Brooklyn is home to the two neighborhoods in the city with the highest percentage of residents 65 and older; twenty-five percent of people in Brooklyn live below the poverty line, and the highest infant mortality rates in the city are in Brooklyn. 

The Caring Neighbors Fund assists vulnerable Brooklyn families and individuals with immediate need for a social safety net and seeks to provide access to health and mental health services. Its goals are to:

• Offer paths out of poverty by supporting the work of emergency food providers and human services agencies.
• Provide access to care for unaddressed physical or mental health needs in accessible community settings.
• Ensure that homeless individuals and families can access safe temporary shelter and support services.

Your donation to the Caring Neighbors Fund helps support Brooklyn's neediest.

Recently Funded Caring Neighbors Projects

Guardians of the Sick

Sharing Caring Values

In 1955, a group of Holocaust survivors in Brooklyn established Guardians of the Sick based on classic Jewish communal organizational structure to provide special care and proper burial for other Holocaust survivors who were suffering from debilitating emotional and medical needs.

Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island

A Transformational Difference in Lives of Seniors

The relationship between the Brooklyn Community Foundation and the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island began years ago, before the Community Foundation even had its name.

Neighbors Together

Fighting Hunger Now and in the Future

It’s 1:30 pm, and people sit scattered at tables around the Community Cafe at Neighbors Together, a soup kitchen and community organization in Ocean Hill.