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Sarah Williams, Vice Chair
Michael Gillespie, Treasurer
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Sarah Shannon Chief Philanthropic Officer Liane Stegmaier Vice President Communicationsof and Strategy
Dr. Jocelynne Rainey President & CEO
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We are the first and only public foundation solely dedicated to Brooklyn’s charitable community, working in partnership with generous donors and community leaders to invest in racial justice and community-led change.
Since our founding in 2009, we have provided over $75 million in grants to nonprofits through our strategic programs and Donor Advised Funds, making us Brooklyn’s largest funder for racial justice.
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Brooklyn Community Foundation is on a mission to spark lasting social change, mobilizing people, capital, and expertise for a fair and just Brooklyn.
two and a half years have presented unthinkable challenges for our communities, but through the clarity of our mission and our unwavering commitment to equity and racial justice, Brooklyn Community Foundation has proven itself to be an essential institution for our borough and a driving force for community-led change.
Nicole Gueron and Harsha Marti Co-Chairs, Board of Directors Brooklyn Community Foundation
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Thank you, and we look forward to doing even more for the place we all call home.Sincerely,
This has been an outstanding year for Brooklyn Community Foundation, with record funding for vital nonprofits, groundbreaking partnerships, a bold transition to participatory grantmaking across all of our strategic programs, and continued growth to meet needs and opportunities across our borough.
Dear Partners,
It is an honor to partner with you—our donors, fund holders, nonprofit grantees, and community advisors—as together we make a difference for Brooklyn, now and for generations to come.
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We are thrilled to say that, under the inspiring new leadership of President & CEO Dr. Jocelynne Rainey, the Foundation’s exciting next chapter is well underway.Thepast
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This is an exciting time at Brooklyn Community Foundation as we embark on the next phase of our work. In my first year as President & CEO, I have been inspired every day by the commitment of our partners across the borough—and I’m honored to share some of that magic with you.
Dear Friends,
Dr. Jocelynne Rainey President & CEO Brooklyn Community Foundation
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Racial justice is an ongoing practice—a muscle to exercise, a flower brought to bloom. It is economic justice, criminal justice, gender justice. It is standing with our immigrant neighbors, our older adults, and our youth, mobilizing resources to our communities at the margins of power and access. It is all those things and so much more—but most importantly, it is made possible with your deep partnership and shared dedication to our beloved borough.
I have faith in our community: our Board of Directors and staff, our donors and advisors, and of course, our nonprofit partners. Hailing from my home neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant to Brighton Beach, from Sunset Park to Greenpoint, and everywhere in between, you continue to open your hearts and share your time, talent, and treasure with us, without hesitation.
Sincerely,
In this annual Impact Report, we want to introduce you to our Brooklyn approach to philanthropy aimed at racial justice and community-led change, as told through the voices of our partners who are critical to this work. The warmth and resilience of our community is woven across the following pages, with our shared love of Brooklyn—our home—as the through line that ties our stories together and makes our work so urgent and effective.
Last year continued the extraordinary generosity we have seen since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This enabled us to distribute over $13 million to nonprofits from our strategic grantmaking and Donor Advised Fund programs in 2021—a new record for Brooklyn Community Foundation.
It takes a village, and there is so much we can achieve together. To friends old and new, I say welcome—take your seat at the table.
Our Approach Racial Justice 8 EngagementCommunity 14 GrantmakingParticipatory 22 Investing Advocacyin 30 The DonorBrooklynAdvisedFund 36
2021 In Review GrantmakingStrategic 44 Funds & Donors DonorFundsAdvised 54 SupportersFoundation 56 Corporate Supporters 57 IndividualsFamiliesand 59 Join Us 64
Brooklyn has long been a home for Black, Indigenous, and people of color from near and far to celebrate their roots and build new futures. Yet today, Brooklyn as a place of accessible economic mobility is slipping away.
Donor Advised Fund program fuels our grantmaking for racial justice, which invests over $4 million annually in nonprofits advocating for systemic transformation and providing resources and tools that create opportunity.
Our goal is racial justice, where everyone who calls Brooklyn home can thrive. As the borough’s community foundation, we have the unique ability to bring people together and mo bilize giving that drives community-led change.
Our Approach
We strive to do philanthropy differently, and upend traditional practices that overburden and marginalize grassroots organizations led by people of color. We provide general operating support so that nonprofits have the ability to use funds where they are most need ed. And we have replaced traditional reporting requirements with ones that lessen the burden on grantees. Above all, we listen to and trust our partners, as we work together for a fair and just Brooklyn.
We partner with nonprofits, donors, businesses, and civic leaders who share our values and our vision of a better future. Our growing
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The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated intense racial inequities—triggering job loss, housing insecurity, and severe health impacts in Brooklyn’s pre dominantly Black, Latinx, and immigrant communities. 70% of all jobs lost during the height of the pandemic were held by workers of color, with the greatest losses endured by Black and Latinx women. Today, Black and Latinx Brooklynites are twice as likely to live in poverty as white
Our grants are made entirely in partner ship with residents in communities of color with lived experience in the issues we are addressing, and over 70% of the organizations we fund are led by people of color. This is in striking contrast to the philanthropic sector as a whole: from 2005-2014, giving for commu nities of color never exceeded 8.5% for any year—and only 1% of those grants were specifically for racial justice. Revenues of Blackled organizations are 24% less than white-led counterparts, and unrestricted net assets of Black-led organizations are 76% lower than white-led organizations.
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witnessing a dramatically growing racial wealth gap: during the past three decades, while white families’ wealth increased, Black families’ wealth on average dropped 50%, signaling a suffocating lack of opportunities for the next generation to inherit.
