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Next Step and the Food Bank

Next Step Community Church in Brooklyn sees value in EVERY human being, no matter what their situation. Started more than 20 years ago as a soup kitchen and expanded to add a food pantry. It’s a safe place where anyone can go for a delicious breakfast and access a long list of services – from a hot shower, to SNAP, social security benefits, affordable housing and so much more!

Community Heroes

I have the privilege of being the co-creator and community organizer for this amazing work. This A partnership program between Trellis and Photoville is a community organizing and public art project celebrating everyday heroes in New York City, neighborhood by neighborhood. 

Faith Leaders, Essentials Workers and Self-Care

How can we make sure to care for the most vulnerable and make sure to take care of ourselves?

Collaborating to Support Family in Tragedy

Zac Martin, founder and executive director of Trellis, a community-based nonprofit that helps neighborhoods address injustice, also joined Sobers on PIX11. Martin organized a GoFundMe to help Kyla and her family with medical expenses and more and how his organization wants to support them so they don’t have to worry right now with bills and taking time off from work and other expenses in the coming weeks and months.

Helping Hands for the Holidays

Martin said the toy store concept was inspired by the book “When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor … and Yourself,” by Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett, which encourages readers to re-examine poverty as a lack of both material things and ordinary experiences. “What we try to do in everything we’re doing is to remind these folks that they have dignity and that we love them and care about them,” said Martin.