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Home » Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Wellness and Recovery Fund – New York

Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Wellness and Recovery Fund – New York

Brooklyn Community Foundation established the Wellness and Recovery Fund (formerly referred to as the Substance Abuse and Harm Reduction Fund) to support organizations working to ensure that those who navigate the difficult road of substance abuse and addiction do so with reliable support that honors their agency and dignity.

Donor Name: Brooklyn Community Foundation

State: New York

Borough: Brooklyn

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 12/31/2021

Size of the Grant: $70,000

Grant Duration: 3 years

Details:

The Fund’s community advisory council will determine $2.2 million in grants for community-led responses to substance abuse treatment, substance misuse, addiction, harm reduction services, and systems change efforts that directly impact the lives of people in recovery and people living with addiction. In addition, Brooklyn Community Foundation will provide a range of capacity building services, informed by organizational community partners, which may include workshops and coaching focused on fundraising, financial management, and strategic planning.

The Wellness and Recovery Fund is deeply rooted in values of racial equity and centers racial justice lens, which prioritizes support for nonprofits that are led by members of affected communities, and centers the voices of those directly impacted by structural racism in decision-making.

Priority Considerations

Use a racial justice lens in their work. Organizations consider inequities based on race and their impact in designing programs, looking for solutions and defining success; In reviewing proposals, they will give preference to organizations that:

  • Center the voices and leadership of community members. Organizations craft solutions to problems and work in authentic partnership with community members to actively engage those most impacted in directing their own lives and shaping their own communities, and building the capacity of emerging leaders in their organizations;
  • Acknowledge intersecting oppressions. Organizations understand how multiple oppressions impact one another and the lives of the people with whom they work;
  • Work on the frontlines of issues. Organizations that are grassroots, doing work on the ground and at the community level.

Funding Information

The Wellness and Recovery Fund grants will provide general operating support, multi-year funding of up to $70,000, per year for 3 years, to groups using one or more of the following approaches:

  • Dignity-centered direct services designed to prevent and treat substance misuse/abuse and addiction, including increased access to treatment, reducing/eliminating barriers to high-quality compassionate treatment and therapeutic services for people living with addiction or substance misuse/abuse as well as for their families and communities. Approaches should include culturally affirming supportive services and benefits to address social determinants of health, including but not limited to: housing, mental health, employment, childcare, and legal support.
  • Expansion and innovation of harm reduction programs and services including but not limited to procurement of supplies, community education, supportive programming, and expanding supportive environments sites including mobile sites.
  • Multi layered systems change efforts focused agency policies and service delivery protocols, via policy advocacy, community organizing, coalition building, and/or dignity-centered narrative shifting work. These efforts must explicitly center the leadership of survivors, people in recovery, and individuals living with substance misuse/abuse, and addiction. Must demonstrate clear goals for eliminating barriers to access treatment and supportive services, decriminalization, and the end of punitive approaches to addressing addiction and substance misuse/abuse.

This funding is available to support the groups working on issues that disproportionately impact the following communities:

  • Priority Community Districts: Bedford Stuyvesant (CD 3), Bushwick (CD 4), East New York (CD 5), Sunset Park (CD 7), Crown Heights North (CD 8), Crown Heights South (CD 9), Coney Island (CD 13), Brownsville (CD 16), Flatbush (CD 14), East Flatbush (CD 17), Canarsie (CD 18)
  • Priority Populations: Black, indigenous, and people of color; women, parents/caregivers, youth, older adults; immigrants; low income individuals and families; people who are unhoused and housing insecure; people who are formerly or currently incarcerated; people who are LGBTQIAGNC+, and people with disabilities and or mental health challenges.

Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible to apply, an organization must:

  • Be incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization or be working under the auspices of an authorized fiscal sponsor;
  • Serve, benefit, or work directly in community with Brooklyn residents
  • Have a minimum annual budget of $200,000 or submit an application to work in partnership with an organization that does. Grant awards will not exceed 20% of the applying organization’s annual budget.
  • Have an office or a regular physical presence in Brooklyn.

For more information, visit Brooklyn Community Foundation.

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