Community Fund Grants
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Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
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Equality for Flatbush | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support anti-displacement campaigns, tenants rights and discriminatory policing in immigrant communities and communities of color. | Flatbush |
Drive Change | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For direct cash assistance to out-of-work restaurant and hospitality fellows, as well as to provide resources to transition its culinary training program for formerly incarcerated citizens to online remote learning. | Boroughwide |
GRIOT Circle | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | GRIOT Circle works to ensure that all LGBTQ+ elders of color experience a just and abundant quality of life through a variety of services within its adult daycare programs, monthly social and support groups, and outreach to homebound seniors—as well as through partnerships with other eldercare organizations to increase their competency of care around race, gender, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS, and sexual health. | Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Brownsville, Boroughwide |
Youth Represent | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support direct legal representation and workshops for system-involved youth who face employment discrimination, school suspension, summonses, and other criminal and civil legal issues. | Boroughwide |
Brookdale Hospital Medical Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide direct cash assistance to older adult patients for food and PPE, and to purchase tablets that will facilitate safe telehealth visits for older adults. | Boroughwide, Brownsville, East Flatbush |
DRUM - Desis Rising Up & Moving | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support South Asian and Indo-Caribbean working class undocumented immigrants in Kensington, including emergency food delivery, supplies, and building out a mutual aid network. | Kensington |
Chinese-American Planning Council | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide education and advocacy to address anti-Asian harassment, as well as disease prevention measures and support, particularly for vulnerable elderly populations. | Boroughwide |
S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide holistic support for girls & TGNC youth of color, including virtual programming and counseling, tutoring, family conflict intervention, agency referrals, and costs related to emergency food, bills, and rent. | Boroughwide |
Grow Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For remote Free Tax Prep Services for low income, communities of color to ensure maximum access to CARES Act stimulus payments. | Boroughwide |
Brooklyn Movement Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To create a holistic neighborhood-based response to address the impacts of COVID-19, including using its Central Brooklyn Food Coop organizing infrastructure to provide food relief to hungry families. | Boroughwide |
Invisible Hands Deliver Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To bolster and sustain the volunteer-led organization’s ability to deliver groceries and prescriptions to homebound residents and provide social connection to offset impacts of isolation. | Boroughwide |
Business Center for New Americans | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support immigrant and refugee small and micro business owners with client services, webinars, assistance in accessing relief programs, emergency loans, and cash grants. | Boroughwide |
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide emergency cash assistance to 39 low-wage, undocumented worker-owners of CFL-supported cooperative small businesses in the cleaning industry to address the economic impact of lost wages. | Boroughwide |
Global Kids | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For after-school programming that aims to increase exposure to local and international human rights and social justice issues. | Boroughwide |
Project EATS | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support residents of Brownsville/East New York, including distribution of locally-grown produce and supplemental foods with the support of youth workers, a community newsletter, and contactless community activities. | Brownsville, East New York |
Spanish Speaking Elderly Council: RAICES | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide continuous support to older adult immigrants through new remote services, teleconferences, wellness calls, and food delivery support. | Boroughwide |
Youth Advocacy Corps | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support YAC’s core youth advocacy programs: the Youth Advocacy Summer Institute and Mental Health Awareness Project. | Boroughwide, East New York |
Documented | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide a dedicated source of constant and accurate reporting via various platforms on the immigration systems' impact on local communities. | Boroughwide |
Pure Legacee Inc | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support vulnerable young women of color directly impacted by the criminal justice system and who are aging out of foster care, by providing emergency financial support and virtual support services. | Boroughwide |
Grow Brooklyn | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Grow Brooklyn provides intensive outreach, compassionate counseling, and direct assistance aimed at keeping older adult homeowners in their homes in the face of financial exploitation, particularly in communities of color. | Bushwick, Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Brownsville, Boroughwide |
Arab American Association of New York | 2020 | $45,000 | 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, Bay Ridge |
Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the VLP COVID-19 Frontline Workers Initiative that provides 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East members free legal services to prepare life planning documents, and for the VLP Probate Initiative that provides free legal services in probate matters for New York City residents facing the death of a family member from COVID-19. | Boroughwide |
Endangered Language Alliance | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support up to 50 Indigenous and Native American families in Borough Park, Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, and Bushwick with culturally appropriate food deliveries, cleaning supplies, funds to pay rent or utility bills, and a remote textiles workshop. | Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Bushwick |
Council of Peoples Organization | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide meals to homebound older adults and a weekly food distribution, wellness calls to our senior center participants, and benefits assistance to low-wage workers. | Midwood, Kensington |
UA3 | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency fresh food delivery to underserved locations including senior homes, NYCHA residences, and other low-income housing in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park |
IMPACCT Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide financial assistance, protective supplies, food, and travel assistance to Black and Latinx, low-income households in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights |
CABS Home Attendants Service, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide supplies to protect frontline home care workers and enable the continuous provision of care to over 830 vulnerable Brooklyn residents. | 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 |
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 |
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 |
DRUM | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support advocacy, organizing, community-defense and the “Hate Free Zone” initiative launched in Kensington, Brooklyn | Kensington |
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 |
Made in Brownsville | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a community-based creative agency and community design center that provides a gateway for young people to learn marketable skills in STEAM, access higher education, achieve economic mobility, and become civic leaders. | Brownsville |
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 |
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 |