Grants
Our grant program exists to resource grassroots organizing for justice in New York City and the Hudson Valley. We distributed close to $3 million in grants in our latest fiscal year, the majority of it (over $2 million) after the start of the New York State COVID-19 lockdown. Once the lockdown began, we pared down our application process as much as possible, offered auto-renewals to current grantees and increased grant sizes.
Although having multiple grants programs enables us to increase support for our grantees, we are committed to streamlining our application process and making it less complicated for both new applicants and current grantees. Learn more about our grantmaking on the Apply page on our website.
- Future of Organizing (two rounds totaling $1,468,000 to grantees in both New York City and the Hudson Valley)
- New York City Organizing ($575,000)
- Hudson Valley Organizing ($265,000)
- People Power Giving Project ($222,000)
- Let Us Breathe Fund ($155,000)
- Special Initiatives ($104,000)
- Innovative Activism ($90,000)
- Rapid Response ($83,000)
- Community Food Funders Champions Award ($5,000)
- Frederick Douglass Awards ($5,000)
Totals have been rounded off
Here are the organizations that received grants from us this year.
Hudson Valley
#100Sistas
ADELANTE Student Voices
Back to Black Farming and Wellness Cooperative
Birth from The Earth
Black Lives Matter Hudson Valley
Celebrating the African Spirit
Columbia County Sanctuary Movement
Community Governance & Development Council
Community Resource Center
Evergreen Garden
Freedom Food Alliance
Full Circle Life Enrichment Center
Grace Immigrant Outreach
Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network
Harambee Kingston
Hudson/Catskill Housing Coalition
Hudson Valley Community Wealth Fund
In Our Own Voices
Kingston Midtown Rising
Kite’s Nest
Linke Fligl
MHAction
Newburgh LGBTQ+ Center
Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson
NY Civic Engagement Table
Proyecto Faro
Rise Up Kingston
Sustainable Port Chester Alliance
Underground Center
VOCAL-NY
Worker Justice Center of New York
Yonkers Sanctuary Movement
New York City
Advocacy Institute
African Communities Together
Alliance of Families for Justice
Arab American Association of New York
Audre Lorde Project
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
The Black Feminist Project
Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project)
Black Trans Media
Black Youth Project 100 Education Fund
Brandworkers
Brooklyn Movement Center
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC)
Carroll Gardens Association
Center for Popular Democracy
Center For Third World Organizing
Centro Corona
Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association
Coalition for Asian-American Children and Families
Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled
Communities United for Police Reform (CPR)
Community Voices Heard
Cooper Square Committee
CUNY Rising Alliance
Future of Tomorrow/Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
Damayan Migrant Workers Association
East Harlem/El Barrio Community Land Trust
Equality for Flatbush
Faith in New York
Families for Freedom
Families Organized in Unity for a New Democracy (FOUND)
Farm School NYC
FIERCE
Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project
Flatbush Development Corporation
Flushing Workers Center
FPA-Foundation
Girls for Gender Equity
Global Action Project
Hattie Carthan Community Food Projects
Housing Organizers for People Empowerment (HOPE)
House Lives Matter
ImmSchools
IntegrateNYC
Jahajee Sisters Empowering Indo-Caribbean Women
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Justice Committee
La Colmena
Laundry Workers Center
Masa
Mekong NYC
Metropolitan Council on Housing
Model Alliance
Movement School
Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Neighbors Together
New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)
New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC
New York City Capacity Building Funder Collaborative
New York State Youth Leadership Council
NY Teamsters for a Democratic Union
NYC Coalition for Educational Justice
NYC Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee
NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives
One Fair Wage
Parole Preparation Project
YA-YA Network
Young Invincibles
Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition
Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice
YVote
Picture the Homeless
Project Hajra
Proud Educator Network
Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)
Right to Counsel NYC Coalition
Rise
Rockaway Youth Task Force
Sixth Street Community Center
Sound Mind Collective
Street Vendor Project
Sure We Can
SustainUS
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Teachers Unite
Teens Take Charge
Tenants and Neighbors
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC
UndocuBlack Network
Urban Youth Collaborative
Veterans Organizing Institute
Visión Futuro
Voces Ciudadanas
Women’s Community Justice Association
Women’s Organizing Network
Worker Owned Rockaway Cooperatives
Worker’s Justice Project
Statewide
Green Light NY: Driving Together Coalition
Upstate Downstate Housing Alliance
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