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Free Access to Crown Heights Co-Working Space Awarded to 3 Nonprofits

 The Brooklyn Community Foundation is launching their "Incubator Project" at 1000 Dean St. in Crown Heights.
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CROWN HEIGHTS — A new co-working space for do-gooders just selected its first three tenants.

The Brooklyn Community Foundation recently chose three area nonprofits to use its extra office space at 1000 Dean St. in Crown Heights, as part of the group’s “Brooklyn Accelerator Incubator Project” that aims to lend monetary and institutional support to young nonprofits.

The three groups chosen to receive the free office space are Be More, an organization committed to ending racial bias, Domestic Workers United, a labor organization of Caribbean, Latina and African housekeepers and caregivers in the Crown Heights and Flatbush areas, and the Precedential Group, an anti-violence group founded by a Crown Heights native, Marlon Peterson, who hopes to reduce gun violence in the area.

"It makes perfect sense that I get the opportunity to contribute to Crown Heights through an incubator project just a block away from where I grew up,” Peterson said in a statement. “I look forward to doing the ‘people work’ I care about in the neighborhoods I care so much about — my home."

The three groups chosen for the incubator will receive free office space for one year in the foundation’s large, L-shaped office on Dean Street, a $5,000 stipend and any technical assistance and training BCF can provide. In addition, BCF hopes the program spurs access to donors, board members and networking opportunities.

“This is an outstanding group of leaders whom we hope to lift up as they build and develop their projects,” said the foundation’s CEO Cecilia Clarke.

For more information about the project or the Brooklyn Community Foundation, visit brooklyncommunityfoundation.org.