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In order for Brooklyn to continue to be such a cultural leader, there needs to be somebody that is committed to connecting our communities—and that’s a powerful role that the Foundation plays. When I think of old Brooklyn—I was raised here—I’m seeing so many different transitions and changes. The traditional sense of community, where you walk down a block and you know everyone that lives there—it’s fleeting, because of gentrification. But we need organizations that are committed to actually tapping into each neighborhood and figuring out, how do we build connections? And how do we continue to show that we are more similar than different? And how can everyone work together in order to create change that is long lasting? It fits into the legacy of and the promise of not only what Brooklyn is, but what America is. I see Brooklyn as a great microcosm of the story of America. And there’s this hope that if we can figure out how to live together, then anything’s possible. ●
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There are so many organizations doing impactful work that I, as a resident of Brooklyn, had no idea about, and there needs to be more of a light on them.
Racial justice to me means the acknowledgement and access to life for everyone, and having the resources in place to sustain that promise. I think that as a nation, if we’re going to move towards being whole, there needs to be a reckoning of what that means and looks like, through different pathways that create our ecosystem. So it’s not only visible from the direction of addressing police brutality—it’s education, healthcare, it’s access to foods that sustain people. And thinking holistically about what it means to amplify each other’s humanity.
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Why do you think the Foundation’s commitment to racial justice is critical?
What does racial justice mean to you?
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Brooklyn Community Foundation has helped us in this work every step of the way, from introducing new possibilities for partnership to helping us network across various communities. We are deeply grateful for all that the Foundation does.” ●
Lauren Glant
Brooklyn Community Foundation Board Member
Trustee, Weeksville Heritage Center and Wyckoff House Museum
“Brooklyn Community Foundation’s commitment to racial justice and equity is key to the health and wellbeing of our communities. We’ve raised our family here, and as long-time, dedicated Brooklynites we know it is critical to acknowl edge both the root causes of systemic discrimination and the history of harm that has long impacted communities of color in our borough and our nation. When we do that—in combination with moving funds back into communities that have systematically been drained of their resources—we get one step closer to building a supportive and restorative environment where all of Brooklyn can flourish.
Michael and Lauren are long-time Brooklyn residents who have partnered with the Foundation over the years through various avenues, with Michael serving on our Board of Directors since 2017.
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“I think that Brooklyn Community Foundation, and its long range goal of funding organizations like the Black Institute, is critical. When you build institutions and you change public policy and you change legislation, you’ve got to have investments.Ithinkof
Brooklyn Community Foundation as an investor in the business of racial and social justice. And my job as the CEO is to give returns to my stakeholders. However, investors are not, and should not just be day traders. Brooklyn Community Foundation is not a day trader. They embrace organizing, they understand organizing, and they are willing to invest for the long-term and not just the short-term to make themselves feel better.
Brooklyn epitomizes the change that the city and the state are going through. And I would like for people to follow the Foundation’s lead, and not only talk about change, but help to be the change in Brooklyn.” ●
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Bertha Lewis is an activist, community organizer, and the Founder and President of The Black Institute, an action think tank that shapes intellectual discourse and impacts public policy uniquely from a Black and people of color perspective in the United States and throughout the Diaspora.
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ensures that we learn from the experiences of residents and local leaders to build our understanding of Brooklyn’s challenges, resources, and opportunities—and to identify the areas and approaches we prioritize for grantmaking and other investments.
Using our unique community engagement approach, in 2021 we launched an innovative public-private partnership with New York State Attorney General Leticia James to distribute over $2 million seized by her office from a medicaid fraud scheme.
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We like to say that community engagement is in the DNA of everything we do at Brooklyn Community Foundation. For the better part of a decade, we have based our organizational vision, mission, and strategy on the ideas and insights shared by Brooklynites across our borough.From
the focus of our grantmaking programs, to the design of funds we manage in partnership with donors and public agencies, our work is informed by our unique Brooklyn Insights community engagement model. First developed in 2014, this process
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sign of what became known as the Wellness and Recovery Fund, and identified three main funding areas: dignity-centered direct ser vices; harm reduction programs; and policy change. Nearly one-fourth of participants were actively engaged in treatment services at the time of the listening sessions, and close to 90% identified as a person of color.
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“I want to thank the entire Brooklyn thatsmart,FoundationCommunityteamforthesensitive,anddemocraticwaythattheyadministeredthefundswerecovered”
characterized the charges brought by the New York State Office of the Attorney General (OAG) against the operator of a Brooklyn outpatient substance-abuse pro gram and the flophouse owners who forced vulnerable residents to seek help from the program.Following
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“The defendants engaged in a deliberate scheme to exploit those struggling with substance abuse in order to line their own pockets withThosemillions.”words
the operators’ conviction, under the leadership of New York State Attorney General Leticia James, the OAG selected Brooklyn Community Foundation to steward over $2 million in recovered ill-gotten assets to support communities that had been harmed.
While the OAG had many options in partners to distribute the funds, we offered a unique approach that centered Brooklynites directly impacted by addiction.
The War on Drugs and the opioid crisis have compounded the disproportionate im pacts endured in Brooklyn, simultaneously criminalizing and stigmatizing Black and Latinx communities while overburdening local treatment programs and healthcare providers. The Foundation’s commitment to racial justice, deep Brooklyn knowledge, and local grantmaking expertise ultimately secured the OAG’s partnership. “My team chose the Foundation to distribute the funds because it is a well-respected leader in this space,” said Attorney General James.
In 2021, under the oversight of the Charities Bureau in the OAG’s Division for Social Justice, we started our grantmaking process by first listening to and learning from 100 Brooklynites living with addiction and navigat ing sobriety, as well as family members and loved ones, clinical support staff, and medical
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We offered a unique approach that centered Brooklynites directly impacted by addiction.
Next, we recruited ten participants to join our Wellness and Recovery Fund Advisory Council. They read grant applications, conducted site visits, and consulted with our staff. Together they selected ten Brooklyn organiza tions each to receive grants totaling $217,500 over three yearss.
