Who We Back

Encourages young women and girls to explore careers in STEM fields by utilizing STEM processes and technology to create dance routines and other arts performances.

Prepares students to achieve their financial, investment, and entrepreneurial aspirations through financial literacy education, career exportation, and mentorship programming.

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.

Equips New York City public school students with the tools to organize their communities and amplify their voices in order to reimagine an equitable, anti-racist future for themselves and their communities.

Provides students and community members with academic support, family support, and vocational readiness to help them overcome social, emotional, and academic challenges and encourage them to become leaders.

Organizes student-led policy change and advocacy to end the school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately affects Black and Latinx students and to remove police from New York City schools.

Builds power among low-income people affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness through community organizing, leadership development, policy advocacy, direct services, and research.

Combines education, the arts, and a social justice lens to preserve, document, and inspire local community engagement with the Weeksville historical site and cultural center.

Gives low-wage immigrant workers the tools to be advocates in their workplaces and build strong and economically sustainable communities through education, organizing, leadership development, and grassroots alternatives.

Offers educational and farm-based programs in New York’s oldest building and surrounding park to connect with the community through history and agriculture, with an emphasis on immigration, family, and food.