Advocacy

Yesterday’s announcement from Mayor Adams’ administration and New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is a step in the right direction, and we are grateful that nonprofits will now receive expedited payments on crucial work that has kept this city alive. 

Brooklyn Community Foundation and our fellow GoVoteNYC funder collaborative members are proud to announce $475,000 in grants for nonpartisan get-out-the-vote activities to nine New York City-based nonprofits.

Today’s Supreme Court decision will roll back the progress our country has made in the fight for racial justice and educational equity. 

Funding from our Welcome NYC partnership has come at a critical time: Title 42 expired last month, setting countless refugees and asylum seekers — whose lives and well-being already hang in the balance — along increasingly uncertain paths.

After three years of public campaigning, Los Deliveristas Unidos—an organizing arm of our 2023 Spark Prize winner Worker's Justice Project—are celebrating a huge legislative win for app-based delivery workers’ minimum pay rates.