Please join CitizensNYC and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso at our upcoming Brooklyn Borough Huddle.

Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!

8.09.22

Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!

7.26.22

Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!

Free-ish

Join CitizensNYC to learn how to navigate local New York City government to protect the rights of all New Yorkers. Our special guest speaker, newly appointed Manhattan Community Board 1 member, Desi K. Robinson, will discuss how to mobilize our communities to understand and participate in hyper-local government to protect Black rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and Women’s rights.

Violence Will Not Make Us Safe!

What does public safety mean to your community? Public safety is programs or activities implemented by a public agency (directly or indirectly) for the safety, protection, law enforcement and criminal justice of the public. Included in this should be mental health.

Community Gardens: Fertile Ground for Environmental Justice

Community gardens and the gardeners who care for them contribute to the environmental sustainability, public health, and community resilience of their neighborhoods and cities.

#WomenSupportWomen: Network Weaving to Build Your Dream

We don’t go far without each other. Want to launch a business, nonprofit, or other dream?

All in for Community Health

Our one-day Ideas Summit convenes and connects grassroots community leaders, academics, elected officials, strategists, and community residents, working toward the public good of New York City.

Interested in getting to know a new neighborhood in New York? Check out this walking tour itinerary for exploring Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Referred to as “Mother Earth” by the New York Daily Times, Ena K. McPherson is a retired financial assistant that holds the keys to three community gardens in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Awarded the President’s Call to Service Award by the White House, Brenda Duchene’s founded Isabhalia Ladies of Elegance in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

As the president of the Resident Association of Lafayette Gardens, Tyree Stanback seeks to create a positive difference in the lives of residents and the community of Lafayette Gardens.

Sheryll Durrant works alongside Kelly Street Garden Committee in providing opportunity for all community members to take part in gardening.

Marissa Gutiérrez-Vicario has worked alongside several non-profit organization before creating her own, Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE).

Brooklyn native Amma Oloriwaa! works with Egbe Iwa Odo'kunrin Egbe Iwa Odo'binrin in preparing and empowering youth in New York City to assume age appropriate responsibilities.

Rodney Deas, aka "Radio Rahim" is a long-time activist in Brooklyn. He has been in the entertainment industry for decades, involved in radio and producing; he was involved in the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement and co-founded the Paul Robeson Freedom School in Bedford Stuyvesant.

Our grantees are shifting gears to meet the most urgent needs of their community. Here is API&!’s story.

Organizer, and preservationist, Zulmilena Then is the founder of Preserving East New York (PENY) an organization whose mission is to advocate for historic preservation for the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York and its subsections.

Survey conducted by Citizens Committee reveals greatest needs, challenges among the New York City's most vulnerable communities