Who We Back

This grant is part of the Neighborhood Collective Impact Project, which provides funding to address concerns raised during Brooklyn Org’s annual Listening Tours.

Nonprofit Partners: BlackSpace, Youth Design Center, Divine Explosion Arts Program (D.E.A.P.)

Blackspace and their partners are putting on ROOTED, a seven-week paid fellowship where youth explore the relationship between urban planning, food justice, and community design. Youth will work with a community garden and use storytelling, visual design, and environmental mapping to understand how land use policies and disinvestment shape food access—and to propose community-based design responses. Through ROOTED, youth will gain awareness of food insecurity and urban agriculture, and help seed the future of food access in Brooklyn; they will share the findings of their projects at two community events this year.

Celebrates the heritage of Midwood Street by planting roses and barrel planters that beautify the block, deepen neighborhood pride, and honor the area’s rich architectural and cultural history.

This grant was made in partnership with CitizensNYC.

Connects Red Hook youth and families to pathways for stability through workforce development, community building programs, afterschool activities, and benefits case management that helps neighbors access resources and plan for the future.

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

Produces an intergenerational documentary film as part of a broader effort to reduce loneliness and connect neighbors through storytelling, public screenings, and community workshops.

This grant was made in partnership with CitizensNYC.

Promotes community-led sustainability, resiliency, and climate justice through community organizing, education, leadership development, and cultural and artistic expression in Sunset Park.

Combines education, the arts, and a social justice lens to preserve, document, and inspire local community engagement with the cultural center and historical site of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America.

Provides immigrant women with holistic support and case management services, from safety planning to secure emergency housing and medical assistance, to ESL, Know Your Rights, financial literacy and  job training courses, and connection to vital resources for women without access to other social service agencies.

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.