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Brooklyn Nonprofits Get a Windfall
Crain's New York Business - June 28, 2010
By Miriam Kreinin Souccar

A new organization serving nonprofits in the borough announces its first round of grants on Monday.

Brooklyn Community Foundation, a new philanthropy focused solely on Brooklyn, will announce Monday its first round of grants totaling $2.5 million.

The grants are being made to more than 170 nonprofits throughout the borough to fund initiatives in five fields of interest: arts for all, caring neighbors, community development, education and youth achievement, and green communities.

The foundation doled out a number of grants--including $75,000 to charter schools for after school programs, literacy intervention, and the creation of school libraries; $75,000 to nonprofits like Green Guerillas to create community gardens and improve access to healthy food; and $60,000 to a number of groups that train youngsters and teens in music and art.

"We seek out Brooklyn's most effective nonprofit leaders who understand, innovate and address a range of local issues," said Marilyn Gelber, president of the Brooklyn Community Foundation. "These grants to more than 170 nonprofits demonstrate that smaller grants, strategically made and carefully nurtured, can--and do--have big, positive outcomes now and in the future." For the full article, click here