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.

Provides cultural, linguistic, and trauma-informed social services to immigrants and refugees including adult education, youth enrichment, mental health counseling, and social service enrollment.

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

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.

Combats social isolation and loneliness by giving older adults recycled flower arrangements and fosters community dialogue through weekly floral wellness workshops for children and businesses.

Strengthens communities by developing and sustaining supportive and affordable housing and provides formerly unhoused New Yorkers with supportive and transitional housing.