Non-Profit & Community

Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts and partner schools launched a free swim program teaching Brooklyn scholars water safety, leadership and potential aquatics careers.

Brooklyn Org and United Way of New York City launch a multi-year energy equity initiative with National Grid Foundation to address affordability and workforce access in Brooklyn and Queens.

The state is awarding $1 million for Weeksville to preserve Black heritage and expand community programs.

Community Board 1 recommends approval of Monitor Point, a three-tower waterfront development in Greenpoint, with conditions on affordability, transit and parks.

The David Prize, an initiative of The Walentas Family Foundation, awarded $5,000 to five New Yorkers who are making a difference in their communities. One Brooklynite is spreading love in Flatbush through basketball.

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.