In July 2018, Change Capital Fund’s awarded grants to four organizations, which are strengthening neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island. With deep community ties and core competencies in housing, services and community organizing, these organizations are well-positioned to change the outcomes for individuals and families otherwise stuck in poverty. Their strategies integrate services that focus on people as well as place to transform high-poverty neighborhoods into communities of opportunity. CCF funding and technical assistance will build each organization’s capacity, with a focus on performance management.

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Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association

Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, Inc. works closely with local residents to revitalize the Longwood, Hunts Point, Mott Haven and Morrisania neighborhoods of the South Bronx, contributing to their stability, cohesion and economic vibrancy.

 

Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation

will continue to partner with Bridge Street Development Corporation (BSDC) and IMPACCT Brooklyn to create neighborhood-level economic and community development improvements in two high poverty census tracts in Bedford Stuyvesant, while also expanding these opportunities across Central Brooklyn neighborhoods.

 

Good Old Lower East Side, Inc. (GOLES)

will learn to use data to better connect its direct services, public education, community organizing, community-based participatory research, and coalition building; thereby increasing its impact for the residents of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

 

Make the Road New York

will increase the ability of Staten Island residents, particularly immigrant families, to enforce their legal rights, access educational and work opportunities, and achieve broad-based policy change by increasing internal evaluation and coordination of its services and organizing.