Launched in 2020, The Brooklyn Economic Justice Project (BEJP) is a groundbreaking community-based economic justice accelerator, providing multi-year funding, capacity-building support, thought partnership, and a facilitated community of practice to organizations working toward anti-gentrification and economic liberation.

BEJP was launched in 2020 with the support of The New York Women’s Foundation and in partnership with Fondation Chanel as a multi-year initiative designed to create a platform for different powerful organizations focused on interrupting the damaging impacts of gentrification while promoting economic prosperity for women, transgender, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary (TGNCNB) people and their families in Central Brooklyn. 

At its core, BEJP is dedicated to advancing economic justice by fostering systems change through local community-led action. It invests in organizations that challenge the status quo and contribute to developing new economic models that promote long-term prosperity, self-sufficiency, and wealth-building for historically marginalized communities. In its first three years, BEJP focused on four underinvested neighborhoods: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Bushwick, and East New York, and its current second phase, is poised to scale its efforts and deepen the impact.