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Provides parenting programs and resources that help caregivers tap into their inherent potential to parent sensitively and nurture their children’s developing brains during the first 1,000 days of life, striving to reverse intergenerational trauma and adverse childhood experiences.

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 SP & Brownsville 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.

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: Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY, Inc., The Singing Winds, Casa Cultural, Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts, Arts & Democracy and ArtBuilt

The Kensington Cultural Council will coordinate a series of multilingual public cultural events including family arts workshops, sewing circles, dance and ESL classes, storytelling, concerts, and forums reflecting the traditional cultures of immigrant families. To address a lack of community space, the group will carry out a planning process for a neighborhood cultural hub that includes office and studio space for local artists and cultural organizations; a large conference room for public workshops, meetings and forums; and storage for shared equipment.

Provides Black women with a land-based healing program, farm programs, crisis intervention and mental health services, reproductive health services, and retreats in upstate New York.

Centers the South Asian diaspora in a survivor-led movement for gender justice through direct services like housing, food justice, and anti-violence programs, advocacy and organizing, technical assistance, and community outreach.

Mobilizes low- and no-income African immigrant women to improve their quality of life and strengthen their families and communities through direct services like youth education programs, domestic violence crisis intervention, counseling, public education, and advocacy.

Mobilizes community resources to improve the quality of life for underserved Chinese immigrants in South Brooklyn through ESL classes, older adult programming, youth arts education, and immigration classes.

Connects foster youth with permanent families via family finding, parent training, youth trauma therapy, and more to ensure that they have safe and secure support systems that allow them to thrive.