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Brooklyn Arts Council

Invests in Brooklyn’s artists and small arts organizations through grants, arts education, professional development, and cultural programs that help creative communities across the borough grow.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.

  • Total Awarded $10,000
  • Award Years 2026–2026

Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)

Supports dance, theater, and multidisciplinary artists through youth arts education, artist residencies, space grants, performances, affordable rehearsal space in Park Slope and Fort Greene, and collaborative programs rooted in artistic experimentation and social justice.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.

  • Total Awarded $10,000
  • Award Years 2026–2026

Brooklyn Ballet

Expands access to ballet by creating opportunities for Brooklynites of all backgrounds to study, perform, and engage with dance through contemporary repertory, professional performances, and dance education programs that bring ballet into Brooklyn schools, studios, and community spaces.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.

  • Total Awarded $10,000
  • Award Years 2026–2026

Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival

Showcases Caribbean writers and storytelling traditions through public literary events, workshops, literary prizes, and a podcast archive to amplify Caribbean voices across Brooklyn and the diaspora.

  • Total Awarded $7,500
  • Award Years 2026–2027

Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Serves hundreds of thousands of children and caregivers annually through hands-on exhibits and programs that bring together artmaking, play, science exploration, music, cultural collections, and immersive exhibitions at the world’s first children’s museum, founded in Brooklyn in 1899.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.

  • Total Awarded $10,000
  • Award Years 2026–2026

Brooklyn Debate League

Expands access to speech and debate for NYC public school students by building school-based teams, offering training, tournaments, and summer programs, and preparing young people from underrepresented communities to compete and shape conversations on public issues.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2026–2029

The Circle Keepers

Prepares young people to run restorative justice circles that address school conflicts before they escalate, teaching peer facilitation, mediation, and accountability; and builds youth voice to advocate for citywide education policies.

  • Total Awarded $75,000
  • Award Years 2025–2028

Como un lugar

Organizes poetry festivals, multilingual poetry workshops, and open-access publishing projects that connect Latin American poets and immigrant artists across Brooklyn and the Global South.

  • Total Awarded $5,000
  • Award Years 2026–2027
Cool Culture

Cool Culture

Provides thousands of low-income families passes for unlimited free access to dozens of cultural institutions citywide—museums, history and science centers, zoos, and more—and hosts neighborhood “Culture Clubs,” where families can experience and create art, connecting with educators and artists.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2025–2028

Flex Dance Program

Helps young people impacted by the justice system build self-esteem, cooperation, and communication skills through FlexN street dance, using movement as a tool for self-expression and an alternative to conflict.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.

  • Total Awarded $55,000
  • Award Years 2022–2026

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