Who We Back

Engages youth in productive and safe alternatives to interpersonal violence and helps them cultivate their own potential through school, community, and hospital-based interventions.

Organizes low-wage immigrant workers in food service, laundry, and warehouse jobs to fight wage theft, unsafe housing, and workplace exploitation.

Supports a diverse member base of nonprofits that serve older adults through advocacy, direct services such as benefits coaching and tax prep, and capacity-building to promote affordable housing and equitable aging state-wide.

Equips Brooklyn residents with policy and community education programs, leadership training, and financial services to tackle housing, economic, and environmental injustices across Flatbush, East New York, Brownsville, and beyond.

Provides parenting programs and resources that help caregivers tap into their inherent potential to parent sensitively and nurture their children’s developing brains during the first 1,000 days of life, striving to reverse intergenerational trauma and adverse childhood experiences.

Supports NYC’s growing population of older and disabled adults who have no family or friends to care for them, by advocating for more state resources to train guardians, providing holistic benefits and case management services, and developing legal models that preserve independence for older adults without the need for full guardianship.

Provides pro-bono translation services for displaced people  to support them building a strong legal case for asylum, bridging gaps between social services agencies and refugees while creating employment opportunities by also hiring refugees as interpreters.

Conducts grassroots labor organizing to support the rights of street vendors—NYC’s smallest small businesses—using public education, business and leadership development, legislative advocacy, and direct legal support to expand vending as a viable, lawful employment option for immigrants and other entrepreneurs

Helps narrow the digital divide by addressing a major hurdle to computer hardware ownership: its cost. TechFIN collects used PC-based laptops and desktop computers, in bulk, from corporations, refurbishes these devices, and partners with other nonprofits to distribute the equipment to low-income families at no cost to them. They have provided thousands of refurbished computers to low-income households across New York City, equipping them with the tools needed to succeed in today’s digital age.

Equips New York City public school students with the tools to organize their communities and amplify their voices in order to reimagine an equitable, anti-racist future for themselves and their communities.