Community Fund Grants
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Organization |
Year | Amount | Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faith in New York | 2017 | $20,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To mobilize local congregations in support of immigrant rights. Key strategies include the Faith Over Fear Emergency Response Network, which provides immediate legal aid, mobilizes supporters in the faith community, and builds awareness of mass deportation issues; monthly trainings for congregations that have offered their houses of worship as a safe sanctuary for immigrants in case of large-scale deportations; Know Your Rights workshops for immigrant communities; and a civic engagement strategy to mobilize support for an immigrant justice platform, including a municipal voting campaign, candidate forums, boot camps for congregations and faith leaders, and voter outreach. | Boroughwide |
| Faith in New York | 2018 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support Prophetic Leadership School that will train local leaders for grassroots campaigns to change policies around mass deportation and mass incarceration. | Boroughwide |
| Families for Freedom | 2018 | $15,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To provide outreach and political education to communities most at risk of detention and deportation, especially long-term resident green card holders with nonviolent criminal convictions. | 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 |
| 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 |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 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. | East Flatbush, Canarsie, Crown Heights |
| Flex Dance Program | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a Flex Dance and creative mentorship program aimed at reducing the likelihood of recidivism and re-entry for young people in secure detention centers. | Boroughwide |
| Footsteps | 2018 | $25,000 | 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 |
| Footsteps | 2017 | $25,000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Footsteps | 2019 | $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 |
| Footsteps | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Youth Empowerment Program to help ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn youth access resources to assist them in their journeys beyond their communities, develop leadership skills, and connect with one another. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush |
| Fostering Change for Children | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the establishment of UpFront, peer support and advising groups to help LGBTQIA identifying youth living in foster care form permanent, life-affirming families | Citywide |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2018 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the establishment of a Youth ReEntry Network hub office in Downtown Brooklyn to provide educational, social service, and workforce development supports for young people transitioning out of incarceration. | Boroughwide |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the establishment of a Youth ReEntry Network hub office in Downtown Brooklyn to provide educational, social service, and workforce development supports for young people transitioning out of incarceration | Boroughwide |
| Friends of Island Academy | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the establishment of a Youth ReEntry Network hub office in Downtown Brooklyn to provide educational, social service, and workforce development supports for young people transitioning out of incarceration. | Boroughwide |
| FUREE | 2016 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| FUREE | 2018 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| FUREE | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| FUREE | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth | Red Hook, Gowanus |
| FUREE/Fifth Avenue Committee | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the overhaul and relaunch of FUREE-ous Youth!, a leadership and advocacy program for youth living in NYCHA Developments in Gowanus. | 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 |
| 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 |
| Girl Be Heard | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For multidisciplinary arts opportunities designed to engage young women in social justice education and develop their leadership skills. | Boroughwide |
| Girl Be Heard | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For multidisciplinary arts opportunities designed to engage young women in social justice education and develop their leadership skills | Boroughwide |
| Girl Be Heard | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For multidisciplinary arts opportunities designed to engage young women in social justice education and develop their leadership skills. | Boroughwide |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2016 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Advocacy strategies led by LGBTQ youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2018 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by LGBTQ youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by LGBTQIA youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism. | Boroughwide |
| Girls for Gender Equity | 2015 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating Support for to advance advocacy strategies led by young people with a focus on young cis and trans women of color, gender fluid, and LGBTQI youth in the quest for justice and equity within the racial justice movement. | Boroughwide |
| Girls for Gender Equity: | 2017 | $35,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To advance advocacy strategies led by LGBTQ youth of color focused on issues including gender based violence, sexism, and racism | 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 |
| Global Action Project | 2018 | $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 |
| Global Action Project | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| 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 |