Partnerships for Parks - Congratulations NYC Green Fund Grassroots Grant Awardees

NYC Green Fund Grassroots Grant Program Awardees Announced

We’re excited to announce that we have just awarded $343,900 in grants to 58 community groups across the five boroughs through the NYC Green Fund Grassroots grant program. Part of the NYC Green Fund, a pooled grant program supporting an equitable and resilient network of parks and open spaces to benefit the well-being of all New Yorkers, the NYC Green Fund Grassroots grant program supports community-led initiatives specifically, prioritizing Environmental Justice Areas, majority BIPOC-led community groups, and groups with budgets under $50,000. The program targets communities that are most vulnerable to environmental injustices and advances the viability of grassroots initiatives across parks and open spaces in all five boroughs. Some highlights for the coming season include:

• Liminal in collaboration with the Brownsville Community Justice Center will create “Beyond Memorial,” a youth-led art and healing justice response to gun violence and loss through temporary light installations as an alternative to NYPD light towers in Brooklyn

• La Finca del Sur will lead monthly learning circles in the Bronx facilitated by the South Bronx Farmers around the rewards of growing and eating healthy, organic foods, with a focus on special needs community members and intergenerational knowledge sharing

• Seed Healing Network will host a holistic clinic for community members at and near the NYCHA Queensbridge Houses, providing acudetox and reiki therapy, Narcan supplies, and a multilingual zine and local resource guide highlighting shelters, primary care, food pantries, and affordable holistic services

• Uptown Soccer, Inc. will expand a youth soccer program by hiring new coaching staff and providing material resources to children of newly arrived immigrants in Manhattan 

• Friends of Olmsted Beil House  in Staten Island will create a lecture series to educate community members around Olmsted Beil House, a 324-year-old historic site, to galvanize restoration of the house 

For more information about the awardees, click here. The next round of NYC Green Fund Grassroots grant applications will open in July 2024. For the latest updates, check our site or sign up for our mailing list. 

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