Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn
A Campaign to Raise New Resources to Address the Growing Crisis in Our Communities
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Brooklyn Org exists to support our borough’s givers, doers, and dreamers—backing the nonprofits that aid our most vulnerable neighbors. Since January 2025, nonprofits lifelines to our communities have endured significant government funding and staffing cuts, and far more is on the horizon—all told, millions of dollars designated to our communities have been revoked.
Our “Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn” campaign raises funds to bolster local communities and essential local nonprofits during this unprecedented man-made emergency. With our donors, we will stand up for all our neighbors—those who have called our borough home since birth and those have recently arrived—and we will continue to be a defender and backer of the frontline nonprofits.
We are witnessing the dismantling of the federal social safety net, including lifesaving programs—like SNAP, Head Start, housing vouchers, Medicare and Medicaid, and FEMA—that will yield unimaginable hardship to our neighbors. Emergency food providers are being decimated. Organizations working for racial and economic justice have been blacklisted. Neighborhood cultural institutions and parks are being stripped of grants that sustain vital local infrastructure
We will also not stand by as the government continues its inflammatory and dangerous portrayal of compassionate, diverse major cities—and targets our communities through ICE raids, family separations, and disappearing lawful residents—all for simply embodying the very values that make our nation strong.
Brooklyn represents the best of America. It is a place of possibility, compassion, and welcome — where neighbors support neighbors, and equity and justice are not only aspirations, but shared commitments.
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