Empowering Community Through Providing Safe Affordable Housing And Social Services
Banana Kelly initiated a fundraising campaign to cover the cost of the design and build-out of our second Summer Camp and After School location at 991 Union Avenue.
To make a contribution to this exciting new space for the children and their families in our South Bronx community click the Donate button on our Home page or send a check to Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, Inc.… Read more...
Our 10th Annual Meet & Greet was a huge success! Thanks to all who joined us in celebrating another year of Banana Kelly and recognizing the contributions of JOE NYC and ANHD to the field of affordable housing.
If you weren’t able to make the event, you can watch a video of interviews with Banana Kelly staff and the full remarks below.… Read more...
We are pleased to share this new LISC white paper by David M. Greenberg that examines how partnerships between Community Land Trusts (CLTs) and community development institutions can scale up and sustain land trusts so as to begin to impact displacement at the neighborhood level.… Read more...
July 2019
Check out Metropolitics Bronx — Banana Kelly gets a mention in the Decade of Fire article and in the Susan Saegert review of Carol Lamberg’s “Neighborhood Success Stories” (2018) and Harry DeRienzo’s “The Concept of Community: Lessons from the Bronx” (2008).… Read more...
2019 Spring Meet and Greet. Thank you to all who attended and supported this event. See coverage from BronxNet… Read more...
I have been provided with the opportunity to speak to how my organization, Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, a community development corporation in the Bronx, has progressed in its transformative work. And there is much I can report. For example, I can talk about the thousands of units of affordable housing we have preserved or built over our four decades of work. … Read more...
President’s Address
Greetings to all and welcome to our 9th Annual Meet and Greet, an event that marks our 40th Anniversary as a Community Development Corporation.
This event also serves as the last such event that I will be addressing you as President of Banana Kelly. … Read more...
Remarks by Harry DeRienzo
I want to thank CASA and all its leaders for this distinguished honor. I am proud of what CASA has done for our Bronx neighborhoods and for the city as a whole. I am gratified to be a small part of that success.… Read more...
Banana Kelly was featured in the Bronx Times! Thank you to Councilmember Rafael Salamanca for his support of our Summer Camp and After School Program! Read the article here.… Read more...
BronxNet sat down with Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, Inc. and New York Community Trust to talk about the critical relationship between community groups and the organizations that fund them. Watch Eileen Newman’s interview with Patricia Swann, New York Community Trust; Harry DeRienzo, Hope Burgess, Gregory Jost, Wanda Swinney and Jose Rodriguez here: