Reynoso launches ‘Community Baby Shower Fund’ for expectant parents

August 6, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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BOROUGHWIDE — BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT ANTONIO REYNOSO announced the creation of a $50,000 ‘Community Baby Shower Fund’ to support community baby showers for Brooklyn’s expecting parents in neighborhoods with historically high maternal mortality and morbidity rates on Tuesday. Brooklyn nonprofits hosting community baby showers within the borough can request up to $5,000 in reimbursed funding. Black women in New York City are eight times more likely to die of pregnancy-related complications than White women, Reynoso said in a release. “It’s my honor to support the nonprofits who are doing the work of caring for our neighbors and plugging the holes left by decades of disinvestment in largely Black and Brown and low-income neighborhoods.” Full details are available online.

Reynoso gave the entirety of his first-year capital funding to Brooklyn’s three public hospitals for maternal health improvements and launched initiatives including a Maternal Health Task Force, ‘Born in Brooklyn’ baby boxes and other maternal health efforts.

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