Who We Back

This grant is part of the Neighborhood Collective Impact Project, which provides funding for local nonprofit collaborations addressing concerns raised through Brooklyn Org’s annual Listening Tours and 2025 People’s Pulse survey.

Nonprofit Partners: Magnolia Tree Earth Center and Liminal

Neighborhoods: Bedford Stuyvesant

The Bed-Stuy University is a collaborative project by Magnolia Tree Earth Center and Liminal that envisions a neighborhood-based platform for skill-building, housing stabilization, and cultural preservation. Responding to rising costs and displacement in Bed-Stuy, the project positions the Magnolia Tree Earth Center as the hub for this community-driven “university.” During this incubation phase, the initiative will engage youth and residents in developing foundational skills in spatial design, construction, real estate literacy, and experiential marketing, while building a network of residents, homeowners, and local businesses.

This grant is part of the Neighborhood Collective Impact Project, which provides funding for local nonprofit collaborations addressing concerns raised through Brooklyn Org’s annual Listening Tours and 2025 People’s Pulse survey.

Nonprofit Partners: MJR Love and PFLAG NYC

Neighborhoods: Brooklyn’s Community School District 13, including Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and surrounding communities

The Teach Fabulous! Family Engagement Initiative will support the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ families, caregivers, and young people across District 13. Through workshops, caregiver support circles, and the development of culturally responsive resources, the initiative will help address isolation and strengthen support systems for Black and brown LGBTQ+ families. The project builds on existing work in schools to create safer, more inclusive environments for students and families.

Offers hands-on wellness workshops that support children’s emotional health and academic growth through creative self-care activities like mask-making, herbal hair care, essential oils, mindfulness exercises, and literacy education.

Produces contemporary dance-theater and immersive performances that examine Indian and queer perspectives in the Asian American experience.

Connects low-income residents to careers in HVAC, construction, building operations, and electrical work through credentialed training, paid internships, and direct job placement with industry partners.

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

Fosters a supportive, compassionate alternative for canners — people who collect empty beverage containers to then redeem for five cents each — to access redemption services that create pathways for their financial, social, and environmental empowerment.

Provides therapy, case management, court advocacy, and restorative justice circles as well as everyday needs like groceries, haircuts, and daily-living support in a trusted drop-in space for young men affected by gun violence and incarceration.

Creates pathways to economic independence for women impacted by trauma and incarceration through digital literacy trainings, entrepreneurship programs, and career coaching.

Provides young people with marketable hard skills in STEAM like graphic and web design, and access to post-secondary education in order to achieve economic mobility and engage in community revitalization.