Who We Back

Supports families and children affected by crisis, illness, or loss through legal support for custody and eviction, HIV/AIDS prevention services, and mental health services.

Helps Flatbush and East Flatbush families weather rising costs by offering emergency food assistance, benefits and case management support, tenant organizing through the Flatbush Tenant Coalition, and small business help that strengthens local stability.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign to meet the moment, with a focus on protecting families.

Builds local leadership in Canarsie through political education, engaging youth and older adults, and partnerships that push for community-led solutions to gun violence, underfunded services, and environmental harm to improve quality of life in the neighborhood.

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.

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.

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.