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Google and Co’s. to spread the wealth, give out micrograntsNovember 23, 2018 | Filed under: News,Community | Posted by: The Villager

At the launch of the West Side Community Fund, from left, Google’s Carley Graham Garcia,Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, state Senator Brad Hoylman, Assemblymember Richard Gottfried,

Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Borough President Gale Brewer and Peter Kostmayer, C.E.O. of CitizensCommittee for New York City. Photo by Winnie McCroy

BY WINNIE McCROY | Local politicians recently gathered with private-sector donors from 19companies to launch a new West Side Community Fund. The fund will provide microgrants of from$2,500 to $5,000 for local projects benefiting youth, seniors, homeless, the disabled, food pantries,L.G.B.T.Q. initiatives, community gardens, farmers markets and arts/culture programs.

The deadline for the first round of these biannual grants is Dec. 3.

Among the donors funding the grants are Google, Jamestown and Related/Oxford Hudson Yards.

“I’m proud to have this committed partnership to solve problems and invest in block associationsand community efforts,” said City Council Speaker Corey Johnson from the lectern at The Church ofHoly Apostles. “There couldn’t be a better place than the busiest soup kitchen on the East Coast toannounce this. I am so proud to be here in the place, where compassion happens every single day.”

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Also speaking at the Oct. 30 event, Reverend Dr. Anna Pearson said she was honored to have herChelsea church chosen as the site this fund would be announced.

“With all the fear and hostility clamoring in our brains,” she said, “it is all the more important to useour resources to provide a climate where we celebrate our beautiful diversity, and come together toshare a common commitment to supporting individuals and organizations insistent on saving livesand providing their tireless, life-giving energy, which enables us to do the work of love and servingothers.”

Other companies involved in the funding effort include BlackRock, Boies Schiller Flexner, TheBoston Counseling Group, Coach Foundation, Cooley LLP, Engineers Gate, IAC, KKR, Pfizer Inc,RXR, SAP, Silver Lake, Taconic Investment Partners, Third Point LLC, Warner Media LLC and WellsFargo.

Each company contributed $25,000 to establish the fund, which will have an initial budget of$475,000. The group Citizens Committee for New York City and its C.E.O., Peter H. Kostmayer, willprovide administrative and staff support for the fund.

“Since 1975, we have been funding small-scale neighborhood-improvement projects in this city’sunderserved neighborhoods,” Kostmayer said. “We’re delighted to have been asked by the fund tosupport this effort, and we look forward to partnering with the fund and its founding funders toimprove services to the Chelsea/Hudson Yards community.”

Organizer Carley Graham Garcia, Google New York’s head of external affairs, said they had been“thinking about doing something like this after a community member vocalized that it needed to bedone. So it has been in the works for a while.”

The fund will be governed by an elected advisory board including Johnson, Congressmember JerroldNadler, state Senator Brad Hoylman, Assemblymember Richard Gottfried and Manhattan BoroughPresident Gale Brewer.

“It’s great to see the efforts by all in helping the community in this innovative way, givingmicrogrants to do their work in many different ways,” Nadler said. “I congratulate Google andHudson Yards for taking the initiative and coming up with this. It can do an immense about of good,and can really help put forward the good face of corporations and developers.”

Brewer echoed that sentiment, thanking “the companies, not just for what you are doing today, butfor being good neighbors since you moved in.

“Google was the only company to ever offer free Wi-Fi to buildings in this area, including NYCHA,”Brewer said, referring to New York City Housing Authority public housing. “You have beensuccessful in supporting local communities, and working with them on so many other projects. Youhave always been fair, as advertised, and transparent, and we want to thank you for making thispossible. It’s important because in NYCHA housing, the income of individuals is low compared tothat of the neighborhood, and sometimes they feel the neighborhood doesn’t want them. But thisneighborhood loves them, and this fund sends that message loud and clear. You will get more bangfor the buck than you could ever imagine.”

The fund launched its inaugural request for applications on Halloween, reaching out to more than400 community leaders to solicit proposals for funding. The grants come in three levels: micrograntsof up to $2,500 to fund smaller innovation projects carried out by neighborhood groups, includingblock and tenants’ associations, civic groups and schools/teachers; midlevel grants of up to $5,000to fund new initiatives with a greater reach, including collaborations among several organizations;and large grants of more than $5,000 to fund large-scale programs, new initiatives, expandinginnovative projects or collaborations.

The fund operators will focus on providing expanded or improved services to residents of Chelseaand Hudson Yards, especially those dealing with youth (including early childhood initiatives,afterschool programs, recreation, workforce, healthcare, arts and culture and safety projects) andunderserved populations (seniors, homeless, disabled, special-needs and L.G.B.T.Q.).

The service area runs from 14th to 38th Sts. between Seventh and 12th Aves., and eligible applicantsinclude neighborhood organizations, nonprofits, city agencies, schools and teachers, health clinics,NYCHA developments, police community programs, and homeless services.

Grants cannot support religious or partisan activities, nor programs that promote any form ofdiscrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin or disability.

“Between Google, Chelsea Market, the High Line and the Whitney, the West Side has anembarrassment of riches,” Hoylman said. “So it’s great that these businesses have decided to givesomething back. As you succeed, our neighborhoods will, too.”

The current deadline to submit applications is Dec. 3. For more information, visitwww.citizensnyc.org/grants/wscf .

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