#InvestInE4F to #KeepE4F OPEN in 2024

Dear Equality for Flatbush family and friends,

On 8/30, we were turned down for yet another significant grant, leaving E4F without any secured funding for the rest of 2024. We will have grant renewals for 2025, but our cash flow for the fall and winter of 2024 is completely uncertain.

Like so many community grassroots organizations, if we don't raise the funds for 2024, E4F will have to shut down. While we have drastically scaled back on providing emergency housing and funds, we still average $18K a month to pay for our office, elders' rents & mortgages, our payroll, and bills. Our goal is to raise $80K from now to January 30th.

At the same, Black and Brown New Yorkers are facing an increase in economic hardships, evictions, deed fraud, police violence and budget cuts . E4F is the only NYC group rapidly responding with financial aid for people experiencing emergency housing & rent crises. E4F is also the only Alternative to Calling 911 Hotline in NYC that rapidly responds to community crises to prevent police murders.

So we urgently are turning to our community for help.

Please #InvestInE4F to #KeepE4F on the frontlines in the fight against displacement, gentrification, and police violence in Brooklyn, NY.

If you think the work of E4F is important & vital, then please:

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Thank-you for your generosity !!

Our Mission:

Equality for Flatbush (E4F) is a Black Lives Matter organization that has fought gentrification, displacement, and police violence in Brooklyn, NY since 2013. We have only two goals: to end NYPD murders and to stop the displacement of low-to-middle-income people from Brooklyn, NY. Led by Black and Brown lifelong and longtime New Yorkers, E4F believes in the abolition of the police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and prisons.

E4F is a member-led grassroots organization made up of largely Black Caribbean women migrants and descendants of migrants of color. We have a holistic, trauma-informed approach to organizing that is steeped in the principles of: 1. demonstrating “revolutionary love,” 2. practicing kindness, 3. fighting relentlessly, and 4. “having each other’s backs.” We organize our communities for social justice and change through street outreach, social media campaigns, as well as political and direct action.

20 Facts about E4F:

1. Equality for Flatbush (E4F) is a Black Lives Matter organization that has fought gentrification, displacement, and police violence in Brooklyn, NY since 2013.

2. The majority of E4F leaders, activists, tenants, homeowners, etc. are Black Caribbean women migrants and descendants of migrants of color.

3. E4F is the only NYC group rapidly responding with financial aid for people experiencing emergency housing & rent crises. E4F is also the only Alternative to Calling 911 Hotline in NYC that rapidly responds to community crises to prevent police murders.

4. E4F’s first campaign was fighting the racial profiling, criminalization, and police harassment of Flatbush Ave & Utica Ave dollar van drivers and Church Ave dollar cab drivers.

5. E4F has supported the families of Kimani Gray, Kyam Livingston, Shantel Davis, Ramarley Graham, Akai Gurley, Delrawn Small, Eric Garner, Saheed Vassell, Dwayne Jeune, Eudes Pierre, Ronald Anthony Smith, Win Rozario, and many others in their campaigns for justice for their loved ones murdered by the NYPD.

6. E4F has saved 7 Black-owned businesses from displacement or helped them “move with dignity” since 2013.

7. E4F has been the police accountability group and cop watch team for Flatbush, East Flatbush & Crown Heights since 2014.

8. E4F initiated the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN) in 2015, that fought rezoning struggles in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan.

9. E4F started organizing tenant associations in 2015 and began working with homeowners in 2016.

10. Through Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network, E4F was part of the leadership of the 1st ever Brooklyn-wide March against Gentrification, Racism, & Police Violence in 2017.

11. After a year-long struggle, in 2018, E4F’s street vendor leadership stopped the NYPD ticketing and harassment of street vendors along the Church Ave & Flatbush Ave commercial corridors which continues to this day.

12. In 2019, E4F led a global grassroots organizing campaign that saved #227Duffield, a site on the Underground Railroad in Downtown Brooklyn.

13 . After 3 years of organizing, E4F freed Donvante Pressley, a survivor of a police shooting from Rikers Island and got all his charges dropped in 2019.

14. E4F made 2,816 deliveries of 7-15 bags of non-perishable groceries, household items, and Covid supplies to 30 BK neighborhoods from March 2020 - November 2021.

15. E4F raised $600,000 on its own and paid for funerals, hotel rooms, utility bills, metrocards, HIV medications, and monthly groceries for thousands of New Yorkers during the height of the pandemic.

16. In 2020, E4F successfully led a 5-day eviction defense at 1214 Dean Street & co-sponsored a Brooklyn-wide march in response to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

17. In 2022, E4F created its “Emergency Housing and Rental Assistance Fund,” in order to stop the displacement of elders, survivors of building fires, and violence.

18. E4F aided 17 people with emergency temporary housing, moving costs, and fire relief in Brooklyn and Queens as well as stopped the evictions of 24 people including elders and families with children in 2023.

19. In 2024, E4F launched a multi-lingual Judge Accountability Campaign to pick the "Worst 3 Judges in Brooklyn Housing Court."

20. As of August 2024, E4F responded to over 350 incidents of police violence and violence against women, elders, QTPOC, street vendors, etc.

Please #InvestInE4F so we can keep doing our work and build a stronger Equality for Flatbush.