Community Health Outreach & Support Grants

Deadline: 26-Mar-21

The Brooklyn Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Community Health Outreach and Support Grants Program.

The Foundation launched the Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund in March 2020 to address the health, economic, and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fund is deeply rooted in values of racial equity and centers racial justice lens, which prioritizes support for nonprofits that are led by members of affected communities, and centers the voices of those directly impacted by structural racism in decision-making.

Priority Areas

Creating safer spaces for conversations with community members and credible messengers on COVID-19 related community health concerns.
Outreach, engagement, and education activities to provide culturally relevant, medically accurate information about COVID-19 prevention, testing, vaccines, and related issues to support community members’ ability to make informed health decisions.
Navigation support to people interested in accessing COVID-19 related health services, such as vaccines, including scheduling appointments, providing transportation/supporting transportation costs, among other services.

Priority Communities

This funding is available to support the following communities:

Priority Community Districts: Bedford Stuyvesant (CD 3), Bushwick (CD 4), East New York (CD 5), Sunset Park (CD 7), Crown Heights North (CD 8), Crown Heights South (CD 9), Coney Island (CD 13), Brownsville (CD 16), Flatbush (CD 14), East Flatbush (CD 17).
Priority Populations: Older adults; Black, indigenous, and people of color; immigrants; low-wage and nontraditional workers; people with compromised immune systems; people who are unhoused and housing insecure; people who are formerly or currently incarcerated; people who are LGBTQIAGNC+; and people experiencing domestic violence.

Funding Information

The grant will provide single-year funding of up to $10,000 to approximately 25 groups working in the priority areas.

Priority Considerations

In reviewing proposals, the Foundation will give preference to organizations that:

Use a racial justice lens in their work. Organizations consider inequities based on race and their impact in designing programs, looking for solutions, and defining success;
Center the voices and leadership of community members. Organizations craft solutions to problems and work in authentic partnership with community members to actively engage those most impacted in directing their own lives and shaping their own communities, and building the capacity of emerging leaders in their organizations;
Acknowledge intersecting oppressions. Organizations understand how multiple oppressions impact one another and the lives of the people with whom they work;
Work on the frontlines of issues. Organizations that are grassroots and doing work on the ground and at the community level.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible to apply, an organization must:
- Be incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization or be working under the auspices of an authorized fiscal sponsor;
- Have a minimum annual budget of $50,000 or submit an application to work in partnership with an organization that does. Grant awards will not exceed 10% of the applying organization’s annual budget.
- Have an office or a regular physical presence in Brooklyn.
Please note that the Foundation does not fund the following:
- Individuals;
- Capital campaigns;
- Schools (public, private, or charter).