“I want to thank the entire Brooklyn Community Foundation team for the smart, sensitive, and democratic way that they administered the funds that we recovered,” said Attorney General James at the Fund press conference in March 2022. “The Foundation team took advice from Brooklyn residents who have struggled with substance misuse, or who have worked with people who are struggling, to select ten amazing, effective local programs to support. The money is going to save lives, help families, and help those who are suffering in a compassionate way that is best for them in their recovery.” ●
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If you’re going to talk about things in a community, and how they’re going to affect the community, then the community should be involved in that process. I really appreciate that the Brooklyn Community Foundation has de veloped a system where that is important, and I felt that.Ihadn’t known about the Foundation prior to being a part of the Wellness and Recovery Fund, but it says so much that the AG’s Office looks to you to disburse the money, and it showed throughout my experience. I really felt validated, I felt what I had to say was important, I was listened to, and could make suggestions freely. ●
Community engagement means a seat at the table where decisions are made for my community. I’m a 30 year recovering addict, and I’m not that far removed that I don’t see what’s going on in the community, and know which services are important, especially who gives those services.
What does community engagement mean to you?
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Victoria Graves is a life-long Brooklynite with over three decades living in sobriety, and is now retired following a 25-year career as a case manager with various human service organizations, including the AIDS Hotline, Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, and New York City Health and Hospitals.
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Grantee Partner, Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Community-led Social Change
And years later to see that lawsuit happen and to see this money is getting back into the community, it really feels like justice.
All that happened in Brooklyn. Even the Attorney General who prosecuted the case is from Brooklyn. It’s always upsetting and sad that these things happen, but it’s good that as a community we came together to name the harm, hold people accountable, and get resources back to the people that need them. ●
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What I really appreciated about how the Wellness and Recovery Fund took place, is that the Brooklyn Community Foundation recog nized this was a new area of work for them, that they hadn’t funded around harm reduction and drug use before, and instead of just assuming where the money should go or what the RFP should look like, they first decided to engage with directly impacted people and com munities to hear from them where they wanted that money to go.
Alyssa Aguilera, Co-Director, VOCAL-NY
It was really a full circle moment for our organization. Several years ago we organized people who were the victims of the scam where they were being exploited and their Medicaid cards were being swiped to make the staff of these drug treatment providers rich, while they denied access and adequate housing for our members. This started the beginning of our work around homelessness at VOCAL.
Why is Brooklyn Community Foundation’s approach critical to getting funding where it’s needed most?
What does it mean to be part of the Wellness and Recovery Fund?
It felt like people were being treated as experts. And we saw in the RFP and in the process that the comments that we made in those focus groups were listened to, heard, and implemented. And that’s exactly how philan thropy should work.
Alyssa Aguilera has worked for VOCAL-NY since 2013, helping build political power among low-income people impacted by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, and mass incarceration.
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Truly meaningful community engagement is about proximity and getting your hands in the clay. It requires deep connection, partner ship, respect, and reverence for the community leaders innovating and carrying out the real yeoman’s work. We must stand with them in the breach and wrap our entire spirits around them if we are truly invested in building a more equitable future. Community engagement calls for brave and bold action, and not half measures, as incrementalism, especially with respect to racial justice, won’t get us to the promised land. Most importantly, it requires power building and centering, not supplanting, the voices and vision of the community. As perfectly coined by disability rights activists—‘nothing about us without us’—must be the ethos.
Brooklyn Community Foundation is a North Star for trust-based philanthropy. Historically, philanthropy and the nonprofit industrial complex have practiced a paternalism with respect to communities of color that burdened them with proving their pain and worthiness for funding—which is anathema to the field’s espoused racial equity rhetoric. As a radical departure from those inequitable practices, Brooklyn Community Foundation is steadfast and unequivocal about issues of moral certainty such as racial justice. By centering racial justice, the Foundation is committed to confronting and
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Why is it critical that the Foundation centers community and racial equity in its grantmaking?
What does community engagement mean to you?
As a civil rights attorney and a mental health counselor, I’ve spent decades working at the intersection of anti-poverty and social justice movements. This work is deeply personal, and I’ve strived to dignify the sacrifices of my own family and lift up the humanity of my community, whether my hometown in rural Georgia, or my home of decades, Brooklyn.
Lawanna, a long-time Brooklyn resident, civil rights attorney, and mental health counselor, joined our Board of Directors in early 2022.
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ameliorating the pernicious harms and legacy of racism. Equally remarkable, the Foundation is truly funding its values, believing as we do at the Stardust Fund that those closest to the issues are always closest to the solutions.
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What does it mean for you to be part of Brooklyn Community Foundation?
I was elated, overjoyed, and every superlative that I can think of when I was invited to join the Foundation’s board. What an honor for them to say, ‘join us—come be a part of helping to steward this audacious vision.’ Joining a board of a foundation committed to serving communities well beyond surviving to thriving— is a full circle moment. As a Black woman still emerging from generational poverty, I am deep ly moved by the Foundation’s commitment to economic empowerment for the most vulnera ble in our communities. When so much of board service is based in affiliations and access to capital, I was humbled by an invitation to join the board as a thought partner. I appreciate be ing valued for my expertise, lived experience— for my substance. Board service, for me, is both about representation and revolution. It’s also a great testament to our shared love of Brooklyn. I love these Black and brown communities, I love queer leaders, and our disability leaders— and I love that we are lifting them up, and most importantly, funding these spaces of vibrancy and ingenuity. ●
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have established councils with young people, immigrants or first-generation Brooklynites, older adults, and most recently people with direct experience with addiction and substance misuse. Members of these councils are viewed as experts on these issue areas, and are compensated for their time and expertise. Additionally, we convene a volunteer committee of Brooklyn leaders and donors who oversee decision making for our annual Spark Prize.
grantmaking aims to flip the paradigm in philanthropy that has historically kept power and control in the hands of a select few. It instead centers decision making at the grassroots with the people who know what their communities need and deserve.
