Who We Back

Provides high-quality pro-bono housing, family and end-of-life legal services, community legal workshops, and pro-bono training for attorneys and legal interns.

Provides cultural, linguistic, and trauma-informed social services to immigrants and refugees including adult education, youth enrichment, mental health counseling, and social service enrollment.

Improves the well-being of the pan-Asian American community – especially older adults, small business owners, and immigrants – through research, policy advocacy, public awareness, and capacity-building for nonprofits.

Develops action-focused research and policy advocacy that centers the experience of BIPOC communities to help shape public discourse around public education, the environment, immigration, and economics.

Combats social isolation and loneliness by giving older adults recycled flower arrangements and fosters community dialogue through weekly floral wellness workshops for children and businesses.

Strengthens communities by developing and sustaining supportive and affordable housing and provides formerly unhoused New Yorkers with supportive and transitional housing.

Provides access to and ownership of books, builds community, and creates a passion for learning in Brooklyn, aiming to increase the number of 100+ book homes for kids 0-18 in NYC. Bringing neighbors together through free events and literacy-based community programming, they partner with volunteers who bring books to places where they live, work, and play. Brooklyn Book Bodega collaborates with local educators, city officials, and community-based organizations to ensure that literacy is layered into social and family services.

Provides personal care, home health, and housekeeping services through a care management approach to older adults and residents with disabilities in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Delivers and promotes comprehensive care and support services for individuals and families affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, and advances research to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease.

Builds domestic worker and nanny coalitions in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens to advocate for fair wages and labor rights, providing trainings and certifications and strengthening worker protections with community-led solutions.