BP MARKOWITZ TO JOIN KINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER AS THEY “TRICKLE UP” $50,000 FOR BROOKLYN SMALL BUSINESSES

1:00 P.M.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
KINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER
585 SCHENECTADY AVENUE
RUTLAND ROAD & WINTHROP STREET
CENTRAL BROOKLYN

On Tuesday, September 26, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will join Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center as it announces a $50,000 donation to the Trickle Up program to start-up 70 small businesses in Brooklyn. The Trickle Up program, founded in 1979, helps low income people worldwide take the first step up out of poverty toward realizing their dreams, by providing conditional seed capital and business training to help budding entrepreneurs get started.

Trickle Up has been working in Brooklyn for more than 10 years to assist low-income individuals become financially independent. Since 1994, Trickle Up’s Brooklyn partners have supported 696 Brooklyn entrepreneurs with business grants and training. The Kingsbrook award will be distributed as seed capital grants to low-income individuals selected to participate in Trickle Up’s microbusiness development program.

The initiative will be called the Mildred Robbins Leet Entrepreneurial Grant Program, in honor of Trickle Up founder Mildred Robbins Leet, who learned social responsibility and activism from her grandmother, Brooklyn-born Goldie Elowsky. Eighty years ago, Ms. Elowsky helped found Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn by raising funds to purchase the land for the hospital’s first building in Central Brooklyn.

Borough President Markowitz is proud to join Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center and Mildred Robbins Leet as they continue the tradition of helping Brooklynites help themselves.