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This is a groundbreaking step for our institution, a bold evolution of our commitment to community engagement, and it makes us one of the first community foundations in the country to undergo a holistic shift to participatory grantmaking.
ParticipatoryGrantmaking
For each funding area, community advisory councils work closely with our team of program officers to review grant applications, join site visits to hear from nonprofit staff and participants, and ultimately determine which organizations will receive funding.We
2021 marked our transition to participatory grantmaking across all of our strategic programs–an approach that we first piloted back in 2015. We now entirely share power in grantmaking decisions with community members who have lived experience with the issues we are addressing and whose communities will be most impacted by our funding.Participatory
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“Doing participatory grantmaking on the Spark Prize Committee was amazing. The opportunity to have seen all of these organizations, even those that aren’t funded through this particular round of Spark Prize funding, speaks to the importance of what the Foundation seeks to do in terms of mobilizing both capital and people. Too often, philanthropy is about being introduced to organizations by people that you know, and so the Spark process gives a proverbial seat at the table to some organizations that wouldn’t necessarily have been at the table. To sit and hear from the leadership of different organizations, to be inspired, to learn, and to be mobilized—there’s a deeper connection through participatory grantmaking.Atitscore, Brooklyn Community Foundation has an appreciation that their work is about people, community, and trust. The overall value of creating a structure that trusts in people is so worth it, and theirs is a unique model that we should all learn from.” ●
Betsy and her husband Jeremy live in Brooklyn, and have supported Brooklyn manyFoundation’sCommunityworkforyearsinaddition to Betsy partnering with us as a member of our Spark Prize Committee.
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Spark Prize Committee Member, 2021-2023
Why do you believe in the participatory grantmaking approach?
In my career, I have worked with many great foundation executives and assembled selection committees with members whose backgrounds and lived experiences were like those of the candidates applying for our programs—which was vital to informing the selection process and the development of our
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I have enjoyed reading about the amazing work that current and prospective Foundation grantees are doing with and for older adults in Brooklyn—just knowing that I am in partnership with stakeholders in Brooklyn’s older adult community and with the Foundation’s staff to support the ongoing work of these organizations is humbling and satisfying. The icing on the cake is getting the opportunity to meet the impassioned grantees and to learn more about their operations. I have had so much fun work ing with the Foundation’s dedicated staff who are professional, responsive, and just some of the nicest folks to know.
Brooklyn Elders Fund Advisory Council Member
I have lived most of my life in Brooklyn and have been a resident and stakeholder in BedStuy since 1984. My entire career was spent working at national nonprofits promoting and providing higher education opportunities for underrepresented and underserved populations. When I retired, I knew the "what’s next" for me would involve working with local community based organizations that were supporting and empowering marginalized constituencies. It has been an incredible honor to work with Brooklyn Community Foundation as a member of the Brooklyn Elders Fund Advisory Council and the Spark Prize Committee, to help the Foundation recognize and reward the outstanding work of their grantees who are leading the way in social and economic justice.
Maritza Myers Principal of MEMJ Consulting
As a Brooklynite, what does it mean to have a direct role in getting resources back to your community?
The Foundation does not approach grant making from the “we know better than you what your needs are” philosophy. Brooklyn Community Foundation’s grantmaking is de signed to embody their mission and vision, and to support the missions and visions of its grant ee partners. ●
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I am a child of the ‘60s. I absolutely know what it means to be overlooked, unseen, and disenfranchised. Brooklyn Community Foun dation’s focus on social and economic justice speaks to my core values and—just as import ant—I never get the feeling that my ideas and opinions are not heard or appreciated.
award programs. Many grantmakers work in silos when developing programming priorities. They’ve got great staffers working with the leading experts in their respective fields but few—if any—come from or spend significant up-front time working with their target populations. Brooklyn Community Foundation’s approach to informing program development by talking with stakeholders about the needs in their communities, and inviting some of those same stakeholders to serve as advisory council members, is exciting—primarily because it’s the first time I get to make a difference in the grantmaking process and, hopefully, the suc cess of its programming.
What does it mean for you to be part of Brooklyn Community Foundation?
Too often, nonprofits feel the need to add or amend programming—creating projects that do not necessarily align with their own visions— in the interest of securing funds to keep the doors open and the lights on.
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I honestly think that this is how it should be. You know, oftentimes in philanthropy, I’ve witnessed decision makers make decisions on behalf of communities that they are not in close proximity to, not a part of the fabric of the community itself. And I think as a re sult of that, what ends up happening is that we spoon-feed solutions to communities thinking that they need things, rather than really anchoring on the voices of the people who are part of the community to figure out what it is that they actually need. And that is the difference between designing for the community, and designing with them.
What the process validated for us, is that if your program is something that the youth council members can see themselves participating in, then you do have a shot at bringing the program to life. And if a group of students were to say that your proposal was not what we actually need or want right now, then that should be a signal that there might be something about your program and your design that might not be resonating with the young people you are intending to
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As a first-time grantee, what was it like having your work reviewed by a committee of young people, much like ones that you work with every day?
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during the interview portion of it, actually saying, I’m so impressed by the fact that I’m talking to a young person right now, who was the decision maker at the table. And it was also interesting, too, because at the same time, I was a little nervous! And asking myself, have we designed something that is of value to the community? And I told myself, if we didn’t get into the Invest in Youth portfolio, then there needs to be some significant considerations as to why and what the young person heard, during the process that didn’t necessarily resonate with them.
Why do you think young people are such good decision makers in this context?
