Who We Back

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.

Stages original theater and youth productions about East New York, centering BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices through performances, festivals, and post-show community conversations.

Produces contemporary dance-theater and immersive performances that examine Indian and queer perspectives in the Asian American experience.

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.