2009 Grant Recipients

Chocolate Chip Chamber Music: 2008-2009 Community Concert Series. CCCM delivers music education programming to young children in our community. The grant will help offset costs of CCCM’s marketing, outreach and online communication efforts.

Park Slope Food Coop in Cooperation with Caribbean Women’s Health Association, Inc.: Brooklyn Food Conference: Local Action For Global Change. This one-day conference, funded in part by this grant, will examine the intersection of social justice, human and environmental health and sustainability.

P.S. 10 PTA: Chess Club: After School Enrichment Program. Due to budget cuts, the school can no longer fund free after-school programs. PSCC funding will help keep the school’s chess club going, with all its educational and social benefits.

Spoke the Hub Dancing, Inc.: New Film Venue and Screening. Our grant will help purchase a digital projector for monthly screenings of independent films at Spoke the Hub’s newly renovated Re:Creation Center at 748 Union Street.

Old Stone House: South Garden. There is a beautiful new dog run in Washington (formerly J.J. Byrne) Park. The Old Stone House plans to turn the old dog run (left) into a beautiful garden and outdoor environmental classroom. Our grant will help facilitate the transition.

The Urban Memory Project with the Secondary School for Research at John Jay (SSR), the Park Slope Civic Council, the Old Stone House and the Brooklyn Historical Society: Preserving Memories of an Evolving Urban Neighborhood. This fall, SSR students interviewed 17 long-term Park Slope residents as part of their Brooklyn History class. Our funding will help pay for the transcription of the interviews.

Good Shepherd Services: Healthy Youth Relationship Options (HYRO). Funding will provide seed money for a curriculum informing young adults about healthy relationships and the prevention of domestic violence. Participants who attend Good Shepherd’s Young Adult Borough Centers in Brooklyn will be trained as peer educators in their communities and schools.

The Green-Wood Historic Fund: Family Day at Green-Wood Cemetery. The Green-Wood Historic Fund, which maintains Green-Wood Cemetery’s historic monuments and buildings, will develop a Family Day Scavenger Hunt with an educational and community theme. The grant will help publicize the event.

Friends of Douglas Greene Park, Inc.: Community Outreach. The grant will help fund the May 2 Family Day in the park. The group is working toward major renovations of the long-neglected public space on 3rd Avenue.

P77K@902: Green Thumb Hydroponics. Students in the school’s Culinary Arts classes will learn how to grow herbs, fruits and vegetables without soil, using a water based system. The grant will help the school develop the project.

Prospect Hill Senior Services Center: Community Story Time. Center seniors will read teacher-selected material to pre-school and elementary-school children. The program will encourage dialog between the generations, and our funding will help purchase books and a cabinet to store them in.

Prospect Park Alliance: Replanting at the Front of the Villa. With help from our grant, the Alliance can plant more shrubs and bulbs in front of Litchfield Villa — a ongoing project that has suffered from budget cuts.

P.S. 39 PTA: Spruce Up Our Old School. The grant will help brighten up the school with window boxes and a vegetable garden, which will be maintained year-round by parent volunteers.

P.S. 107 (John W. Kimball Learning Center): P.S. 107 Edible Garden. Our grant will supplement money raised by the PTA to create a fruit and vegetable garden to provide students with an outdoor laboratory for learning about earth sciences, nutrition, and the environment.

P.S. 321 PTA: Front Entrance Improvement Project, Phase 2. A PSCC grant helped with Phase 1, when benches and landscaping were added to areas along 7th Avenue. Our second grant will help with Phase 2, in which benches and landscape improvements will be added to the areas flanking the main entry stairs.

Reel Works Teen Filmmaking: Reel Works/DOE Screening at Old Stone House. The Reel Works youth media program has created a Department of Education-sponsored DVD of films about Internet safety for distribution to middle and high schools. Our grant will help fund a screening and discussion this spring targeted to teens at Middle School 51 and the high schools at John Jay.

Secondary Schools for Law, Journalism and Research at John Jay: Records Wall. Our grant will help fund an “Athletics Wall of Fame,” which will recognize student-athletes for both athletic and academic excellence. Despite severe budget constraints, the schools fielded teams this year in boys’ and girls’ varsity basketball, boys’ junior varsity basketball and girls’ varsity volleyball.

Puppeteers’ Cooperative/GALLOPCreativity Project: GALLOP is a New York City-based nonprofit corporation which provides therapeutic horseback riding to children and adults with disabilities. They will work with the Puppeteers’ Cooperative to make wearable puppets for GALLOP riders for the 2009 Halloween Parade. The goal is to tap the creative spirit of the Puppeteer’s Cooperative, integrate people with disabilities in the Park Slope Community and ultimately to share the creations with the community in the Halloween Parade.
 
This year’s Grants Committee included Chairperson Greg Sutton, Nathaniel Allman, Alexa Halsall, Nelly Isaacson, Robert Levine, Eric McClure, Lauri Schindler and Gilly Youner.