Community Foundation Gives Out $13.9M in Grants to 72 City Nonprofits

New York City’s Community Foundation announced a total $13.9 million in grants this week to 72 nonprofits from across the five boroughs, including a few in Queens.

Programs to receive grants included everything from urban farms in the Rockaways to internships for low-income City University of New York students.

Several Queens institutions received grants this year from the group, which announced the names of the 72 sites to receive funding on Wednesday.

Queens College’s Kupferberg Center was given a $200,000 grant to expand its dance and rehearsal space program from four to eight CUNY schools.

Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program, which is offered at Queens schools, received $90,000 to use teaching artists to improve the reading, social studies and science skills of third, fourth and fifth grade students.

The New York Hall of Science, which is based in Corona, was given $100,000 to help chronically-ill, hospitalized students participate in a science and math-focused distance learning program that includes operating remotely-controlled robots in a laboratory.

Other institutions to receive grants included the Coalition for the Homeless, Fund for Public Health in New York, Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, Seedco, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, Brooklyn Museum, Trust for Public Land and Hunter College.