I think when we relinquish power and gatekeeping, put that power back to the peo ple who are going to be most affected by the transformational change that you envision for the community, which is the young people, then you’re actually empowering them with the tools and resources to design the solutions that they envision for themselves. And they are more than capable of doing that. They know what’s going on in their communities, they know what their communities need, they know what they
can be stewards of resources, and how you steward those resources are just as important as stewarding the re sources. And if you spend enough time upfront designing processes that give power back to communities, then you have designed a pro cess that centers communities needs over yours. ●
Young people know themselves better than anybody else. Dismissing young people because of their age or maturity is a silencing process. And it doesn’t really anchor on the power of young people to be champions of their own change. What we need to realize is that this generation of young people is very different. They have information at their dis posal, they are extremely woke, and extremely conscious of what they want.
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In addition to recognizing and supporting vital programs and services that sustain and enrich Brooklyn’s communities, we know that in order to achieve long-term change, we must address the policies and institutions that frame our lives.
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Investing in advocacy, organizing, and movement building is not just about implementing new laws—it’s about creating a collective vision for Brooklyn’s future built on justice and Throughequity.thisapproach, our grantee partners are collaborating with like-minded organizations, spearheading new campaigns, and ensuring that elected officials are held accountable by their communities.
In 2021, we made our most significant commitment to advocacy yet through the Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund’s Community-led Social Change initiative, pledging $2.5 million through 2026 to seven organizations working across a spectrum of issues in order to dismantle and reimagine policies and systems that have prevented communities of color from thriving both prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. These five-year grants represent the Foundation’s longest ever funding for a single cohort of organizations.
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Marwa Janini, Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York (left), with a colleague.
What does it mean for you to be part of Brooklyn Community Foundation?
As I learned more about how Brooklyn Community Foundation functions, I realized that I could support my neighbors through their multiple initiatives and decided to become a monthly donor. For me, it was a sound way to give back to my beloved Brooklyn through a trusted partner who has their ear to the ground for the evolving and diverse needs of the community.
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Shari Berman Partner/Director of 2 Dimensional Design, Evidence Design
Shari is a seasoned exhibit planner, graphic art director, storyteller, and the co-founder of the Brooklyn-based studio Evidence Design, which she established with her partner Jack Pascarosa.
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Why is it important that the Foundation invests in advocacy work in Brooklyn?
As a Jewish American woman with deep Brooklyn roots, I have been brought up with strong human rights values—but it wasn’t until I was older that I truly understood the depth of systemic racism in education, housing, home ownership, healthcare, and criminal justice, and its devastating impact on communities of color.
You’ve consistently supported the Foundation’s work over many years—why did you choose to give regularly, as a monthly donor?
I ride my bicycle all over the borough and am always amazed at the vibrant enterprises—new and old—that I have yet to explore. Supporting the Foundation means supporting the astonishing diversity, energy, creativity, and authenticity of the local organizations that make Brooklyn the uniquely rich community that it is. As the owner of a local studio that designs museum exhibitions, the values of the Foundation—especially those that emphasize collaboration, courage, and respect—feel like a natural extension of what I value when we create experiences for the public. ●
As a museum professional and as a proud resi dent of Prospect-Lefferts Manor, I have gained a more nuanced understanding about the lack of resources in underserved communities and the importance of local organizations that provide services, fill gaps, and make connections when our existing systems fail.
If COVID has shown us anything, it’s that we have an enormous amount of work to do on top of the work we were doing before. And the only thing that’s holding Brooklyn back from its greatness is actually getting the real investment it needs from the local and state government. We have to ensure that people—regardless of where they were born or their immigration sta tus—not only survive, but are able to thrive. We are only as strong as our collective and healthy as our neighbor.” ●
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Murad Awawdeh Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition
Murad Awawdeh is a strategist, organizer, and advocacy expert currently serving as the Executive Director at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC). The son of Palestinian immigrants raised in Sunset Park, Murad has dedicated over two decades of his life fighting for acrosscommunitieslow-incomeofcolorNewYork.
Grantee Partner, Immigrant Rights Fund
“Brooklyn Community Foundation has been great at supporting people of color. What’s more, it has been a strong supporter of our efforts to ensure that Brooklyn immigrant com munities have the support that they need, and are able to unite and demand justice, equity, and fairness from the city as well as the state.
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Grantee Partner, Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Community-led Social Change
Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. Executive Director, Center for Law and Social Justice Brooklyn
Our Advocacy Academy is an 11-week mini course open to the community, taught by a longstanding Central Brooklyn resident. Our vision is that five years from now, we will have run successive Advocacy Academies, and we will have been able to develop what amounts to the People’s Lobby, so that our communities not only have the skills and are prepared to have those conversations with elected officials, but they are able to do for the people what the lobbyists are able to do for big business. They will defend our interests and advocate and give voice to a lot of the concerns that everyday New Yorkers of African descent have been expressing for decades.”
Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. is the Executive Director at the Center for Law and Social Justice, which has addressed racial justice issues for nearly four decades, providing advocacy, education, research, and organizing for New Yorkers of African descent.
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“Brooklyn Community Foundation’s critical fund ing allows our organization to galvanize Black Brooklyn residents to actively support their communities with the training and tools nec essary to spark change at the grassroots level. It also allows us to build civic participation by bolstering electoral turnout, particularly in local and statewide elections.
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One of the reasons it’s so important for organizations like Brooklyn Community Foundation to invest in advocacy comes down to the old saying, you can either teach someone how to fish or you can give them the fish. If the idea is to build self-sustainability for the community, and create communities that are able to advo cate for themselves and secure the resources that they need, then you have to invest in the substantive education and advocacy compo nents of community engagement.
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Our Donor Advisors have the flexibility to recommend grants from their funds to any
Through our Donor Advised Fund program, we partner with values-aligned donors who want to leverage their charitable giving to spark long-term change in their communities.
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Donor Advised Funds are powerful, taxefficient vehicles that give donors the opportunity to have their charitable assets grow over time under the expert administration and guidance of our team.
nonprofit in the country at their own pace, while giving back to the place they call home through a 1% annual fee that supports our grantmaking for racial justice in Brooklyn.
