Brooklyn Org is proud to fund impactful work across our communities
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.