Community Fund Grants
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Organization |
Year | Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| exalt | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| exalt | 2019 | $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 |
| exalt | 2017 | $40,000 | 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 |
| exalt | 2015 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to counteract the school-to-prison pipeline by elevating expectations of personal success for youth who have interfaced with the criminal justice system. | Boroughwide |
| exalt | 2018 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Spark Prize | Since its founding in 2006 in Brooklyn, exalt has worked with over 1200 youth ages 15-19 who have been involved in the criminal justice system. exalt equips youth with tools and experiences to avoid further criminal justice system involvement through structured classes for tangible skill development, individualized support to navigate the education and justice systems, placement in paid internships, and an alumni network of resources. | Boroughwide |
| exalt | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide increased stipends to court-involved youth and alumni of its diversion programs in order to help alleviate economic hardship due to COVID-19. | Boroughwide |
| Exalt Youth | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To further develop the organization’s COVID-19 Vaccine Education Project by hiring a BIPOC medical professional to conduct an educational series about the vaccine for court-involved youth and their families. | Boroughwide |
| Expecting Relief | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To hire a Vaccine Outreach Coordinator to provide older adults in Bushwick and East New York with accurate information about COVID-19 and the vaccine, navigation with setting up vaccination appointments, and transportation to appointments. | East New York, Bushwick |
| Expecting Relief | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support perishable food distribution and household essentials to 150-200 Black and Latinx Brooklyn residents. | Bushwick |
| Extreme Kids & Crew | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For continuous support and supplies for families of children with developmental disabilities, who are facing greater challenges without the resources and structure schools provide. | Boroughwide |
| Faith in New York | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To mobilize local congregations in support of immigrant rights. Key strategies include the Faith Over Fear Emergency Response Network, which provides immediate legal aid, mobilizes supporters in the faith community, and builds awareness of mass deportation issues; monthly trainings for congregations that have offered their houses of worship as a safe sanctuary for immigrants in case of large-scale deportations; Know Your Rights workshops for immigrant communities; and a civic engagement strategy to mobilize support for an immigrant justice platform, including a municipal voting campaign, candidate forums, boot camps for congregations and faith leaders, and voter outreach. | Boroughwide |
| Faith in New York | 2018 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support Prophetic Leadership School that will train local leaders for grassroots campaigns to change policies around mass deportation and mass incarceration. | Boroughwide |
| Families for Freedom | 2018 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide outreach and political education to communities most at risk of detention and deportation, especially long-term resident green card holders with nonviolent criminal convictions. | Boroughwide |
| Families for Freedom | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For work to fight against laws that have made misdemeanors "aggravated felonies" and introduced mandatory detention and deportation | Boroughwide |
| Families for Freedom | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support organizing and advocacy fighting deportations and unjust immigration policies. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Fifth Avenue Committee | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| 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 |
| Fifth Avenue Committee | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| First Tech Fund, Inc | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | For programs to close the digital divide for low-income high schoolers by providing access to technology, career and college guidance, and engaging youth as part of an advisory board. Students receive free laptops and internet access, targeted advising and networking, and mentorship from industry-specific professionals. | Boroughwide |
| First Tech Fund, Inc | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs to close the digital divide for low-income high schoolers by providing access to technology, career and college guidance, and engaging youth as part of an advisory board. Students receive free laptops and internet access, targeted advising and networking, and mentorship from industry-specific professionals. | Boroughwide |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs that serve Haitian immigrant youth to develop their capacity as productive community members, and understand their collective power to fight for their right to quality education, ensuring long-term access to other resources for a better life outcome. | Boroughwide |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to help transform the lives of Haitian newcomer youth in Crown Heights, East Flatbush and Canarsie through education and leadership development and raising awareness of immigrant education issues in the community and citywide. | East Flatbush, Canarsie, Crown Heights |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs that serve Haitian immigrant youth to develop their capacity as productive community members, and understand their collective power to fight for their right to quality education, ensuring long-term access to other resources for a better life outcome. | Boroughwide |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | East Flatbush, Canarsie, Crown Heights |
| Flatbush Development Corp | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To train all organization staff to become vaccine ambassadors and serve as credible messengers across Central Brooklyn neighborhoods. | Boroughwide |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | 2022 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Flatbush Tenant Coalition organizes older adults across 300 buildings in Central Brooklyn, with a focus on educating the community on housing laws and tenants’ rights, advocating for policy change, and expanding access to entitlements and benefits. | Flatbush, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Flatbush Development Corporation’s Flatbush Tenant Coalition organizes older adults across 300 buildings in Central Brooklyn, with a focus on educating the community on housing laws and tenants’ rights, advocating for policy change, and expanding access to entitlements and benefits. | Flatbush, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support the area’s immigrant and women-owned small businesses to prevent closures, increase access to financial lifelines, and mitigate the impact of lost wages. | Flatbush |
| 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 |
| Flex Dance Program | 2021 | $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 |
| Flex Dance Program | 2022 | $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 |
| Flex Dance Program | 2019 | $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 |
| Food Issues Group | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the Frontline Community Food Relief initiative that matches independent food businesses with grassroots organizations to provide emergency meal distribution to LGBTQIA+ youths, immigrant food workers, domestic workers, and people experiencing housing insecurity. | Boroughwide |
| Footsteps | 2020 | $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 |