Join us for Kindness Party!

Kindness Party has one purpose: to bring neighbors in Brownsville together to take care of each other like family. It’s orchestrated by Brownsville residents, for Brownsville residents and features free food and drink, music, giveaways, resources, and more!

It’s happening on August 12th from Noon-6pm at Glenmore Plaza (108 Christopher Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11212). All are welcome!

Partners Providing Free Resources at Kindness Party.

Glenmore Plaza is hosting Kindness Party. Their residents have organized their repair needs and this event is happening in large part to celebrate NYCHA's completing requested repairs.
Brooklyn Public Library is joining us to distribute books and share resources for parents and kids.
Council Member Sandy Nurse's office has helped us reach out to partners and will be making a special presentation at this event.
Tribeca Pediatrics will be providing free physicals for children at Kindness Party, as well as information about keeping healthy!
Brooklyn Book Bodega is providing 500 books to be given away at Kindness Party!
Carefully helps you build networks of people who you trust to look after your kids when you need it using an app. They'll be providing information about how their process works, so you can use your own network of trust to get free childcare.
United For Brownsville will be helping parents learn about ways to cover the costs of childcare. They'll also be facilitating activities and games for kids at Kindness Party!
Wiggle Room helps you find childcare providers near you through their CareFinder app. They'll be helping participants find childcare options for them at Kindness Party!
The Family Justice Center of Brooklyn, part of the Mayor's office, offers holistic support for survivors of domestic violence, ranging from legal support to safe housing support to rental assistance and more.
The Pitkin BID is a network of Brownsville businesses on Pitkin Avenue!
BCS works in neighborhoods impacted by systemic poverty. We believe all Brooklynites should have the resources, education, opportunities, and safety they need to thrive. At Kindness Party, BCS will be doing health screens and giving away gift cards
"Grow Brownsville" is a direct response to the need for shifts in food culture, healthy food access, entrepreneurial training, and the ability to obtain these things for ourselves. It's started by Universe City, who operates a 5,000 square foot aquap
Riseboro provides assistance in paying rent as well as help in securing other benefits.
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The Brownsville Community Justice Center works to reduce crime and incarceration, and strengthen community trust in justice in central Brooklyn.
The Community Action Network works to promote wellness and provide strategies for handling stress, which has been linked to maternal health and well-being. It brings together community residents, community-based organizations and City agencies that l
Helping NYC compost!
The New York Aquarium is giving away 200 tickets at Kindness Party!

Meet your neighbors, dance, eat free food, and laugh!

Community members are preparing enough free food to feed all who attend with options for diets of all kids. We’ll have a local DJ, but also performances from poets and singers, in the community as well.

Partners at Kindness Party are providing free resources!

  • Wiggle Room can help you find affordable childcare options near you.

  • Brooklyn Book Bodega is giving away over 500 kids’ books.

  • The New York Aquarium is giving away 200 free tickets.

  • United For Brownsville will be sharing information on how to afford childcare or secure a childcare voucher.

  • The Brooklyn Public Library will be signing people for library cards and sharing summer workbooks.

  • NYCHA will be collecting repair needs and sharing information about housing.

  • Riseboro will be providing support with rental assistance and securing SNAP.

  • GrowNYC will be giving away kitchen compost containers and free bags of finished compost for gardening.

  • And so much more!

Kindness Party is also a celebration to

Help Glenmore Plaza residents secure housing repairs.

One of the reasons for Kindness Party is to demonstrate the power communities have when we come together. The residents of Glenmore Plaza have been organizing to collect repair needs from apartments across the building. They’ve shared these repair needs with NYCHA and organized this celebration of NYCHA completing many of these repairs. By coming to this party, you’ll stand in solidarity with your neighbors aspiring for better quality housing. We hope that this Kindness Party is just the start and that we can support other housing developments across Brownsville do the same, since so many apartments need attention across the neighborhood. Check out the blog post below to learn more.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does it cost to attend?

Nothing! The event is free and open to everyone in the community. In fact, we’ll have free food and giveaways as well!

What's the purpose of Kindness Party?

The purpose of this event is to come together. When we know our neighbors, we increase the chances that we make friends who we can count on for support. We find playmates for our children. We discover resources that can sustain us. We have fun.

We’re organizing this party for four reasons:

  1. To have fun! Let’s not bury the lead. This is a celebration of the neighborhood and everything beautiful within it. We will have games for kids, food and drink, music and dancing, art, and more.

  2. As a service to Brownsville. We believe that no one is going to take care of Brownsville like the people of Brownsville. But it’s hard to take care of our community if we don’t know the magic it has to offer. This simple event is a way to see so much of what Brownsville has to offer and what we can tap into. That’s why we’ve gotten partners to turn up to share resources and provide free food, drink, and resources.

  3. To get needed housing repairs done. Brownsville is the largest concentration of public housing developments in the United States, and a lot of people live in NYCHA buildings. Many of these buildings have not gotten the repairs that they need. We’re testing an approach of organizing a celebration to give NYCHA a strong reason for making repairs, this time at Glenmore Plaza. Glenmore residents came together and knocked on doors to collect repair needs for people from across the building. They compiled those repair needs into a spreadsheet and shared them with NYCHA, indicating that they were planning a celebration with the community and local press in three months’ time to honor the completion of the repairs. The process has been working! NYCHA has been working quickly to make repairs at Glenmore Plaza. As this approach proves successful, we’d like to expand it to serve other buildings in the neighborhood. You can read more in this blog post.

  4. To grow participation in GatherFor: Brownsville. We’re a 501c3 nonprofit that’s been trying a new approach in Brownsville. We organize neighbors into teams of 5-7 to support each other like family. These teams meet a few times a month to share stories, connect each other to resources, and more. We then link these “Neighbor Teams” to each other to build the neighborhood they want, since they have power together in community. Our current participants helped organize this Kindness Party and are interested in sharing their experience with others interested in learning more in the community.

Who's organizing this event?

Kindness Party is a collaboration between the Glenmore Plaza Residents’ Association and GatherFor: Brownsville. It was inspired by a friend of GatherFor, Jordan Reeves, who originally threw a neighborhood block party in Williamsburg called Kindness Party to build community trust and increase safety.