The Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice and Healing is honored to be a 2021 Spark Prize Finalist! We are grateful to the Brooklyn Community Foundation for being a bedrock of support for many years.

As 2021 comes to a close, we are raising $25,000 to:

• Continue providing Bed-Stuy families with guaranteed income

• Support for local, Black-owned businesses to expand and hire local, system-impacted youth

• Land-based healing adventures and camping skill-building for Brooklynites

Brooklyn Community Foundation has generously agreed to match $5,000 of our fundraiser. Please help us make this match and meet our goal! Visit #BrooklynGives today.

For 20 years, NuLeadership has been community-based, community-focused and community-driven. Our mission is self-determination and liberation for Black, Indigenous, People of Color. We are a driving force in developing a small, but strong ecosystem of people, families, and neighborhoods where everyone learns and practices community care, accountability, forgiveness, and love. 

As many of your know, our founder, Eddie Ellis, had this to say about NuLeadership’s work:

“Prisons and prison populations are a reflection of what takes place outside of the prisons. The direct relationship constitutes the basis by which we propose that there are no prison problems, only community problems. Once we begin to address community problems, prison problems will also be addressed.”

NuLeadership's goal is Human Justice—to keep people from the policing and punishment systems while simultaneously divesting money from these systems to redirect to community-based, community-driven, human-centered housing, education, business, and justice solutions. This requires deep relationship-building, individual transformation and community investment, but more importantly, the honesty and bravery it takes to dismantle existing systems rooted in punishment and pain. Then it requires the confidence and skills to build new muscles and bandwidth to confront our own contradictions and to create the world we want to live in and leave for our children.

This is long-term, hard work. We must organize while we mobilize. Join us as we continue and grow the legacy of resistance, liberation and collective power and healing.