Who We Back

Stewards Fort Greene Park as a public space where neighbors gather, connect, and enjoy nature through arts, wellness, and environmental programs, youth internships, and community partnerships.

Ensures that NYC youth have a safe place to achieve academic excellence, be community leaders, and maintain healthy lifestyles, and strives to eliminate sex discrimination through community organizing.

Works to leverage technology to address the challenges faced by low-income New Yorkers in the criminal justice system. Born from extensive research and collaboration with communities heavily affected by policing, especially in Brooklyn, Good Call has become a pivotal resource. They have provided access to early legal intervention for more than 10,000 individuals from marginalized communities facing excessive and unnecessary arrests and unfair treatment by the criminal justice system, dramatically impacting the trajectory of their cases and disrupting the cycle of mass incarceration.

Connects unaccompanied immigrant children to legal and social services through a citywide referral network while leading rapid-response advocacy, policy monitoring, and court support that safeguard young people facing deportation.

Engages youth in productive and safe alternatives to interpersonal violence and helps them cultivate their own potential through school, community, and hospital-based interventions.

Offers pathways to culinary careers for neurodivergent teens for through baking programs that blend STEAM learning, problem-solving, and building emotional resilience with mentorship and hands-on job experience.

Provides Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights community members with a hub where they can seek resolutions for interpersonal conflict and be connected with resources that promote safety, healing, and wellness, with programs that range from anti-gun violence work to youth services.

Equips Brooklyn residents with policy and community education programs, leadership training, and financial services to tackle housing, economic, and environmental injustices across Flatbush, East New York, Brownsville, and beyond.

Equips young people to expand access to birth control and reproductive options in Brooklyn and statewide through legislative training, work on college campuses, and paid professional development that prepares them for public service careers.

Runs a community center that connects residents of the Starrett City and East New York area to career prep, benefits counseling, and wellness services, alongside community meals and food grown on-site in its Learning Garden.