01 | PROJECTS
In our neighborhoods, displacement, climate vulnerability, and economic exclusion are not separate crises, so our work isn’t separate either.
Each project below is a way into the same ecosystem - where all members of our communities are thriving and connected.
Long-time residents lead. Newer neighbors and allies who are tired of being bystanders to gentrification are invited to put their capital and their hands toward keeping this land in community hands for generations.
MEMORY + HEALING
THE CORRIDOR transcends preservation - it actively weaves a cultural and economic ecosystem that prevents the displacement of Black people in Brooklyn while safeguarding and nurturing our Black history, culture creation, and evolution.
Together, we examine painful and complicated histories so that we can learn their lessons, and design better.
Projects: The Beacon and The Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition
MAKING + COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS
At GrowHouse, art and making are how we build power. We see utopia as a verb - a process of dreaming, designing, trying, learning and unlearning, and refining.
Our space on Marcus Garvey Boulevard gives members a place to work and create, along with access to the lab’s tools, and we’re working toward shared ownership and governance by the people who use and staff it.
LAND + STEWARDSHIP
In 1838, free Black families in what is now Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights bought land, built homes, and governed the community they called Weeksville. Decades later, students at Tuskegee designed their campus and then built it with their own hands. In both places, land and institution, knowing and making, were inseparable.
Our work incubating the BLAC Land Trust (Black Land Access Community Land Trust) continues this rich legacy.
LEARNING + LEADERSHIP
For youth and the young-at-heart, we provide spaces and experiences to grow and learn together.
We aim to demystify processes and concepts so that the most marginalized communities gain power.
Because when our communities win, we all do.
Projects: Common Ground Internship, Common Wealth CLT Onboarding
