Non-Profit & Community

The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is celebrating its 15th annual Kwanzaa celebration with five days of inclusive programming.

New York State of Pine is giving away free trees Friday and Saturday before Christmas, in solidarity with working class families struggling with higher rent and bills.

Author and New York State Poet Laureate Willie Perdomo will be a faculty member at February’s Wild Seeds Retreat for writers of color at Medgar Evers College.

Through the organization’s Invest in Youth grant-making initiative, it has distributed $2.5 million to 56 organizations in 2022.

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy has announced the election of Hilary Jager to the organization’s Board of Directors.

NYC Kids RISE, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Greenwood Initiative, and Brooklyn Community Foundation made a $1.2 M investment in students.

Brooklyn BP Antonio Reynoso, Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Marty Maher, and Carolers from Brooklyn’s Opera on Tap Ring in the Holiday Season and Light Up 30-Foot Tree at Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza

How do America's Black citizens find the energy to fight the same old battles for social justice and civil rights? More importantly, does the fight ever end? 

The festive race raised money to benefit NYRR youth and community programs.

These awesome elementary students from the Pacific School in Boerum Hill volunteered their time with City Harvest to feed Brooklyn families in need.