Who We Back

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

Provides civic and economic opportunities to low-to-moderate income residents of Central Brooklyn through workforce development initiatives, homeownership services, and financial literacy workshops.

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 transitional and permanent housing and holistic services to domestic violence survivors, unhoused older adults, veterans, justice-involved individuals, and low-income adults.

Advances lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer liberation by celebrating, commemorating, and convening LGBTQ+ Brooklyn through socially conscious and culturally responsive programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

Invests in Brooklyn’s Black communities by creating quality job opportunities, expanding health and housing access, improving the quality of schools and education, and putting an end to policing and incarceration through public policy and holding leaders accountable.

Increases access to healthy food, nutritional education, and career and personal development opportunities, and provides free, culinary vocational training to Brownsville residents through its culinary training program. The Center’s multi-week culinary workshops provide neighborhood youth with the opportunity to learn culinary skills alongside industry professionals. And it provides a safe, comfortable space where neighbors can access fresh, healthy, affordable, culturally relevant foods.

Provides grassroots housing advocacy to defend low-income residents from displacement and promote equitable development in Bushwick, a rapidly gentrifying community.

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.