Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund

The Bed-Stuy Create and Connect Fund seeds the creative ideas and civic actions of artists, cultural practitioners, community builders, organizers, and makers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. We will provide $1,000 grants towards each funded project, for a total of 10 to 11 projects. We are looking for creative initiatives and projects that are rooted in community, foster connections, and ignite conversations and/or collaborations. In other words, we support community building amongst neighbors.

We encourage you to apply if you have a new creative project or an ongoing/long-term initiative that positively impacts and engages a group, audience, or community in Bed-Stuy. We are particularly interested in projects that nurture creativity and uplifts collective recovery, and/or community wellness. Proposals can be for ideas that are virtual, in-person (with appropriate COVID-19 safety precautions in place), or some combination of both. There will be two application cycles of the Create and Connect Fund this year: the first cycle opens April 19, 2021 and the second cycle will open August 25, 2021.

View guidelines HERE.

The Laundromat Project (The LP) is a Black-rooted and People of Color-centered, New York City arts organization dedicated to advancing artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities. In 2020, we marked our 15th anniversary with a new home at 1476 Fulton Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.