Bringing Funders Together
The Trust makes it easy for foundations and individual donors to come together through collective grantmaking. They share expertise, develop strategies, and address issues over the long term. We are also open to new collaborative funds.
Collaborative Funds
Below is a list of our current collaborative funds in NYC, Long Island & Westchester.
Care Coordination Fund
Fund for New Citizens
Good Neighbors Initiative
GoVoteNYC
Mosaic Network & Fund
Long Island Sound Stewardship Fund
Long Island Racial Equity Initiative
NYC Workforce Development Fund
New York State Census Equity Fund
Care Coordination Fund
Addressing mental health and homelessness
This philanthropic initiative aims to advance an effective model to coordinate care for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness and serious mental illness. It will embed care coordinators in high-need public hospital emergency departments to work with street outreach teams to offer targeted clinical support, housing assistance, and connections to ongoing support post-discharge.
Fund for New Citizens
Help for immigrants
This collaborative makes grants in New York City to support advocacy for policies that benefit the city’s immigrants, build the capacity of immigrant-led groups, and provide affordable immigration legal services.
Good Neighbors Initiative
Helping people of color on Long Island
This collaborative uses a participatory process to advance local advocacy to improve the quality of life for people of color on Long Island. It builds power and strengthens organizations; coordinates groups focused on organizing, human services, and leadership development; and connects immigrant groups with other allies working for social justice.
GoVoteNYC
Getting out the vote locally
GoVoteNYC supports nonprofits’ nonpartisan efforts to strengthen democracy by reversing the decades-long downward trajectory of voter participation in New York City.
Its grantees have helped galvanize voter turnout despite widespread distrust in elections and advanced a slate of new voting reforms, including ranked-choice and early voting.
Mosaic Network & Fund
Helping the arts thrive
The Mosaic Network and Fund directed more resources to arts groups led by, created for, and accountable to African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) people.
Long Island Sound Stewardship Fund
Restoring our waterways
This fund brings together funders who care about the Long Island Sound to improve its ecological health consistent with the federal Long Island Sound Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan of 2015. The fund builds the capacity and supports the efforts of nonprofits working to restore the health and living resources of the Sound.
Long Island Racial Equity Initiative
Funding upward mobility
This fund works to increase upward mobility opportunities and improve the quality of life for Black Long Islanders by helping them strengthen credit, build assets and wealth, and access quality, living-wage jobs with opportunities for advancement.
NYC Workforce Development Fund
Getting New Yorkers good jobs
The New York City Workforce Development Fund makes grants to promote robust, coherent, and effective workforce development systems to enable all New Yorkers to engage in high-quality work.
New York State Census Equity Fund
Making New York count
This fund works to ensure a fair and accurate census count for New York State. It also encourages public engagement in the redistricting process stemming from the Census.
Other Collective Funds
Groups that share goals, identities, or religious affiliations sometimes create funds with us to support particular causes, communities, or geographical areas. For example, Unitarian Universalists from Long Island have created a fund to foster their faith’s underlying principles of caring and justice. Another group of Long Island donors joined together to support the Island’s East End. No matter what you want to give to, we can help.
Interested in joining or creating a collaborative?
Email: btaveras@thenytrust.orgPhone: (212) 686-2462
