Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| exalt | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To counteract the school-to-prison pipeline by elevating expectations of personal success for court-involved youth through job skills courses, individualized support, paid internships, and alumni network | 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 |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a Cultural Arts program that provides multi disciplinary instruction and intergenerational programming that celebrates the rich heritage of the African Diaspora. | Boroughwide, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| Center for NuLeadership | 2021 | $45,000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| El Puente | 2017 | $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 |
| 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 |
| Safe Passage Project | 2022 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Alex House | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Pregnancy and parenting groups for teens and other young, low-income, first time mothers and fathers in Red Hook. | Red Hook |
| Safe Passage Project | 2021 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to help transform the lives of Haitian newcomer youth in Crown Heights, East Flatbush and Canarsie through education and leadership development and raising awareness of immigrant education issues in the community and citywide. | East Flatbush, Canarsie, Crown Heights |
| 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 |
| Brooklyn Community Services | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a project that engages young people, primarily immigrant youth, in activities to help them develop job skills, improve their academic performance, and become community leaders | Coney Island |
| You Gotta Believe! The Older Child Adoption & Permanency Movement | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that connect youth in foster care to permanent and adoptive families using the power of credible messengers (adoptive parents and former foster youth), and a fellowship program that covers public speaking, art advocacy, and storytelling. Additional programs provide leadership development for justice-involved youth (14-25) to develop advocacy skills. | Boroughwide |
| Global Action Project | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | An intersectional youth organizing and activism program that uses media and storytelling to help young people, specifically immigrant and LGBTQ youth, advocate for themselves and their communities. | Boroughwide |
| Dance Theatre Etcetera | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for arts and media leadership programs based in Red Hook, for low-income young people of color, with a focus on overage/under-credited students and disconnected youth. | Red Hook |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2017 | $35,000 | 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 |
| Lineage Project | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Mindfulness and yoga programs for incarcerated and highly-vulnerable young people, including those in living in secure and non-secure detention facilities, as well as a Brooklyn-based program for young people on probation. | Boroughwide |
| Urban Youth Collaborative | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Brooklyn Transformative Justice Network to advance youth justice alternatives that disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline as well as opportunities for healthy development and the wellbeing of both youth and the community at large. | Boroughwide |
| Genspace NYC | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a STEAM youth development internship program where youth gain hands-on experience to learn, create, and grow with the life sciences. | Sunset Park |
| Groundswell Community Mural Project | 2018 | $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 |
| 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 |
| Global Action Project | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For an intersectional youth organizing and activism program that uses media and storytelling to help young people, specifically immigrant and LGBTQ youth, advocate for themselves and their communities | Boroughwide |
| Building Beats | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support DJ and music programs that teach entrepreneurial, leadership, and life skills to young people of color. | Boroughwide |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2018 | $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 |
| Center for NuLeadership | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| ReConnect | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To connect youth to employment, entrepreneurship training, and access to college credit to help navigate systemic challenges that make it hard to find sustainable employment | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Young New Yorkers | 2018 | $20,000 | 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 |
| ImmSchools | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a program that advocates for the interest of the immigrant community by creating internships for students that do not qualify for city programs, including undocumented students. | Boroughwide |
| Dignity in Schools Campaign | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a citywide coalition of students, parents, advocates, educators and lawyers calling for positive, school-wide approaches to discipline that improve the school environment, reduce conflict, and increase learning. | Boroughwide |
| 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 |