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Collaborative Funds & Special Initiatives

Pooling resources for greater impact is at the core of what we do. For decades we’ve brought together funders through pooled funds to make strategic grants that address urgent issues, elevate historically under-resourced populations, and meet emerging needs. We are open to new collaborative funds.

GoVoteNYC, a funder collaborative, helped get out the vote through public advertisements produced by F.Y. Eye. Photo by Andrea Wilson

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Tribal members in front of a teepee and firepit outside.
A grant from our Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund is helping protect Native American sites on Long Island. Photo by Ari Mintz

Interested in joining or creating a collaborative?

Barbara Taveras

She/Her

Special Projects Officer

Email: btaveras@thenytrust.org

Phone: (212) 686-2462

Barbara Taveras