Who We Back

This grant is part of the Neighborhood Collective Impact Project, which provides funding to address concerns raised during Brooklyn Org’s annual Listening Tours.

Nonprofit Partners: Brooklyn Level Up and Wyckoff House & Association

Studies found that soil in East Flatbush has the 3rd highest level of lead contamination in NYC, potentially jeopardizing the health of homeowners and community gardeners growing and sharing produce; while asthma-related hospitalization rates in East Flatbush are higher compared to Brooklyn and NYC overall. Cultivate Green will conduct soil testing, air monitoring and remediation, host community workshops to raise awareness of health risks, sustainability, and preliminary remediation tactics.

This grant is part of the Neighborhood Collective Impact Project, which provides funding to address concerns raised during Brooklyn Org’s annual Listening Tours.

Nonprofit Partners: Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY, Inc., The Singing Winds, Casa Cultural, Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts, Arts & Democracy and ArtBuilt

The Kensington Cultural Council will coordinate a series of multilingual public cultural events including family arts workshops, sewing circles, dance and ESL classes, storytelling, concerts, and forums reflecting the traditional cultures of immigrant families. To address a lack of community space, the group will carry out a planning process for a neighborhood cultural hub that includes office and studio space for local artists and cultural organizations; a large conference room for public workshops, meetings and forums; and storage for shared equipment.

Offers opportunities for healing and mentorship for young women who have experienced trauma as a direct result of the criminal justice system, aging out of foster care, and facing homelessness.

Partners with artists, youth, writers, and their chosen communities to collaborate on art projects that use abolitionist decision-making frameworks in order to cultivate joy and promote community safety.

Nurtures young people in Red Hook with youth development, community building, and job placement so that they can positively shape their futures and their communities.

Works to end mass incarceration and promote social justice by championing a grassroots campaign that proposes legislation for the release of aging people in prison and those serving long sentences.

Provides Black women with a land-based healing program, farm programs, crisis intervention and mental health services, reproductive health services, and retreats in upstate New York.

Strengthens and equips young women and gender-expansive youth of color as agents for change in their lives and in the world through leadership and mentorship programs and scholarships.

Provides free immigration legal services, including direct legal assistance and trainings, to refugee and immigrant children in the New York City area who face deportation back to life-threatening situations.

Provides justice-involved adults with community-based residential and outpatient programs that utilize a therapeutic community model to help them prepare to re-enter their communities and lead healthy, positive lifestyles.