Non-Profit & Community

Bed-Stuy's Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation started a new School of the Arts season, featuring expanded dance and drum programs for ages 3–18.

The Haiti Cultural Exchange celebrates a major move across from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and kicks off its 2025–26 season with the return of Mizik Ayiti!, a weekly live music residency.

P.S. 197’s new schoolyard was designed to capture 1.7 million gallons of stormwater each year, easing flooding in the neighborhood.

Homecrest Community Services launched a safety and defense initiative in Bensonhurst, equipping Brooklyn's Asian communities with tools for solidarity.

El Puente's annual festival in South Williamsburg centered on preserving cultural identity and pushing back against federal funding cuts, gentrification and political attacks on immigrant and Latine communities.

The Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation hosted its 9th Annual ART IS ALIVE Festival in Bed-Stuy, featuring dance classes, live music, a vendor marketplace and a lively block party finale.

NeuSpark Person Directed Services  celebrated the grand opening of its new Brooklyn headquarters, honoring Deaf Awareness Month and 50 years of disability rights advocacy.

There's a host of programming at the Brooklyn Public Library for Banned Books Week that occurs on Oct. 6 -11, highlights the value of free and open access to information.

Edwin B. Maxwell, who has worked for the library system for almost 20 years, was once the manager at the New Lots Library. "I’ve seen firsthand how our branches transform lives."

The Downtown Brooklyn art and media group was added to the city's Cultural Institutions Group, which provides art organizations stability with an annual operating subsidy instead of a grant.