Project Grant 18588135520

The Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation will implement the "We Are #BrooklynKids" project through a $587,545 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Over two years, the Museum will partner with three community organizations to engage approximately 100 Central Brooklyn families, including 400 children, in exhibit and program planning. In collaboration with guest curators from Central Brooklyn, the Museum will also present...

The Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will support personnel expenses from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. As the stated purpose of the NEA's Promotion of the Arts Grants program is to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts...

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation received a $289,303 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312). The funding will support restoring a staff position to rebuild the organization's community greening outreach programs, which typically impact an estimated 70,000 residents annually. Feedback from past program participants highlighted how the outreach contributes to community resilience amid the COVID-19 pandemic's...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Inc. doing business as Brooklyn Arts Exhange under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The two-year grant will support personnel and facilities expenses from January 2022 through December 2023 to enable Brooklyn Arts Exchange to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals...

The Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation, doing business as the Brooklyn Children's Museum, received a $562,118 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301). The grant supports the museum's partnership with elementary school educators to create new STEM maker space programs for children ages 5-10 that explore biomimicry and the museum's natural science collection. Key activities include establishing an...

The Brooklyn Museum will create intensive arts education curricula for up to 10 underserved schools in Brooklyn, New York during the 2021-2022 academic year under a $231,230 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The museum aims to develop inspiring encounters with art that transform perspectives through its school partnerships, expecting to reach approximately 1,000 K-12 students. Prioritizing Title I schools impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the project will...

The City Parks Foundation received a $150,000 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals federal grant program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will support personnel expenses for Central Parks Summerstage from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of its mission to provide opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts...

The Green-Wood Historic Fund, Inc. received a $535,735 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program. Under the award, Green-Wood will implement new environmental education programming for approximately 2,000 middle school students annually in Brooklyn, New York through August 2024. The programming will expand Green-Wood's existing education offerings and provide hands-on, outdoor opportunities for New York City students to learn...

The Brooklyn Children's Museum was awarded a $287,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to repair and rehabilitate the museum's geothermal wells. The geothermal system, installed in 2008, had fallen into disrepair, causing temperature fluctuations that forced the museum to close at times and threatened the safety of the museum's collection of 30,000 objects. This grant funding will support the...

Brooklyn Alliance Capital Inc. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund on June 15, 2021. The award is part of the CDFI Rapid Response Program and will provide funding through December 31, 2023 to support Brooklyn Alliance Capital's ability to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in its service area. As a Community Development Financial Institution, Brooklyn Alliance Capital utilizes...