Who We Back

Provides high-quality pro-bono housing, family and end-of-life legal services, community legal workshops, and pro-bono training for attorneys and legal interns.

Supports healthy aging and addresses isolation among older adults in Central Brooklyn, including a large community of Black elders, with cultural and social outings, scam-prevention and health education workshops, advocating for safe public transit options, and physical fitness activities like dance and yoga.

Supports low-income families and new parents to transition to parenthood through education workshops, a two-year in-house job training program, and basic parenting resources.

Improves the well-being of the pan-Asian American community – especially older adults, small business owners, and immigrants – through research, policy advocacy, public awareness, and capacity-building for nonprofits.

Provides programming for young Black men in Brownsville and Bed-Stuy through mentorship, rites of passage, summer camps, and fatherhood programs, supporting their social-emotional well-being and leadership skills.

Empowers BIPOC transgender individuals through a 17-week Future Entrepreneurs Empowerment Program offering business training, legal aid, mentorship, and wellness resources at Brooklyn Community Pride Center.

This grant was made in partnership with CitizensNYC.

Develops action-focused research and policy advocacy that centers the experience of BIPOC communities to help shape public discourse around public education, the environment, immigration, and economics.

Advances Black trans art and culture by building community and providing workshops, networking opportunities, and space to make art, led entirely by and for Black trans femme artists.

Provides access to and ownership of books, builds community, and creates a passion for learning in Brooklyn, aiming to increase the number of 100+ book homes for kids 0-18 in NYC. Bringing neighbors together through free events and literacy-based community programming, they partner with volunteers who bring books to places where they live, work, and play. Brooklyn Book Bodega collaborates with local educators, city officials, and community-based organizations to ensure that literacy is layered into social and family services.

Advances lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer liberation by celebrating, commemorating, and convening LGBTQ+ Brooklyn through socially conscious and culturally responsive programs, partnerships, and advocacy.