Community Grants

Supporting Our Local Community

Each year the Civic Council awards grants to community groups working to meet the needs of and improve the quality of life for community members in and around Park Slope. Generally, the Civic Council funds grants with funding raised through our annual House Tour. While we were unfortunately unable to have the House Tour due to the pandemic, our trustees were happy to approve a limited number of grants to support the great work of groups in and around the Park Slope community. We encourage community members to support the great work of our local community organizations!

2022 awardees include

A student-led effort at Middle School 88 to create a native plant and pollinator garden on the perimeter of Slope Park Playground at 6th Avenue and 18th Street. This project will convert the neighborhood green space into a field study site for 1,200 students, engage students from neighboring schools, residents and passersby in park stewardship, nature appreciation and hands-on environmental activism, and invite community involvement and ongoing stewardship through successive plantings, clean-ups and celebrations.

Arts Gowanus’s ongoing Gallery Dispersed program, an ongoing neighborhood “gallery” using the walls of local businesses and venues, parks, vacant storefronts, and studio spaces, unified through cohesive identity, themed exhibits, art and civic dialogues, and coordinated openings. Gallery Dispersed offers a platform for creative expression and economic development for diverse populations in Brooklyn.

Camp Friendship to offset some routine costs that are necessary for their do day-to-day work. This will likely include the purchase of bins to protect their food, wagons to help them move thousands of pounds of produce from the sidewalk into our building, and folding tables to help them continue to serve food in a client choice model.

Brooklyn Book Bodega to support their work increasing the number of 100+ book homes for kids 0-18 in New York City. Brooklyn Book Bodega provides access to and ownership of books, builds community, and creates a passion for learning through free events and literacy-based community programming. They hold events all over Brooklyn, give out books to anyone who needs them. The organization has book drop sites in Brooklyn, including at the Old Stone House.

Previous Awardees Include:

2021: Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn Seeds, Gowanus Dredgers

2020: Brooklyn Public Library, CHIPS, Dancewave, Imani House, Once Breath Rising, Opera on Tap, Spellbound Theatre, Spoke the Hub

2019: Brooklyn Youth Music Project, Dancewave, Old Stone House, One Breath Rising, Opera on Tap, Piper Theater, PS 282’s Green Zone Project, Spellbound Theatre, Spoke the Hub

2018: Camp Friendship, GreenSpace on Fourth Community Garden, Heights & Hills, One Breath Rising, Friends of Pacific Library, Piper Theatre, PS 39 Green Committee, T.E.A.L.

For more information please contact the grants committee at grants@parkslopeciviccouncil.org