Who We Back

Fosters inclusive spaces where children of all ages with special needs explore creative arts while equipping parents with training, advocacy tools, and community support.

Combats income-based housing discrimination with tenant-led tech tools, direct advocacy, and data analysis that hold landlords accountable and promote the rights of low-income voucher holders.

Provides free civil legal services and a citywide pro bono network, helping low-income older adults in Brooklyn plan for their medical and financial futures and navigate systems that often exclude them.

Trains young adults for careers in welding and advanced manufacturing through a paid, hands-on apprenticeship inside a professional fabrication shop.

Supported through our Brooklyn Energy Initiative, a partnership with the National Grid Foundation, focused on expanding pathways into energy careers.

Organizes low-wage and immigrant workers across industries including construction, cleaning, food and app delivery services, tobacco processing, and more to advocate for fair wages and safe working conditions through education, leadership development, grassroots outreach, and legislative advocacy that builds a strong labor movement.

Uses fashion, sewing, and entrepreneurship workshops to help youth from underserved communities build confidence and explore careers in fashion, media and design.

Provides advocacy, mentorship, and wraparound support for young people impacted by the carceral system, working in detention facilities and communities to provide reentry support, court advocacy, a youth law library, family coaching, and a mobile outreach bus that brings resources directly to neighborhoods.

Builds pathways for young people to actively shape democracy through peer-led, issue-driven civic engagement led by students and educators. Founded in Brooklyn in 2017, YVote works in high schools across the borough to equip the next generation of civic leaders with real-world organizing and leadership experience through voter registration drives, participatory budgeting campaigns, and school-based civic clubs.