Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Womankind | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | Direct service and advocacy support for immigrant survivors of domestic violence in Sunset Park, with specific focus on advocacy and Asian communities | Sunset Park |
| Asian American Writers’ Workshop | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the Open City Fellowship program and magazine, focused on publishing stories about low-income Asian immigrant communities and incubating Asian American writers and activists | Boroughwide |
| Families for Freedom | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support organizing and advocacy fighting deportations and unjust immigration policies. | Boroughwide |
| DRUM | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support advocacy, organizing, community-defense and the “Hate Free Zone” initiative launched in Kensington, Brooklyn | Kensington |
| Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) | 2018 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support advocacy and immigration legal services | Boroughwide |
| Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | 2017 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | Organizing and Advocacy support, and legal assistance and representation for queer immigrant detainees ($15,000) | Boroughwide |
| Mixteca | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To continue uplifting indigenous Latinx immigrant Brooklynites, provide food security support, vaccine access and information, and advocate for change through community empowerment and educational services. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Midwood, Prospect Park South, Windsor Terrace |
| 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 |
| Freedom to Thrive | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support a network of national and local immigrant rights groups organizing to end punishment-based criminal and immigration systems. | Boroughwide |
| Muslim Community Network | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support community outreach/education efforts, and self-defense workshops in response to rising Islamophobia | Boroughwide |
| Equality for Flatbush | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support multilingual organizing and advocacy work around anti-gentrification, police accountability, and ICE-FREE NYC | East Flatbush, Flatbush, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Crown Heights, Park Slope, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York, Sunset Park |
| Emma’s Torch | 2017 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | A social enterprise that provides hospitality workforce development program for refugees | Boroughwide |
| Safe Horizon | 2019 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | For Safe Horizon’s Immigration Law Project (ILP) to expand services to immigrant victims of crime, abuse, domestic violence, trafficking, and torture in Brooklyn—particularly those with complex immigration matters, at risk of being removed from the United States. Funds will also increase training for frontline staff at community-based social service agencies so that they are informed on current immigration policies and practices. This includes staff at local hospitals, schools, shelters, and places of worship. | Boroughwide |
| Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide support, direct services, and community for LGBTQIA+ individuals currently in, recently released from, or at risk of entering immigration detention. | Boroughwide |
| Emma’s Torch | 2019 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the 12-week, paid culinary training and apprenticeship program for refugees and asylees | Boroughwide |
| New Sanctuary Coalition | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide pro se immigration clinic, volunteer accompaniment for ICE check-ins, anti-detention work, and community organizing and advocacy. | Boroughwide |
| Sakhi for South Asian Women | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support community outreach efforts for planned expansion of services for Bangladeshi women in Kensington, Brooklyn | Kensington |
| Enlace | 2018 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support leadership development and organizing work of the New York Worker Center Federation | Boroughwide |
| Atlas: DIY | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support increased organizational capacity to meet the legal, social service, and advocacy needs of Brooklyn’s young undocumented immigrants. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park |
| Brandworkers | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the transformative power and leadership of Brooklyn’s immigrant local food production industry workers. | Boroughwide |
| Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support Haitian refugees’ access to Temporary Protected Status through education, community organizing, leadership development, collective action, and advocacy. | Boroughwide |
| Documented | 2019 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the nonprofit news site solely devoted to covering New York City’s immigrants and the policies that affect their lives. | Boroughwide |
| Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide legal support, social services, and advocacy organizing for LGBTQIA+ persons recently release from immigration detention. | Boroughwide |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2019 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support coalition building efforts to strengthen organizational capacity and to build networks and working groups to better serve the diverse, complex needs of the growing Bangladeshi immigrant community | Cypress Hills, East New York |
| The Legal Aid Society | 2018 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support immigrant clients within the Immigration Law Unit’s various projects including the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, Immigration Representation Project, Immigrant Youth Project, and the affirmative benefits project | Boroughwide |
| Brandworkers | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support the transformative power and leadership of Brooklyn’s immigrant local food production industry workers. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Family Life | 2019 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | For the Sanctuary Families Project, which supports Sunset Park immigrant parents at risk of deportation and mobilizes local Brooklyn community member allies to create long-term guardianship and child care plans for immigrant children living in Brooklyn. | Sunset Park |
| Workers Justice Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support worker-led education, organizing, leadership development, and grassroots economic alternatives to improve the social, economic, and political conditions of Latinx immigrant families in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Surveillance Technology Oversight Project | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To end excessive local and state-level surveillance of Muslim Americans, immigrants, and communities of color. | 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 |
| Center for Family Life | 2018 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | For the Sanctuary Families Project, which supports Sunset Park immigrant parents at risk of deportation and mobilizes local Brooklyn community member allies to create long-term guardianship and child care plans for immigrant children living in Brooklyn. | Sunset Park |
| 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 |
| Street Vendor Project | 2021 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide political education and leadership training for vendors to mobilize campaigns for social justice and economic opportunity. | Boroughwide |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2020 | $30,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide comprehensive social and economic support to Bangladeshi immigrants in City Line. | City Line, East New York |
| Nurun Foundation | 2019 | $5,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support computer/ESL classes, civic engagement, and community outreach for Bangladeshi immigrant communities in Brooklyn | Cypress Hills, East New York |