Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYC Coalition for Educational Justice | 2015 | $10,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | NYC Coalition for Educational Justice is a parent-led movement that seeks to affect policy change and create a more equitable educational system. Funds will support local parent engagement around the Department of Education's Community Schools Initiative, which will bring over a million dollars in new resources to three Crown Heights schools. | Crown Heights |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Advocacy strategies led by LGBTQ youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Comprehensive free legal representation to court-involved youth with a focus on school discipline and reentry, special education placements, alternative pathways to graduation, alternatives to incarceration, and counseling. | Boroughwide |
| Urban Youth Collaborative | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize youth of color who have been the victims of school-based over-policing to advance youth justice alternatives and promote wellbeing of both youth and their communities. | Boroughwide |
| NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color | 2016 | $20,000 | Girls of Color Fund | Girls of Color Fund Grant | A collaboration of 16 foundations that awarded $2.1 million to 28 nonprofit organizations working to cultivate the leadership of young women of color as change agents to advance cultural and systemic shifts. The grantees provide services, leadership development and advocacy in the areas of health, economic and workforce development, community support and opportunity, education, and anti-violence/criminal justice. | Boroughwide |
| Green City Force | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Brooklyn-based summer leadership institute that engages young women in political education and empowerment programs to equip them to be agents for social change. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island, Crown Heights, East New York |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Programs that strengthen Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian immigrant youth’s academic achievement, creative expression and healthy behaviors. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | An entrepreneurship and mentoring program that connects NYCHA youth with their first jobs at small businesses along Myrtle Avenue. | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill |
| Active Citizen Project | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A youth leadership initiative centered at the organization’s community farm that aims to help young people improve the conditions that determine their quality of life and ability to thrive. | Brownsville, East New York, Crown Heights |
| CASES | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Programs that divert youth from the criminal justice system by providing education and employment services, behavioral health treatment, service projects, and links to other providers. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Coney Island |
| Atlas: DIY | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Community-based "cooperative model" that provides free legal, educational, and social services for undocumented youth and their allies. | Sunset Park |
| Council of Peoples Organization | 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. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Bridge Street Development Corporation | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A civic engagement and internship program for youth interested in public service, service learning, leadership development, and activism. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene |
| Added Value | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Urban farming and youth empowerment program, 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 |
| Center for Nu Leadership | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Programs that divert neighborhood youth from arrest proceedings by developing pre-arrest diversion options for law-officers. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Center for Family Life | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A community school model that engages youth, families and educators to mobilize resources and develop programs for high school success and college access and retention. | Sunset Park |
| 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 |
| Brooklyn Community Services | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A project that engages young people, primarily immigrant youth, in activities to help them develop job skills, improve their academic performance, and become community leaders. | Coney Island |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | An apprentice program through which teens work under the guidance of skilled professionals and receive mentorship from top horticulturalists and environmental educators | Boroughwide |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support counseling, life skills courses, and after-school arts-based activities for youth living in secure and non-secure detention facilities. | Boroughwide |
| Safe Passage Project | 2016 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Free legal services and representation to meet the unmet needs of immigrant and undocumented children in partnership with community high schools. | Boroughwide |
| Mixteca | 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. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Park Slope, Red Hook |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Job readiness and leadership training, part-time employment, academic support, and services to assist young people toward graduation, college, and career. | Red Hook |
| United Community Centers | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operation and management of one of the city’s largest youth-led farms as well as a sexual health-focused peer education program. | East New York |
| UPROSE | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Community organizing, public education, and leadership programs for youth that advance environmental sustainability and resiliency. | Sunset Park, South Slope, Gowanus |
| Center for Urban Pedagogy | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To engage youth from the Red Hook Community Justice Center to develop a visual guide that helps the public build understanding around a pressing social issue. | Boroughwide |
| Turning Point Brooklyn | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Social, educational, medical, and economic support services to low income, immigrant residents focused on building advocacy and leadership skills and establishing strong mentoring relationships. | Sunset Park |
| Arab American Association of New York | 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. | Boroughwide, Bay Ridge |
| University Settlement Society of New York | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A program offering low-income youth a safe space to discover a positive sense of self and community and develop leadership skills to inspire others to collaborate toward community change. | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill |
| 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 |
| Young New Yorkers | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide court-mandated arts diversion programs for youth that engage them in social justice issues through the creation of large-scale public art projects. | Boroughwide |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |