Non-Profit & Community

In Brooklyn, seventh- and eighth-grader will have an opportunity to participate in a four-part afterschool program on financial literacy.

With the support of the Institute for Career Development, the High School for Youth and Community Development at Erasmus Hall is now helping youth with disabilities transition from school to career.

Melodee Pouponneau, a former student at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, will receive $10,000 for her college education from Halle Bailey.

Building captains — self-appointed volunteer facilitators of tenant organizing — are essential to the growth of the tenant movement in Brooklyn, advocates say.

Some elderly and handicapped residents say the city’s failure to make sure all streets are safe for the elderly and disabled is ageism and ableism.

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Oct. 9 with several events in the borough.

The Center for Fair Futures is celebrating its fifth anniversary and expanding its reach.

Some local business owners say the Tompkins Avenue Open Streets Program has negatively impacted their businesses.

The harvest celebration commemorates Services for the UnderServed's work to build and sustain urban farms and address food insecurity.

For Banned Books Week, the library has launched a podcast, as well as a webpage for teens to share past experiences with censorship.