Community Grants

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Chelsea and Hudson Yards Innovation Grant

Apply for rojects involving youth, seniors, and residents in Chelsea or Hudson Yards!
DEADLINE:
December 10
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Chelsea and Hudson Yards Innovation Grant

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In 2017, your support helped us award $1.9 million in grants and support to 487 projects in 192 neighborhoods.
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Oral History Stories Project

Check out our stories project and listen to community leaders share thoughts about their work, their neighborhood, and how to build community.
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Our mission is simple: 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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Arts & Culture

Haitian-American Foundation for Educational and Cultural Exchange

Citywide

H.A.F.E.C.E is organizing a two-day symposium celebrating Creole language and culture through dialogue, exhibition, workshops, and panel discussions around Haiti and the Haitian diaspora.

Youth & Schools

Boogie Down Books

South Bronx
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Mott Haven

Boogie Down Books is hosting a neighborhood pop-up bookstore and the group is distributing free books to children, teenagers, and adults and conducting book club meetings on selected texts.

Arts & Culture

Art and Resistance Through Education

Citywide

A.R.T.E implemented a year-long, educational, and arts-based project in which youth cohort engaged around juvenile justice and the system of mass incarceration through arts-based workshops.

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In 2017, Citizens Committee...

Awarded $1.9 million in grants and support. 

Worked in every borough & in 192 different neighborhoods.

Mobilized more than 4,106 NYC residents.

Supported 450 grassroots projects.

432 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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