2010 Grant Recipients

CAMBA, Inc.: Park Slope Women’s Shelter Garden Project. Funds will be used to purchase rain barrels and accessories, contributing to the ongoing garden beautification project at the armory shelter.

P.S. 124 K PTA: Performing Arts. PS 124, which is more than 100 years old, was built without an auditorium. Our grant will help students mount a production in the nearby Gallery Players performance space, providing them with an important educational opportunity.

Park Slope Christian Help, INC.: CHIPS Pantry Program. Among CHIPS’ many other services, its pantry provides 150 bags of groceries to individuals and families each Friday. Our grant will help fill those bags.

P.S. 321 PTA: School Garden. The school plans a 300 square-foot garden plot in a sunny spot along 1st Street. Our grant will help support the garden’s construction and ongoing maintenance.

P.S. 372-The Children’s School PTA: African Drum Making. Our grant will help fund lessons in African drums and drum making with Ibrahima Diokhane, a local drum maker. Students will showcase their skills at a performance for their fellow students and parents. The school will also purchase drums for future use.

BAX (Brooklyn Arts Exchange): Internship Program to Provide Free Festivals for Young Artists. BAX sponsors programs bringing together artists, students and community members to create and perform new works. Two of its offerings, YOUTHWORKS and the Teen Arts Conference, have grown to the point where administrative support is required. To that end, our grant will fund two, six-month internship positions for college-age students.

Good Shepherd Services Family Reception Center: Teen Girl’s Workshop. Dr. Patti Feuereisen, Brooklyn-based co-author of Invisible Girls: The Truth about Sexual Abuse, is working with the center to establish a support group for sexually abused girls. Our grant will help train staff so that Dr. Feuereisen’s work can have a greater impact within the program and on local residents.

GallopNYC: Dance Project. Our grant will help fund an event kicking off a partnership between GallopNYC, a therapeutic riding program, and the Equus Projects, a dance program. The event will introduce local children to Gallop and Equus, offer riding and dance experiences and serve as a recruitment tool for after-school programs.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music: “NYC in Short” Concert Series. Our grant will underwrite a pilot performance of a concert series offering 15 to 30-minute operas addressing issues of contemporary life in New York City, such as homelessness, education and poverty. The pilot concert will be a way to gauge audience interest in the format and topics.

Green-Wood Historic Fund: Coney Island and Beyond. The fund and Park Slope’s Puppeteer’s Cooperative are planning an event celebrating the halcyon days of Coney Island. Our grant will help create a 30-minute video of the event to be used as an educational tool about Coney Island’s history and its ongoing role in our borough.

P.S. 39 PTA: “Story Pirates.” Our grant will help the school and the Striking Viking Story Pirates offer writing workshops to 3rd, 4th and 5th graders, and to mount a school-wide assembly performance. The Striking Viking Story Pirates adapt and perform stories written by kids to celebrate the words and ideas of young people, to promote literacy as a vital part of early childhood education and to preserve the spark of youthful creativity often lost in the transition to adulthood

Chickpeas Childcare Center: Children’s Garden. Our grant will help the cooperatively run preschool, established in 1981, build raised-bed gardens around the school on 7th Avenue in the South Slope. The gardens will provide opportunities to learn about botany, healthy eating, cycles of life, math fundamentals and interpersonal relationships. Some of the beds will be on the street side, providing a welcome sidewalk amenity.

P.S. 10 PTA: Auditorium Sound Project. Our fund will help the school purchase three microphones for use in the school auditorium.

Chocolate Chip Chamber Music: Education-Day Program and Guide. The group introduces young children to live ensemble music in a way that is both enjoyable and playful. Funds will be used to create teachers’ guides to help teachers extend the concert experience into their classrooms.

BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn: Honoraria for Story-tellers, Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert. The concert has become an annual tradition and the centerpiece of Celebrate Brooklyn’s family programming. Our grant will help fund honoraria for the celebrity storytellers who read from the works of Ezra Jack Keats before the concert begins.

This year’s Grants Committee was chaired by Greg Sutton and included Nathaniel Allman, Alexa Halsall, Nelly Isaacson, Robert Levine, Eric McClure, Lauri Schindler and Gilly Youner.