10/14/11 - Groups Get $5.6 Million in Competitive Grants from Trust
Contact: Amy Wolf, Communications Officer
212.686.0010 x234 | aw@nyct-cfi.org
nycommunitytrust.org | @nycommtrust
10/14/11, New York—The following grants were approved by the
board of The Trust in early October. Please contact Amy Wolf for further
information about each grant.
HELP FOR GIRLS & YOUNG WOMEN
Areas Served by Grants
M – Manhattan
Bk—Brooklyn
Bx—Bronx
Q—Queens
SI—Staten Island
R—State or Tri-State Region
C—Citywide
N—National
|
Borough of Manhattan
Community College Foundation, $100,000 for a program already in place at
Hostos, LaGuardia, Queensborough, and Kingsborough, that helps community
college students graduate through tutoring, counseling, career services, and
financial aid. | M – Tribeca- Community Health
Action of Staten Island, $60,000 for a reproductive health clinic for young
women on Staten Island. | SI
- New York City Housing
Authority, $140,500, to expand a literacy program, including field trips to
literary events and readings by female and minority writers, for 4th
to 6th-grade girls in 11 public housing projects. | Bk
– Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, East New
York
- Sakhi for South Asian
Women, $30,000 to advocate for policies that address cultural differences
among domestic violence victims. | C
- Service Women's
Action Network (SWAN), $66,000
to expand mental health and legal services for female veterans, including those
who have experienced sexual trauma. | C
CHILDREN’S
EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH
- Greater New York
Hospital Foundation, $53,000 to refer children and families, especially
those with multiple problems, to health and social services close to home. | C
- Hour Children, $60,000
to sustain a successful mentoring program for children who have a parent in
prison. | C
- MFY Legal Services,
$120,000 for the Kinship Caregiver Law Project which helps grandparents
caring for their abandoned grandchildren get legal help to keep their wards
fed, healthy, and educated. | C
LGBTQ COMMUNITY
- Griot Circle, $30,000
for social and legal services for gay elders of color. | Bk
- Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center, $46,000 to expand and improve the YES internship
program that places gay youth in stipended positions in companies and
nonprofits. | C
- Queens Community
House, $30,000 for a recreational and social services program run by SAGE
(see below) for gay and lesbian elders. |
Q – Forest Hills
- Services and Advocacy
for GLBT Elders (SAGE), $40,000 for workshops for gay and lesbian elders on
possible benefits of marriage, changes in Medicare, finances, benefits, and social
services. | C
DIVERSIFIED MEDIA
- The New School, $92,500 for
continued support of the Feet in Two Worlds program which helps immigrant journalists
and media outlets cross media platforms and expand their audiences and impact. | C
GREENER, HEALTHIER
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES
- Center for Health,
Environment and Justice, $50,000 to promote healthier, greener alternatives
to toxic PVC plastics in NYC schools. | C
- Funders’ Network for
Smart Growth and Livable Communities, $100,000 to make cities better places
to live through connecting members of the Urban Sustainability Directors
Network with local foundations. | N
- Nescaum, $75,000
to develop a regional clean-fuels standard in 11 Northeast and mid-Atlantic
states. | N
- New York Lawyers for
the Public Interest, $50,000 to eliminate toxic polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs) in schools. | C
- One Region Fund,
$200,000 for a funders’ group promoting equitable and sustainable
transportation in the tri-state region. |
R
- Pace Law School,
$50,000 to develop effective energy efficiency programs in New York State. | R
TOXIN-FREE
AGRICULTURE
- Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy, $75,000 to expand and standardize the production
and use of bioplastics. | N
- Pesticide Action
Network North America, $50,000 to expand the market for crops grown without
toxic pesticides. | N
CLEAN WATER
- Natural Resources
Defense Council, $50,000 to continue to protect the sources of the City's
drinking water from pharmaceutical waste, development, and agricultural runoff.
