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February 2020

$50 Million Grantmaking Milestone Announced at Annual Spark Breakfast
February 27, 2020
Liane Stegmaier
Chief of Staff (She/Her/Hers)

We celebrated the milestone as we honored the five newest winners of our $100,000 Spark Prize and ALLINBKLYN founder Eliza Winans Rossman, along with over 300 guests at BAM Lepercq Space.

Dignity, Discipline, and Dress Codes at School: Brooklyn Youth Make the Case for Equity
February 26, 2020
Mars Ikeda
Communications Intern

Invest in Youth grantee Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) are taking on a source of major injustice they face every day in their own schools. GGE’s new policy brief “Suspending Self Expression” examines the link between school dress codes in NYC public schools and school pushout—and the disproportionate impact it has on Black and Latinx young women and gender non-conforming/non-binary (GNC/NB) youth.

Brooklyn Elders Fund Awards $400K for Critical Issues Facing Older Adults
February 13, 2020
Sabrina Hargrave
Director of Programs (She/Her/Ella)

We are pleased to announce $405,000 in grants from our Brooklyn Elders Fund for community-based organizations taking on complex, critical issues of racial and social injustice confronting older adults in Brooklyn.

Unpack the History of the Census at Brooklyn Historical Society
February 11, 2020
Mars Ikeda
Communications Intern

It happens once every 10 years, and it’s just a month away!

The Census is the largest non-wartime activity that America takes on, and so many things in our day-to-day life are determined by the data it collects—from how well-funded our local schools and public transportation system are, to how many representatives a state sends to Congress.