Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year | Amount | Initiative |
Program |
Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| United Community Centers | 2015 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support to advance youth internship programs, a pipeline of leadership opportunities for participants as they age out of programs, a new youth advisory board, and youth engagement in the City's development plan for East New York. | East New York |
| 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 |
| Crown Heights Community Mediation Center | 2017 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets and Justice Community Plus, two of the Center’s holistic, anti-violence and work readiness youth development programs | Crown Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| 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 |
| ARTs East New York | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Public Art Apprenticeship Program and Young Artist Institute for young people interested in the arts as a tool for social change. | East New York |
| 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 |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Boroughwide | |
| Groundswell Community Mural Project | 2019 | $45,000 | 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 |
| Participatory Budgeting Project | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a pilot project to expand engagement and participatory budgeting in high-need Brooklyn public high schools in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights |
| Turning Point Brooklyn | 2017 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For social, educational, medical, and economic support services to low income, immigrant residents focused on building advocacy and leadership skills and establishing strong mentoring relationships | Sunset Park |
| 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 |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the East New York-based organization that engages Bangladeshi youth in social and educational activities including language training, employment readiness, computer training, sports and culture. | East New York |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Added Value | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Operating support for the urban farming and youth empowerment program in Red Hook, which hires a cohort of teens to run the farm, farmers market, and community food events as they develop leadership on food justice issues. | Red Hook |
| 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 |
| Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger | 2017 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the Green Teens sustainable farming paid apprenticeship program for Brooklyn youth aged 15-24 | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| 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 |
| University Settlement Society of New York | 2015 | $20,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for Connect*Flow*Inspire, a program offering low-income youth from Fort Greene/Clinton Hill a safe space to discover a positive sense of self and community and to develop leadership skills to inspire others to collaborate toward community change. | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2018 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide job readiness and leadership training, part-time employment, academic support, and services to assist young people toward graduation, college, and career. | Red Hook |
| H.O.L.L.A - How Our Lives Link Altogether | 2017 | $20,000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Resilience Advocacy Project | 2018 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide leadership development programs, legal education, and peer-to-peer trainings for youth of color, particularly those living in ACS care or detention, focused on advocating for community change. | Boroughwide |
| Arab American Association of New York: | 2017 | $40,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership fellowship for Arab and Muslim youth that provides resources and tools to address advocacy issues including immigration, police accountability, and racial justice | Boroughwide |
| 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 |
| Council of Peoples Organization | 2015 | $30,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Join In, Find Out high school after-school program, which provides South Asian and Muslim immigrant and second generation students in Flatbush and Midwood with resources and support needed to address the pressures of family, assimilation, and education. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | 2015 | $25,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | Support for the Garden Apprentice Program, a youth development program through which teen apprentices work under the guidance of skilled professionals and receive mentorship from top horticulturalists and environmental educators. | Boroughwide |