Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Advocacy Corps | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Invest in Youth | To support YAC’s core youth advocacy programs: the Youth Advocacy Summer Institute and Mental Health Awareness Project. | Boroughwide, East New York |
| Opening Act NYC | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | For free, professionally designed theater programming for students of color in under-resourced public schools, as well as youth in the NYCDOE’s Alternative High School program who are pursuing their GED following a disruption in their education for reasons such as homelessness, teen parenthood, incarceration, and/or court involvement. | Boroughwide |
| The Wyckoff House & Association, Inc | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Invest in Youth | To support innovative educational and farm-based programs that build cultural and agricultural connections within the community through the teaching of Brooklyn’s rich history as a leader in urban farming, with an emphasis on: community, the immigrant experience, supporting family, and understanding the health benefits of sustainable food. | East Flatbush, Canarsie |
| STEM from Dance | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support a cohesive learning experience in which dance is used to introduce girls of color to computer science. | Boroughwide |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2018 | $100,000 | Spark Prize | Brooklyn Accelerator | Based in Brooklyn since its founding in 2002, Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is an intergenerational organization committed to the physical, psychological, social, and economic development of girls and women. GGE develops the advocacy skills of over 200 young people annually to eradicate structural, state, racial, and sexual violence and criminalization. GGE encourages youth to become agents of change through civic engagement and leadership opportunities, and campaigns focused on improving the systemic and interpersonal rights of trans and cis girls and young women of color, and gender non-conforming youth of color. | Boroughwide |
| Make the Road New York | 2021 | $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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Ali Forney Center | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Youth Advocacy Internship Program for homeless LGBTQIA youth of color. | Citywide |
| JobsFirstNYC | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs to strengthen the capacity of workforce development institutions and create systems-level change through partnerships with employers and local government, with a goal of improving economic mobility and opportunities for young adults. | Boroughwide |
| Drive Change | 2017 | $35,000 | 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 |
| JustLeadershipUSA | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To empower court-involved youth to drive policy reforms, including #buildCOMMUNITIES Campaign to reinvest money divested from the NYC justice system through closure of Rikers back into communities to support proven community-based solutions and services. | 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 |
| BRIC Arts Media | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the enrollment of court-involved youth in the Project Re-Direct media apprenticeship program, a pilot alternative-to-incarceration initiative between BRIC and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. | Boroughwide |
| DRUM | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize South Asian youth, families, and immigrant workers to win campaigns focused on educational equity, economic justice, legalization, workplace rights, and an end to racial profiling and anti-immigrant enforcement | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Center for Urban Pedagogy | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a program for high school students that centers on engaging young people to understand policies and structures that affect their neighborhood, promoting civic engagement and supporting their capacity as community leaders. | Boroughwide |
| Truthworker Theater Company | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A theater program that uses first person narratives to bring the stories of young people impacted by incarceration to the forefront and drive awareness of the need for policy reform. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| El Puente | 2015 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to help strengthen and expand the capacity to engage and empower youth in North Brooklyn to be leaders through campaigns and initiatives that focus on environmental justice, climate change, community safety, and racial/cultural equity in education, the arts, and wellness. | Williamsburg |
| 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 |
| Green City Force | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a service and training program that aims to create ladders to careers in the green economy for NYCHA youth, focused on development of two urban farms | Red Hook, Brownsville |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2021 | $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 |
| FUREE | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| New York State Youth Leadership Council | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support undocumented immigration youth-led organization around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights |
| Brooklyn Workforce Innovations | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Youth Pathway Out of Poverty, which will provide Central Brooklyn youth with access to employer-demanded skills, career credentials, job placement, and long-term career development support. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| New York State Youth Leadership Council | 2018 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support undocumented immigration youth-led organization around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights |
| Green City Force | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support an environmental initiative that advances the city’s climate and equity goals, and connects high school graduates to employment opportunities and sectoral apprenticeships. | Boroughwide |
| Alex House Project | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide pregnancy and parenting groups for teens and other young, low-income, first time mothers and fathers in Red Hook | Red Hook |
| viBe Theater Experience | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programming that engages girls and young women of color to write, create, publish, direct, and perform personal collaborative theater and music. | Boroughwide |
| Common Justice | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A victim-service and alternative-to-incarceration program based on restorative justice principles that works with young people who commit violent felonies and those they harm. | Boroughwide | |
| Teachers Unite | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Youth-led Transformative Justice initiative to organize alternatives to suspension in up to five public schools in under-resourced and over-policed Brooklyn communities. | Brownsville, East New York, Bushwick, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, East Williamsburg, Sunset Park |
| 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 |
| Hook Arts Media | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For in-school, after-school, and summer-based multi-disciplinary arts programs serving low-income youth of color, with a focus on overage, under-credited students and disconnected youth. | Red Hook |
| FUREE | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth | Red Hook, Gowanus |
| Global Action Project | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For an intersectional youth organizing and activism program that uses media and storytelling to help young people, specifically immigrant and LGBTQ youth, advocate for themselves and their communities | Boroughwide |