Community-based non-profits in Brooklyn

The Julia Koch Family Foundation has given grants to Brooklyn Youth Sports Club, 78 Youth Sports, New Heights NYC, Brooklyn Book Bodega, and READ 718. These non-profits are dedicated to promoting educational engagement, college preparedness, literacy, and athletics in Brooklyn's underserved communities. Brooklyn Youth Sports Club and New Heights NYC are Brooklyn-based organizations that aim to promote academic success and college preparedness through a passion for basketball. 78 Youth Sports provides summer camps and youth sports programs in basketball, baseball, softball, and flag football. Brooklyn Book Bodega is dedicated to providing books to families in less affluent neighborhoods and erasing Brooklyn's "book deserts." And READ 718 is a non-profit that provides one-on-one tutoring, among other literacy classes and workshops, to close the literacy gap in Brooklyn.