Last year, our Donor Advised Funds issued an incredible $8.2 million in grants— a nearly 60% increase over 2020—with 42% going to Brooklyn-based organizations.
Our Approach
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Both have served on the boards of anchor institutions and cultural centers across the borough—Alan as the founding board chair of Brooklyn Community Foundation, as well as at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brook lyn Navy Yard, and the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. Judy is chair of the Board of the Mark Morris Dance Group, was a Board mem ber of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and past president of the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue. Today they are solidifying this local giving legacy through the Fishman Family Fund, a Donor Advised Fund at Brooklyn Community Foundation.Alangrew up in Crown Heights in the shadow of the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He met Judy while at Brown University in Rhode Island. After graduation, Alan convinced Judy to leave her
Alan adds, “The fund fee goes to the Foundation which is a spectacular and effi
Alan and Judy Fishman
“When you live here and you care here you give here.”
were so great,”
he said. “When the Brooklyn Community Foundation was founded, it just brought everything together.”
Alan and Judy Fishman have more than earned their reputation as “Mr. and Mrs. Brooklyn” over the years, thanks to their un matched commitment to their home and its nonprofit community.
As the first donors to the new Brooklyn Community Foundation, Alan and Judy were also among the first to establish Donor Advised Funds at the Foundation. “It makes giving very easy. It is so efficient and useful and simple,” said Judy. “It has become a real tool that allows us to keep track of what we are doing and also consolidate what we do. We make a phone call or send a note and we don’t have to worry about whether the payments will get there.”
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FUNDING A BETTER FUTURE FOR BROOKLYN
native New England and follow him back to Brooklyn to start their lives together, to be near his father and pursue their careers in banking just across the river.
“I think a lot of the reason we’re so focused on Brooklyn has to do with the fact that we both worked in Manhattan and realized that Manhattan institutions have plenty of resources in Manhattan. That was not the case in Brooklyn,” reflected Judy. “When you live here and you care here you give Inhere.”the early 2000s, as Chairman of the private foundation affiliated with the Brooklyn-based Independence Community Bank, Alan had an unrivaled perch from which to learn about the borough’s nonprofit sector. When the bank sold in 2009, he saw an unmissable opportunity to guide its evolution into a public community foundation solely dedicated to “Brooklyn’sBrooklyn.needs
Bat Mitzvahs, we gave each of them a gift by setting up a Donor Advised Fund in their name and letting them make gifts from their fund. We spend a little time with each of them and their parents talking about what their interests are. It has been an incredibly organic thing to do. I think it means a lot to them and they are getting into it. The money in the funds grows with its investment in the stock market. It’s a great legacy and it ties their parents to the community as well which has been really important.”
“Looking back, at the time it was a pretty out there idea. But, if you think about it, it made all the sense in the world to create a community foundation for Brooklyn. Brooklyn has tremendous resources, more resources every day, and at the same time it has tre mendous needs. One of the reasons Brooklyn has prospered and changed, hopefully for the better, is because of what this Foundation has been able to accomplish—through Hurricane Sandy, through COVID, for the underserved, immigrants, and elders—it’s just fantastic. It has been a wonderful addition to the community. As people hear about it and learn about it, they get it. It is getting to be less of an out there idea and more of an important one.” ●
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cient thing to do. The key differentiating factor between this program and a commercial DAF is, if we’re interested in elder care, we can call up a Foundation staff member and say, ‘we want to support this,’ and we get nine ideas. It’s fabulous. And all the ideas are local and all thoughtful and all sensible, most importantly and that service is available to everybody, not just us.”
Donor Advised Funds have also become a new Fishman family tradition. “We’re lucky enough to have grandchildren who are growing up in the community close by. For special occasions, rather than give the kids a new suit or a new bicycle, it struck us that the most valuable thing we could give our kids and our grandkids was the gift of Brooklyn,” added Alan. “So when our grandkids had their Bar and
After stepping down as Chairman from the Foundation in October 2020, having stewarded the Board through the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and the creation of the Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund, Alan can now reflect on a job well done:
“...it made all the sense in the world to create a community foundation for Brooklyn.”
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“It makes giving very easy. It is so efficient and useful and simple”
We have been impressed and delighted by the work of Brooklyn Community Foundation since its founding. We have lived in the borough for over forty years and we and our children are “Brooklyn proud.” To have a Foundation that began by listening to the diversity of the community and used what it heard to shape its giving priorities made so much sense to us.
Why choose a Donor Advised Fund at Brooklyn Community Foundation as a tool for your family’s giving?
The Foundation made a clear and per suasive case for establishing a Donor Advised Fund. Once we decided that this vehicle for giving made sense for us we naturally turned to those who had been so convincing! And we have not been disappointed. The online portal works well and the Foundation’s staff has been responsive to our questions.
Susan and Peter Restler
Donor Advisors
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What sets our Donor Advised Fund program apart from the alternative, commercial DAF programs?
A Donor Advised Fund is a way to effect a giving plan. For us, Brooklyn nonprofits are a priority—as this is the Foundation’s reason for being, its resources and guidance are great assets for us. ●
Susan and Peter are longtime supporters of Brooklyn All,andTheboards,serveBrooklynFoundation.AdvisedasacrosspartnershipFoundationCommunitywhosesteadyhasspannedourwork,includingholdersofaDonorFundattheTheyliveinHeightsandbothonlocalnonprofitwithSusanatCenterforFiction,PeteratBrooklynForInc. subject.ofcourtesyPhoto
What does it mean for you to be part of Brooklyn Community Foundation?
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When I sold my house in Bedford–Stuyve sant and made a profit, I wanted to give 10%— both my parents taught me the importance of giving at least 10% of whatever I earn, and I’ve always done that since I was a kid. I was trying to figure out how I could donate the money in the right, structured way that would be helpful to myThencommunity.Isawthe
Why a Donor Advised Fund at Brooklyn Community Foundation?
