Top 5 Brooklyn Nonprofits Named Winners of Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Annual $100,000 Spark Prize
Brooklyn Community Foundation has selected the top five social justice nonprofit organizations of 2019 to receive its annual $100,000 Spark Prize, the only honor celebrating the most pioneering organizations advancing equity in the borough. The winning organizations—the first prize cohort to be entirely woman-led—will receive their awards at the Foundation’s Spark Breakfast on February 28, 2019 in Brooklyn.
The 2019 Brooklyn Community Foundation Spark Prize Winners:
· The Campaign Against Hunger
· Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation
· Girls for Gender Equity
· Red Hook Community Justice Center
· VOCAL-NY
Brooklyn Community Foundation convened 35 leaders from Brooklyn’s civic, business, and philanthropic communities to select the five winners from a competitive pool of more than 120 applicants, awarding a total of $600,000, including $100,000 in general operating support to each of the winners, as well as $5,000 each to the top 20 finalists as part of its #BrooklynGives campaign on Giving Tuesday in November 2018...