Through this initiative we support a limited number of innovative, community-based projects that build the capacity of vulnerable individuals, communities and organizations in New York City. We understand that in addition to safe housing, strong schools, quality health services, and economic opportunity, vulnerable individuals and families need access to creative and innovative programs that inspire and support them in their efforts to improve their own lives and communities. To that end, we embrace program models that empower and engage individuals and families in community-based solutions.
We are currently engaged in a number of long term projects and are no longer accepting unsolicited proposals for this initiative, choosing instead to focus our resources on existing projects.
We are currently engaged in a number of long term projects and are no longer accepting unsolicited proposals for this initiative, choosing instead to focus our resources on existing projects.
Featured Community Funding Project
Red Hook Health Initiative
A one-year grant to support Red Hook Health Initiative's launch of REACH: Reproductive Education, Accessibility and Choices for Health. The REACH program will provide reproductive health education outreach and workshops within schools and community centers, provide one-on-one counseling to ...Our Community Funding Projects
Youth Engagement
freeDimensional: Center for International Art & Community
The Fledgling Fund provided a one-year grant to support the growth of freeDimensional, an emerging organization in the Bedford-Stuyvesant ...
International Center of Photography (ICP)
The Fledgling Fund’s support helped underwrite two important Community Programs of the International Center of Photography reaching youth from...
Bronx Lebanon Hospital
This project included a planning phase for the Claremont Village Women and Families Health Initiative. The goal was to work with residents and other...
Peer Health Exchange
One year grant to support Peer Health Exchange’s expansion in New York City. PHE works with high schools that lack health education and in which...
The Reciprocity Foundation
One year capacity building grant to strengthen Reciprocity Foundation’s social enterprise, Appreciate Design, which supports its core programs for ...
Early Stages: Power Writing Program
This grant supports Early Stages’ Power Writing Program which seeks to “foster literate, ethical and critically conscious young men and women...Cross Cultural Understanding
freeDimensional: Center for International Art & Community
The Fledgling Fund provided a one-year grant to support the growth of freeDimensional, an emerging organization in the Bedford-Stuyvesant ...Healthy and Sustainable Communities
freeDimensional: Center for International Art & Community
The Fledgling Fund provided a one-year grant to support the growth of freeDimensional, an emerging organization in the Bedford-Stuyvesant ...
Enterprise Community Partners
The two year grant supports a Rose Architectural Fellow at Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, an affordable housing provider. The Fellow will work ...
Bronx Lebanon Hospital
This project included a planning phase for the Claremont Village Women and Families Health Initiative. The goal was to work with residents and other...
Make the Road by Walking
Three year grant to launch a healthy homes initiative in Bushwick that focuses on educating the community about asthma, asthma triggers, and linking ...
Peer Health Exchange
One year grant to support Peer Health Exchange’s expansion in New York City. PHE works with high schools that lack health education and in which...
Planned Parenthood of New York City
One year grant to support and expand PPNYC’s Immigrant Outreach program, which reaches out to recent immigrants in their native languages and with ...
Community Healthcare Network
A one-year grant to expand the Building Community During Pregnancy model to two additional community health clinics. Rather than traditional...
Hispanic Federation
A three-year grant to the Hispanic Federation, which will lead four of its member agencies, Inwood House, The Dominican's Women's Development...
Red Hook Health Initiative
A one-year grant to support Red Hook Health Initiative's launch of REACH: Reproductive Education, Accessibility and Choices for Health. The REACH ...
Harlem Children's Zone
A two-year grant beginning in 2006 to support Harlem Children's Zone Obesity Initiative, which will address the high prevalence of obesity and...
Brooklyn AIDS Task Force: Brooklyn Linkage to Care Coalition
The purpose this grant is support a fledgling collaborative project among Brooklyn organizations that are focused on HIV/AIDS. The project is...
Bailey House: C.O.P.E. Program
This one year grant supports the implementation of the COPE program which will train women of color living with HIV/AIDS to be peer educators. Once...
Latino Commission on AIDS
This grant supports the implementation of Latinas Por La Salud, an intensive HIV prevention program for women conducted in conjunction with Latino ...
Turning Point: L.U.C.H.A.
To provide support for the launch of the L.U.C.H.A. project, a joint project of Brooklyn Outreach Workers HIV/AIDS Prevention Network and Turning...Girls' Empowerment and Education
International Center of Photography (ICP)
The Fledgling Fund’s support helped underwrite two important Community Programs of the International Center of Photography reaching youth from...
Bronx Lebanon Hospital
This project included a planning phase for the Claremont Village Women and Families Health Initiative. The goal was to work with residents and other...
Hispanic Federation
A three-year grant to the Hispanic Federation, which will lead four of its member agencies, Inwood House, The Dominican's Women's Development...
Red Hook Health Initiative
A one-year grant to support Red Hook Health Initiative's launch of REACH: Reproductive Education, Accessibility and Choices for Health. The REACH ...
G.E.M.S.
This grant provides operating support to Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS), an organization whose mission is to empower young women, ...Immigration
Planned Parenthood of New York City
One year grant to support and expand PPNYC’s Immigrant Outreach program, which reaches out to recent immigrants in their native languages and with ...Women's Health
Planned Parenthood of New York City
One year grant to support and expand PPNYC’s Immigrant Outreach program, which reaches out to recent immigrants in their native languages and with ...
Community Healthcare Network
A one-year grant to expand the Building Community During Pregnancy model to two additional community health clinics. Rather than traditional...Social Enterprise
The Reciprocity Foundation
One year capacity building grant to strengthen Reciprocity Foundation’s social enterprise, Appreciate Design, which supports its core programs for ...HIV/AIDS
Latino Commission on AIDS
This grant supports the implementation of Latinas Por La Salud, an intensive HIV prevention program for women conducted in conjunction with Latino ...
Turning Point: L.U.C.H.A.
To provide support for the launch of the L.U.C.H.A. project, a joint project of Brooklyn Outreach Workers HIV/AIDS Prevention Network and Turning...
Bailey House: C.O.P.E. Program
This one year grant supports the implementation of the COPE program which will train women of color living with HIV/AIDS to be peer educators. Once...