BKG Community Resources
Resources for Families
Food Support
- Get Food NYC: Map of free pantries, mutual aid, and free groceries throughout the city
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Sign Up
- New York Temporary Assistance to help families in need pay for their expenses
Housing Support
- Legal Aid Society Brooklyn: Legal support for tenants
- Crown Heights Tenant Union: Tenant group that organizes around rent overcharges, abusive landlords, and gentrification
- Affordable Housing Map of NYC from NYC HDC
- Transitional and Supportive Housing from The Center for Urban Community
- List of Shelters for women, families, and individuals in Brooklyn
Job Support
- Restaurant Opportunity free classes for training in front of house and back of house restaurant jobs
- WomenNYC Find A Job
- Nurses for Our Future Scholarship for CUNY and SUNY
- Free CNA Trainings in NYC
- Free Home Health Aid Trainings in NYC
- Unemployment Assistance from the State of New York
- Free Security Guard Training Courses
- Summer Youth Employment Project 2023 Application
- Office of Continuing Education Adult Career and Vocational Support
Sustainability Opportunities
- Free Compost Drop Off Sites form Grow NYC
- Clothing Drop off Sites from Grow NYC
- Stop ‘N’ Swap: free clothing and household goods exchange
- Farmers Markets and sliding scale Farm Boxes from Grow NYC
- BuyNothing groups for free neighborhood exchanges of miscellaneous gifts
- Brooklyn Community Garden Map
Enrichment Activities
- Free English as a Second Language classes from Laguardia Community College Continuing Education
- The Brooklyn Public Library Virtual Programming
- Culture Pass: Free entrance into dozens of museums, zoos, and cultural attractions
Summer Activities
- Camp Half Blood
- Radical Living Free Gardening, Cooking, and Environmental Justice Summer Camp
- Trailblazers Adventure Camp
- City Growers Sustainability Summer in the Soil Camp
- YMCA Summer Camp
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Summer Camps in the mountains
- Kiddie Science Summer Camp
- Girls Who Code Summer Immersion
- Long Lake Camp: Theater Camp
- Queens Museum Big Time Summer Art Thing Camp
- American Museum of Natural History Science Camp
- Camp History at the Dimenna Children's History Museum
- Lenox Hill History Weeks
