Brooklyn Org is proud to fund impactful work across our communities
Offers hands-on wellness workshops that support children’s emotional health and academic growth through creative self-care activities like mask-making, herbal hair care, essential oils, mindfulness exercises, and literacy education.
Partners with artists, youth, writers, and their chosen communities to collaborate on art projects that use abolitionist decision-making frameworks in order to cultivate joy and promote community safety by combining creative expression with career support wraparound support services.
Connects Red Hook youth, young adults, and families to pathways for stability through workforce development, community building programs, afterschool activities, benefits case management, and leadership development opportunities, including pathways into emerging industries.
Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign to meet the moment, with a focus on protecting families, and through our Brooklyn Energy Initiative, a partnership with the National Grid Foundation, focused on expanding pathways into energy careers.
Supports families across Brownsville through affordable housing development and early childhood programming, using public data and insights from local residents and businesses to improve the overall quality of life in the neighborhood.
Promotes community-led sustainability, resiliency, and climate justice through community organizing, education, leadership development, and cultural and artistic expression in Sunset Park.
Provides therapy, case management, court advocacy, and restorative justice circles as well as everyday needs like groceries, haircuts, and daily-living support in a trusted drop-in space for young men affected by gun violence and incarceration.
Uses fashion, sewing, and entrepreneurship workshops to help youth from underserved communities build confidence and explore careers in fashion, media and design.
Provides young people with marketable hard skills in STEAM like graphic and web design, and access to post-secondary education in order to achieve economic mobility and engage in community revitalization.
Provides advocacy, mentorship, and wraparound support for young people impacted by the carceral system, working in detention facilities and communities to provide reentry support, court advocacy, a youth law library, family coaching, and a mobile outreach bus that brings resources directly to neighborhoods.
Builds pathways for young people to actively shape democracy through peer-led, issue-driven civic engagement led by students and educators. Founded in Brooklyn in 2017, YVote works in high schools across the borough to equip the next generation of civic leaders with real-world organizing and leadership experience through voter registration drives, participatory budgeting campaigns, and school-based civic clubs.