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May Day Space

Operates a community center and hub for grassroots organizing and education with programming that includes healing clinics, colllaborative art projects, concerts and film screenings, political teach-ins, language classes, and food distribution.

  • Total Awarded $90,000
  • Award Years 2024–2026
Project: Beyond Memorial

Project: Beyond Memorial

This grant is part of the Neighborhood Collective Impact Project, which provides funding to address concerns raised during Brooklyn Org’s annual Listening Tours.

Nonprofit Partners: Liminal SPBrownsville Community Justice Center

The Beyond Memorial project aims to reclaim public spaces associated with gun violence and community trauma by incorporating thoughtful solutions such as intentional lighting in place of NYPD light towers that cause sound and light pollution; hosting nighttime activations in under-utilized spaces to deter crime; and incorporating creative-environmental strategies to improve safety conditions at the Rockaway Ave. 3 train station.

  • Total Awarded $25,000
  • Award Years 2024–2025
Project: Cultivate Green

Project: Cultivate Green

This grant is part of the Neighborhood Collective Impact Project, which provides funding to address concerns raised during Brooklyn Org’s annual Listening Tours.

Nonprofit Partners: Brooklyn Level Up and Wyckoff House & Association

Studies found that soil in East Flatbush has the 3rd highest level of lead contamination in NYC, potentially jeopardizing the health of homeowners and community gardeners growing and sharing produce; while asthma-related hospitalization rates in East Flatbush are higher compared to Brooklyn and NYC overall. Cultivate Green will conduct soil testing, air monitoring and remediation, host community workshops to raise awareness of health risks, sustainability, and preliminary remediation tactics.

  • Total Awarded $25,000
  • Award Years 2024–2025
Technology for Families in Need (TechFIN)

Technology for Families in Need (TechFIN)

Helps narrow the digital divide by addressing a major hurdle to computer hardware ownership: its cost. TechFin collects used PC-based laptops and desktop computers, in bulk, from corporations, refurbishes these devices, and partners with other nonprofits to distribute the equipment to low-income families at no cost to them. They have provided thousands of refurbished computers to low-income households across New York City, equipping them with the tools needed to succeed in today’s digital age.

  • Total Awarded $100,000
  • Award Years 2025–2025

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