Brooklyn Org Listens Neighborhood to Neighborhood

Brooklyn Org Listens Neighborhood to Neighborhood Video

Brooklyn Org leaders describe Listening Tours and other efforts to integrate the knowledge and ideas of people in the community into everything the foundation does. This short video also features community members talking about what it means to have a platform for their voices and the opportunity to be part of the change they want to see in their neighborhoods.

Video by Edward Valibus
Additional Videography by Alex Pilkington
Still photography provided by Brooklyn Org

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Dr. Jocelynne Rainey (lower left), president and CEO of Brooklyn Org, participates in a Listening Tour session in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

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