Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlocal | 2020 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support legal representation and community legal education in school, workplace, and community settings for undocumented immigrants in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2020 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | For a multi-faceted initiative that seeks to re-engineer how the justice system works in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The Justice Center addresses systemic inequities by helping young people disengage from the justice system and discover routes to economic security, so they can, in turn, reinvest in their community. | Brownsville |
| Children of Promise, NYC | 2020 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | To empower children of incarcerated parents to break the cycle of intergenerational involvement in the criminal justice system. CPNYC offers a broad array of services in a safe supportive space where young people, ages 6-18, can share similar experiences. | Boroughwide |
| The Noel Pointer Foundation | 2020 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | To enrich the lives of children of color in under-served communities by connecting them with music education and performance opportunities. | Boroughwide |
| North Brooklyn Coalition | 2020 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | To address systemic racism, institutional injustice, and cultural barriers facing survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault by creating a community-based support network. | Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2020 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | To equip, strengthens, and supports young women and gender-expansive youth of color to be agents of change in their lives and in the world. | Citywide |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that strengthen Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian immigrant youth’s academic achievement, creative expression and healthy behaviors. | Boroughwide |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2019 | $25,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support immigration legal services for the Arab American community that has been deeply impacted by ongoing changes, including the removal of re-designation for Temporary Protective Status for Syrian and Yemeni arrivals post-2017 | Bay Ridge, Boroughwide |
| ARTs East New York | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Groundswell Community Mural Project | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For school year and summer programs that engage youth from underserved communities in public mural making as a means of social change while developing their leadership and creative skills. | Boroughwide |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To 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 |
| DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize South Asian youth for campaigns focused on educational equity, economic justice, legalization, workplace rights, and an end to racial profiling and anti-immigrant enforcement. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| AsylumConnect | 2019 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the development of their resource catalog for LGBTQ individuals seeking asylum across Brooklyn and New York City | Boroughwide |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth-led programs and advocacy for LGBTQIA people of color that build leadership and organizing skills, reduce surveillance policing, and promote safer communities. | Boroughwide |
| H.O.L.L.A | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support counseling, life skills courses, and after-school arts-based activities for youth living in secure and non-secure detention facilities. | Boroughwide |
| El Puente | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize communities of color to fight gentrification through youth-led community campaigns and initiatives focused on environmental justice, climate change, community safety, and racial/cultural equity in education, the arts, and wellness. | Williamsburg |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support community organizing, legal clinics and language access for Black Muslim immigrants | Flatbush, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a partnership with student organizers to pilot campus-based transformative justice practices that hold harm-doers accountable and support sexual violence survivors in their healing and development. | Crown Heights, Boroughwide |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the creative, educational, and vocational development of Black and Caribbean youth in Central Brooklyn. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| Center for NuLeadership | 2019 | $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 |
| Make the Road New York | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For immigrant youth-led organizing programs focused on the school-to-prison pipeline, community schools, and greater police accountability and transparency. | Bushwick |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2019 | $25,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support rapid response legal efforts and their role in suing ICE to improve legal representation for those in custody. | Boroughwide |
| Brownsville Community Culinary Center | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the culinary training and apprenticeship program for young people, ages 18-34, from Brownsville. | Brownsville |
| IntegrateNYC | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the leadership and capacity of students working to end segregation in New York City public schools. | Boroughwide |
| Dignity in Schools Campaign | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a citywide coalition of students, parents, advocates, educators and lawyers calling for positive, school-wide approaches to discipline that improve the school environment, reduce conflict, and increase learning. | Boroughwide |
| New York State Youth Leadership Council | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support undocumented immigration you-led organization around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights |
| DRUM | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support advocacy, organizing, community-defense and the “Hate Free Zone” initiative launched in Kensington, Brooklyn | Kensington |
| Building Beats | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support DJ and music programs that teach entrepreneurial, leadership, and life skills to young people of color. | Boroughwide |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the hospital-based violence interruption program and in-school and community-based discussion groups and workshops. | East New York, Brownsville, Flatbush |
| Drive Change | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide training and first job experience for formerly incarcerated and court-involved young people through a nonprofit food truck. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick |
| Safe Passage Project | 2019 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For free legal services and representation to meet the unmet needs of immigrant and undocumented children in partnership with community high schools. | Boroughwide |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support and sustain their free Legal Services Program, which prioritizes family reunification and has provided assistance to families—especially Yemeni families—affected by the travel ban. | Boroughwide, Bay Ridge |
| Muslim Community Network | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support community outreach/education efforts, and self-defense workshops in response to rising Islamophobia | Boroughwide |
| CAMBA | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Brownsville In, Violence Out, a community-based youth development and gun-violence reduction program. | Brownsville |