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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: COVID-19, Community Health, Minority Communities, Health Outreach, Brooklyn
Deadline: Mar. 26, 2021
“The Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund’s Community Health Outreach and Support grants will provide single-year funding of up to $10,000 to approximately 25 groups working in the following 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.
- 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.”
Funder: Brooklyn Community Foundation
Eligibility: “To be eligible to apply, an organization must: (1) Be incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization or be working under the auspices of an authorized fiscal sponsor; (2) 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. (3) Have an office or a regular physical presence in Brooklyn.”
Amount: Up to $10,000
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