Who We Back

Provides formerly incarcerated young people with four-month paid learning and skills-building fellowships that equip them with the tools to succeed in the food service industry and become leaders in their community.

Equalizes the academic and professional playing field for low-income high school students by providing them with access to free technology and internet access, mentorship, and a digital skills curriculum.

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.

Builds Black people’s capacity to become developers of their communities through collective ownership of their artistic production, neighborhood real estate and land, businesses, and cultural institutions.

Supports young people who are at risk or living with HIV/AIDS by providing a unique health and mental health program to remove the barriers that often prevent youth from accessing health care.

Creates opportunities for all community members, especially those in low-income communities, to participate in dance programming that bridges differences and advocates for the importance of the arts.

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

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.