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Center for Family Life in Sunset Park

Serves as a trusted Sunset Park hub for culturally responsive services by pairing counseling and cultural programming with employment support, benefits access, emergency food services, and school-based youth and family programming for immigrant communities.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign to meet the moment, with a focus on protecting families.

  • Total Awarded $40,000
  • Award Years 2026–2026

The Circle Keepers

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.

  • Total Awarded $75,000
  • Award Years 2025–2028

Como un lugar

Organizes poetry festivals, multilingual poetry workshops, and open-access publishing projects that connect Latin American poets and immigrant artists across Brooklyn and the Global South.

  • Total Awarded $5,000
  • Award Years 2026–2027

Coney Island Lighthouse Mission

Provides a vital safety net in Coney Island by delivering reliable food pantry services for thousands of families each month, while also offering benefits navigation and afterschool support for children in a community with limited nearby services.

Supported through our Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn campaign to meet the moment, with a focus on protecting families.

  • Total Awarded $40,000
  • Award Years 2026–2026
Cool Culture

Cool Culture

Provides thousands of low-income families passes for unlimited free access to dozens of cultural institutions citywide—museums, history and science centers, zoos, and more—and hosts neighborhood “Culture Clubs,” where families can experience and create art, connecting with educators and artists.

  • Total Awarded $135,000
  • Award Years 2025–2028

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