A grant to Downtown Community Television Center is supporting Beyond Bullets, a traveling anti-gun violence media campaign that works with youth to produce and share videos in high-crime neighborhoods on the Web.

Other Grants

April 2010

Arts, Education, and Human Justice

Downtown Community Television Center, $120,000 for an anti-gun violence media campaign led by youth reporters. (This grant is a part of the Knight Community Information Challenge.) Read more>>

Harlem Arts Alliance, $50,000 to work with the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance to provide 30 workshops for arts groups, artists, and musicians in upper Manhattan on topics such as marketing, fundraising, and nonprofit incorporation.

Lower Manhattan Arts Leaders, $38,000 to coordinate a joint marketing venture by 11 downtown arts groups including Dixon Place, Access Theater, Battery Dance Company, Children’s Museum of the Arts, Dance New Amsterdam, and Soho Repertory Theater.

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, $25,000 to help shore up 50 of the City’s community arts schools to maintain programs and scholarships in the face of funding shortages.

Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, $75,000 to train volunteer lawyers who will provide legal help for homeless women, especially young women, and their families.

Alliance for Quality Education, $100,000 to ensure that City public schools are getting their share of the State education budget by fighting to preserve the equity principles in the 2007 Education Budget and Reform Act.

Campaign for Fiscal Equity, $75,000 to ensure that State education funds are being used in accordance with the 2007 Education Budget and Reform Act: to reduce class-size, improve teacher and principal quality, and provide programs for English language learners; and that the funds supplement, rather than supplant, City funds. Read more>>

Mercy Corps/Action Center to End World Hunger, $40,000 to improve middle and high school global history learning through the creation of new curricula, classroom materials, and teacher training.

Safety-Net Grants

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The following grants will provide basic services across the City, including food, legal help, benefits enrollment, and cash to prevent foreclosure and eviction:

Bridge Fund of New York, $1,250,000 for cash assistance and counseling to help families keep their homes.
Cancer Care, $850,000 for financial aid to needy cancer patients.
City Harvest, $200,000 to get more fresh produce to emergency feeding programs.
Citymeals-on-Wheels, $400,000 for weekend and emergency meals for poor, home-bound elders.
Food Bank for New York City/Food for Survival, $1,500,000 to give more food to emergency feeding programs so that they can serve more people.
New York City Financial Network Action Consortium, $600,000 to coordinate and expand a system that gets cash and non-cash benefits for eligible New Yorkers. The grant will also fund credit and financial counseling and free tax preparation at dozens of food pantries and community centers in all five boroughs.

The following grants will shore up community groups that provide early childhood and after-school programs for youth, senior activities, adult education, and job workshops in the City’s neediest neighborhoods.
United Neighborhood Houses, $1,000,000 to help 37 settlement houses in all five boroughs maintain critical services for poor New Yorkers.

The following organizations provide services in needy neighborhoods that don’t have a settlement house.

Abyssinian Development Corporation, $25,000 for financial counseling for poor seniors in Central Harlem.
Groundwork, $25,000 for social services for families living in and near public housing in East New York, Brooklyn.
Highbridge Community Life Center, $25,000 to sustain services for poor families in the Highbridge section of the Bronx.
Ocean Bay Community Development Corporation, $25,000 to maintain critical services in Far Rockaway, Queens.
Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, $25,000 to sustain youth and senior programs in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Southern Queens Park Association, $25,000 to help sustain services for children and youth in south Jamaica, Queens.

Community Development and the Environment

Blue Green Alliance Foundation, $75,000 to involve labor unions in advocacy for chemical policy reform to ensure safety in the workplace and in consumer products.

Clean New York, $50,000 to build grassroots support to make consumer products safer through federal and state chemical policy reform.

Earthworks, $75,000 to work with communities in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia to protect their lands from the destructive effects of natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale.

Friends of the High Line, $50,000 to ensure that the northern third of the elevated track is preserved.

Good Jobs First, $58,000 to advocate for job creation and retention as a condition for the allocation of stimulus-financed bonds.

National Employment Law Project, $75,000 to cover more workers in the State’s unemployment insurance program.

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute for Government at University at Albany, SUNY, $25,000 to bring policy experts together to develop a four-year financial plan for the State.

Progressive America Fund, $100,000 to create jobs and conserve energy through a statewide program to retrofit thousands of homes to be more energy efficient.

Health and People with Special Needs

Advocates for Children of New York, $120,000 for a coalition to monitor how disabled children are fairing in the school system.

Special Projects and Philanthropy

The Toby Project, $57,000 to offer free spaying and neutering services using a mobile veterinary van in Brooklyn and the Bronx.