Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Have you ever wanted a say in what businesses come to Brooklyn? Now's your chance! Our PowerUP entrepreneurs are turning great ideas into real businesses – and now you get to decide which one will take home the $1000 Audience Choice Award!
Help us celebrate Brooklyn’s brightest entrepreneurs by voting for this year’s Audience Choice Award winner in the PowerUP Business Plan Competition!
Vote today through November 20, 2025 at bklynlibrary.org/vote
ABOUT:
Since 2003, PowerUP has nurtured 10,900 individuals with over 1,800 business plans and awarded more than $650,000 in cash and in-kind gifts to Brooklyn entrepreneurs. Our success stories include more than 100 companies with passion for food and drink, health and wellness, arts and crafts, media and fashion, education, social justice, and cultural diversity—everything that makes Brooklyn great.
Brooklearners: Minecraft Education Club is an educational enrichment program for K–5 students that uses Minecraft as a dynamic platform to teach both academic skills such as coding, math, design, and digital literacy as well as conflict resolution, collaboration, public speaking, and emotional intelligence. Delivered either during the school day or after school, our program is designed to support whole-child development in a format kids love, and schools can seamlessly adopt.
Have you ever wanted a say in what businesses come to Brooklyn? Now's your chance! Our PowerUP entrepreneurs are turning great ideas into real businesses – and now you get to decide which one will take home the $1000 Audience Choice Award!
Help us celebrate Brooklyn’s brightest entrepreneurs by voting for this year’s Audience Choice Award winner in the PowerUP Business Plan Competition!
Vote today through November 20, 2025 at bklynlibrary.org/vote
ABOUT:
Since 2003, PowerUP has nurtured 10,900 individuals with over 1,800 business plans and awarded more than $650,000 in cash and in-kind gifts to Brooklyn entrepreneurs. Our success stories include more than 100 companies with passion for food and drink, health and wellness, arts and crafts, media and fashion, education, social justice, and cultural diversity—everything that makes Brooklyn great.
Brooklearners: Minecraft Education Club is an educational enrichment program for K–5 students that uses Minecraft as a dynamic platform to teach both academic skills such as coding, math, design, and digital literacy as well as conflict resolution, collaboration, public speaking, and emotional intelligence. Delivered either during the school day or after school, our program is designed to support whole-child development in a format kids love, and schools can seamlessly adopt.
