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Offline Kid Time, Inc.

Nonprofit corporation providing free membership to parents wanting their children to have another alternative to screen time that fosters imagination, creativity and community.

 

NEEDS: $52,212 of 52,212
Building Compost System with New Americans

Invigorate Soil Ecology Through Compost Technology

Good soil makes healthy plants I Good soil makes strong communities I Good soil makes our city ecologically strong

NEEDS: $18,960 of 19,060

Help Support Another Year of the Parkside Plaza 2021

Help us maintain a beautiful Parkside! We need your support to continue to keep the plaza and its flowers, benches, tables and programming running for 2021.

NEEDS: $4,131 of 5,191 + Volunteers

Winter Block Party

Spending time outside and building relationships.

NEEDS: $1,031 of 1,031

Flatbush Senior Housing Mutual Aid: Winter Fundraiser

Help us safely provide monthly groceries and PPE to older adults in Flatbush, Brooklyn

NEEDS: $2,414 of 21,031

Help Purchase A 1-Year Supply of Audio Headsets for Ready, Willing & Able Trainees on Job Search!

The Doe Fund's 5-week Career Success Strategies class culminates in a virtual mock interview event where each trainee needs audio equipment to participate in the virtual event. 

NEEDS: $1,693 of 4,639
Food Ready for Packing

People In Need - COVID19 Food Insecurity Campaign

Your contribution buys fresh food for low income families and the elderly who have lost income as a result of COVID-19. A two week care-box of items worth $50 provides 60 pounds of food.

NEEDS: $2,882 of 16,000 + Volunteers
A group of volunteers gets ready for their Saturday deliveries

Clinton Hill Fort Greene Mutual Aid

Clinton Hill Fort Greene Mutual Aid is a coalition of neighbors organizing to support each other through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

NEEDS: $3,674 of 100,000 + Volunteers

Crown Heights Mutual Aid

Crown Heights Mutual Aid is a network of neighbors supporting one another through this pandemic and the ongoing crises of climate change, state violence, and inequality, with a focus on addressing food insecurity.

NEEDS: $112,325 of 350,000 + Volunteers

Easy Activism: Fundraising for Black Mental Health

Our goal is to raise $50k for one month of free, individualized therapy for 200+ Black people. All funds will pay BIPOC therapists who are healing the community while also facing collective trauma.

NEEDS: $6,801 of 50,000
Two hands on either side of the words "Neighbors Looking Out for Each Other" in English and Spanish

Red Hook Mutual Aid

We are a small corps of concerned Red Hookers committed to making supplies, resources, and information as accessible, inclusive, and comprehensive as possible. 

NEEDS: $6,969 of 20,619

Bed-Stuy Strong’s Mutual Aid Community Fund

Formed in response to the COVID-19 crisis, Bed-Stuy Strong is a mutual aid network of neighbors from all walks of life that support each other in solidarity. 

NEEDS: $41,413 of 600,000

Grocery Stipends

Restuarant service workers raising funds for weekly grocery stipends and monthly rent relief, prioritizing those who cannot access unemployment benefits.

NEEDS: $10,689 of 55,000
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South Brooklyn Mutual Aid

We're building solidarity not charity and supporting our communities in South Brooklyn during the COVID-19 crisis. 

NEEDS: $82,962 of 400,000 + Volunteers
We buy and deliver groceries to our neighbors

East Brooklyn Mutual Aid Network

We deliver groceries or free to our neighbors affected by COVID-19 in East Brooklyn.

NEEDS: $25,983 of 102,585 + Volunteers

Jeremiah Program Brooklyn: No Family Left Behind

Jeremiah Program Brooklyn is proven organization whose mission is to disrupt poverty for single mothers and their children, two generations at a time, through education, safe housing, and early childhood development

NEEDS: $54,320 of 55,670 + Volunteers
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Coney Island Storefront Gates Community Art Murals

Enriching Coney Island's commercial landscape with public art that expresses its vibrant history, culture, and diversity through the creative eyes of the community artists - past, present and future.

NEEDS: $10,325 of 10,345

Save 3BC

3 Black Cats Cafe has come to a crossroad and needs your support to determine its future in Brownsville. 

NEEDS: $76,935 of 77,285

East New York Dog Lovers Dog friendly Ground Community Garden

 A dog friendly space where everything that's grown is pet friendly. Creating a garden to bring dog owners together in a safe space.

NEEDS: $9,559 of 9,821

El Puente's 6th Annual ¡Wepa! Festival

El Puente's ¡WEPA! Festival is a Latino community festival in the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn produced by El Puente's Green Light District and CADRE (Community Artist Network).

NEEDS: $4,989 of 5,185 + Volunteers

Brownsville Community Studio

A youth operated, state of the art, community music studio and industry incubator creating youth led community change, innovation, and cultural investment. 

