Community Fund Grants
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Organization |
Year | Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audre Lorde Project | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth-led programs and advocacy for LGBTQ people of color that build leadership and organizing skills, reduce surveillance policing, and promote safer communities. | Boroughwide |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2018 | $35,000 | 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 |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2017 | $35,000 | 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 |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2017 | $100,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Spark Prize | An inter-generational organizing center for LGBT people of color that promotes community wellness and progressive social and economic justice in New York City. Founded in Brooklyn in 1996, ALP works with over 8,000 members on issues including creating safety models against police brutality and hate crimes, as well as training small businesses, community organizations, and neighborhood leaders on de-escalation and safety strategies. | Boroughwide |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2019 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support coalition building efforts to strengthen organizational capacity and to build networks and working groups to better serve the diverse, complex needs of the growing Bangladeshi immigrant community | Cypress Hills, East New York |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the East New York-based organization that engages Bangladeshi youth in social and educational activities including language training, employment readiness, computer training, sports and culture. | East New York |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 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 New York, City Line |
| 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 |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services Corp. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase capacity to meet the needs of Bangladeshi residents in the City Line neighborhood, including volunteer recruitment, materials translation and dissemination, distribution of halal food packages, and agency coordination. | East New York, City Line |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To expand vaccination-related support services and free COVID testing to immigrant residents without insurance in East New York. | East New York |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To create a network of service providers for more than 8,000 Bangladeshi clients a year to address domestic violence, mental health, and other health services in addition to housing, legal, and education support services. | East New York, City Line |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | From April–June 2017, BACDYS will offer 4 free "Know Your Rights" workshops for East New York's Bangladeshi community, designed to empower immigrants and address fears by providing accurate legal education in Bengali. | East New York, City Line |
| Be More | 2015 | $5,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Incubator Project | Be More aims to raise awareness about race-based disparities, train change agents with tools to reduce unconscious bias to eliminate racial inequities, and foster leadership to enable multiracial social change movements. In the coming year, Be More will launch its second #Vision2040 social media video campaign, organize community gatherings to heal from racism, and prototype a training to reduce unconscious bias using evidence-based techniques. | Boroughwide |
| Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger | 2018 | $20,000 | 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 |
| Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger | 2017 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Green Teens sustainable farming paid apprenticeship program for Brooklyn youth aged 15-24 | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For community outreach—including emergency food, PPE, wellness checks, webinars, employment offerings, training for employment, mental health referrals, and financial counseling—for and led by NYCHA residents in East New York and Bedford Stuyvesant. | East New York, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| 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 |
| Betances Health Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To offset projected revenue losses and retain staff at its Central Brooklyn health center, and purchase telehealth equipment so that it can continue to provide a full-scope of primary care services throughout the crisis. | Boroughwide |
| Bethany United Methodist Church | 2017 | $20,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | To support services, workshops, and cultural programming that engage residents around issues in the community. | Crown Heights |
| 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 Alliance for Just Immigration | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Brooklyn Transformative Organizing Project, a comprehensive initiative to develop the leadership and empowerment of the borough's Black immigrant youth and families. | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To develop the leadership and empowerment of the borough's Black immigrant youth and families in order to end racism, criminalization, and economic disenfranchisement. | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To develop the leadership and empowerment of the borough's Black immigrant youth and families in order to end racism, criminalization, and economic disenfranchisement. | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To develop the leadership and empowerment of the borough's Black immigrant youth and families in order to end racism, criminalization, and economic disenfranchisement | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support community organizing, legal clinics, and language access for Black immigrants. | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For organizing and legal clinics and language support of Black Muslim immigrants | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To fund the organization of a political education session highlighting issues affecting Black immigrant workers—including economic inequality, unemployment, racial discrimination, and the impact of harsh immigration enforcement practices—as well as mobilizing a Black contingent for May Day 2017 that lifts up unique issues facing Black immigrant workers . | Boroughwide |
| Black Excellence Collective | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a Black LGBTQIA+ mutual aid relief fund for vulnerable community members, including older adults, people with disabilities, those who engage in sex work, people who are undocumented, and those who are housing insecure. | Boroughwide |
| Black Excellence Collective | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide PPP, nonperishable goods and mini cash grants to members of marginalized communities. | Boroughwide |
| Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support a convening of the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project's NYC Chapter in Fall 2018, aimed at promoting leadership development, capacity building, and organizing to address the ways in which community members are targeted by the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems | Boroughwide |
| Black Trans Media | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide Black TGNC people and low-income communities of color in Brooklyn with supplies, cooked meals, groceries, and support as well as digital spaces for organizing and documenting communities' response to the pandemic. | Boroughwide |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For their Mobile Healing Unit to provide food, toiletries, and general support to survivors of domestic violence of African descent quarantined in the same household as their abusers, as well as to purchase HIPAA-compliant software and create a reliable mass-text system for information sharing. | 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 |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2018 | $35,000 | 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 |