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The Ali Forney Center

Provides holistic resources and support for LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness, including a 24-hour drop in center, job readiness support, education, health services, and an emergency housing program.

  • Total Awarded $217,500
  • Award Years 2022–2025

Arab-American Family Support Center

Provides cultural, linguistic, and trauma-informed social services to immigrants and refugees including adult education, youth enrichment, mental health counseling, and social service enrollment.

  • Total Awarded $235,000
  • Award Years 2021–2025

The B.R.O. Experience Foundation

Provides programming for young Black men in in Brownsville and Bed-Stuy through mentorship, rites of passage, summer camps, and fatherhood programs, supporting their social-emotional well-being and leadership skills.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2024–2027
Brooklyn Book Bodega

Brooklyn Book Bodega

Provides access to and ownership of books, builds community, and creates a passion for learning in Brooklyn, aiming to increase the number of 100+ book homes for kids 0-18 in NYC. Bringing neighbors together through free events and literacy-based community programming, they partner with volunteers who bring books to places where they live, work, and play. Brooklyn Book Bodega collaborates with local educators, city officials, and community-based organizations to ensure that literacy is layered into social and family services.

  • Total Awarded $100,000
  • Award Years 2025–2025
Brownsville Community Culinary Center (BCCC)

Brownsville Community Culinary Center (BCCC)

Increases access to healthy food, nutritional education, and career and personal development opportunities, and provides free, culinary vocational training to Brownsville residents through its culinary training program. The Center’s multi-week culinary workshops provide neighborhood youth with the opportunity to learn culinary skills alongside industry professionals. And it provides a safe, comfortable space where neighbors can access fresh, healthy, affordable, culturally relevant foods.

  • Total Awarded $100,000
  • Award Years 2025–2025

Center for Community Alternatives

Supports justice-involved individuals with reentering their communities through workforce programs, advocacy, and public policy development in pursuit of civil and human rights.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2022–2025

Children’s Defense Fund-New York

Champions policies and programs that lift children out of poverty, protect them from abuse and neglect, and ensure their access to healthcare and quality education.

  • Total Awarded $72,000
  • Award Years 2022–2025

Coney Island Anti Violence Collaborative

Strives to reduce violence and trauma in Coney Island, from gun-related violence to domestic violence and impacts of COVID-19 through healing programming and community partnerships.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2022–2025

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