 

 

 

NEEDS: $6,940 of 10,335 + Volunteers

Fighting for the Integrity of Historic Districts–Preserving The 1870 Dean Sage Residence

We need your help to pay legal fees. Help us overturn LPC's decision to permit contruction of a residential building over the garden of the Historic 1870 Dean Sage Residence. 

NEEDS: $21,010 of 21,060
Exact replica of Units to be purchased from SENTRY (brand) to keep our park & sidewalks clean!

The 'HopScotch Blues'

Purchase 3 Dog Waste Disposal Systems, Quell Summonses received by Dog Owners, Repair and Encourage relations between Non-Dog Owners/Dog Owners in 'Common Areas' in Lincoln Terrace Park.

 

NEEDS: $710 of 760 + Volunteers

Gowanus Curbside Rain Garden

A rain garden, alive with hardy native plants, could bring this Brooklyn street to life and spark an affordable, replicable model of beauty, sustainability, and resiliency.

NEEDS: $3,175 of 3,275

PS 705/Exceed Campus Edible Teaching Garden

We hope that our garden will flourish for years to come and become an integral part of the curriculum at PS 705 and Exceed Charter school, and inspire our community to beautify other areas of our campus.

NEEDS: $5,165 of 5,435 + Volunteers

Feed the Farm Share

Support the subsidized share program for Crown Heights Farm Share, to bring healthy, fresh food to more families. If every member of the CSA gives $25, we can reach 50 families in our neighborhood next season.

NEEDS: $4,294 of 5,435

BKROT: Home Compost Collection and Youth Employment

BKROT employs youth to collect compost from Bushwick residents. It is designed as a local opportunity for community-wide education and economic empowerment for local youth.

NEEDS: $3,843 of 3,923 + Volunteers

Espiritu Tierra Community Garden water harvesting/rain garden

The rain garden and water harvesting system will help to secure the health of a community garden and neighborhood.

NEEDS: $3,607 of 3,834 + Volunteers

The Fire Escape Club

The Fire Escape Club will unite and support fire escape gardeners in Crown Heights!

NEEDS: $755 of 756 + Volunteers

Shore Road Community Compost Collection Site

The Yellow Hook CSA and Narrows Botanical Gardens will build and maintain a community compost collection site to turn residential food scraps and wastes from the NBG into compost to be used at the NBG.

NEEDS: $1,413 of 1,533 + Volunteers

Help Green City Force get wheels!

Help GCF get wheels, supporting Corps Members as they provide low-income residents with low-cost measures and education that can lower utility bills, while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

NEEDS: $1,293 of 2,095

Human Impacts Home

We will open up the rooftop, basement, backyard and storefront of our headquarters in South Willamsburg for green building education!

NEEDS: $5,927 of 6,009 + Volunteers

A Small Green Patch - Community space and garden

A Small Green Patch: Raising money to help maintain A Small Green Patch, maintaining the garden and booking musical guests throughout the summer.

NEEDS: $2,444 of 3,275

PLANT - GROW - GIVE

PLANT - GROW - GIVE by MERCY HOME, Lifeskills, Lifelong

NEEDS: $1,210 of 2,140

Birds Chirping Rather Than Gunshots

We will organize residents  and collaborate with other volunteer groups and build tree guards and start taking care of the trees on our block.

NEEDS: $96 of 464 + Volunteers

Heritage Compost Project

Educate the neighborhood and reclaim organic waste.

NEEDS: $1,055 of 1,065

Plumb Beach Earth Day cleanup

Join us on Earth Day to make Plumb Beach a cleaner, better place for humans and wildlife.

NEEDS: $248 of 258 + Volunteers

Educating faith communities about food justice at the Brooklyn Food Conference

We will be workshop facilitators and panelists, discussing food justice issues and how NYC’s faith community can engage with issues surrounding food justice. 

 

 

 

NEEDS: $239 of 309

Electric Car

Build an Electric vehicle for the delivery of raw ice cream.  A local ice cream manufacturer in New York.

 

NEEDS: $2,100 of 2,160

Living City Brooklyn Gowanus

We envision an ultra-creative street sign project that marries destination pointers and green infrastructure elements such as stormwater management, green energy, alternative transportation. 

NEEDS: $3,918 of 4,160

Chicken Apprenticeship Workshops

The Chicken Apprenticeship will teach community members the basics of raising hens in the city. The Apprenticeship includes hands on workshops independent work with the hens, readings and field trips.

NEEDS: $614 of 1,315 + Volunteers

More Green For Less Green

Access to fresh produce is severely limited in the Bed-Stuy/Brownsville/Ocean Hill area.

NEEDS: $1,544 of 2,160 + Volunteers

Eating Healthy in Bed-Stuy

Global warming is demanding that humans acquire new consumption habits fast.

NEEDS: $2,222 of 3,450

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Ivette Bledsoe, Firefly Trail Inc., Athens, GA
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