COMMUNITY FOOD ADVOCATES
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Mission Statement
Community Food Advocates (CFA) is a policy, advocacy and organizing non-profit that fights for high impact, far-reaching public policy solutions to address poverty and hunger in New York City. Access to nutritious food is a basic income and food equity issue and is essential to ensuring the well-being of communities. To that end, we work to make the resources of government, at all levels, benefit people who are the most economically marginalized.
About This Cause
OUR APPROACH Our approach is unique: we build creative and strategic coalitions, guided by solid policy and budget analysis, and fueled by the full partnership and engagement of the people most directly affected by the issues. This strategy achieves real change through high-impact policies that lead to long-term solutions to causes of the City’s food access problems COVID 19 FOOD ACCESS In addition to our ongoing work, Community Food Advocates is the central advocacy hub regarding NYC's emergency COVID food response. MAIN INITIATIVES THE BRING OUR MISSION TO LIFE 1 - Promoting policies that strengthen and support the full utilization of publicly-funded food and income support programs. TRANSFORMING NYC'S SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM In 2013, CFA created the Lunch 4 Learning Campaign. We built a coalition of public school students, parents, teachers, cafeteria workers, principals and pediatricians to bring free, healthy school lunch all 1.1 million New York City public school students. After a four-year fight for system-wide universal free school lunch (USL), we were successful. On September 6, 2017 the Department of Education (DoE) announced the historic Free School Lunch For All" initiative under its "Equity and Excellence Agenda." This reverses decades of bad policy that divided children in school cafeterias by income and will change the experience of many millions of students in years to come. To build on this success we, along with our campaign partners, developed a policy platform that ensures both the most effective implementation of Free School Lunch for All, and identifies high impact initiatives that build upon the foundation of universal free school lunch – including, advocating for large scale, cost-effective, student friendly redesign of all high school and middle school cafeterias; providing halal and kosher meals in school cafeterias, and other initiatives to provide students more choice and make the food more appealing. 2- GOOD FOOD PURCHASING PROGRAM CFA is working with Food Chain Workers Alliance, CUNY's Urban Food Policy Institute and the Center for Good Food Purchasing -and a growing coalition of stakeholders- to help bring a Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP) to NYC government, -- a citywide policy that would have NYC food purchasing agencies leverage its enormous food purchasing power to benefit the local and regional food system. GFPP focuses on five value areas: environmental sustainability; worker well-being; animal welfare; nutrition; and local economies. Using the strength of local governments is especially critical at a time when harm is being imposed on the federal level. 3 - GENTRIFICATION AND FOOD ACCESS CFA is in the early stages of identify policy solutions to address the root causes of food access problems in low-income and gentrifying communities and to advocate for high impact policy solutions to ensure long-term residents will have access to affordable, high quality food.