QUESTION
How has funding inequity affected Brownsville since 2016?
1:19:28
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75 sec
Catherine Green Johnson highlights the financial struggles of local institutions in securing equitable funding and development opportunities.
- Compares a past development project's high costs to a new opportunity providing rent-free spaces for arts organizations.
- Discusses the challenges faced in obtaining foundational, federal, and state funding, especially for smaller institutions.
- Mentions that larger institutions often outcompete smaller ones for funding.
- Points out that the new opportunity could bring more funds into the neighborhood and attract additional community investments.
Kamillah Hanks
1:19:28
Questions.
Darlene Mealy
1:19:30
Could you elaborate on it?
1:19:32
Because I know in 2016, it was doing great.
1:19:36
I was there.
1:19:37
I went to a couple of events there.
1:19:39
So what could you explain in equity How our neighborhood normally get left out?
Catherine Green Johnson
1:19:47
Absolutely.
1:19:49
Absolutely.
1:19:49
So we were a part of a development project as well.
1:19:52
Did not have a sweet deal like this one.
1:19:55
We had to pay an exorbitant amount of rinse and overhead.
1:19:59
This deal, this opportunity provides the arts organizations and stakeholders that will be a part of it to be rent free or to just share and collaborate on whatever resources are needed to keep the lights on.
1:20:11
We did not have that luxury.
1:20:13
And so, you know, having to fight for funding, foundational funding, as well as the scares about the funding that was coming to Brownfield is New York Neighborhoods as well as the federal and the state funding that we're competing against the large institutions that were not coming our way.
1:20:29
So you know, a small staff, small amount of people running an institution like that, you know, can't compete.
1:20:36
And so this opportunity is is is it will bring the funds in the neighborhood.
1:20:41
It will attract additional funds that comes to the community.