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Donor Advised Fund op tion at Brooklyn Community Foundation, and it just made sense. I thought, ‘this is perfect.’ I wanted to donate and give back to Brooklyn, and that’s what Brooklyn Community Foundation is all about—they provide a structure and support for you to do that with your Donor Advised Fund. ●
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Last year, donors to our strategic grantmaking programs helped us deploy $4.8 million to 134 nonprofits advancing racial justice and social change in our borough.
This funding prioritized support for grassroots organizations traditionally over looked by philanthropy: 87% of grantees were led by people of color, and nearly half had annual budgets under $1 million. Grants were made through our core program areas, including:
• Brooklyn Elders Fund: $585,000 to help older adults age in place, access benefits, and advocate for their rights
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• Immigrant Rights Fund: $605,000 for immigration and deportation legal aid, social services, and legislative advocacy for immigrants and their families
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• Invest in Youth: $2.5 million for transformational programs that position young people of color as leaders in their 4,000 donors gave $1.4 million directly to 118 nonprofits through our #BrooklynGives on Giving Tuesday campaign—the highest tally since its founding in 2016.
• Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund: Over $1 million supported vaccine education and outreach, ongoing urgent needs, and the first year of grants for our Community-led Social Change cohort to take on root causes of the pandemic’s unequal impacts
2021 in Review
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Isabahlia Ladies of Elegance Foundation
American Council Of Minority Women
Hope For Desperate Hearts
Homecrest Community Services
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Domestic Workers United Gangstas Making Astronomical Community
The Healing Center
Coney Island Lighthouse Mission
Mexican Coalition
The Brave House
Black Excellence Collective
UNITE HERE Local 100
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
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Pakistani American Youth Organization
Caribbean Women’s Health Association
Workers Justice Project
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Chinese-American Planning Council
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New York Immigration Coalition
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United Chinese Association of Brooklyn Osborne Association
Sakhi for South Asian Women
Mexican Coalition
Immigrant Rights Fund
Council of Peoples Organization
Mixteca Organization
StreetFamiliesVendor Project Surveillance Technology Oversight ProjectWorkersS.T.O.P. Justice Project
Brownsville Community Culinary Center Brownsville Community Justice Center Building
Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project
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Green City Force
Collaborative
Rising Up & Moving
Brooklyn College Community Partnership
Anti-Violence Education
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Green Guerillas
GroundswellNYCCommunity Mural
Arab American Association of New York
Arab-American Family Support Center
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Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy
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Wyckoff House Museum
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Sadie Nash Leadership Project
Good Call Project
for Gender Equity Girl Be Heard
Audre Lorde Project
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The Brave House
Dignity in Schools Campaign Drive
Black Women’s Blueprint
El Puente de Williamsburg
Red Hook Initiative
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Invest in Youth
Flex Dance Program
Safe Passage Project S.O.U.L Sisters Leadership Collective
Educational Video Center
Fifth Avenue Committee
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50Annual Impact Report 1. The Campaign Against Hunger 2. READ 718 3. Student Dream 4. Exalt Youth 5. Groundswell 6. Lineage Project 7. Extreme Kids & Crew 8. Girl Be Heard 9. Ruth’s Refuge 10. NYC Network for Worker Cooperatives 11. VOLS - Volunteers of Legal Service 12. NHS Brooklyn 13. Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A 14. Arab-American Family Support Center 15. Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility 16. Inspiring Minds NYC 17. Little Sun People 18. Arab American Association of New York 19. Mixteca Organization 20. Red Hook Initiative 21. Brooklyn Queens Land Trust 22. Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice and Healing 23. Teens of Color Abroad 24. Girls for Gender Equity 25. Fast Feet NYC Name DonorsAmount Raised 2021 #BROOKLYNGIVES ON GIVING TUESDAY Top 50 Fundraising Nonprofits at BrooklynGives.org $125,682.22$86,348.00$78,500.00$78,265.00$68,325.00$66,823.00$63,259.99$56,414.01$48,104.00$47,190.00$33,372.81$30,400.00$28,390.00$25,848.00$25,273.00$25,230.00$23,090.00$20,350.00$19,750.00$17,436.00$16,220.00$15,000.00$14,279.06$13,968.97$13,625.00 3232285511251135183849598287544587443105366862124409259165
51 2021 In Review. Strategic Grantmaking 26. Weeksville Heritage Center 27. Center for Community Alternatives 28. viBe Theater Experience 29. Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy 30. Black Women’s Blueprint 31. Brooklyn Book Bodega 32. Grow Brooklyn 33. Willie Mae Rock Camp 34. Brownsville Community Culinary Center 35. Navigate the Maze to Achievement 36. Sadie Nash Leadership Project 37. Sustainable United Neighborhoods 38. Brooklyn Free School 39. Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School 40. ¡OYE! GROUP 41. Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation 42. Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly 43. Access Justice Brooklyn 44. The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators 45. Youth Design Center 46. Fifth Avenue Committee 47. Center for Law and Social Justice 48. Brooklyn Community Services 49. Good Call NYC 50. Brooklyn Rescue Mission Urban Harvest Center Name $10,000.00$12,050.00$12,268.00$12,625.00$12,824.69$12,076.00$11,177.44$10,410.00$10,321.00$10,230.35$10,175.00$9,702.00$9,640.00$8,190.00$7,683.00$7,123.00$7,102.50$6,800.00$6,075.00$5,400.00$4,910.00$4,720.00$4,560.00$3,800.00$3,725.00 DonorsAmount Raised 1293047995883040263057974293336578631817293097
