Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixteca | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Park Slope, Red Hook |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | Boroughwide, Bay Ridge |
| Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | Boroughwide |
| United Chinese Association of Brooklyn | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | Gravesend, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Sunset Park |
| New York Immigration Coalition | 2018 | $25,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | In September 2018, the Department of Homeland Security announced a newly proposed regulation to dramatically expand the list of public benefits that the government would treat as “negative factors” in visa and green card applications. Funding will support advocacy and organizing across New York City’s immigrant populations to challenge the proposed public charge changes. | Boroughwide |
| Arab American Family Support Center | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For outreach, social services, and leadership development in Brooklyn’s Muslims communities, particularly for Yemeni residents | Boroughwide |
| Make the Road New York | 2018 | $25,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | In September 2018, the Department of Homeland Security announced a newly proposed regulation to dramatically expand the list of public benefits that the government would treat as “negative factors” in visa and green card applications. Funding will support advocacy and organizing across New York City’s immigrant populations to challenge the proposed public charge changes. | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For organizing and legal clinics and language support of Black Muslim immigrants | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For rapid legal defense for affected individuals | Boroughwide |
| DRUM, Desis Rising up and Moving | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For advocacy, organizing, and the “Hate Free Zone” initiative launched in Kensington, Brooklyn | Boroughwide, Kensington |
| Adhikaar | 2018 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To support community legal clinics and advocacy efforts for Nepali immigrants with Temporary Protected Status | Boroughwide |
| Make the Road New York | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For advocacy and organizing across immigrant populations and support for multi-step “Our Plan to Resist Trump” initiative | Boroughwide, Bushwick |
| Make the Road New York | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To support DACA legal action through the Batalla Vidal et al v. Baran class-action lawsuit, cover the costs of DACA renewal applications, as well as citywide town halls and "Know Your Rights" workshops | Boroughwide |
| Jews for Racial and Economic Justice | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For ally-building and trainings to create connections between anti-Islamophobia and anti-Semitism organizing | Boroughwide |
| New York Immigration Coalition | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For a three-tier response to DACA: policy and advocacy, community engagement and service coordination, including federal and state legislative advocacy, processing DACA renewals, and expanding mental health services for DACA recipients | Boroughwide |
| Atlas:DIY | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | Support for eligible youth applying for DACA renewals before October 5, 2017 deadline | Boroughwide, Sunset Park |
| New Sanctuary Coalition | 2019 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For person-to-person support to hundreds of immigrants facing detention and deportation. This includes staffing a pro se legal clinic; maintaining a bond fund to free immigrants being held in in private, for-profit, overcrowded detention centers; and expanding its community-based, citywide “Sanctuary Hood” program to organize safe spaces for immigrants at more than 100 churches, and countless businesses and homes. | Boroughwide |
| Families for Freedom | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For work to fight against laws that have made misdemeanors "aggravated felonies" and introduced mandatory detention and deportation | Boroughwide |
| Catholic Charities Archdiocese New York | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| KIND | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| The Door | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| Central American Legal Assistance | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees | 2017 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | Support for community organizing and advocacy in response to the termination of TPS, affecting 60,000 Haitians nationwide | Boroughwide |
| Safe Passage Project | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| New York Immigration Coalition | 2017 | $25,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For city-wide collaboration and the “This is Our New York” 6-point response plan, including outreach and education, legal services, combating hate crimes, advocacy and organizing, capacity building, and media campaigns | Boroughwide |
| Arab American Association of New York | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | For advocacy and organizing in Brooklyn’s Muslims communities | Bay Ridge, Sunset Park |
| Enlace | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | Support for the National Freedom Cities Convening which aims to strengthen relationships between leaders spanning issues from fighting mass incarceration to supporting immigrant families and building Black youth leadership; map the changing political landscape; and create a strategic plan to mobilize thousands of people in New York and across the country in the Freedom Cities movement. The Freedom Cities movement was created in January 2017 by immigrants and communities of color to make entire cities, towns, and communities safe for immigrants, Black people, Muslims, workers and all oppressed communities. | 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 |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To fund the organization of a political education session highlighting issues affecting Black immigrant workers—including economic inequality, unemployment, racial discrimination, and the impact of harsh immigration enforcement practices—as well as mobilizing a Black contingent for May Day 2017 that lifts up unique issues facing Black immigrant workers . | Boroughwide |
| Yemeni American Merchants Association | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support a board and staff strategic planning retreat for short-term and long-term activities in light of the Muslim Ban | Boroughwide, Bay Ridge |
| The New American Leaders Project | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | On June 9, 2017, NALP will host “Ready to Rise,” a training for 120 first- and second-generation immigrants in New York City that will demystify the political process and embolden immigrant women to run for public office. | Boroughwide |
| Arab American Family Support Center | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support “Stomp Out the Muslim Ban!”, an art protest and dance rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall, presented by young women activists using traditional Arabic dance as a tool to protest anti-Muslim bigotry | Boroughwide, Downtown |
| The Black Institute | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support the Black Immigrant Forum to be held in Brooklyn on August 28, 2018. The all-day event aims to educate Afro-Caribbean, Afro Latino, and African immigrants on current immigration policies, provide on-site legal consultation/screenings in collaboration with the NYU Immigration Clinic, train participants on "Know Your Rights", and offer referrals to pro-bono services. | Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Flatbush |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | From April–June 2017, BACDYS will offer 4 free "Know Your Rights" workshops for East New York's Bangladeshi community, designed to empower immigrants and address fears by providing accurate legal education in Bengali. | East New York, City Line |
| UnLocal | 2019 | $5,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | For a collaboration with fellow IRF grantees Queer Detainee Empowerment Project, BAJI, DRUM, and Make the Road New York for a convening on efforts to abolish immigrant detention centers in New York state | Boroughwide |