Love Your Block Grant

Want to beautify your block and make your neighborhood shine? Apply for a Love Your Block grant!
DEADLINE:
November 12
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Love Your Block Grant

Neighborhood Grant

The 2020 Neighborhood Grant application is now available! Get up to $3,000 for your community-building project.
DEADLINE:
January 20
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Neighborhood Grant

Public School Green Team Grants

Get up to $1,000 to to start or expand an environmental project in your public school!
DEADLINE:
November 08
Public School Green Team Grant
Public School Green Teams

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In 2018, your support helped us award $2.1 million in grants and support to 523 projects in 130 neighborhoods.
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Our mission is to help New Yorkers—especially those in low-income areas—come together and improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods. 

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Youth & Schools

Together We Can

Jackson Heights

Together We Can Community Resource Center is creating a youth group that fosters civic engagement and community bonding amongst local kids.

Arts & Culture

Black TV and Film Collective

Crown Heights

Black TV and Film Collective is empowering people to share their stories while examining ways that the current media environment values some stories over others.

Beautification

Friends of North Pacific Playground and Garden

Boerum Hill

Friends of North Pacific Playground is transforming its local playground and surrounding block into a greener public space through a series of hands-on community events.

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In 2018, Citizens Committee...

Awarded $2.1 million in grants and support. 

Worked in every borough & in 130 different neighborhoods.

Mobilized more than 10,460 NYC residents.

Supported 523 grassroots projects.

491 generous donors and partners made this possible.

Community Map

What's happening on your block? Take a Citizens Committee tour through New York City using our Community Map. Zoom in on your neighborhood to find out what's happening in your community.

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