East Brooklyn Congregations (often abbreviated EBC) is a congregation-based community organizing serving several neighborhoods in

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. Formed in 1980, it is affiliated with the

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and headed by Michael Gecan. EBC is best known for founding Nehemiah Homes, which has constructed several affordable housing developments since the late 1980s in the Eastern

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neighborhoods of Flatbush,

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, and Spring Creek.Industrial Areas Foundation, ''IAF: 50 Years Organizing for Change'' (IAF, 1990), p. 9. It has been involved in the formation of three public New York City high schools: EBC East New York, EBC Bushwick High School for Public Service, an
Bushwick Leaders' High School for Academic Excellence

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