Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Osborne Association | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | The Osborne Association provides case management services for formerly incarcerated older adults and families of those currently imprisoned, advocates for sentencing and parole reforms, and trains older adults to use their experience in the justice system to become outspoken voices for change. | Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Brownsville, Boroughwide |
| The Urban Justice Center, Domestic Violence Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For direct assistance and programmatic support for people experiencing domestic violence. | Boroughwide |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2020 | $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 |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide financial support to community artists. | Boroughwide |
| Tomorrow's Leaders NYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual support for over-age middle and high-school students in East New York, monthly financial assistance to students and their family, and laptops for academic and creative interactive learning. | Boroughwide |
| Translatina Network | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide emergency food access, supermarket gift cards, and essential health and hygiene items to its Latinx and other transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) members. | Boroughwide |
| Trinity Human Services Corporation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency food for low-income communities of color in Northern Brooklyn. | Williamsburg, Greenpoint |
| Truthworker Theater Company | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
| Turkish Cultural Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide immigrants and refugees in Southern Brooklyn with free meal service, translation services, benefits screening, and remote programming to promote wellbeing, as well as meals for medical workers at Brooklyn Hospital Center. | Sheepshead Bay |
| 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 |
| UNITE HERE Local 100 | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support unemployed hospitality workers, including a worker assistance hotline in 6 languages, and financial assistance for food, prescription drugs, and transportation. | Boroughwide |
| United Community Centers | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the 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 |
| University Settlement Society of New York | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide food and financial support for highly vulnerable older adults and low-income communities. | Boroughwide |
| UnLocal | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support undocumented workers through remote benefits screenings and informational webinars, as well as to provide technical assistance to restaurant groups to help their employees. | Boroughwide |
| Unlocal | 2020 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support legal representation and community legal education in school, workplace, and community settings for undocumented immigrants in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| UPROSE | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For community organizing, public education, and leadership programs for youth that advance environmental sustainability and resiliency. | Sunset Park, South Slope, Gowanus |
| viBe Theater Experience | 2020 | $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 |
| VOCAL-NY | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For vital hygiene and harm reduction services to people who are homeless and people who use drugs, as well as advocacy to reduce prison and jail populations, where people cannot protect themselves from the spread of disease. | Boroughwide |
| Volunteers of Legal Services (VOLS) | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To maintain critical legal services for Brooklyn clients and to launch emergency response efforts, including securing economic relief for unemployed workers and small businesses. | Boroughwide |
| WeCopwatch | 2020 | $3,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To create an online guide with strategies on how to document the police when stopped, or as a bystander, in a manner that can keep one safe from COVID-19, outlining citizens’ rights during the current “shelter in place” order. | Boroughwide |
| Womankind | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide overtime and hazard pay for staff in its emergency residence for survivors of domestic violence as well as direct financial support for its clients. | Boroughwide |
| Worker's Justice Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support and protect day laborers and domestic workers, including providing direct cash assistance and personal protective equipment. | Boroughwide |
| Wyckoff House Museum | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support fresh produce delivery from its on-site farm to partner food programs in the East Flatbush and Canarsie. | East Flatbush, Canarsie |
| Yemeni American Merchants Association | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide COVID-19 related updates and resources to bodega owners, as well as to create and distribute Bodega Safety Kits with protective gear and bilingual health and safety information. | Boroughwide |
| Young New Yorkers | 2020 | $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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Adhikaar | 2019 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | For the National Nail Salon Workers Exchange, taking place on March 25, 2019 at Barnard College | Boroughwide |
| Alex House Project | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2019 | $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 |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2019 | $25,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support immigration legal services for the Arab American community that has been deeply impacted by ongoing changes, including the removal of re-designation for Temporary Protective Status for Syrian and Yemeni arrivals post-2017 | Bay Ridge, Boroughwide |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2019 | $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 |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support and sustain their free Legal Services Program, which prioritizes family reunification and has provided assistance to families—especially Yemeni families—affected by the travel ban. | Boroughwide, Bay Ridge |
| ARTs East New York | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Public Art Apprenticeship Program and Young Artist Institute for young people interested in the arts as a tool for social change. | East New York |
| AsylumConnect | 2019 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the development of their resource catalog for LGBTQ individuals seeking asylum across Brooklyn and New York City | Boroughwide |