Community Fund Grants
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| Organization |
Year |
Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drive Change | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Provide training and first job experience for formerly incarcerated and court-involved young people through a nonprofit food truck. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To develop the leadership and empowerment of the borough's Black immigrant youth and families in order to end racism, criminalization, and economic disenfranchisement. | 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 |
| Dance Theatre Etcetera | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | In-school, after-school, and summer-based multi-disciplinary arts programs serving low-income youth of color, with a focus on overage, under-credited students and disconnected youth. | Red Hook |
| H.O.L.L.A - How Our Lives Link Altogether | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A social justice education, leadership, and organizing program for low income youth of color focused on trauma recovery and healing | Boroughwide |
| Exalt | 2016 | $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 |
| DRUM | 2016 | $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 |
| Groundswell | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Hospital-based violence interruption program and in-school and community-based discussion groups and workshops. | East New York, Brownsville, Flatbush |
| Reconnect | 2016 | $30,000 | 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 |
| El Puente | 2016 | $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 |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | 2016 | $50,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Creative, educational, and vocational development of Black and Caribbean youth in Central Brooklyn. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| Footsteps | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth transitioning into mainstream society with resources, leadership development, and peer connections. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
| JustLeadership USA | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To empower court-involved youth to drive policy reforms, including the campaign to #CloseRikers, a comprehensive multiyear effort to close Rikers Island Detention Facility. | Boroughwide |
| Make the Road New York | 2016 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Immigrant youth-led organizing programs focused on the school-to-prison pipeline, community schools, and greater police accountability and transparency. | Bushwick |
| Brooklyn Free School | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient The Brooklyn Free School Team for "Let's Talk About It! Housing Justice," a project aimed at educating and creating a documentary on housing justice and gentrification. It will engage youth by arranging visits to town hall meetings, reading articles and watching interviews addressing housing, gentrification and justice, as well as opportunities to engage with the Mayor’s office and participate in local shelter events. As part of the project, the youth team will create a documentary and facilitate a workshop for youth on housing rights. | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill | |
| Reel Works | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Documentary filmmaking and media production programs for youth, including school-based program with four middle and high schools in Brownsville. | Boroughwide, Brownsville |
| Churches United For Fair Housing | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Youth development programming focused on housing-related issues and other challenges impacting low-income communities of color | Bushwick |
| Osborne Association | 2016 | $35,000 | 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 |
| Ancient Song Doula Services | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Awarded to Sevonna Marie Brown with Ancient Song Doula Services for "Reproductive Renaissance," which uses grassroots political philosophy to foster a restorative space for women of color to come together and seek refuge in reproductive justice and education. Black girls and women of color have a history of using their personal spaces—the living room, grandma’s bedroom, the kitchen, the beauty salon, the front porch—as spaces for women-centered empowerment and healing. | Bedford Stuyvesant | |
| Theatre of the Oppressed NYC | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To engage court-involved youth as actors and playwrights in a comprehensive theatre-for-social justice program that uses real life stories of the youth actors. | Boroughwide |
| FUREE | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| Common Justice | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A victim-service and alternative-to-incarceration program based on restorative justice principles that works with young people who commit violent felonies and those they harm. | Boroughwide | |
| Eco:StationNY | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient Iyeshima Harris with Eco:StationNY for "Farm to Cafeteria," a student-led outreach project focusing on healthy eating and self-empowerment that engages students at a place and time they are thinking about food: the lunchroom. The project will use school lunch and culturally relevant food to teach youth how to healthfully and affordably prepare meals they love. Through cooking demos, students will learn how they can combine fresh produce with goods from their supermarket, instilling in them the knowledge, access, and creativity to needed to transcend and redefine what food means in a low-income neighborhood. | Bushwick | |
| Truthworker Theater Company | 2016 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Center for NuLeadership | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient Yamil Torres with the Center for NuLeadership for “Bridging the Healing Gap,” which will facilitate gatherings that provide space and educate youth who are affiliated with gangs and/or are street involved about how, why, and where gangs originated, explain political and racial history, and principles of what gangs were founded on. The second half of the project will focus on changing the way the larger community views the youth by opening up dialogue with an intergenerational event. | Bedford Stuyvesant | |
| 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 |
| Global Kids | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | After-school programming that aims to increase exposure to local and international human rights and social justice issues. | Boroughwide |
| Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation | 2016 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A youth organizing group that seeks to address racial and educational injustice through a campaign to implement restorative justice practices at a local high school campus. | Cypress Hills |
| Off the Page, Inc | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient Shaqur Williams with Off the Page, Inc for "All American Boys," a show adapted from the book by the same name that addresses different points of view between a black teenager and a white teenager in a community and the way police officers approach them. The project brings black and white actors together to work on this production and to talk about the problem facing the black community and how to work together to address it. | Park Slope | |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | 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 |
| Girl Be Heard | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Multidisciplinary arts opportunities designed to engage young women in social justice education and develop their leadership skills. | Boroughwide |