Brooklyn Org is proud to fund impactful work across our communities
Provides cultural, linguistic, and trauma-informed social services to immigrant and refugee families through adult education, youth enrichment, legal support, mental health counseling, and support enrolling in benefits and navigating critical services.
Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign to meet the moment, with a focus on protecting families.
Brings artists, organizers, and policymakers together through workshops, learning exchanges, convenings, and partnerships that use arts and culture as tools for civic engagement and social justice.
Provides transitional housing, legal and mental health referrals, leadership training, and political education for Black LGBTQ+ immigrants while organizing advocacy campaigns for immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights.
Supports veterans with housing assistance, financial coaching, food access, and help navigating complex government benefits, ensuring Black veterans and veteran families of all backgrounds across Brooklyn receive comprehensive and dignified care.
Anchors Brooklyn’s arts and media community through exhibitions, performances, community storytelling initiatives, media education, community television, civic programs, and Celebrate Brooklyn!, one of the city’s longest-running free outdoor performing arts festivals.
Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign, with matching grant funding to strengthen Brooklyn’s arts and cultural organizations.
Works collaboratively as a coalition of Brooklyn arts and cultural leaders to strengthen the borough’s creative ecosystem through shared advocacy, fundraising, strategic planning, and collective support for Black-led cultural institutions.
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.