Won $25K Community Safety, Hate Crime Prevention & Survivor Support Grant

The award provides $25,000 to strengthen APNA Community Services’ community safety infrastructure through multilingual hate crime prevention education, reporting assistance, bias incident documentation, and survivor-centered support services. The investment will expand culturally responsive outreach, confidential reporting navigation, and coordinated referrals for underserved South Asian, Muslim, Arab, immigrant, and limited-English-proficient communities across Brooklyn and Queens, while strengthening community trust, improving access to victim services, and establishing sustainable systems for hate crime prevention and response.