Funding Details
Program goal
The Trust has a coordinated approach that reflects the common challenges and opportunities for the following groups of people: older adults, children and youth with disabilities, people with blindness and visual disabilities, and people with developmental disabilities. We support projects that target low-income individuals and communities.
Grants are made to
Make New York City communities—especially those that are under-resourced—accessible, welcoming, and inclusive by:
- Supporting research and pilot efforts that demonstrate these principles.
- Ensuring the laws that fund services and expand opportunities are implemented fully and effectively.
Ensure that health, social, education, and vocational services allow older adults and people with disabilities to live up to their fullest potential by:
- Supporting and replicating proven strategies that help these populations receive appropriate education, high-quality vocational preparation, and equal employment opportunities.
- Testing new approaches that use technology and other innovations to help older adults and people with disabilities remain as independent as possible.
- Supporting families and caregivers of older adults and people with disabilities.
- Build the capacity of nonprofits serving older adults and people with disabilities: ensuring the workforce serving these populations is provided effective training, better career pathways, and increased job quality, and helping agencies create appropriate financial and management systems and partnerships to benefit from new financing mechanisms through Medicaid and Medicare.
The Health and Behavioral Health and the Older Adult and People with Disabilities strategies give preference to projects that offer sector-wide, systemic, and multi-agency solutions, and, whenever possible, make grants in partnership with other Trust program areas to ensure the greatest impact.
Read the background paper that informed this grantmaking strategy here.
Recent grants
| Organization | Summary |
|---|---|
Project New Yorker |
to help South Asian immigrant families in Queens identify their children’s disabilities and secure specialized services. |
My Time |
to create a community resource center in central Brooklyn for families of children with disabilities. |
Kindred Enterprises |
to provide baking and culinary arts classes to young people with disabilities. |
Family Kind |
offer counseling and support to families of children with disabilities whose parents are facing marital challenges. |
Extreme Kids & Crew |
to offer recreational programs to Black, Latinx, and Chinese American children with disabilities in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. |
Community Inclusion and Development Alliance |
provide work opportunities in Queens to East Asian young people with disabilities. |
Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services |
to train staff to help immigrant families of children with disabilities secure specialized services. |
Kings Bay YM-YWHA |
to establish a city-based summer camp program for school-aged children with blindness and low vision |
OneSight |
to screen Fresh Air Fund campers for vision problems and provide free eyeglasses |
City Access New York |
to expand an internship program for visually disabled high school and college students |
Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York |
to improve voting access for people with visual and other disabilities |
New York Stem Cell Foundation |
to create an innovative treatment for macular degeneration using stem cells |
JBI International |
to make social service and cultural institutions accessible for people, including older adults, with visual disabilities |
VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired |
to provide training and resources that help parents support their children with blindness |
Birch Family Services |
to plan for the continued operation and growth of a program that helps young people with autism transition to adulthood |
Kennedy Children’s Center |
to train low-income women to serve as teaching assistants in preschool special education classes |
INCLUDEnyc |
to help families of young children with disabilities enroll in early childhood services |
Service Program for Older People |
to provide mental health services to older adults who are experiencing significant mental illness and emotional trauma as a result of the pandemic |
Brooklyn Public Library |
to help older Brooklyn residents connect and engage with online programming |
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign |
to advocate for incarcerated older adults |
Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA) |
to provide assistance to seniors with arthritis |
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