| C
- Riverkeeper, $50,000
to protect the City’s drinking water by monitoring and reporting compliance
with federal, State, and local clean water laws and policies. | C
REDUCING TOXIC
CHEMICALS
- Blue Green Alliance
Foundation, $75,000 to involve labor unions in chemical policy reform,
helping members and leadership understand, value, and communicate the economic
benefits of a sustainable economy. | N
- Clean and Healthy New
York, $50,000 to build grassroots support for federal and state chemical
policy reform. |N
- Columbia University,
Mailman School of Public Health, $63,000 to develop a new method to test how
chemicals impact the body’s translation of information from DNA proteins. | N
HELPING NEW YORKERS GET GOOD JOBS
- Center for Economic
Opportunity, $400,000 to enhance Project Rise, an education and paid
internship program for unemployed young men and women. | Q – Woodside, Astoria, LIC; Bk – Bushwick, Sunset Park, Flatbush; M –
Harlem, Lower East Side; Bx – Highbridge, Fordham
- JobsFirstNYC,
$125,000 to help youth employment organizations engage more employers. | C
- Nontraditional
Employment for Women, $100,000 to increase employment opportunities for young
women in four nontraditional fields such as green building maintenance and
construction. | C
- NYC Workforce
Development Fund, $125,000 for joint grantmaking in workforce development. | C
- Public Allies,
$100,000 to expand an AmeriCorps leadership development program that
prepares minorities, first generation immigrants, and veterans returning from
Iraq and Afghanistan for jobs in nonprofits. | C
- Workforce
Professionals Training Institute, $60,000 to help job developers and
trainers become more effective in providing useful and up-to-date training for
jobs in demand. | C
IMPROVING ARTS EDUCATION FOR NEEDY
KIDS
- ArtsConnection,
$40,000 to support theater arts programs for English language learners at
three Queens middle schools. | Q –
Corona, Flushing
- Brooklyn Arts
Council, $75,000 to provide folk arts instruction in four Brooklyn
elementary schools. | Bk – Bushwick
- Education Through
Music, $90,000 for music instruction at seven Bronx elementary and middle
schools. | Bx – Hunts Point, Mott Haven,
Throgs Neck, Van Ness
- Harlem School of the
Arts, $50,000 to provide instruction in general music and African drumming
in five elementary schools. | M –
Harlem; Bx – Bedford Park, South Bronx
- Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts, $30,000 to provide arts instruction and teacher
training at three schools. | Bk –
Bensonhurst; M – Harlem; Q – Flushing
- Museum of Arts and
Design, $50,000 to provide arts instruction for suspended students in
alternative learning centers. | M –
Harlem, Hell’s Kitchen, Wall Street
- Staten Island
Children’s Museum, $30,000 to provide arts instruction at three elementary
public schools. | SI – Port Richmond,
New Brighton, Mariners Harbor
- Teachers and Writers
Collaborative, $90,000 to provide creative writing instruction at eight
middle schools. | Bx – Bay Plaza,
Melrose, Morrisania, Morris Heights; Q – Hollis
- Visual Understanding
in Education, $60,000 to train teachers in eight elementary and middle
schools to use art to teach critical thinking skills. | Bx – Crotona Park, Pelham Bay; Bk – Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Prospect
Heights; M – East Harlem; Q – Elmhurst
POST-COLLEGE
FELLOWSHIPS FOR YOUNG ARTISTS
- Alvin Ailey Dance
Foundation, $60,000 to provide two-year fellowships for four dancers to
dance with Ailey II dance troupe. | C
- American Opera
Projects, $40,000 to provide two-year fellowships for two composers to work
with a Brooklyn company of signers and musical directors to create original
works. | C
- Dance Theatre of
Harlem, $60,000 to provide one-year fellowships for ten dancers who will
tour locally and nationally. | C
- Firelight Media, $60,000
to provide six film and digital media fellowships for emerging minority artists.
