Love Your Block Grant Available!

Want to beautify your block and make your neighborhood shine? Apply before November 12th for $1,000 and services from NYC Agencies!
DEADLINE:
November 12
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Love Your Block Grant

Composting Grant

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DEADLINE:
September 16
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Applications Open for Public School Green Team Grants

Have an idea to start or support a sustainability-minded Green Team in your school? Get up to $1,000 from Citizens Committee, Allied World, and New York's Strongest!
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 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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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.

Upcoming Events

Sep 21 10:00
am

Garden Train's Brooklyn School Gardens Crawl

PS 15 Red Hook, PS 24 Sunset Park, PS 29 Cobble Hill, PS 32 Gowanus,

Sep 22 12:00
pm

Party on Park

What happens when you close a street to cars, and open it up to people?
Sep 28 11:00
am

Neighborhood Leadership Institute Session 1: Basics of Community Organizing
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