Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Churches United For Fair Housing | 2020 | $45,000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Council of Peoples Organization (COPO) | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | COPO provides ongoing case management and supportive services to the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian community, with a specific focus on serving older adults through their halal senior center and a halal meals-on-wheels program, the first in New York City. | Midwood, Kensington |
| Osborne Association | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs for children of incarcerated parents as well as a council that engages young people impacted by incarceration to develop campaigns around issues affecting their lives and communities. | Boroughwide |
| The Ali Forney Center | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Youth Advocacy Internship Program for homeless LGBTQIA youth of color. | Citywide |
| Groundswell Community Mural Project | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To 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 |
| Footsteps | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth transitioning into mainstream society with resources, leadership development, and peer connections. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Spanish Speaking Elderly Council - RAICES | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | RAICES provides a continuum of linguistic and culturally-relevant services for older adults across five Brooklyn senior centers, an outpatient behavioral health clinic, a case assistance program, and an in-development tele-mental health services model for homebound seniors. | Boroughwide |
| S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2020 | $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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Fifth Avenue Committee | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| 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 |
| The Brownsville Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support programs that engage, empower, and employ residents across the age spectrum on issues of housing, public space, community infrastructure, and economic development. | Brownsville |
| 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 |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Flatbush Development Corporation’s Flatbush Tenant Coalition organizes older adults across 300 buildings in Central Brooklyn, with a focus on educating the community on housing laws and tenants’ rights, advocating for policy change, and expanding access to entitlements and benefits. | Flatbush, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
| 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 |
| 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 | 2019 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For free legal services and representation to meet the unmet needs of immigrant and undocumented children in partnership with community high schools. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2018 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
| University Settlement Society of New York | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Clinton Hill, East Flatbush, East New York, Fort Greene, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace |
| RiseBoro Community Partnership | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2017 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For 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 |
| Southside United H.D.F.C | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| 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 |
| Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project LDC | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill |
| Safe Passage Project | 2018 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For free legal services and representation to meet the unmet needs of immigrant and undocumented children in partnership with community high schools. | Boroughwide |
| Ellery Court Senior HDFC | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Bushwick |
| St. Nicks Alliance | 2019 | $50,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support the health and welfare of older adults in Brooklyn | Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Safe Passage Project | 2017 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For free legal services and representation to meet the unmet needs of immigrant and undocumented children in partnership with community high schools | Boroughwide |