Brooklyn Communities Collaborative

Strong Communities fund: in 2022, bcc continued its regranting program through the strong Communities fund to conduct pertinent covid-19 outreach and to improve accessibility for vaccination and testing. Bcc also hosted its first in-person convening in june, bringing together many of Brooklyn's most vital organizations and institutions to advance our collective strategy to build health and wealth in Brooklyn. The theme for the day-long session, "connecting partners and strengthening Communities," underpinned much of bcc's work throughout the year, with 65 participants representing 40 different organizations, including cbos, hospitals, government agencies, and foundations. Lastly, bcc partnered with resilia, a new orleans-based and black female-founded tech company, for a technical assistance program. This pilot partnership includes 27 of bcc's cbo partners now receiving live coaching, peer-to-peer learning programs, and unlimited access to an online training and resource platform to help build leadership, advance operations, and maximize community impact.

Brooklyn health enterprise hub: in 2022, bcc launched the first cohort of its economic democracy fellowship, a partnership between bcc and the city university of new york intended to promote economic democracy and racial equity in Brooklyn. The fellowship is an academic credit-bearing certificate program of seminars, training, and fieldwork providing participants with the background, frameworks and networks needed to develop enterprises, with a focus on those addressing Brooklyn's healthcare system. The inaugural cohort of six brooklyn-based fellows are working on areas highly relevant to bcc's goals, including healthy food, housing and the built environment, and green energy and infrastructure. This year bcc also completed an analysis and assessment of procurement data from two of our key anchor institutions, maimonides medical center and the one Brooklyn health system.

Healthy housing initiative: in 2022, bcc developed and launched the first cohort of the property management and stewardship of the healthy built environment fellowship. The fellowship was designed in partnership with east new york restoration corporation and aims to train and place community members as skilled professionals in property management in vital Brooklyn developments and other buildings in central Brooklyn. Bcc and its partners developed a curriculum encompassing traditional property management functions with enhanced content on housing-as-healthcare, leadership development, community building and stewardship of the overall neighborhood environment.