Neighborhood Collective Impact Projects

Building on Brooklyn Org’s Neighborhood Listening Tours and People’s Pulse Survey, the Neighborhood Collective Impact projects address trending neighborhood concerns and strengthen the capacity of local nonprofits through collaboration.

Applications are due Friday, March 20th.

Since 2022, we have visited every part of Brooklyn through our annual Neighborhood Listening Tours to hold conversations with local leaders and residents on the opportunities and challenges facing our communities. In 2024, we launched the Neighborhood Collective Impact opportunity to provide up to $25,000 each for local nonprofits to address those concerns and build collaboration. In 2025, we focused on projects that promoted community engagement, local voices, and voter participation in the 2025 municipal election.

This year we are again seeking proposals for collective impact projects that work on our borough’s most pressing challenges and issues. We especially invite proposals for projects that address key themes from our 2025 People’s Pulse survey, including affordability, public safety, and mental health.

Brooklyn Org will select three proposals for project-based funding for one year, offering up to $25,000 per partnership.

Application Timeline

Proposals should:

• Include at least two community-based nonprofits organizations partnering together to solve a local need in their neighborhood via direct services, training, base-building, or community-wide activities.
• Propose a new project or program to be carried out over the one-year grant period.
• Advance racial justice and provide critical resources to BIPOC communities and residents who have been historically disempowered and discriminated against across Brooklyn.

One organization must be identified as the lead and be eligible to receive our grant as either a 501c3 or working under a fiscal sponsor. Lead organizations will be the lead contact for the grant, receive grant monies, and will be responsible for all grant reporting. MOUs between project partners are highly encouraged.

To be eligible to apply, the lead organization must:

• Be incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization or be working under the auspices of an authorized fiscal sponsor.
• Have a minimum annual budget of $100,000. Grant awards will not exceed 20% of the applying organization’s annual budget.

In reviewing proposals, we give preference to projects that:

• Are new.
• Focus on an underinvested neighborhood in Brooklyn.
• Engage additional community stakeholders as part of the planning process.
• Include in the partnership an organization with a physical presence in the neighborhood.
• The largest budget of any participating organization does not exceed $2m.
• Address trending concerns in Brooklyn informed by our People’s Pulse Survey and Community Forums:

Questions

For any questions, please email programs@brooklyn.org. No phone calls please.

Additional Nonprofit Resources

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