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Ñaños in Action

Connects Ecuadorian and Latino immigrants to healthcare, housing, legal, and education resources while offering newcomer support, older adult engagement programs, and cultural workshops that strengthen community connection.

  • Total Awarded $5,000
  • Award Years 2026–2027

Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY

Builds community power through arts and culture by organizing artists, businesses, and neighborhood leaders into neighborhood-based cultural councils, delivering multilingual programming, festivals, and peer learning exchanges that support local artists and nurture creative and cultural ecosystems at a neighborhood level.

  • Total Awarded $120,000
  • Award Years 2026–2029

Neighborhood Housing Services of Brooklyn (NHS)

Creates and preserves affordable housing through homeownership education, financial assistance, foreclosure/eviction prevention counseling and support, and property management services for residents in underserved neighborhoods including East Flatbush and Canarsie.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2025–2028
Neighbors in Action

Neighbors in Action

Provides Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights community members with a hub where they can seek resolutions for interpersonal conflict and be connected with resources that promote safety, healing, and wellness, with programs that range from anti-gun violence work to youth services.

  • Total Awarded $105,000
  • Award Years 2023–2026

New Sanctuary Coalition

Mobilizes volunteers and faith communities to support immigrants facing detention and deportation through court accompaniment, legal clinics, rapid response to ICE activity, and community organizing.

  • Total Awarded $2,500
  • Award Years 2026–2027
New York Immigration Coalition

New York Immigration Coalition

Builds collective power for immigrant communities by coordinating a statewide network of over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups advancing campaigns for access to representation, expanded healthcare coverage, and lasting protections for Brooklyn residents facing rising enforcement and instability.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign to meet the moment, with a focus on protecting rights.

  • Total Awarded $185,000
  • Award Years 2021–2026

The NY Birth Control Access Project

Equips young people to expand access to birth control and reproductive options in Brooklyn and statewide through legislative training, work on college campuses, and paid professional development that prepares them for public service careers.

  • Total Awarded $45,000
  • Award Years 2025–2026

NYC Trans Archives

Preserves transgender history and culture by collecting community archives, including zines, flyers, and other ephemera often excluded from traditional institutions, and hosting public programs that explore trans activism, scholarship, and cultural legacies.

  • Total Awarded $5,000
  • Award Years 2026–2027

Octavia Project

Equips girls and gender-expansive youth of color with opportunities to explore STEM, art, and writing through summer camps, afterschool programs, and workshops rooted in Afrofuturism and creative expression.

  • Total Awarded $108,000
  • Award Years 2026–2029

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