Community Fund Grants
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Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
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Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support Haitian refugees’ access to Temporary Protected Status through education, community organizing, leadership development, collective action, and advocacy. | Boroughwide |
Muslim Community Network | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To provide voter education and civic engagement resources to build education and awareness in Muslim communities and build partnerships with other community-based organizations to increase inclusivity and representation. | Bay Ridge, East New York, Midwood |
Urban Youth Collaborative | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a coalition focused on the advancement of school discipline reform through legislation aimed at reducing racial disparities and significantly limiting the use of suspensions. | Boroughwide |
Pakistani American Youth Organization | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide food to communities in need across Brooklyn. The organization will also implement a food delivery service to cater for those who might not be able to access their mobile units. | Boroughwide |
Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | 2021 | $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 |
The Healing Center | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide support services and emergency food boxes to immigrant survivors of family violence in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge |
S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth leadership and development programs for systems-involved girls and young women in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
GenSpace | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To create the Community Health Ambassadors Program, which will serve as both an educational and youth development tool for residents of Sunset Park to understand more about the vaccine and the science that is used to create vaccines, while empowering them to make informed decisions about their health. | Sunset Park |
Workers Justice Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support worker-led education, organizing, leadership development, and grassroots economic alternatives to improve the social, economic, and political conditions of Latinx immigrant families in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
The Black Institute | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To conduct research, provide educational opportunities that encourage political awareness and stir public debate, train new leadership, develop initiatives to build wealth and power for Black people and all people of color. The Black Institute will continue its environmental and housing justice work in Black communities across the borough. | Boroughwide |
Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs that serve Haitian immigrant youth to develop their capacity as productive community members, and understand their collective power to fight for their right to quality education, ensuring long-term access to other resources for a better life outcome. | Boroughwide |
Translatinx Networks | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide PPP and financial assistance to members of underserved communities in Brooklyn and to implement a telehealth program to support their access to healthcare services with the use of a mobile device. | Boroughwide |
Youth Design Center | 2021 | $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. Youth Design Center was formerly known as “Made in Brownsville.” | Brownsville |
The Alex House Project | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase vaccine outreach, education, and support to at least 300 more young parents in central and southern Brooklyn with a focus on parents living in communities at high risk for spread of the virus. | Boroughwide |
Young New Yorkers | 2021 | $45,000 | 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 |
Global Trauma Research | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a safe space for Black and Latinx residents in Central Brooklyn to have access to social workers, who will provide health resources, referrals to COVID-19 testing sites, and help scheduling vaccine appointments. | Boroughwide |
Street Vendor Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide political education and leadership training for vendors to mobilize campaigns for social justice and economic opportunity. | Boroughwide |
Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY) | 2021 | $70,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Community-led Social Change Grant | To build power among low-income people impacted by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness and mobilize for legislative change through community organizing, leadership development, advocacy, direct services, and direct action. The organization will continue to build organizing around its housing and economic justice campaigns. | Boroughwide |
Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a Cultural Arts program that provides multi disciplinary instruction and intergenerational programming that celebrates the rich heritage of the African Diaspora. | Boroughwide |
Domestic Workers United | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide mini-grants "love offerings" to domestic workers who might not necessarily be eligible to receive or access government support. | Boroughwide |
STEM from Dance | 2021 | $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 |
Ali Forney Center | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase COVID-19 vaccine outreach, education, and navigation led by the organization’s Health Counselor both online and to individuals visiting the drop-in center. | Boroughwide |
Arab American Association of New York | 2021 | $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 |
Haitian American Community Coalition | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide remote care for clients and develop a team to provide COVID-19 testing referrals and health outreach. | Boroughwide |
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide COVID-19 vaccine education and outreach in partnership with community-based organizations in Coney Island. | Coney Island |
The New York Immigration Coalition | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To advocate for New York’s immigrants and refugees and push for equitable legislation by partnering with national and regional advocates, nonprofits, and bipartisan elected officials. | Boroughwide |
America on Tech | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the East New York/Brownsville Summer Tech Camp, and the Youth Design Center, a gateway for young people to learn marketable hard skills in STEAM, access post-secondary education, achieve mobility, and engage in place-based community revitalization. | East New York, Brownsville |
Ascendus | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide support to small business entrepreneurs of color in Brooklyn as they apply for PPP and NY Forward loan forgiveness in addition to continued lending for those excluded from traditional banking institutions. | Boroughwide |
ImmSchools | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a program that advocates for the interest of the immigrant community by creating internships for students that do not qualify for city programs, including undocumented students. | Boroughwide |
Haitian Americans United for Progress, Inc. | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency cash assistance, support and counseling, and up-to-date COVID-19 health information to undocumented, low-wage workers. | Boroughwide |
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To engage court-involved youth as actors and playwrights in a comprehensive theatre-for-social justice program that uses real life stories of the youth actors. | Boroughwide |
Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To address the general lack of knowledge about the COVID-19 vaccine, and fear and misinformation about vaccine safety, in communities of color across the borough through outreach at neighborhood businesses and gathering spaces. | Boroughwide |
Arab-American Family Support Center | 2021 | $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 (KAVI) | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide COVID-19 education on testing and vaccine services to increase access, acceptance, and uptake in Black communities across the borough. | Boroughwide |
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support ending discriminatory surveillance on immigrants, Muslim Americans, the LGBTQ+ community, and BIPOC individuals through advocacy and litigating for privacy. | Boroughwide |