SoHarlem
SoHarlem is a place-based social enterprise that connects people living in poverty with cultural industry opportunities that help them achieve economic self-sufficiency. To do this, they incubate creative entrepreneurs, and train the workforce needed to sustain them.
- Year
- 2026
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will support The Dream Connection For Young Entrepreneurs, which was piloted last year and is now a program of SoHarlem’s Creative Economy Training Institute, a SoHarlem’s workforce development initiative.
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2025
- Purpose
- The CCS grant supported The Dream Connection For Young Entrepreneurs, a new pilot in the Creative Economy Training Institute, SoHarlem’s workforce development program.
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2024
- Purpose
- This year's grant supported the Creative Entrepreneurs Project, which promotes and markets the programs to community members in need of services, as well as educate the collective on how to develop marketing strategies.
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2023
- Purpose
- The CCS grant was used to strengthen retail components and increase the viability of the micro-enterprises that have developed around the creative output of many of the program’s designers.
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2022
- Purpose
- This year's renewed CCS grant helped to underwrite a range of marketing and communications initiatives planned for the second half of 2022.
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2021
- Purpose
- The grant supported the Designers' Studio Fellowship, assisting artists who lack the resources, with space, connections, exposure and help them gain the skills needed to develop their first line the fashion industry.
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2020
- Purpose
- The CCS grant supported the hiring of a professional consultant group, Soigné Events, LLC that focuses primarily on arts-related fundraising events in New York City, and other major metropolitan areas, to assist with board development.
- Amount
- $4,400
- Year
- 2019
- Purpose
- The CCS granted enabled SoHarlem, Inc. to implement a marketing plan that highlighted the sustainable, communal, and network commerce offered through its Designers' Studio. With CSS support, SoHarlem hired two consultants to help implement their marketing plan, contracted with Cause Inspired to help direct and strengthen their website traffic, and purchased ads to promote their program and services.
- Amount
- $5,000