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.

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.

Provides youth with arts education and development opportunities by engaging them in mural projects via school-based and studio programs rooted in social justice and community care.

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.

Engages young people in youth leadership councils and campaigns against racist educational practices in order to repair the harms of segregation and achieve authentic integration and equity.

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.