Community Fund Grants
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| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the establishment of a Youth ReEntry Network hub office in Downtown Brooklyn to provide educational, social service, and workforce development supports for young people transitioning out of incarceration. | Boroughwide |
| Mixteca Organization | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide wraparound services for indigenous Mexican and Central American immigrants in Southwest Brooklyn. | Sunset Park |
| SupChina | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support reporting on the growing tide of anti-Asian and anti-Chinese sentiment and to raise legal funds for Chinese-American scientists unjustly accused of being spies. | Boroughwide |
| Haitian-American Community Coalition | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For virtual care technologies to provide continuity of care and client services for older adults, HIV-positive clients, and formerly homeless individuals. | Boroughwide, Crown Heights |
| Her Justice Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide essential services for Brooklyn survivors of domestic and other gender-based violence in immigration, child support and consumer debt matters. | Boroughwide |
| Afrolatin@ Project, Inc | 2020 | $7,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To manufacture and distribute medical grade PPE to Brooklyn hospitals serving communities of color. | Boroughwide |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide increased translation services, adult and family counseling and screenings, and food distribution via Red Hook Farms. | Red Hook |
| Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide education on COVID-19 preventative practices and purchase PPE, sanitary supplies, and food for seniors, people with health issues, and low income residents of the Orthodox community in Flatbush. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Coney Island Lighthouse Mission | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency food distribution and deliveries to low-income residents of Coney Island. | Coney Island |
| The Ladies of Hope Ministries | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide stipends for food delivery for women recently released from Rikers Island and New York State prisons, as well as nutritious plant-based meal and care packages for 400 Woodhull and 2,500 Bellevue doctors and nurses. | Boroughwide |
| CAMBA | 2020 | $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 |
| Pakistani American Youth Organization Inc | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency food and essential items to residents with low incomes of Flatbush and Midwood. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative | 2020 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide continuous support to vulnerable youth in Central Brooklyn through a secure telehealth platform for one-on-one counseling, social worker participation in webinars, technology updates, and emergency transportation and food assistance. | Boroughwide | |
| Sanctuary for Families | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a peer support group and workforce development 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 |
| Fearless Femme 100 | 2020 | $7,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide free mental health services to queer Black and Indigenous residents in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYC NOWC INC) | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide a Worker Cooperative Emergency Fund that will support workers in the most vulnerable industries and communities, and prioritize those not able to access government benefits. | 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 |
| Good Call NYC | 2020 | $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 |
| Sakhi for South Asian Women | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide holistic support services for women survivors of domestic violence. | Boroughwide |
| Arts Business Collaborative | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For a partnership with For the Gworls to provide travel services for Black TGNC people to safely access medical care and financial support for co-pays, with priority for people with disabilities and those who are immunocompromised. | Boroughwide |
| Make the Road New York | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support newly unemployed low-wage workers as well as warehouse and delivery workers facing exposure, mandatory overtime, and demands to not call out sick. | Boroughwide, Bushwick |
| Brownsville Think Tank Matters | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide people returning from incarceration with PPE, gift cards, food packages, transportation, and restorative justice circles with fellow community members and police officers in partnership with Incredible Credible Messengers. | Boroughwide |
| Asian American Federation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the Advocate, Educate, and Mitigate Against Hate Initiative to coordinate protections for the Asian community in Brooklyn. | Sunset Park, Boroughwide |
| Sakhi for South Asian Women | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide social support to South Asian survivors of domestic abuse, as well as safe home delivery of food, direct emergency assistance, and one-time emergency purchases including emergency rent, bill payment. | Boroughwide |
| Educators For Excellence | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support a network of teachers with resources for community-building and advocacy, including a virtual Town Hall with key district stakeholders to elevate the voices of educators and the needs of vulnerable students related to the COVID-19 crisis. | Boroughwide |
| Dream Deferred Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For food gift cards for women and LGBTQ people released from New York prisons and jails since March 2020 residing in Brooklyn, in partnership with Witness to Mass Incarceration Inc. | Boroughwide |
| UnLocal | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support undocumented workers through remote benefits screenings and informational webinars, as well as to provide technical assistance to restaurant groups to help their employees. | Boroughwide |
| The Campaign Against Hunger | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Green Teens sustainable farming paid apprenticeship program for Brooklyn youth ages 15-24. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Precious Dreams Foundation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To deliver “comfort bags” of bedtime essentials to 400 children living in transitional housing in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| MHANY Management, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support its affordable housing residents through provision of food and disinfectant supplies, assembly and delivery of care packages, and converting a dozen units into “safe places” for self-isolation. | Boroughwide |
| STEM from Dance | 2020 | $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 |
| Girl Be Heard | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To respond to the emerging emotional and material needs of vulnerable girls and gender expansive youth. | Boroughwide |
| TakeRoot Justice | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To promote workers’ rights—especially undocumented workers and domestic workers—through economic justice advocacy, remote legal support, and the development of toolkits and online workshops to expand the capacity of mutual aid organizations. | 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 |