LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

One Hundred Black Men of New York
The mission of One Hundred Black Men, Inc. of New York (OHBM) is to play a proactive role in leveraging our collective talent, ability and energy toward achieving meaningful gains for the Black community. One Hundred Black Men initiatives focus on education through mentoring, wealth building strategies, fostering economic development and raising awareness of health issues affecting our communities.

Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (Restoration), the nation’s first Community Development organization, partners with residents and business to improve the quality of life in Central Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Bail Fund
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund secures the freedom of New Yorkers who would otherwise be detained pretrial due to their poverty alone. We are committed to challenging the criminalization of race, poverty and immigration status, the practice of putting a price on fundamental rights, and the persistent myth that bail is a necessary element of the justice system.

Center for Family Representation
Center for Family Representation provide families in crisis with free legal assistance and social work services to enable children to stay with their parents safely.  CFR works to keep children out of foster care entirely or keep their time in care to a minimum.

Equality for Flatbush
A Flatbush-based organization that is anti-police repression, and against the displacement of Black people in Flatbush.

Harlem Children's Zone
Harlem Children's Zone helps thousands of children and families and disrupt the cycle of generational poverty in Central Harlem through innovative and effective programs.

Justice League NYC
Justice League NYC (JLNYC) is a multi-disciplinary task force of juvenile and criminal justice experts, artists, educators, direct service providers, activists, and formerly incarcerated individuals, brought together under the auspices of The Gathering for Justice, a social justice organization founded by Harry Belafonte.

Mutual Aid NYC
Mutual Aid NYC is a multi-racial network of people and groups building support systems for people in the New York area during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Neighborhood Defender Service
Neighborhood Defender Service (NDS) is known nationally and internationally for its innovative, community-based, holistic public defense practice. Our dedicated staff is committed to providing unparalleled legal representation.

Red Hook Hub
The Red Hook Hub (a project of Red Hook Initiative) is a public communication system that will allow residents and stakeholders to share and access neighborhood information online and at Hub bulletin board locations. 

South Brooklyn Community Mutual Aid
South Brooklyn Community Mutual Aid works to provide goods and services directly in a decentralized manner. They are dependent on core principles of community, education, and human decency.

NourishNYC
NourishNYC is a community organization that seeks to empower LGBTQ+ Black & Brown people by building & practicing a holistic approach to community care.

Zanset Tea Co.
Zanset Tea Co. was created as an homage to a tea ritual practice and was founded by a first generation Haitian-American.

Rooted LLC 
ROOTED provides you with culturally empowering services, holistic resources, and social advocacy tools so you can improve your mental and physical health and live a healthier & self-determined life.