Name: CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute
Address: 55 West 125th Street, 10027
Telephone: (646) 364-9602
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Address

55 West 125th Street

New York

10027

Website

https://www.cunyurbanfoodpolicy.org/

Phone Number

(646) 364-9602

Director, Manager or CEO

Nicholas Freudenberg

Volunteers per month

Number of staff/employees

Year Started

2016

Latest Projects

CUNY Food Policy Monitor tracks changes in city, state and federal policies that influence the local food environments and nutritional well-being of city residents. Through our forums, newsletter, policy briefs, social media presence and other publications we share our findings to create a food policy learning community that can advocate for healthier food policies for New York City.

Interesting Fact

In the last two years, the Institute has trained young people from Central and East Harlem and the South Bronx in countermarketing, a technique to counteract the marketing of unhealthy food, particularly to young people. To build on this work, the New York City Youth Food Countermarketing Network, convened by the Institute, bring together youth and food organizations from around New York City to prepare young people to challenge the food industry’s marketing campaigns to convince young people to buy and consume products associated with premature death and preventable illness.

Areas Served

Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, Queens

Core Programs

- Nutrition and Health Equity: East Harlem Youth Food Educators Program, New York City Youth Food Countermarketing Network, Immigrants and Food Access and Healthy Food Retail.
- Economic Development: Develop capacity of CDCs and settlement houses in NYC to support more good food jobs in low-income communities.
- Evaluation Studies: conduct evaluation studies of urban food and nutrition programs to assess their effectiveness in improving food access, promoting public health, and supporting community development in order to provide feedback to program and funders and recommend policy changes.
- Coordinate food initiatives across CUNY: CUNY Food Collaboratory, a network of CUNY faculty, staff and graduate students with interests in food policy, CUNY Food Security Advocates—prepare CUNY students to take action to reduce food insecurity among peers and neighbors.
- Global Partnerships: With partners in South Africa, United Kingdom, Denmark and elsewhere, develop cross-national studies to compare approaches to creating more equitable urban food systems.

Major Issues

Food Policy
Increase Food Access
Policy Analysis and Advocacy
Reduce Food Insecurity
Strengthen New York Food workforce

Non-profit?

Nonprofit

https://www.linkedin.com/company/cuny-urban-food-policy-institute/

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCilb8o4auV4819yfi4gs7GA

Twitter

https://twitter.com/cunyurbanfood

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/cunyurbanfoodpolicy/

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