East Brooklyn Congregations

EAST BROOKLYN CONGREGATIONS

EBC is a broad-based, multi-racial, non-partisan, grassroots community organization made up of 32 dues paying member institutions (churches, schools, neighborhood associations and a mosque), located primarily in the East New York, Brownsville, Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant, and other communities. EBC’s purpose is to help ordinary people from our member institutions gain the power to engage in the process of public decision-making. They use this power to win improvements on specific issues of importance to them and to improve the quality of life in Brooklyn. This work also strengthens our member institutions.

Since its founding in 1980, EBC has won victories on many issues of great importance to our member institutions and to the people of Brooklyn generally. The victories have been in areas such as:

Affordable housing preservation and construction, including over 3,000 affordable Nehemiah Homes, with 1,400 more under construction;
Education reform, such as establishing two new small, high-quality schools;
Tenant organizing, forcing repairs in many private buildings;
Public Safety, organizing teams to work with and hold NYPD accountable;
Consumer organizing, forcing local grocery stores to improve the condition of their stores; and
Improvement of Transportation Infrastructure, and many other issues.

EBC’s most important accomplishment has been the development of hundreds of leaders, from all ethnic, religious and socioeconomic groups in our communities, who were and are the driving force behind all the aforementioned campaigns and victories.

EBC is an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), the oldest and largest community-organizing network in the US. IAF, which has over 55 affiliates in the US, Great Britain, Canada and Germany, including four organizations in New York City, provides supervision, training, and consultation.

EBC is also taking a lead role in the Metro Industrial Areas Foundations "10 % is Enough!" campaign, to reinstate anti-usury laws (caps on interest rates).

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