NYF Debuts c4 Capacity Grants

NYF Unlocks New Resources for Building Community Power:

501c4 Grantmaking & Strategic Opportunities

Dear NYF Community,

We're so excited to finally share a new area of grantmaking for the foundation—supporting the work of our grantees' 501c4s. Our October 2021 addendum to Streets to Statehouse lifted up the ways organizing groups are building grassroots electoral power, and outlined strategies to support the growing sophistication of organizing and civic participation work—including the rise in groups starting affiliated 501c4 organizations that are having an impact despite limited philanthropic support. In 2022, the New York Foundation is providing our first-ever dedicated capacity-building grants for the nonpartisan 501c4 civic engagement work affiliated with several current 501c3 grantees.

Would you like to learn how to bring c4 funding to your own foundation?

Join us & Philanthropy New York on October 20th from 2:00-3:30pm

501c4 Capacity Building Grantees

These two-year grants are to the affiliated 501c4 organizations of four current “anchor grantees” to support their capacity- building and infrastructure development for the non-partisan elements of their work. Specifically, capacity-building grants to the four organizations will cover costs for legal support, communications infrastructure, and strategic planning.

VOCAL-NY Power

The VOCAL-NY Action Fund was created in order to provide a grassroots and independent voice for some of the most marginalized communities in New York through educational and electoral activity, including legislative advocacy, voter education, and community organizing to promote VOCAL-NY’s mission.

CAAAV Voice

CAAAV Voice is a cross-class, multi-ethnic formation that is contesting for working-class governing power in the city we all call home.

Community Voices Heard Power!

Community Voices Heard Power! is a multiracial member-led organization that builds power through grassroots political organizing. They work to change systems and shape policies to ensure racial, social, and economic justice for all New Yorkers.

Strategic Opportunity Fund

For the past few years, based on the recommendations from our 2019 Streets to Statehouse report with the North Star Fund, we have supported coalitions and campaigns that address local issues through coordinated efforts at the city and state level. Funding organizing work that leads to victories is just as important as support for the advocacy to ensure the effective implementation of organizing wins. Below are our 2022 Strategic Opportunities Fund grants supporting key coalition, campaign, and implementation work.

Drug Policy Alliance

The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and VOCAL-NY are developing a multiyear campaign to reform state and local policies in New York to eliminate criminal penalties for drug use and possession and scale up health and harm reduction services for those who need and want them.

drugpolicy.org

The People's Plan

The People’s Plan NYC offers the priorities of hundreds of organizers and advocates through a comprehensive, multi-issue roadmap around housing, anti-criminalization, education, economy, climate, transit, and health.

peoplesplan.org

Right to a Roof

Right to a Roof is a coalition campaign led by Make the Road NY and the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development to mobilize a citywide network of community-based organizations to create a comprehensive housing blueprint for New York City, to lift up its framework, and to advocate for its implementation by a new mayoral administration and City Council.

www.righttoaroof.org

Housing Justice for All

Housing Justice for All's goals in 2022 include winning Good Cause Eviction statewide, ensuring that tenants of unregulated housing are protected from eviction and have the right to renewal of their leases. This work is more urgent now that New York’s eviction moratorium has expired and funding for Emergency Rental Assistance has been exhausted.

housingjusticeforall.org

Fund for Excluded Workers

The Fund Excluded Workers coalition continues its work to to replenish relief funds for workers who have lost income during the pandemic, to fight to close loopholes so workers have access the support they need when they lose their jobs, and to secure a permanent alternative to unemployment insurance for excluded workers.

fundexcludedworkers.org

Invest in Our New York

Invest in Our New York focuses on policy and fiscal outcomes at the state level away from austerity and toward enactment of a state budget that begins to transform New York’s tax system, and provide billions of dollars in investment to meet the needs of New Yorkers, especially in the Black and brown communities hit hardest by the pandemic, the economic crisis, and the long-term impacts of systemic racism.

investinourny.org

New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement

New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement is working to ensure that the provisions of the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Act are implemented in a timely and proper manner.

nycaic.org

New York Foundation funds community organizing and grassroots advocacy led by and for people who live in New York City.

We prioritize emerging organizations who center racial, economic, gender, disability, and climate justice, led by Black people, Indigenous people, LGBTQIA+ people, women, and people of color.