Non-Profit & Community

The Brooklyn Children’s Museum will host a family-friendly Holi festival featuring Bollywood dance, color powder play, Indian food, cultural workshops and interactive storytelling on April 25.

Brooklyn Org will host its annual Brooklyn Org Volunteer Day on April 25, connecting residents with outstanding local nonprofits hosting family-friendly volunteer opportunities throughout the day.

Brooklyn Unscripted is a monthly series where Brooklynites unpack the serious — and not so serious — issues shaping the borough and beyond. This month we shine the spotlight on Yaroslav Ponomarov, a Brooklynite from Brighton Beach who is currently fighting in the Russo-Ukranian war.

The innovation lab in Crown Heights offers NYCHA residents tools for education, job training and digital literacy.

The second annual Concrete Crankfest, hosted by Big Apple Leadership Academy for the Arts, exposes young Black Brooklynites to HBCU music and culture.

The April 23 conference at Medgar Evers College will bring together leaders in government, law and tech to examine AI’s impact on veterans services, justice and human rights.

Residents who showed up at a sub-committee meeting at Community Board 10 voiced their displeasure over a planned 292-unit building at 9305 5th Avenue.

Visitors to the iconic cemetery have a new place to begin their exploration. The $43 million welcome center opens to the public on Saturday, with a slew of weekend events.

About two dozen employees of Mercy Home For Children, a facility for disabled New Yorkers, say they need a living wage increase and have been working without a contract for 18 months.

"We Are Brooklyn: Immigrant Voices" is a multimedia exhibition that is a living archive where student voices illuminate identity, migration and belonging. After traveling around the city for seven years, the exhibit made its way back to Brooklyn College.