Non-Profit & Community

For one morning in Brooklyn, the road to the South ran straight through a music stand at the third annual NYC HBCU Band Audition Fair in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The Tompkins Avenue Merchants Association announces new leadership for 2026 following nearly a decade of growth under founding president Tiecha Merritt in Bed-Stuy.

The nonprofit launches the Sunset Park West Child and Family Center, adding 96 child care seats and new jobs while addressing a major local child care shortage.

Medgar Evers College President Dr. Patricia Ramsey was elected as commissioner of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, with a term running through 2030.

The Girl Scouts of Greater New York donated more than 30,000 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies to New Yorkers facing food insecurity.

United for Brownsville is a nonprofit that trains parents on how to advocate for their children amid the often lengthly and confusing early intervention process.

The Brooklyn Diocese has paid over 500 victim-survivors more than $100 million since 2017. There are about 1,100 cases remaining to be resolved.

Our Lady of Trust Catholic Academy in Canarsie was one of the seven schools the Diocese of Brooklyn decided to close at the end of the 2026 academic year.

Thomas, who passed away on Jan. 31, is remembered as a Bedford–Stuyvesant mainstay and community organizer whose life intersected with New York’s defining political era for Black, female New Yorkers.

The free exhibition invites visitors to explore the Battle of Brooklyn and reflect on democracy, history and civic life.