The movie “Fresh” will screen on Thursday March 1st followed by a panel discussion and jazz music by Eve Silber and Ben Barson. On Thursday, March 15, COLORS Restaurant will host the fourth ¡Build Bridges Not Walls! — a collaborative benefit series to raise funds and awareness about parallel struggles for justice. The evening will begin with [...]
In 2010, New York Faith and Justice received a Bronx Health REACH Legacy grant to address food justice as a city-wide issue. The Food, Faith, and Health Disparities Summit brought together 150 participants representing faith organizations, community based organizations, and community members from all five boroughs in New York City. New York Faith and Justice worked with [...]
A Forum at The Riverside Church 490 Riverside Drive, New York, NY Sunday, October 23, 2011 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Reception at 1:30 pm – Assembly hall This event will highlight the crucial role of the faith community in the food justice movement and the potential to reform local and national food policy. Come [...]
On March 4th, NY Faith & Justice held an introductory workshop for faith leaders in NYC on faith-rooted organizing. At this workshop, Lisa Sharon Harper from NY Faith & Justice and Alexia Salvatierra from www.faithrooted.org spoke about discerning “kairos,” or the time God has appointed for actions to occur (this is in comparison to “chronos/kronos,” [...]
The Farm Bill Working Group of the Faith Leaders for Environmental Justice will meet on Tuesday June 28 at 7PM at Judson Memorial Church (234 Thompson St.). The beginning part of the meeting will feature an overview of the Farm Bill from national experts Tom Forster (professor of food policy at New School and former [...]
Last week our summer intern, Kya, and I rifled through old flip-chart notes preparing them for transcription and filing. We found flip-chart notes from a 2009 board meeting that decided NYFJ’s top five-year strategic goals. We found dialogue group notes from the 2010 Food Faith and Health Disparities Summit, Action Form notes from the 2009 [...]
This past fall, the Food, Faith, and Health Disparities Summit was held to work on combatting the food and health disparities that NYC neighborhoods are experiencing. Based on the deliberations of the Summit participants, working groups were formed around the common themes that were brought up to combat the disparities. Below is a description of [...]