BrooklynCommunityFoundation

Dedicated to improving the lives of people in Brooklyn by strengthening communities through local giving, grantmaking and community service. Learn more about the Brooklyn Community Foundation.

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For Brooklynites—the 2.5 million residents of what would be the United States’ fourth largest city, stretching across an 71.5 square mile checkerboard of distinctive and diverse...
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Doing Good: Weekly Updates from the Brooklyn Community Foundation

February 3, 2012
Arts for All Fund
Boroughwide

Two years ago, the New York Transit Museum—the city’s institute for all things public transportation, in Downtown Brooklyn—came to us with an exciting new idea: an afterschool program using the museum’s collection to teach social skills to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) youth.

30% of Brooklyn third graders cannot read at grade level