Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope For Desperate Hearts INC | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide hot meals to African students and low-wage workers who rent rooms and do not have access to kitchen facilities needed to cook or refrigerate food in partnership with local African restaurants. | Boroughwide |
| Domestic Workers United | 2015 | $5,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Incubator Project | DWU is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African caregivers and housekeepers—concentrated in Crown Heights and Flatbush—that organizes to end exploitation and oppression for all workers whose labor is based primarily in homes and is not protected by most labor laws in New York City. DWU has adopted a model that centers on the development of strong, low-income immigrant women of color leaders who have the drive, training, and sensitivity to lead a movement for social change. | Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| The Precedential Group | 2015 | $5,000 | Brooklyn Accelerator | Incubator Project | The Precedential Group, founded by Marlon Peterson in 2014, is an organization working to establish “Child Safe Zones” to reduce gun violence in Brooklyn neighborhoods by engaging young people, local police, schools, and residents. Marlon Peterson has led, advised, and supported several criminal justice reform organizations including Fortune Society, Crown Heights Mediation Center, and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. Marlon recently received the Soros Fellowship Award from Open Society Foundation. For more information: marlonpeterson.com | Crown Heights, Brownsville, East New York |
| Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine | 2015 | $5,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine is a collaborative public art project that explores art-making as a community-building tool. Funds will be used to create and distribute an accessible guide to tenants’ rights to assist long-time residents being pushed out of their homes. | Crown Heights |
| Equality Labs | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide South Asian specific public health materials on Coronavirus in 10 languages, digital security for South Asian-serving CBOs, and a blueprint for how to set up Mutual Aid networks. | Boroughwide |
| Milagros Day Worldwide | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For bilingual virtual support groups, summits and workshops, and referrals to shelters, food delivery, and crisis intervention for survivors of domestic violence. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Center for Quality Life | 2020 | $6,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support food pantry and food delivery programs, community PPE distribution, and virtual health, nutrition, and wellness class for residents in East Flatbush and Flatbush | East Flatbush, Flatbush |
| Friends of Marcy Houses | 2020 | $6,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For food delivery for vulnerable residents, and to engage youth in documenting firsthand accounts of life at Marcy Houses during the COVID-19 pandemic to expose the impacts of systemic racism. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Represented Foundation | 2020 | $7,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For an intensive leadership development program for Black and Latinx social entrepreneurs working on community-generated solutions to the COVID-19 crisis, launching in June 2020. | Boroughwide |
| Apna Brooklyn Community Center, Inc. | 2020 | $7,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide benefits assistance to Muslim immigrant low-wage workers in Brighton Beach and Coney Island. | Brighton Beach, Coney Island |
| Afrolatin@ Project, Inc | 2020 | $7,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To manufacture and distribute medical grade PPE to Brooklyn hospitals serving communities of color. | Boroughwide |
| Haiti Cultural Exchange | 2020 | $7,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide virtual platforms for artists and support to culture workers of Haitian descent. | Boroughwide |
| Fearless Femme 100 | 2020 | $7,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide free mental health services to queer Black and Indigenous residents in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| American Council of Minority Women | 2021 | $8,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency food and PPE distribution to immigrant and low-income families in Flatbush and Midwood. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Hope For Desperate Hearts | 2021 | $8,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To supply members of the African Diaspora community with access to hot food cooked by culturally relevant restaurants in their neighborhoods to meet the needs of those who cannot prepare a meal where they live. A portion of this grant will also help them with covering transportation costs for some of their program participants to accesses these food resources. | Boroughwide |
| Documented | 2020 | $8,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide Spanish-language reporting on the specific impacts of COVID-19 on immigrants—especially those who are undocumented—and to combat the spread of misinformation on WhatsApp. | Boroughwide |
| People in Need | 2020 | $8,500 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a mutual aid network led by and serving low-income, immigrant families in Kensington, including a food pantry operating out of a restaurant on Coney Island Avenue. | Kensington |
| Mexican Coalition | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide culturally appropriate food distribution and preventative health support for non-English and non-Spanish speaking indigenous people of K’iche’ (Guatemala and southern Mexico) in Borough Park, Bensonhurst, and Sunset Park. | Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Sunset Park |
| The Campaign Against Hunger | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For a shift in operations that will enable customers to “shop” for free groceries online and do “curbside” pick-up with enhanced safety measures right at the pantry. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Galapagos Center for New Americans | 2019 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the launch of the Welcoming Immigrant Families Program, a program designed to assist immigrant families who have recently been released from detention and are settling in New York City through a series of workshops and support circles | Boroughwide |
| Mixteca | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide financial relief to indigenous immigrant families in Sunset Park, prioritizing those who have recently lost their jobs as housekeepers, nannies, and restaurant workers. | Sunset Park |
| 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 |
| Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To sustain the services of volunteer EMTs and paramedics responding to 911 calls in Bedford-Stuyvesant. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| The Gathering for Justice | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support people released from city and state carceral facilities with basic needs, and support for families of people who remain incarcerated. | Boroughwide |
| Muslim Community Network | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To establish a hotline for vulnerable families and individuals to connect them with food and other resources, as well as stipends and materials for community members who can sew masks for essential workers. | 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 |
| Domestic Workers United | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide ongoing support for members through virtual town halls, technology to keep members connected, and emergency food assistance in partnership with Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees. | Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Fifth Avenue Committee | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide benefits and entitlements access and support as well as emergency financial assistance to low-income people of color in Brooklyn. | 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 |
| Safe Horizon | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support expansion of services to immigrant victims of gender-based violence as well as increased training for frontline staff at social service agencies who are first responders to immigrants in need. | Boroughwide |
| Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide groceries, sanitary supplies, medication, and cash assistance to LGBTQIA+ and GNC immigrants. | Boroughwide |
| Black Excellence Collective | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide PPP, nonperishable goods and mini cash grants to members of marginalized communities. | Boroughwide |