Who We Back

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.

Operates a community center and hub for grassroots organizing and education with programming that includes healing clinics, colllaborative art projects, concerts and film screenings, political teach-ins, language classes, and food distribution.

Provides civic engagement workshops for women, mentorship programs for justice-involved youth, and public education classes to Muslim Americans and people of all faiths to demonstrate the complexity of and to enhance the Muslim American experience.

Creates and preserves affordable housing through homeownership education, financial assistance, foreclosure/eviction prevention counseling and support, and property management services for residents in underserved neighborhoods including East Flatbush and Canarsie.

Provides Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights community members with a hub where they can seek resolutions for interpersonal conflict and be connected with resources that promote safety, healing, and wellness, with programs that range from anti-gun violence work to youth services.

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 underserved youth of color across 55 New York City schools with high quality theater after-school and extracurricular programming to gain confidence and pride.

Runs a community center that connects residents of the Starrett City and East New York area to career prep, benefits counseling, and wellness services, alongside community meals and food grown on-site in its Learning Garden.

Provides low-income residents and minority groups – especially young people and older adults – with opportunities to engage in arts education and performance arts.

Strengthens family relationships and promotes parent-child bonding through volunteer days, youth leadership programming, adult ESL classes, social service assistance, and a wide range of culturally competent programs.