Deadline: 31-Dec-21
The Brooklyn Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Wellness and Recovery Fund to support organizations working to ensure that those who navigate the difficult road of substance abuse and addiction do so with reliable support that honors their agency and dignity.
The Wellness and Recovery Fund is deeply rooted in their values of racial equity and centers their 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.
They do this because they understand that their most vulnerable communities already exist at the margins of power and access due to historical and systemic denial of adequate resources.
This funding is available to support the groups working on issues that disproportionately impact 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), Canarsie (CD 18)
- Priority Populations: Black, indigenous, and people of color; women, parents/caregivers, youth, older adults; immigrants; low income individuals and families; people who are unhoused and housing insecure; people who are formerly or currently incarcerated; people who are LGBTQIAGNC+, and people with disabilities and or mental health challenges.
Funding Information
The Wellness and Recovery Fund grants will provide general operating support, multi-year funding of up to $70,000, per year for 3 years, to groups using one or more of the following approaches:
- Dignity-centered direct services designed to prevent and treat substance misuse/abuse and addiction, including increased access to treatment, reducing/eliminating barriers to high-quality compassionate treatment and therapeutic services for people living with addiction or substance misuse/abuse as well as for their families and communities. Approaches should include culturally affirming supportive services and benefits to address social determinants of health, including but not limited to: housing, mental health, employment, childcare, and legal support.
- Expansion and innovation of harm reduction programs and services including but not limited to procurement of supplies, community education, supportive programming, and expanding supportive environments sites including mobile sites.
- Multi layered systems change efforts focused agency policies and service delivery protocols, via policy advocacy, community organizing, coalition building, and/or dignity-centered narrative shifting work. These efforts must explicitly center the leadership of survivors, people in recovery, and individuals living with substance misuse/abuse, and addiction. Must demonstrate clear goals for eliminating barriers to access treatment and supportive services, decriminalization, and the end of punitive approaches to addressing addiction and substance misuse/abuse.
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;
- Serve, benefit, or work directly in community with Brooklyn residents
- Have a minimum annual budget of $200,000 or submit an application to work in partnership with an organization that does. Grant awards will not exceed 20% of the applying organization’s annual budget.
- Have an office or a regular physical presence in Brooklyn.
For more information, visit https://brooklyncommunityfoundation.org/apply/wellness-and-recovery-fund
