2009 Grants to Help New Yorkers Through the Economic Crisis

United Neighborhood Houses’ After School Conservation Club teaches kids about environmental conservation—and sprucing up their communities. The young lady above plants flowers that attract butterflies in a formerly abandoned plot near the Queens Community House in Forest Hills.

Grants to Assist Poor Families

• $1,000,000 to the Bridge Fund of New York for cash and counseling to help families keep their homes.
• $850,000 to Cancer Care for financial aid to needy cancer patients.
• $275,000 to City Harvest to get more fresh produce to the City’s emergency feeding programs.
• $500,000 to Citymeals-on-Wheels for weekend and emergency meals for poor, homebound elders.
• $1,500,000 to Food Bank for New York City, Food for Survival to get more food to emergency feeding programs.
• $1,200,000 to Legal Services NYC for a partnership with the Legal Aid Society to expand civil legal services for low-income New Yorkers who are threatened with foreclosure, eviction, and predatory debt collection.
• $175,000 to Mental Health Association of New York to provide mental health training to staff of nonprofits that serve poor people.
• $560,000 to the New York City Financial Network Action Consortium to help eligible New Yorkers get millions of dollars in Earned Income Tax Credits, food stamps, and other benefits. The grant will also fund credit and financial counseling and free tax preparation at dozens of churches, food pantries, and community centers throughout the five boroughs.
• $250,000 to New York Immigration Coalition to protect the education, health, and civic rights of immigrant New Yorkers.
• $125,000 to New York Legal Assistance Group to provide free legal services to needy people with serious mental problems.
• $1,300,000 to United Neighborhood Houses of New York to help all 36 settlement houses in the five boroughs maintain critical services for poor New Yorkers.

 Grants to Strengthen City Nonprofits

• $100,000 to Cause Effective to help nonprofits increase and diversify their donor base through consultations and workshops.
• $400,000 to Community Resource Exchange to help organizations serving poor communities improve their operations so that they can survive the recession.
• $65,000 to the Fiscal Policy Institute to help funders and nonprofits get a clearer understanding of the impact of the recession on the nonprofit sector and the New Yorkers who depend on it.
• $30,000 to the Human Services Council of New York City to help service providers understand and make use of federal stimulus money.
• $200,000 to Lawyers Alliance for New York to provide more nonprofits with business-law services, such as debt restructuring, modifying employer benefits, terminating commercial leases, and asset transfers.
• $60,000 to Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) to help community development corporations rethink their business models in light changing revenue streams.
• $80,000 to the Nonprofit Finance Fund to provide financial counseling and training to City nonprofits.
• $100,000 to NYCharities.org to expand an on-line charitable giving service for City nonprofits.
• $125,000 to Primary Care Development Corporation to help community health centers apply for stimulus funding.    

Articles About These Grants

• Press Release