Brooklyn Community Foundation goes hyper-local | Crain's New York Business: "After six months of borough-wide discussions with residents and local leaders, The Brooklyn Community Foundation on Thursday announced a new plan to refocus and refine its grant-making activity in Brooklyn.
The five-year-old foundation with a $60 million endowment will launch a few initiatives in 2015. The largest one—Invest in Youth—will focus on making grants to organizations that increase opportunities for young people through programs targeting juvenile justice, immigrant families and leadership and development. The Focus on Neighborhood initiative will work with local leaders to decide what a community needs to strengthen itself. The Foundation will create an awards program to recognize excellence at local organizations. And it will start an accelerator program to connect nonprofits with donors and help startups.
Currently, the foundation makes grants to a wide variety"
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