Funding Details
Program goal
To mitigate the effects of poverty, increase opportunity through effective services and public benefits, and reduce racial disparities.
Grants are made to
Focus on early intervention and prevention to enable vulnerable children to grow up in stable families and succeed in school and life by:
- Supporting a continuum of early childhood programs from birth to kindergarten.
- Strengthening services for families with children at risk of foster care placement and for young people already in care.
- Reducing entry and re-entry into the homeless shelter system and increasing long-term housing stability.
- Increasing access to income supports and healthy, affordable food.
Expand proven and promising practices that help those in need lead productive lives by:
- Support research, policy, and programs that direct resources to alleviate hunger, homelessness, and poverty; and to move individuals to stability and independence.
- Advocating for wide-ranging, quality services that help low-income individuals and families succeed.
Build the capacity of government agencies and nonprofits serving low-income New Yorkers by:
- Supporting the coordination and integration of services across city agencies and service providers.
- Training and supporting public and nonprofit human services workers.
- Advancing efforts that improve the funding, contracting, and support of human services agencies.
Preference is given to projects that go beyond one agency or program to offer sector-wide, systemic, and multi-agency solutions. Whenever possible and appropriate human services grants are made in partnership with other Trust program areas.
Read the background paper that informed this grantmaking strategy here.
Recent grants
| Organization | Summary |
|---|---|
Gotham Food Pantry |
to develop a food rescue training program for tenant leaders in public housing. |
Women in Need |
to protect homeless families’ right to shelter. This grant will also support advocacy for a statewide housing voucher program. |
Mobilization for Justice |
to litigate cases of housing discrimination on behalf of low-income New Yorkers |
Foster Care Excellence Fund |
for a collaborative fund to keep low-income families together and support best practices in the city’s child welfare system |
New York University |
to study the effectiveness of a child maltreatment prevention program for mothers with post-traumatic stress disorder |
Homeward NYC |
to ensure New Yorkers moving out of shelter and into permanent housing have the resources to remain housed |
Rise |
to help families at risk of child welfare intervention campaign for free child care |
The Sylvia Center |
for a nutrition education program for Staten Island young people |
HELP USA, Inc. |
to increase access to healthy food sources for supportive housing residents in East New York |
Seafarers and International House |
to continue to provide lodging for seafarers in need, board ships to provide services, and for those with shore leave and U.S. visas, offer transportation to shopping and medical care |
Havens Relief Fund Society |
to provide emergency relief to newly arrived migrants |
Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc. |
to encourage more efficient and effective government investment in supportive housing |
North Star Fund |
to organize a network of funders engaged with transforming the food systems in New York City |
Missionaries of Charity |
benefit the poorest of the poor, including supporting recently arrived migrants |
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