Non-Profit & Community

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.

In a "Stand Against ICE" march in Sunset Park, hundreds of Brooklyn residents condemned the federal immigration raids that continue across the county.

Brooklyn Children’s Museum names Kaylynn Mayo Director of Education, bringing years of experience in arts and community-focused learning.

Westhab opens an 11-story, 105-unit Fort Greene Family Center, providing transitional housing and services to help Brooklyn families regain stability.

President Emeritus Dr. Thomas F. Schutte, who died on March 26, 2025, was heralded by leaders at the Pratt Institute as a transformative figure that changed the school and the surrounding Clinton Hill neighborhood.