Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRIC Arts Media | 2020 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Creative, educational, and vocational development of Black and Caribbean youth in Central Brooklyn. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| 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 |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that strengthen Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian immigrant youth’s academic achievement, creative expression and healthy behaviors. | Boroughwide |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Hospital-based violence interruption program and in-school and community-based discussion groups and workshops. | East New York, Brownsville, Flatbush |
| Added Value | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the urban farming and youth empowerment program in Red Hook, which hires a cohort of teens to run the farm, farmers market, and community food events as they develop leadership on food justice issues. | Red Hook |
| Student Dream | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs for college-bound students of color that provide them with the necessary financial literacy skills to close the racial and economic gap which benefits their white counterparts. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Reconnect | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To connect youth to employment, entrepreneurship training, and access to college credit to help navigate systemic challenges that make it hard to find sustainable employment. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| University Settlement Society of New York | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Connect*Flow*Inspire, a program offering low-income youth from Fort Greene/Clinton Hill a safe space to discover a positive sense of self and community and to develop leadership skills to inspire others to collaborate toward community change. | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of NYC | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Youth Leadership Council (YLC), a program of currently or formerly in foster care youth that plan advocacy and training activities, advise on policies and practices, and receive ongoing support regarding their own personal and professional development and stability while serving as advisors and ambassadors of CASA-NYC to volunteers and supporters, the broader child welfare/court community, and the general public. | Boroughwide |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2018 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide job readiness and leadership training, part-time employment, academic support, and services to assist young people toward graduation, college, and career. | Red Hook |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by girls and young women of color and gender expansive youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| H.O.L.L.A - How Our Lives Link Altogether | 2017 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a social justice education, leadership, and organizing program for low income youth of color focused on trauma recovery and healing | 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 |
| El Puente | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize communities of color to fight gentrification through youth-led community campaigns and initiatives focused on environmental justice, climate change, community safety, and racial/cultural equity in education, the arts, and wellness. | Williamsburg |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support an initiative that promotes social and economic justice in Red Hook while cultivating local leadership and strengthening the future of youth development through academic support, leadership training, part-time employment, college guidance, emotional health support, opportunities, and services that prepare youths for a self-sufficient, civically-active adulthood. | Red Hook |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by LGBTQ youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| Youth Justice Network | 2021 | $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. Youth Justice Network was formerly known as “Friends of Island Academy.” | Boroughwide |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2017 | $30,000 | 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 |
| Lineage Project | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For mindfulness and yoga programs for incarcerated and highly-vulnerable young people, including those in living in secure and non-secure detention facilities, as well as a Brooklyn-based program for young people on probation | 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 |
| ReConnect | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To connect youth to employment, entrepreneurship training, and access to college credit to help navigate systemic challenges that make it hard to find sustainable employment. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by girls and young women of color and gender expansive youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| Day One New York, Inc. | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs to end dating abuse and intimate partner violence among youth by connecting survivors to direct support services including counseling and case management, legal representation, and preventive and peer-led education. | Boroughwide |
| Resilience Advocacy Project | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide leadership development programs, legal education, and peer-to-peer trainings for youth of color, particularly those living in ACS care or detention, focused on advocating for community change. | Boroughwide |
| Arab American Association of New York: | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership fellowship for Arab and Muslim youth that provides resources and tools to address advocacy issues including immigration, police accountability, and racial justice | Boroughwide |
| Safe Passage Project | 2019 | $50,000 | 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 |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide off-ramps for young people who come into contact with the justice system, including educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |
| Reel Works | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Documentary filmmaking and media production programs for youth, including school-based program with four middle and high schools in Brownsville. | Boroughwide, Brownsville |
| Council of Peoples Organization | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Join In, Find Out high school after-school program, which provides South Asian and Muslim immigrant and second generation students in Flatbush and Midwood with resources and support needed to address the pressures of family, assimilation, and education. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize South Asian youth for campaigns focused on educational equity, economic justice, legalization, workplace rights, and an end to racial profiling and anti-immigrant enforcement. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Footsteps | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth transitioning into mainstream society with resources, leadership development, and peer connections. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Garden Apprentice Program, a youth development program through which teen apprentices work under the guidance of skilled professionals and receive mentorship from top horticulturalists and environmental educators. | Boroughwide |