Brooklyn Community Services

A project that engages young people, primarily immigrant youth, in activities to help them develop job skills, improve their academic performance, and become community leaders.

Bridge Street Development Corporation

A civic engagement and internship program for youth interested in public service, service learning, leadership development, and activism.

Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project

An entrepreneurship and mentoring program that connects NYCHA youth with their first jobs at small businesses along Myrtle Avenue.

Green City Force

A service and training program that aims to create ladders to careers in the green economy for NYCHA youth, focused on development of two urban farms.

Young New Yorkers

Operating Support to provide art-based transformative justice programs to court-involved young people, with the ultimate goal of empowering them to transform the criminal justice system through their own creative voices.

Vernon Avenue Project/Reconnect

Operating Support for the neighborhood-based entrepreneurship program in Central Brooklyn which creates jobs that serve as the engagement point for court-involved young men.

Drive Change

Operating support for a unique food service employment model for formerly incarcerated youth. Drive Change aims to build a food truck commissary/garage in Central Brooklyn through which other food trucks will hire young people out of its program.

Common Justice: Vera Institute of Justice

Operating support for Common Justice, an innovative victim service and alternative-to-incarceration program based on restorative justice principles that works with young people who commit violent felonies and those they harm.

Center for NuLeadership

Support to advance planning for Bedford-Stuyvesant Human Justice Initiative, an arrest diversion pilot program in partnership with the NYPD, 79th Precinct, and NYC Office of Probation.

Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services

Support for Brooklyn Youth Justice Programs in Downtown Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Coney Island, which help young people avoid contact with the criminal justice system, detention, incarceration, and recidivism by providing education and employment services, behavioral health treatment, community service projects, and links to other community-based providers.

Invest in Youth Grant Program