Hey there! We’re North Brooklyn Angels, a volunteer-powered nonprofit in Brooklyn feeding our community since 2017. Through our Mobile Soup Kitchen, Little Angels gear program, and our new Live Local affordable housing initiative, we work to keep longtime residents - fed, equipped, and housed - in the neighborhoods they built.
North Brooklyn Angels (legal name: North Brooklyn Coalition of Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) and all donations are tax deductible. EIN 81-4576973
History
North Brooklyn Angels was founded in 2017 by Greenpoint and Williamsburg residents who watched their community transform around them - rising rents, displaced neighbors, longtime families priced out of the neighborhoods they built. Our co-founders brought backgrounds in community organizing, clergy, and fundraising, and a shared conviction that the people best positioned to help were the neighbors themselves.
We launched with a single mobile soup kitchen running three days a week. Today we serve 2,000 hot meals every week across nine North Brooklyn locations, seven days a week - and we’ve expanded into baby gear and affordable housing navigation because our neighbors told us those were the next gaps to fill.
Mission & goals
Mission
North Brooklyn Angels engages the power of local volunteers to address food insecurity, support growing families, and help longtime residents navigate affordable housing opportunities - so that North Brooklyn remains a community for everyone who built it.
Vision
A North Brooklyn where neighbors show up for neighbors - where 900+ volunteers feeding 2,000 meals a week, week after week, is not extraordinary. It’s just what a community does.
How we work
We practice radical accessibility - no ID at the truck, no income check for a gently-used stroller, no fee for housing help. And we practice it through volunteers, not staff. The 900+ neighbors who power our programs each year aren’t filling gaps. They are the model. When a community takes ownership of its own wellbeing, that’s not charity, but rather solidarity.
What makes this possible isn’t a large staff or a big budget. North Brooklyn Angels runs on two full-time staff members, a small team of dedicated part-timers, and the 950+ volunteers who show up week after week. When a community takes ownership of its own wellbeing, the results speak for themselves: 750,000+ meals, 75+ families equipped, and a new affordable housing program built from the ground up.
Leadership
To see profiles of all of the board members and staff, please check out the Leadership page.
Heavenly Partners
To see all of those who have pledged their support to our cause, please check out the Heavenly Partners page.