Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Marcy Houses | 2020 | $6,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For food delivery for vulnerable residents, and to engage youth in documenting firsthand accounts of life at Marcy Houses during the COVID-19 pandemic to expose the impacts of systemic racism. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Siren - Protectors of the Rainforest, Inc. | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide food relief and online movement classes for the residents of Rehab Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Mixteca | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide financial relief to indigenous immigrant families in Sunset Park, prioritizing those who have recently lost their jobs as housekeepers, nannies, and restaurant workers. | Sunset Park |
| Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To sustain the services of volunteer EMTs and paramedics responding to 911 calls in Bedford-Stuyvesant. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| The Gathering for Justice | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support people released from city and state carceral facilities with basic needs, and support for families of people who remain incarcerated. | Boroughwide |
| Muslim Community Network | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To establish a hotline for vulnerable families and individuals to connect them with food and other resources, as well as stipends and materials for community members who can sew masks for essential workers. | Boroughwide |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2020 | $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 |
| Domestic Workers United | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide ongoing support for members through virtual town halls, technology to keep members connected, and emergency food assistance in partnership with Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees. | Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush |
| Haiti Cultural Exchange | 2020 | $7,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual platforms for artists and support to culture workers of Haitian descent. | Boroughwide |
| IntegrateNYC | 2020 | $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 |
| Represented Foundation | 2020 | $7,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For an intensive leadership development program for Black and Latinx social entrepreneurs working on community-generated solutions to the COVID-19 crisis, launching in June 2020. | Boroughwide |
| Fifth Avenue Committee | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide benefits and entitlements access and support as well as emergency financial assistance to low-income people of color in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| exalt | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To counteract the school-to-prison pipeline by elevating expectations of personal success for court-involved youth through job skills courses, individualized support, paid internships, and alumni network. | Boroughwide |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide comprehensive social and economic support to Bangladeshi immigrants in City Line. | City Line, East New York |
| Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide groceries, sanitary supplies, medication, and cash assistance to LGBTQIA+ and GNC immigrants. | Boroughwide |
| The Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For an online Upstander workshop that teaches participants how to address bias incidents particularly against Asian communities | Boroughwide |
| Safe Passage Project | 2020 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Global Trauma Research | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For multilingual telehealth therapy and psychiatry support groups for immigrants, refugees, and others without access to health insurance, as well as assistance for therapists of color and linguistic healers to increase their service to Brooklyn’s communities of color during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Boroughwide |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide financial support to community artists. | Boroughwide |
| Documented | 2020 | $8,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide Spanish-language reporting on the specific impacts of COVID-19 on immigrants—especially those who are undocumented—and to combat the spread of misinformation on WhatsApp. | Boroughwide |
| The Brooklyn Hospital Foundation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To purchase reusable face masks, hand sanitizer, and antibacterial soaps to dispense to community members beyond the hospital’s walls for a Community Day event. | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Downtown |
| Trinity Human Services Corporation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency food for low-income communities of color in Northern Brooklyn. | Williamsburg, Greenpoint |
| Neighbors Together | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide for additional staff and costs related to transitioning its sit down community cafe to provide take out meals, as well as for advocacy outreach prioritizing the needs of homeless and low-income Brooklynites. | Boroughwide |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2020 | $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 |
| Children of the City | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide holistic support and essential items to children and their families with low incomes residing in Sunset Park | Sunset Park |
| Heights and Hills, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support food and household items for over 2,000 older adult clients, and expansion of the volunteer force including 300 new background checks. | Boroughwide |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | 2020 | $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 |
| UNITE HERE Local 100 | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support unemployed hospitality workers, including a worker assistance hotline in 6 languages, and financial assistance for food, prescription drugs, and transportation. | Boroughwide |
| Laundry Workers Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide immediate relief for essential laundromat workers from virus exposure and employer exploitation, including advocating for mandatory paid sick days, up-to-date health and workers’ rights information, and direct financial aid. | 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 |
| Flex Dance Program | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a Flex Dance and creative mentorship program aimed at reducing the likelihood of recidivism and re-entry for young people in secure detention centers. | Boroughwide |
| Chinese-American Planning Council | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support programs and campaigns that promote social and economic empowerment of Asian American and immigrant communities of color. | Boroughwide |
| National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For organizing, community healing, and mental health services for LGBTQ+ Asian American, South Asian, and Southeast Asian coalition leaders in Brooklyn, with a focus on responding to hate violence, harassment, and micro-aggressions against Asian Americans. | Boroughwide |
| Equality for Flatbush | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For the #BrooklynShowsLove Mutual Aid Project in Flatbush to connect neighbors to emergency funds for hourly wage workers such as dollar van drivers, home health aides, and street vendors. | Flatbush |