Our Mission
Brooklyn Communities Collaborative (BCC) envisions a Brooklyn where all communities are healthy, economically sound, culturally vibrant, and civically engaged.
Our mission is to promote health equity in Brooklyn neighborhoods. Working across silos, BCC empowers communities and engages partners to develop and implement innovative strategies that address complex systemic challenges.
BCC advances this mission through:
Connecting Partners
Strengthening Communities.
Research
Driven by participatory action research (PAR), engaging community members in identifying needs and solutions, to directly inform priorities and programs.
Convening
A trusted intermediary, BCC mobilizes a strategic network of partners, all working towards a common goal of health and wealth equity.
Incubation
BCC incubates and advances multi-sector initiatives to eliminate inequities in life expectancy and improve quality of life.
BCC is anchored by major Brooklyn institutions and driven by community voice.
BCC advances the Anchor Mission approach, encouraging cornerstone institutions with significant economic and human capital to collectively support the communities where they are rooted. Our anchor institution partners are hospitals and universities with a large economic and human capital presence.
BCC supports anchor institutions in using their procurement, real estate, employment, and coordination capacity to help drive impact.
BCC’s strategy is driven by the Brooklyn community through participatory action research and a wide-reaching network of nearly 100 community-based organizations.
Our Partners
