bed-stuy create & connect fund 2025

The Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund is a hyperlocal micro-grant program offered annually and directly managed by The LP. The Fund aims to enrich community life in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, by resourcing the creative ideas of civic actions of artists, cultural practitioners, community organizers, activists, and neighbors.

For the 2025 cycle, we will grant up to 20 project proposals with $1500 each. We are looking for creative initiatives or civic projects that emerge from community needs, foster meaningful connections, and ignite socially conscious conversations. In other words, we aim to support community building amongst neighbors through community-led action.

We encourage both individuals and collectives to apply if you have a new project or an ongoing initiative that positively impacts and engages a Bed-Stuy group, audience, or community. We are particularly interested in proposals that nurture creativity, uplift local legacies, foster community wellness, or inspire collective advocacy.

The Laundromat Project will reserve up to 5 grant awards for proposals that embody or engage our organization-wide theme, Black Quantum Futurism, which interrogates how time, space, and memory can inform our collective liberation.

Proposals that show potential creative and civic impact in Bed-Stuy will be prioritized.