Fiscal Year 2023 NY-07 Community Projects
- Woodhull Support Services Enhancement: This $2,000,000 project will address the great need to continue and enhance high quality patient care services in the North Brooklyn community. The funding will support the NYC Public Healthcare System at Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center. The funding will assist in reducing/eliminating healthcare disparities in the North Brooklyn community. Moreover, these funds will help renovate spaces in the hospital that are over 30 years old and assist compliance with current regulatory standards.
- Expansion of Gastroenterological Procedures Space to Increase Access to Colorectal Cancer Screenings: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the United States. One of the Healthy People 2030 goals is reducing the death rates from colorectal cancer from 13.2 to 8.9 per 100,000 population, and one strategy is to improve access to early screenings. Colorectal cancer (CRC)screening via stool testing or colonoscopy is recommended for all adults 45 years of age and older. Screening can help find cancer early. Wyckoff Hospital’s goal is to reach 90% screening rates for all eligible patients utilizing a combined FIT test and colonoscopy approach. This $2,000,000 million dollar project, would help increase access to vital preventive screening tools for residents in their own community. More importantly, it will decrease the time to colonoscopies from months to days and double the hospital’s monthly volume of patients served from 250 to 500, thus ensuring improved and timely patient access to this preventive procedure
- Brooklyn and Manhattan Social Service Initiative.: This $ 1,200,000 request will help fund a program that will connect low-income families to wraparound social service support, including benefits assistance, healthcare assistance, housing assistance, mental health counseling, meaningful work and internship opportunities for youth, and community engagement, arts, and recreation activities. The program will also provide opportunities and pathways for self-sufficiency thus addressing the root causes of poverty. These services provided will promote healthy development and greater wellbeing of families and children.
- Youth education and Stewardship Initiative: The Youth Education and Stewardship Initiative will provide dynamic, impactful programs focused on under-served youth development and empowerment through ecological study and restoration, arts and cultural programing and interactive STEM activities. The stresses on our young people -- particularly among youth from underserved neighborhoods and after the past two years of COVID-19 -- are substantial. With $1,025,000 in funding, the Youth Education and Stewardship Initiative is designed to foster greater connections among young people, teach real world skills, and instill confidence and leadership.
- Immigrant Mental Health Initiative: this grant would combine the efforts of several nonprofits under one umbrella to provide. NYC’s immigrant and refugee communities with culturally and linguistically competent, trauma informed mental health counseling and community education. Together, these organizations have the capacity to provide mental health services and outreach in the top languages spoken by immigrants in NYC: Spanish, Chinese – including Cantonese and Mandarin, Bengali, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Dari. This is a $1,800,453 request.
- Adult Literacy Services for Immigrant New Yorkers: Through this $800,000 project two vital immigrant serving organizations, each with decades of experience, will provide adult literacy instruction, and social support, to the communities they serve in Brooklyn and Queens. The project will bolster and build capacity for adult literacy programs, and wrap-around service provision
- St. Francis College Nursing Simulation Lab: An upgraded nursing simulation lab will allow SFC to continue to offer nursing students high quality training that transfers to healthcare careers. Additionally, it will allow them to expand partnerships with healthcare institutions, such as The Brooklyn Hospital Center, to provide professional development as well as partner with 6-12 schools to expose students to careers in nursing and healthcare. The grant would provide $1,500,000 for the Lab upgrade.
- Ecolibrium: Environmental Justice & Literacy through Community Science: The Ecolibrium project promotes and fosters climate workforce development & entrepreneurship from within our own community to meet the urgent demands for building retrofits and infrastructure upgrades. Under the proposed $300,000 grant, The Ecolibrium project also aims to address rising energy costs that disproportionately put a burden on households who are unable or unaware of available energy efficiency programs that lower their bills while also reducing emissions that contribute to pollution and adverse health conditions.
- North Brooklyn Anti-Violence Initiative: A coalition of local organizations has created this initiative which aims to provide activities addressing the underlying conditions that foster violence through a $1,000,000. The coalition is seeking a strategic resource to expand the Wick model, establish positive options for children, youth and families facing increased violence, create employment, training and education opportunities while simultaneously addressing the threat of eviction from housing while enabling those vulnerable to violence to secure housing
- Grand Street Settlement 80 Pitt St. Community Center Renovation: A $1,100,000 grant will allow for capital appropriation of the Center and to complete the project budget and result in an updated, modern, safe, and secure facility and expanded programs benefiting the people of the Lower East Side. These capital improvements will directly benefit the physical and mental health, safety, education, and economic opportunity of the 3,977 annual program participants enrolled in programs in this building, and the 10,000+ constituents served by Grand Street’s network of programs in NY-07.
- Public Housing Leadership Academy: The Public Housing Leadership Academy is an innovative training series specifically for Public Housing Resident Association leaders to create a pipeline for leadership roles, empowering emerging leaders in Lower East Side public housing. Building up the leadership of Public Housing residents is essential to protect public housing communities and public housing itself–truly the last frontier for affordable housing in NYC and nationwide. This is a $300,000 grant project.
- FAC Affordable Solar: FAC’s Affordable Solar program will connect low- and moderate-income New Yorkers to solar through a $3,063,397 grant. This includes: a collaborative pilot project that helps homeowners access solar by providing incentives, information, resources and tools to enable them to install solar on their homes or access community shared solar if their homes are not solar ready. It also includes on-the-job solar installation training for residents with barriers to employment and solar installation on FAC’s non-profit affordable housing buildings that are home to over 800 low- and moderate-income residents.
- NYCHA ADA Accessibility and Security Lighting Project: The NYCHA ADA and lighting project will improve accessibility and security for residents of public housing and the public. Funds will improve the quality of life for target populations under CDBG: public housing residents, a sizable portion of whom are elderly and aging in place. This project will benefit our most vulnerable, those with mobility and visual impairments, to safely navigate public housing campuses to access services through a $ 3,500,000 funding request.
- Acquisition of a building in the Bushwick, Brooklyn neighborhood to create the Brooklyn Center for Social Justice, Entrepreneurship, and the Arts (BCSEA): Under a $6,200,000 grant, the Center for Law and Human Values (DBA The Action Lab) will receive support for the acquisition of a building in Bushwick, Brooklyn to create The Brooklyn Center for Social Justice, Entrepreneurship, and the Arts (BCSEA). Bushwick has a rich, homegrown tradition of visual and performing arts, cultural celebrations, and community events that are meaningful symbols of belonging and self-determination for generations of residents.
- Resilient Recovery: Brooklyn’s Industrial Waterfront: A $750,000 grant will allow to hire a full-time staff member at two community-based organizations (SBIDC and Evergreen) as well as cover costs of business education workshops and seminars. Collectively, SBIDC and Evergreen provide services to six neighborhoods along the Brooklyn waterfront from Sunset Park north to Williamsburg. The new staff will provide capacity to their respective organizations as they help launch educational programs for MWBEs, provide technical assistance, and help businesses hire from within six low-moderate income neighborhoods in Brooklyn: Sunset Park, Gowanus, Red Hook, Greenpoint, Bushwick and East Williamsburg.
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