Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) | 2019 | $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 |
| DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize South Asian youth, families, and immigrant workers to win campaigns focused on educational equity, economic justice, legalization, workplace rights, and an end to racial profiling and anti-immigrant enforcement. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| 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 |
| FUREE/Fifth Avenue Committee | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the overhaul and relaunch of FUREE-ous Youth!, a leadership and advocacy program for youth living in NYCHA Developments in Gowanus. | Boroughwide |
| Groundswell | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For school year and summer programs that engage youth from underserved communities in public mural making as a means of social change while developing their leadership and creative skills | 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 |
| Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2015 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for comprehensive anti-violence, empowerment, and leadership programming for young people, including the expansion of services for LGBTQ homeless youth and a violence prevention program for immigrant young women. | Boroughwide |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth-led programs and advocacy for LGBTQIA people of color that build leadership and organizing skills, reduce surveillance policing, and promote safer communities | Boroughwide |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth-led programs and advocacy for LGBTQIA people of color that build leadership and organizing skills, reduce surveillance policing, and promote safer communities. | 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 |
| Common Justice: Vera Institute of Justice | 2015 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for Common Justice, an innovative victim service and alternative-to-incarceration program based on restorative justice principles that works with young people who commit violent felonies and those they harm. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For an apprentice program through which teens work under the guidance of skilled professionals and receive mentorship from top horticulturalists and environmental educators. | Boroughwide |
| CASES | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
| H.O.L.L.A | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Churches United For Fair Housing | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For youth development programming focused on housing-related issues and other challenges impacting low-income communities of color. | Bushwick |
| Urban Youth Collaborative | 2017 | $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 |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support counseling, life skills courses, and after-school arts-based activities for youth living in secure and non-secure detention facilities. | Boroughwide |
| S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2018 | $40,000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Atlas: DIY | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the the community-based "cooperative model" that provides legal, educational, and psycho social services for undocumented youth and their allies in Sunset Park. | Sunset Park |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Brooklyn Transformative Organizing Project, a comprehensive initiative to develop the leadership and empowerment of the borough's Black immigrant youth and families. | Boroughwide |
| El Puente | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| El Puente | 2018 | $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 |
| 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 |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating Support for to advance advocacy strategies led by young people with a focus on young cis and trans women of color, gender fluid, and LGBTQI youth in the quest for justice and equity within the racial justice movement. | Boroughwide |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the creative, educational, and vocational development of Black and Caribbean youth in Central Brooklyn | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| 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 |
| The Laundromat Project | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the People's POWER Lab, a new youth-focused out-of-school initiative that engages young people of color in Central Brooklyn in creative expression, community activism, and leadership development training. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Green City Force | 2018 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
| Fostering Change for Children | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the establishment of UpFront, peer support and advising groups to help LGBTQIA identifying youth living in foster care form permanent, life-affirming families | Citywide |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a partnership with student organizers to pilot campus-based transformative justice practices that hold harm-doers accountable and support sexual violence survivors in their healing and development. | Crown Heights, 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 |
| Drive Change | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for a unique food service employment model for formerly incarcerated youth. Drive Change aims to build a food truck commissary/garage in Central Brooklyn through which other food trucks will hire young people out of its program. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick |
| UPROSE | 2018 | $35,000 | 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 |
| Center for Nu Leadership | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that divert neighborhood youth from arrest proceedings by developing pre-arrest diversion options for law-officers | Bedford Stuyvesant |