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.

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.

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.

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.

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 and affordable housing.

Works towards housing justice and community empowerment through political organizing, youth engagement, and social services, especially for low-income immigrant communities of color.

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.

Fosters a welcoming space for people experiencing food insecurity by serving hot meals at its location on 4th Avenue, and running pantry and breakfast programs. All CHiPS food services maintain a policy of feeding “anyone who comes to our door,” without asking for any form of identification or “proof of need.” They also created and operate the long-standing Frances Residence, which provides fully furnished studio apartments to single, expectant, and new mothers and their young children.