For info: Marty Lipp at mbl@nyct-cfi.org or 917-774-8159
NEW YORK (June 13, 2023) – The New York Community Trust today announced $8.2 million in grants to 50 organizations working to improve lives across the city.
“We are honored to make grants for projects on the cutting-edge of finding solutions to many of the city’s current challenges,” said Shawn Morehead, The Trust’s vice president for grants. “This round of grants, among other things, will help build the capacity of arts groups; teach young New Yorkers to read; advocate to meet the needs of people struggling with addiction; and vaccinate recently arrived migrants.”
As New York’s community foundation, built by New Yorkers for New Yorkers, The Trust brings together the contributions of donors past and present to support nonprofits doing critical work to address immediate needs and as well as patiently advance systemic change.
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The following is the full listing of grants announced today by The Trust.
Human Justice
Bronx Defenders: $250,000 to protect parents’ rights in child welfare investigations.
Jobs and Workforce
Grace Institute of New York: $80,000 to expand a workforce training program for low-income women.
Per Scholas: $70,000 to analyze the costs of providing remote technology job training through community groups.
Education and Young People
ArtsConnection: $260,000 to adapt for widespread use a school-based residency program that uses puppetry and storytelling to build literacy skills.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City: $150,000 to recruit volunteers to mentor young people in the Bronx.
Fund for Public Schools: $566,000 to test an inclusive model for teaching public middle school students with emotional disabilities, building on the success of a similar Trust-supported program for elementary school students.
Legal Outreach: $94,000 to expand a civic engagement and social-justice program for high school students.
Marquis Studios: $250,000 to adapt a school-based theater program to help kindergarten and first-grade students develop their reading and writing skills.
New York City Outward Bound Schools: $300,000 to help students at 56 public high schools re-engage with their teachers and peers in the wake of the pandemic.
92nd Street Y: $260,000 to develop a curriculum that emphasizes connections between physical movement and language to improve literacy among elementary school students.
Queens Botanical Garden: $122,000 to start a food-justice leadership program for young people in Queens.
RISE: $100,000 to help families at-risk of child welfare intervention campaign for free childcare.
Sixth Street Community Center: $70,000 to continue a climate advocacy program for young people.
Sundog Theatre: $150,000 to work with a reading specialist to refine its theater-based approach to improving students’ reading.
Sylvia Center: $150,000 for a Staten Island youth nutrition education program.
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls: $100,000 for an afterschool program that will teach girls about science, technology, history, and music.
Young People’s Chorus: $220,000 to introduce elementary school students to foundational concepts in choral music and help them build literacy skills.
Health
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center: $150,000 to stabilize the city’s leading community clinic for people with, or at risk of, HIV/AIDS.
Care for the Homeless and Floating Hospital: $150,000 to each of these nonprofits to vaccinate newly arrived migrants.
Drug Policy Alliance: $275,000 for a campaign to legalize overdose prevention centers that supervise the use of injected drugs.
Gerontological Society of America: $37,000 for the Pollack Awards, which recognize an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to increasing the human healthy life span.
Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA): $90,000 for financial assistance, movement classes, and health workshops designed for people with arthritis.
NYU Langone Hospitals: $118,000 for workshops to help older classical ballet dancers learn to prevent and seek early treatment for injuries.
Immigration
Fund for New Citizens: $200,000 for a collaborative fund to assist immigrants and refugees in New York.
Environment
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation: $150,000 to encourage responsible development of offshore wind power in the Northeast that prioritizes local jobs, community input, and wildlife protections.
Just Transition Fund: $150,000 to promote clean energy investments in Appalachian communities affected by the fading coal industry.
New York Restoration Project: $100,000 to support stewardship for open space in the South Bronx.
Smart Growth America: $150,000 to promote the installation of renewable energy on contaminated industrial brownfield sites across the Northeast.
Arts and Culture
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center: $150,000 to reorganize studio rentals and other programs during a renovation of its Lower East Side building.
Dances for a Variable Population: $180,000 to expand teaching artist training and dance programs serving older adults.
Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School: $80,000 to develop more programs for adults with visual disabilities and create a digital music library.
Imani Winds Foundation: $225,000 for a new program to produce and distribute classical chamber music and other media.
Kyoung’s Pacific Beat: $195,000 to increase capacity for touring and virtual programs and generate income to sustain city-based artists.
LEIMAY: $186,000 to grow educational and virtual programs and generate income to sustain city-based artists.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: $80,000 to improve digital communications and marketing.
People’s Theatre Project: $225,000 to establish management systems and programs for a new facility in Inwood.
Ping Chong & Company: $150,000 to rebrand and improve communications following the retirement of the theater group’s founder.
Recess: $150,000 to develop new policies and communications following a leadership transition.
Third World Newsreel: $214,000 to improve technology for film preservation and distribution for a social justice media group.
Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation: $225,000 to develop operations for the new Bronx Music Hall performance venue.
Historic Preservation
Municipal Art Society of New York: $200,000 to research, plan, and advocate for more expansive preservation of the city’s diverse cultural heritage.
Animal Welfare
GallopNYC: $92,000 to provide veterinary and humane care for therapeutic riding horses.
Older Adults
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign: $200,000 to advocate for the parole of incarcerated older adults.
Selfhelp Community Services: $100,000 to improve services for older adults who have experienced trauma.
Community Development
Heat Seek: $115,000 to coordinate the use of heat sensors with community organizers and legal service providers helping low-income tenants whose apartments regularly do not receive adequate heat.
THE POINT Community Development Corporation: $150,000 to expand access to a high-speed internet network maintained by residents in the South Bronx.
Technical Assistance to Nonprofits
Advocacy Institute: $60,000 to provide legislative advocacy training for grassroots leaders and community organizers.
Common Cause Education Fund: $125,000 to research and analyze New York’s unaffiliated voters.
Human Services Council of New York City: $150,000 to reform nonprofit contract procurement systems.
Resilia: $92,000 to a B corporation to offer individualized assessments and coaching on all phases of operations to 30 Trust grantees in New York, Long Island, and Westchester.
About The New York Community Trust
The New York Community Trust is a public charity and New York City’s largest community foundation. It connects generous people and institutions with high-impact nonprofits making the City and its suburbs a better place for all. It builds stronger communities, influences public policy, fosters innovation, improves lives, and protects our environment.
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