BROOKLYN FOOD COALITION
  • About
  • History
  • People and Community
  • Reference Materials
  • BFC Legacy Contact Form
  • About
  • History
  • People and Community
  • Reference Materials
  • BFC Legacy Contact Form
BROOKLYN FOOD COALITION

community

This is by no means a comprehensive list of the hands and heart that were involved with the BFC as many helped to shape and carry the work forward in various ways. So many people who were involved in the earlier formation of the BFC, went on to become leaders and contributors in other food projects.  

BFC Interim Steering Committee (2009)
Nancy Romer, BFC General Coordinator, Winton Wedderburn, Secretary, Christine Rico, Treasurer, Daniel Brady, Diana Colon, Jes Rooks, Karin Fleish, Kassy Nystrom, Michelene Brown, Monique Powell
~General Manager ~ Nancy Romer (2011 - 2013)

Founding Governance Board (2011)
Nancy Romer, Arif Ullah, Diana Robinson, *Hilary Papineau, *Jay Smith, *Kassy Nystrom, Regina Ginyard, Richard Mandelbaum, Yemi Amu (resigned early 2013), George Edwards (resigned early 2013), Lisa Marsh (resigned 2014), Darrell Robinson (resigned 2014)
*Governance Committee Co-Chairs
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Staff & Contract Support Roles 

Staff
Erica Lonesome - one of BFC's founding member and organizer for the first BFC conference (2008-2009) ~ Lead Community Organizer (2009-2010)

Adriana Velez - Communications Manager (2009 - 2011)
Beatriz Beckford  - SF Organizing & Policy Coordinator (2010 - 2012) ~ 
Director of Organizing and Policy (2012 - 2013) 
Nicole Taylor - Community Outreach Consultant (2011)
Winton Wedderburn - Communications Coordinator (2012 - 2014) 
Simone Herbin - School Food Associate (2013 - 2014)
Kady Ferguson - Executive Director (2013 -2016)
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Conference Staff & other Support Roles
Winton Wedderburn - Communications Lead (2010 -2012)
Bianca Bockman - Community Outreach and Program Coordinator (2011-2012)
Cheyenna Weber - Communications Coordinator (2011 - 2012)

Ali Duveen - Event Producer (2012)
Jessie Alter - Lead Organizer, Brooklyn Food Conference (2012)​

Louise Ma - Layout Designer, Conference (2012)

Creative Support
Murray Cox - Documentary Photographer
Paula Segal & Eric Brelsford - BFC Mapping Projects
Will Owen - Graphic Design - events and video project support

Committee and Member Leaders 
Policy Committee chairs ~ Theresa Freet, Benjamin Solitaire, Hilary Papineau
Policy Committee Members ~
Labor Committee chairs ~ Richard Mandelbaum, Jean Wiseman

Labor Committee Members ~
Communications Committee ~ Winton Wedderburn
Special Events Committee ~ George Edwards, Jay Smith, Yemi Amu, Jackie Cohen, Rachelle Erica Faroul, Tanya Joyner, Linda Cohen, Nancy Romer
School Food Fellows ~ Shanora Health and Ms. Keith (2013 - 2014)​

Neighborhood Groups



Leadership, Strategic Planning, & Other Consultants
Randall Kwan , Community Resource Exchange (2012)
Jean Labelle, Community Resources Exchange (2013)
Elena Callahan (2013)

Kelly McGowan, Going Upstream (2014)
Christine Rico - CFO on Speed Dial (2014)
Angelica Otero (2014)


BFC Transition Team Members ~ Governance Board, Theresa Freet, Tom Helmick, Mauri Small, Harvir Kaur, Jay Smith

New Advisory Board Leadership 2015 - 2016
Jill Lanier (Chair), Jay Smith (Vice Chair), Thomas Helmeck (Secretary), CB members: Ebony Banks (resident.connect.care), Rose Gorman (NY Writers Coalition), John Maney Jr. (Artist, Writer), Davin Davis (Youth Health Professional), Sadiki Atiba (Natural Heath Practitioner & Lifestyle Wellness Coach). 

