Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homecrest Community Services | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency meal delivery to Asian seniors in Southern Brooklyn, prepared by a local Chinese restaurant. | Homecrest, Bensonhurst, Sunset Park, Coney Island |
| Academy of Medical & Public Health Services | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide free mental health counseling services to immigrants in Sunset Park to meet the high demand by COVID-19. | Sunset Park |
| Grameen America | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To offer a loan continuation program to members in Brooklyn communities who have been impacted by the pandemic and need assistance in maintaining their loans and credit to sustain their businesses. | Boroughwide |
| New Yorkers For Children | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide aged-out foster care youth who are neither employed or enrolled in school with emergency grants for rent, utility bills, medical expenses, groceries, cleaning supplies; technology for remote work and learning, baby essentials, and other needs. | Boroughwide |
| Chai4ever | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency food, supplies and financial aid to families of school aged children, with a parent living with a serious illness, isolated from their families due to increased risk of COVID-19. | Boroughwide |
| Chinese-American Planning Council | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide education and advocacy to address anti-Asian harassment, as well as disease prevention measures and support, particularly for vulnerable elderly populations. | Boroughwide |
| American Council of Minority Women, Inc | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency food and PPE distribution to immigrant and low-income families in Flatbush and Midwood. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Children of Promise, NYC | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To create a comprehensive vaccination awareness and access program for Black families with a parent in incarceration in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Hope For Desperate Hearts INC | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide hot meals to African students and low-wage workers who rent rooms and do not have access to kitchen facilities needed to cook or refrigerate food in partnership with local African restaurants. | Boroughwide |
| United Community Centers | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a long-term vaccine education program in East New York conducted in both English and Spanish. | East New York |
| Neighborhood Housing Services of Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To help prevent foreclosures among African-American homeowners, who are facing significant loss of income due to the pandemic. | Boroughwide |
| The Black Institute, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a COVID-19 small business response program that provides one-on-one counseling for MWBE and immigrant members and advocates for an equitable economic recovery program at the city and state levels. | Boroughwide |
| Isabahlia Ladies of Elegance Foundation | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide freshly grown produce and accurate health information to residents of Brownsville. | Brownsville |
| Prospect Lefferts Gardens Heritage Council Inc. | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide free care packages of food and household essentials to vulnerable people of color in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, delivered by local youth. | Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
| El Puente | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency food and financial aid to undocumented and food insecure immigrant families in Southside Williamsburg and Bushwick. | Williamsburg, Bushwick |
| National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For organizing, community healing, and mental health services for LGBTQ+ Asian American, South Asian, and Southeast Asian coalition leaders in Brooklyn, with a focus on responding to hate violence, harassment, and micro-aggressions against Asian Americans. | Boroughwide |
| Expecting Relief | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support perishable food distribution and household essentials to 150-200 Black and Latinx Brooklyn residents. | Bushwick |
| AsylumConnect | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a free technology platform to connect LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, students, and other marginalized LGBTQ+ people to verified LGBTQ+ affirming and immigrant friendly legal, medical, mental health, and social services. | Boroughwide |
| East New York Restoration Development Corporation | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To set up information tables at local train stations to share accurate information about the virus and the vaccine with a focus on reaching essential workers outside of the health field. | East New York, Boroughwide |
| Immigration Equality | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Brooklyn, including legal representation and resource referrals, and advocating for the release of immunocompromised persons with HIV in detention. | Boroughwide |
| Breaking Ground | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support older adult residents of The Domenech development in Brownsville with on site services, PPE and sanitary supplies, meal delivery, daily living support, and other essentials. | Brownsville |
| Siren - Protectors of the Rainforest, Inc. | 2021 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide food relief for the residents of Rehab Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Red Hook Art Project, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For on-site emergency food distribution and free virtual visual art and music instruction, academic assistance, and stress management for children and youth in Red Hook. | Red Hook |
| Grow Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For remote Free Tax Prep Services for low income, communities of color to ensure maximum access to CARES Act stimulus payments. | Boroughwide |
| Caribbean Women's Health Association | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide financial support and baby supplies for vulnerable pregnant or postpartum clients in Central and East Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support the area’s immigrant and women-owned small businesses to prevent closures, increase access to financial lifelines, and mitigate the impact of lost wages. | Flatbush |
| Chamah | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency food deliveries to low-income residents of Crown Heights, Brighton Beach, and Flatbush. | Crown Heights, Brighton Beach, Flatbush |
| Elite Learners | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To expand community outreach in Brownsville, Crown Heights, and East Flatbush about COVID-19 prevention, and through a virtual town hall series to promote accurate information about the virus and the vaccine. | Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush |
| La Nueva Esperanza, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency financial assistance and PPE for undocumented, unstably housed, Black and Latinx HIV+ residents of Bushwick and Williamsburg. | Bushwick, Williamsburg |
| Brookdale Hospital Medical Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide direct cash assistance to older adult patients for food and PPE, and to purchase tablets that will facilitate safe telehealth visits for older adults. | Boroughwide, Brownsville, East Flatbush |
| American Council of Minority Women | 2021 | $8,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide emergency food and PPE distribution to immigrant and low-income families in Flatbush and Midwood. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide holistic support for girls & TGNC youth of color, including virtual programming and counseling, tutoring, family conflict intervention, agency referrals, and costs related to emergency food, bills, and rent. | Boroughwide |
| UA3 | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency fresh food delivery to underserved locations including senior homes, NYCHA residences, and other low-income housing in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park |
| IMPACCT Brooklyn | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide financial assistance, protective supplies, food, and travel assistance to Black and Latinx, low-income households in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights |
| The Ladies of Hope Ministries | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To increase the number of care packages being provided to justice involved women and girls in and out of the Hope House network. | Boroughwide |