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Nonprofit Funding Area

Community Development Long Island

Learn more about how we fund Community Development on Long Island. To see what else we fund, explore the Info for Nonprofits page.   

Funding Details

Program goal

To build and sustain strong communities and create economic opportunities that lead to enduring prosperity and livelihoods for low- and moderate-income residents.

Grants are made to

  • Advance local and statewide policies and practices that promote safe and decent affordable housing options and protect against displacement.
  • Preserve and create multifamily housing for low-to moderate-income families and individuals.
  • Build local support for fair, affordable, and sustainable housing developments.
  • Promote strategies for job creation and linking low-income residents to employment.
  • Develop new sources of innovative community development tools and community wealth building models.
  • Invest in the development of historically underserved small businesses and entrepreneurs.

For questions about this program area, contact Sol Marie Alfonso-Jones.

Recent grants

Organization Summary

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

to complete the Center for Urban Research Long Island Zoning Atlas project with input from local stakeholders and to maintain the site for three-years.

ERASE Racism, Inc.

to coordinate a coalition for more affordable housing on Long Island.

New York Communities Organizing Fund

to increase housing stability for renters in the Village of Hempstead.

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