{"id":238803,"date":"2026-05-21T00:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238803\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:48:21","slug":"brooklyn-org-announces-1-5-million-in-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238803\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Org announces $1.5 million in funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOROUGHWIDE \u2013 PHILANTHROPIC POWERHOUSE Brooklyn Org on Wednesday announced more than $1.5 million in multi-year funding for 15 nonprofits across the borough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The grantees were selected by a committee of Brooklynites and are aimed at challenges and opportunities identified through community engagement efforts. The Spring 2026 class works across a wide range of issue areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Community-focused groups included Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, which offers Africana-centered arts programming; IMPACCT Brooklyn, which helps build and preserve affordable housing; Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY, which helps artists, businesses and neighborhood leaders organize local events; the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, which helps tenants organize; and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, which offers outreach healthcare education and workforce training.<\/p>\n<p>Programs centering youth included the Brooklyn Debate League, which expands access to debate teams for public school students; the Octavia Project, which helps girls of color explore tech, art and writing; Recess, which supports justice-involved youth with arts, leadership and career development programs;\u00a0 the Kings Against Violence Initiative, which focuses on healing, restorative justice and youth leadership; and the Youth Justice Network, which provides support for young people involved with the legal system.<\/p>\n<p>Other awardees included Good Call, a 24\/7 legal aid hotline for arrestees; the Resilience Education Training and Innovation Center, which offers solar and green workforce training; the Riders Alliance, which organizes support for public transit; Sakhi for South Asian Survivors, which supports South Asian and Indo-Caribbean survivors of domestic violence; and South Brooklyn Sanctuary, which provides volunteer legal support for immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Org awards grants twice yearly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOROUGHWIDE \u2013 PHILANTHROPIC POWERHOUSE Brooklyn Org on Wednesday announced more than $1.5 million in multi-year funding for 15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,99,13709,9,24,63,10867],"class_list":["post-238803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-org","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-philanthropy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}