| C
- Flea Theater, $40,000
to provide four fellowships for young theater directors. | C
- International Studio
and Curatorial Program, $60,000 to provide four-month residencies for
emerging visual artists. | Bk
- New Dramatists, $60,000
to provide two-year playwriting fellowships for three aspiring playwrights. | C
- New York Foundation
for the Arts, $40,000 to provide one-year fellowships for ten immigrant
artists. | C
- Snug Harbor Cultural
Center, $60,000 to provide two-month fellowships for 16 visual artists. | SI
- Socrates Sculpture
Park, $60,000 for year-long, outdoor residencies for six emerging visual
artists. | C
- Spanish Theatre
Repertory Company, $60,000 to provide two-year fellowships for three
aspiring Hispanic directors. | C
- Studio Museum in
Harlem, $40,000 to provide one-year fellowships for two visual artists and
two curators. | M
- Wave Hill, $40,000
to provide four fellowships for visual artists. | Bx, M
NURTURING THE ARTS
AND THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE
- American Music
Center, $75,000 to help it merge with Meet the Composer to form New Music
USA. | C
- Bronx Museum of the
Arts, $62,000 to publicize the Museum’s free admission policy. | Bx
- Cool Culture, $35,000
to provide early childhood cultural programs for Harlem families. | M – Harlem
- Fourth Arts Block,
$45,000 to provide dance rehearsal space in underused studios. | M – Lower East Side
- National Guild for Community
Arts Education, $25,000 to help community arts schools sustain programs. | C
- Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt Institute, $175,000 to help the Pare Lorentz Film Center create,
disseminate, and promote educational films. | N
IMPROVING THE HIGH SCHOOL CHOICE PROCESS
- The New School, $70,000
to help students and parents participate in the City’s high school choice
process. | C
- New York University, $56,000
for research on how students with low test scores fare in the high school
choice process. | C
- IMPROVING EDUCATION
FOR ALL
- Advocates for
Children of New York, $75,000 to
advocate for students who are being suspended from school. | C
- Fund for the City of
New York, $50,000 to strengthen the
QUEST ATD program that provides educational services for juvenile delinquents
with mental health problems. | Q
- NYC Coalition for
Educational Justice, $90,000 for advocacy to improve instruction in the
City’s neediest schools through a longer school day and year. | C
BLINDNESS AND
VISUAL DISABILITIES
- Helen Keller
International, $65,000 to screen low-income, middle-school and alternative
high school students for vision problems. |
M, Q, Bk, Bx
- Prevent Blindness
Tri-State, $70,000 to integrate vision screening and treatment into
community health centers. | C
PEOPLE WITH
SPECIAL NEEDS
- Brooklyn Academy of
Music, $35,000 for a free film program for poor and disabled elders. | Bk
- Coalition of
Institutionalized Aged and Disabled, $55,000 to help adult-home residents
move to supportive housing. | C
- Institute for
Community Living, $65,000 to train staff to provide health education to
seriously mentally ill people with chronic health problems. | C
- Resources for
Children with Special Needs, $75,000 to help parents of disabled children
understand changes in special education and get services for their kids. | C
BETTER HEALTH CARE
- Community Health Care
Association of New York State, $125,000 to develop a plan to create new
federally qualified health centers in areas that need it most. | C
- New York City Health
and Hospitals Corporation, $90,000 to help the City’s public hospital
system apply for federally qualified health center designation for its
outpatient clinics. | C
- New York Immigration
Coalition, $90,000 to improve access to health care for immigrants. | C
- New York University,
College of Nursing, $125,000 to study the effectiveness of combining two
nursing programs to improve hospital care for elderly patients. | C
- New York City AIDS
Fund, $50,000 for continued support for an AIDS funding collaborative. | C
- Primary Care
Development Corporation, $100,000 to strengthen medical home programs in
community health centers. | C
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