Boroughwide | |
| GRIOT Circle | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Developing a new headquarters to serve as their LGBTQ+ older adult community center, following the loss of their previous in-kind space. | Boroughwide |
| Global Trauma Research Inc. | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To provide 24-hour crisis intervention and culturally and spiritually specific individual long-term trauma counseling to participants with histories of substance misuse. | Boroughwide |
| NYC Together | 2023 | $5,000 | Wellness and Recovery Fund | Wellness and Recovery Fund | To co-create and implement a harm reduction training guide with impacted population to use in programming. | Boroughwide |
| Access Justice Brooklyn | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To expand legal programming for older adults and assign a staff attorney to guide older clients through estate planning, guardianship, homeowner assistance and foreclosure prevention, advanced life planning, asset assistance, and more. | Boroughwide |
| Asian American Federation | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support a range of direct services and policy campaigns focused on Asian American older adults, including the creation of a culturally competent, multilingual mental health directory and leading the only advocacy coalition in NY State focused on AAPI older adults. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Community Pride Center | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To engage older adults through community forums and focus groups, training and resources, policy advocacy, support groups, legal services, mental health counseling, and HIV testing and prevention services. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights North, Crown Heights |
| CABS Health Network | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support older adults, especially BIPOC, Latinx, and immigrant residents, providing homecare services and training home health aides, expanding access to food and vaccines, raising awareness on scams and abuse, providing education on nutrition and mobility, collaborating with local doctors to track service success and client health outcomes, and more. | Boroughwide |
| Heights and Hills | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To hire more bilingual staff and expand their caregiver support programming, access to referral and respite services, home visit volunteer program, and older adult center services that holistically promote aging in place and social support to prevent isolation. | Boroughwide |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2023 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | Arab-American Family Support Center (AAFSC) has provided culturally and linguistically competent, trauma-informed social services to low-income immigrants and refugees in New York City since 1994. AAFSC's services promote mental and physical well-being, prevent child abuse and work to end gender-based violence, provide the tools for learners of every age to succeed, and uplift the voices and needs of under-represented communities. Their programs include adult education, youth enrichment, mental health counseling, domestic violence support, health insurance enrollment and education, legal services, and more. In addition to offering direct services, the AAFSC Research Institute is a trusted source for information and publications on the voices and experiences of Arab, Middle Eastern, North African, Muslim, and South Asian (AMENAMSA) communities. Their staff speak over 30 languages, enabling them to serve populations that mainstream providers struggle to reach. | Boroughwide, Cobble Hill, Downtown |
| The YWCA of Brooklyn | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To expand aging in place programming for older adults living in YWCA housing, supporting independent living skills, medical needs, and end-of-life preparation for residents, many of whom are women of color that have experienced gender-based violence, racism, homelessness, and poverty. | Boroughwide |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative | 2023 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) was founded in 2009 by Dr. Robert Gore, an Emergency Room physician who felt compelled to address the rising incidence of violence among youth in Central Brooklyn. KAVI works to prevent and eliminate interpersonal violence from the lives of young people through social justice advocacy, peer leadership, and community mobilization in hospitals, schools, and community settings. Through community and school programs, they serve over 300 youth annually, and have helped hundreds of youth overcome a history of violence and behavioral issues to graduate from high school and attend college. Through their hospital program, they engage and support over 750 patients each year and have reduced hospital recidivism rates by over 75% percent by providing up to a year of follow-up support and care for youth patients admitted with assault-related injuries. | Bedford Stuyvesant, East Flatbush, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Brownsville |
| Bloom Again Brooklyn | 2023 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support programming that provides older Brooklynites with upcycled flowers on a weekly basis, which requires purchasing and securing refrigerators for flower arrangements, hiring drivers, and buying permanent transportation vehicles. | Boroughwide |