Annual Impact Report 52 Funds Donors&
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Fellerath Goodwin Fund
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Wilson Family Fund
The Pasta Rose Scholarship
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Darrow Family Fund
Christopher P. Santoro Scholarship Fund
Eichenthal Fellows Fund
College Opportunity Fund
Frankie Morris-Perez Memorial Scholarship
Drama Club Future Fund
Andrew Kimball Sarah Williams Fund
Barbara Edwards Delsman and Alan M. Delsman Fund
Etsy Impact Fund
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The Brock McGill Foundation
BREDS Fund II
Empowering Venerable Achievement Fund
Fishman Family Fund
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The Gratitude Fund
Joseph Mohbat Memorial Fund
Becker Family Fund
The Kaye Family Charitable Fund
Beacon Giving Group
Mamie and Justin Stewart Family Fund
Marti Family Fund
Bee Raw-Save the Bees
The Meyer-Minoff Family Fund
Gueron-Strickland Family Fund
The Moore Family Fund for Brooklyn My Leap to Possible
Brooklyn Branches Giving Circle
Etsy Uplift Fund
Judy and Henri Gueron Family Fund
Leo Max Fishman Janowitz Fund
Hinton Phillips Family Fund
Levitt Foundation Donor Advised Fund
Pelican Foundation for Creative Education
The Grace Fund
The Prism Fund
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John Raskin and Eric Schneider Fund
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BREDS Fund
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OUR DONORS
Kirven Family Fund
Donor Advised Funds
Rossman Family Fund
The Scout Fund Serescitos Fund
Samuel Fishman Fund
Wayne S. Mackie Memorial Fund
Schwartz Family Foundation
As of June 30, 2022
NYCNC Advised Fund
As of June 30, 2022
Taylor Marriott Family Fund
Yatrakis Family Fund Urban Youth Activist Fund
Board-Designated Endowed Funds
Sylvie Fishman Janowitz Fund
Stirrup Family Fund
Stone Wenk Cashion Family Fund
TheFundReeves-Walker Fund
San Filippo DAF
The Fund for the Health and Integrity of Seniors
Quincy and Nia Fund
A Better Brooklyn Fund
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The Rainey Scholarship
CABS Community Foundation
The Fishman Fund for Brooklyn
Roney Liu Brooklyn Impact Fund
Field of Interest Funds
Thigpen Hill Family Fund
TJFJ Fund for Children
Susan and Peter Restler
We Ride at Dawn Whoriskey Donor Advised Fund
The Cecilia Clarke Fund for Nonprofit Leaders
Stanford GSB Alumni for Black Lives
Rohit and Katharine Desai Family Foundation
Mamie and Justin Stewart Family Fund
The Warburg Pincus Foundation*
Roney Liu Brooklyn Impact Fund
The Sesek Giving Fund
Serescitos Fund
Oldenburg van Bruggen Foundation
Stardust Fund
Fishman Family Fund
Susan Beth Salo Foundation
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Ventress Family Foundation
Whoriskey Donor Advised Fund
Delsman and Alan M. Delsman Fund
The Moore Family Fund for Brooklyn The Morgridge Family Foundation
Margulf Foundation
The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund
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Starry Night Fund
PayPal Giving Fund
Gillespie Glant Family Fund
Marti Family Fund Mary J. Hutchins Foundation
The Bay and Paul Foundations
The Richard and Barbara Moore Family Foundation Roger S. Firestone Foundation
The Seedworks Fund
Darrow Family Fund
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The Commonwealth Fund* Cravens Foundation
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Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust
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Horace and Amy Hagedorn Fund
The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation Social Justice Fund
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Harman Family Foundation
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57 Funds & Donors. Foundation & Corporate Supporters American International Group (AIG)* BDT & Company* Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Cresco CumberlandLabs Packing Corporation Davis Polk & Wardwell* GrapevineGoogle*Etsy*IndustryCityKirkland&Ellis LLP McKinseyLinkedIn* & Company* MetroPlus Health Plan NationalMother* Grid New York Business Development CorporationPfizer*SantanderS&PGlobal*SelectEquity Group Foundation* Shag SiliconShopValley Bank The StopSpotify*SongSocialLaw&Stor Charitable Fund Take-Two Interactive Software TotemTerraCRG * Employee Matching Program
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OUR DONORS
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Judith and Alan Fishman ▲
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Erika and Paul
Linda Schrank
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Susan Sommer and Stephen Warnke
Eliza and James Rossman
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Lisa and Daniel Roth Shaheen Rushd
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Jolie Curtsinger Schwartz and Gabriel Schwartz ⬛
Lynne Sachs and Mark Street Magda Samborska-Murgio and David ConstanceMurgio and John BernadineMarcJenBethanyEdwardHillaryThomasKarinSargentSatromSauermilchWeismanandScarvaloneSchaidSchenkelandLapidusScherer
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Samuel Sittenfield
⬛ and David AnoukLiuand Matthew Roose
Emily Reisbaum and Scott
Bonne and John Mogulescu
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Barbara and Richard Moore ▲
Merrill Sovner and David RichardJenniferKevinCaryAndrewDanielEricksonSoyerH.W.SpharStathopoulosStaytonStearnsStegmaier
Constance ▲ and Theodore Roosevelt
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Jessica Schwartz
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Kaya Turan
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Cary Vaughan and Herbert MordecaiAsiyaVoorwindeRebeccaEilbergandMichaelWadudWalfish
Jessica Steinke
Susan and Robert Teich Marla RabbiTupperTepperThomasRachelTimoner
Andrew Winslow Joanne Witty and Eugene Keilin
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Judith Trenkner
Brenda and Solomon B. Watson IV
Carol Vadnai
Katherine Williams Kimberly and Daniel Williams
Sarah Williams ⬛ and Andrew Kimball
Diane ▲ and Joseph LisaSteinbergStenson Desamours
Monona Yin and Steve MarkZhi-DaFrancescaFahrerZaccheoZhongZimet Foundation Trustee
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Claudia and Edward KamyLolaWeissbergC.WestWicoff and Matthew CarmencitaKaplanWhonder ⬛
Manya Swick
Lisa and Frank Wohl Jonah Wolfson John AllisonKarenWorthleyWuandBenjamin Yarrow
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