Organizational Partnerships
Neighborhood Alliances:
Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill Community Food Council
Brooklyn Rescue Mission/Bed-Stuy Farm
Hattie Carthan Community Garden
FUREE, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality 
Farming Concrete
East New York Farms 
Parent Teachers Associations from many schools 
Brooklyn Free School 
Added Value 
Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger 
Weeksville Heritage Center 
Brooklyn College Community Partnership
Sustainable Flatbush
Make the Road NY 
UPROSE- United Puerto Ricans of Sunset Park 
Center for Family Life 
Seeds for Haiti
Old Stone House 
Garden of Union 
Brandworkers International 
Coalition of Immokolee Workers 
Food Chain Workers Alliance 
Magnolia Tree Earth Center 
Foodshed 
Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project
BKFarmyards 
Green My Bodega

City and Borough-Wide Alliances:
Brooklyn Food and Fitness Task Force (Central Brooklyn focus) 
NYC Food and Fitness Partnership (school food focus on Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Brownsville, East NY) 
Food Sovereignty Alliance/USA 
NYC Community Garden Coalition
Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners Conference
Food Coop Alliance/NYC 
NYC Coalition Against Hunger
Food Systems Network NYC, NYC Alliance on Child Nutrition Re-authorization
FoodBank NYC
City Harvest
Just Food
Grow NYC
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FUNDERS & SUPPORTERS 
Park Slope Food Coop 
Block Foundation
Brooklyn Community Foundation
Convergence Partnership Project
Fund for Public Healthy NY 
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
New York Foundation

NorthStar Foundation
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Wang Charitable
YMS Mgmt / DYCD Grant 
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This page is a work in progress and will be updated as more information is provided. Data can be sent using the contact form by clicking here.

BFC Conference Partners 2012
For Profit
Animal Welfare Approved • Belleayre View Farm • BigAppleRx • Black Sheep Heap • Blue Marble Ice Cream • Boswyck Farms • Brown Butter Brooklyn Inc. • Butter Beans Inc. • Catskill Animal Sanctuary • The Cleaver Company and The Green Table • Community Markets • Consider Bardwell Farm • Eat and Compete Natural Specialty Food • Encendia Biochar • The Farm at Millers Crossing • Farm to Baby • Five Acre Farms • Fleishers Grass-Fed and Organic Meats • Fort Reno & Palo Santo • Free Bread Inc. • Fresh Tofu Inc • Garden Stories by Barefoot Books • Grassroots Granola • Green Mountain Energy • Grindstone Farm • Gruvi Juices • Honeydrop Beverages • Jason Foscolo LLC The Food Law Attorney • Jennifer Schonborn, Holistic Nutrition Counselor, AADP • Kombucha Brooklyn • Kopali Organics • Kos Kaffe Roasting House • Lantern Books • Local Roots NYC • No Tellin Its Vegan • Organic Soul Chef LLC • Professional Staff Congress • Purple Kale Kitchenworks • “Real Time Farms (Realtimefarms.com) • Regal Vegan Inc. • Rescue Chocolate • Robicellis LLC • Sahadi Fine Foods • Dr. Wendy Sauberli Behavioral Nutrition • Saucy by Nature • Sea Bean Goods • Simpson and Vail • SlantShack Jerky • Slope Farms • Sol Flower Farm • Sour Puss Pickles • The Southern Pantry Company • Steiner Foods Inc. • Sweet Deliverance NYC • USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service • Veggiecation • Vokashi kitchen waste solution • well4good • Wholeshare • Wellcare of NY • Write That Down, Inc. • Zaharakos Enterprises

