Emma’s Torch provides culinary apprenticeships, as well as support and placement services to refugees in the food service industry in New York City. Students learn and interface with the public in two locations: a café at the Brooklyn Library and a catering/restaurant location in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

The Flatbush Tenant Coalition (TFC) is the tenant organizing initiative of Flatbush Development Corp., a 48-year-old community-based organization serving Flatbush, East Flatbush, and South Crown Heights through housing, economic development, and youth-centered initiatives. TFC  supports tenant associations and leaders in building tenant power for safe, healthy, and affordable housing.

Gotham Food Pantry's mission is to advance food justice by rescuing and redistributing surplus food to underserved communities, primarily focusing on low-income public housing complexes in New York City.

Life of Hope has been providing services to predominantly Afro-Caribbean immigrant population of Brooklyn since 2006. The Haitian Women’s Birth Equity Program provides case management support and is dedicated to ensuring Haitian women, regardless of immigration status, have access to the resources they need for a safe, healthy pregnancy and birth.

Meals For Good works with food pantries and community based organizations to help alleviate food insecurity in New York City. They provide vouchers to help people obtain the groceries they need and raise money to work with community based organizations in all five boroughs. Meals for Good also gives grants, for local and regional produce, to underfunded pantries.

Mixteca serves Indigenous and Latinx immigrants primarily undocumented, non-citizens or belonging to mixed-status families. Facing issues like lack of affordable housing, social isolation, chronic or acute health problems, low wages and often living in overcrowded multi-family households, they offer programs in Education, Health, Immigration, Mental Health through tailored individual counseling, support groups and community healing.

Mom for Moms’ mission is to empower single mothers by providing critical postpartum and newborn essentials to lessen the stress that comes with living in poverty.

North Brooklyn Angels has been feeding meals to the Brooklyn community since 2017. Through their mobile kitchen, they regularly serves up to 2,000 hot, healthy meals a week at nine locations in North Brooklyn.

People in Need (PIN) began as a morning drop-in center for immigrant moms from that school and, after school, for their children to get homework help. PIN shifted to food security during the pandemic, reaching over 2,500 families including survivors of domestic violence and home-bound elderly, primarily South-Asian, Latino, and Black. Ongoing programs include Immigrant Women’s Empowerment, Youth Development, Healthy Living and Food Security.

RaisingHealth Partners (formerly Academy of Medical and Public Health Services) started in 2010 as a volunteer-run organization in Sunset Park. Today RaisingHealth provides health services and resources to 10,000 community members including mental health counseling, community health screenings, social services programming, support with acquiring low-cost insurance, and self-defense and bystander intervention training.

Ruth’s Refuge provides home furnishings and essentials to refugees and asylum seekers in New York City. They welcome these families by providing them with apartment furnishings and other home essentials in partnership with local resettlement agencies. Volunteers donate furniture, buy new appliances and linens, load moving trucks, assemble furniture and bring love and welcome into the homes of newcomers.

The Brave House is a community of support for young immigrant women and gender-expansive youth, ages 16-24, in New York City, with a focus on survivors of gender-based violence. They provide free legal aid, community events, and holistic services, including leadership training, one-on-one advocacy, wellness classes, job and school assistance, support for new and expecting moms, and much more.

The Family Center’s mission is to strengthen families impacted by illness, crisis or loss to create a more secure present and future for their children. Their interdisciplinary model includes social, legal, behavioral health and mental health services. They serve over 2,100 families, over 95% of who receive Medicaid, live on incomes below the federal poverty threshold and face chronic illnesses and emotional health challenges. The LeeKong Institute specializes in family services for children and teens.

Thompson Drive was founded In 2021 to help steer teenagers growing up in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn towards positive life choices before becoming victims to derailing neighborhood influences. They provide individualized case management combined with group life skills activities to help teenagers develop attitudes, behaviors, and skills that lead to self-directed educational, career, and personal development.