The Wyckoff House & Association, Inc

To support innovative educational and farm-based programs that build cultural and agricultural connections within the community through the teaching of Brooklyn’s rich history as a leader in urban farming, with an emphasis on: community, the immigrant experience, supporting family, and understanding the health benefits of sustainable food.

Youth Advocacy Corps

To support YAC’s core youth advocacy programs: the Youth Advocacy Summer Institute and Mental Health Awareness Project.

Youth Justice Network

To support the establishment of a Youth ReEntry Network hub office in Downtown Brooklyn to provide educational, social service, and workforce development supports for young people transitioning out of incarceration. Youth Justice Network was formerly known as “Friends of Island Academy.”

UPROSE

For community organizing, public education, and leadership programs for youth that advance environmental sustainability and resiliency.

United Community Centers

To support the operation and management of one of the city’s largest youth-led farms as well as a sexual health-focused peer education program.

Theatre of the Oppressed NYC

To engage court-involved youth as actors and playwrights in a comprehensive theatre-for-social justice program that uses real life stories of the youth actors.

STEM From Dance

To support a cohesive learning experience in which dance is used to introduce girls of color to computer science.

Red Hook Initiative

To support an initiative that promotes social and economic justice in Red Hook while cultivating local leadership and strengthening the future of youth development through academic support, leadership training, part-time employment, college guidance, emotional health support, opportunities, and services that prepare youths for a self-sufficient, civically-active adulthood.

Recess

To support a youth-led alternative to incarceration program that uses contemporary art to give voices to young people. Using visual storytelling, youth cohorts dismantle the narrative of the “criminal” in their community, creating long term solutions to catalyze generational wealth within their communities.

New York State Youth Leadership Council

To support undocumented immigrant youth organizing around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work.

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