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Non-Profit
Adopt-A-Farmbox • Allied Capoeira Arts Initiative • American Jewish World Service • Animal Welfare Approved • Artists for Equality • Arts to Grow • Azuero Earth Project • Baileys Cafe Inc • BK Coop Bank • Body Local • Body Sculpt of New York Inc. • Bread for the World • Brighter Green • Brooklyn College Community Partnership • Brooklyn Botanic Garden/GreenBridge • Brooklyn Community Foundation • Brooklyn For Peace • Brooklyn Grange • Brooklyn Mompost/Gastropolis: Food and New York City • Brooklyn Recycle Project • Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School (BUGS) • Bubble Foundation Ltd. • CAMBA Inc. • Caribbean Women’s Health Association • Campaign to Stop Killer Coke • Catskill Animal Sanctuary • Center for Family Life • The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)• Certified Naturally Grown • Child Development Support Center • Chrissys Cooking Club • Christian Science Reading Room in Brooklyn • Climate Action/Brooklyn for Peace • coffeecsa.org • College of the Atlantic • Common Ground Center • Consortium for Worker Education • Cornell Small Farms Program • Cornell University Cooperative Extension New York City • Crown Heights Farm Share (CSA) • Crossroads Farm at Grossmanns • Damascus Citizens for Sustainability • Domestic Fair Trade Association • Dr. Wendy Sauberli Behavioral Nutrition • EcoStation:NY • The Edible Churchyard @ Union Theological Seminary • Evolver.net • Family Cook Productions • Farm Aid / HOMEGROWN.org • Farm Sanctuary • Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund • Farming Concrete • FGE Food & Nutrition Team • Flip the Table: Youth Food Council • Food Fight • Food Systems Network NYC • The Full Plate Farm Collective • FUREE – Families Untied for Racial & Economic Equality • The Garden of Union • Global Justice for Animals and the Environment • the Greenhorns • Green Party of Brooklyn • Greene Hill Food Coop • Greene Harvest CSA • Grow to Learn NYC • Happy Family Brands • Hazon • Healthcare-NOW! NYC • Heifer International • The Humane League • Hunger Action Network of New York State • Inwood Go Green • Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation • JUST FOOD • Just Food Inc • Kushi Institute Center for Natural Healing • La Leche League of Park Slope/Windsor Terrace/Kensington • Live Right, Live Life • Massife Global/hello AFRICA Media • Met Council • Migrant Justice • Milk Not Jails • Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership • New Amsterdam Market • New York Coalition Against Hunger Inc. • Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) • NY Farm Viability Institute • NY Faith & Justice • NYC Compost Project in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden • NYC Parks and Recreation GreenThumb Program • Occupalooza/Occupicnic Working group • Occupy Wall Street Animal Issues Working Group • Old Stone House of Brooklyn • OUTmedia • OWS Screen Printing Coop • OWS Sustainability • The Palette Fund • Park Avenue Christian Church • Park Slope Food Coop GMO Shelf Labeling Committee • Park Slope UMC Social Action Committee • The Pfeiffer Center United for Action • Public Health Association of New York City • Public Health Solutions WIC • Rawlivity • Rural & Migrant Ministry • Seeds in the Middle • Slow Money NYC • Solidarity NYC • SouperKitchen • Spoons Across America • St. John-St. Matthew-Emanuel Lutheran Church/Old First Reformed Church • Start Your Engine • Sustainable Flatbush • TradeJustice New York Metro • TRANSITION US BROOKLYN • USDA NASS New York Field Office • Vegan Outreach • Vibrant Public Lands • Wassaic Community Farm • Watershed Agricultural Council • Wellness in the Schools • Weston A Price Foundation • Working Families • World Fellowship Center • Yoga Local

BFC Supporters & Sponsors 2011
(Source: 2011 Archives)

Level 1 Sponsors/Supporters
City Harvest • Edible Brooklyn • Food-water-watch • Food Bank of New York • Small-planet • Duggal • Escape-maker • Flatbush Food Coop • Food Chain Workers Alliance • Four Seasons Produce • News 12 Brooklyn • WBAI
WhyHunger 
• Samuel Adams BTAD • New York Council for the Humanities
Level Two Sponsors/Supporters
Accion • Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability • Brookdale HospitalCabot Cheese • Cabot Creamery • iCi Restaurant • Lutheran Hospital • NYS Assembly Member Jim Brennan •DOHMH, Brooklyn District Public Health Office (supporter) •Nature's Path Foods • The New School • NYU Sustainability Initiatives

Level Three Sponsors
For Profit
4food • Acme Smoked Fish Corporation • Angello's Distributing, Inc. • Bon Secours New York Health System • Brooklyn Salsa Co. • Clean Plates  • deLIFEful Foods • Eden Foods • Equal Exchange • ethikus • FarmCity Revival • Food Democracy Now! • Greene Grape Provisions • Growing Hearth Farm • Hawthorne Valley Farm • Little Duck Organics • Mealku • The Natural Gourmet Institute • Organic Valley • The Praxis Project • Premium Food Service Inc. • Red Jacket Orchards • Ricks Picks • Smallknot • Velvet Palate
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