Overview The CEANYC Board of Directors convened our Summer Member Meeting on Tuesday, June 21st from 6PM-8PM over Zoom with over 40 individuals attending. In the first hour of the meeting we presented our year-in-review to members, and welcomed our … Read More
Food Cooperatives & Community Gardens
The Death and Life of a Neighborhood Cooperative
by Ashar Foley (originally published in Voices of Lefferts, Volume 3, Number 1 in Fall of 2020.) Below is an excerpt. For the full story, click here. “With the benefit of their vision of food justice as well as their hindsight, LCFC … Read More
Solidarity Economy Giving Project: Sunset Report
For three years, CEANYC ran the Solidarity Economy Giving Project (SEGP) — a unique philanthropy initiative that raised over $150,000 to directly support our local cooperative efforts. SEGP reaffirmed the crucial role Solidarity Economy groups play for low-income and communities of … Read More
COVID and Cooperation in NYC: 2020 in Review
by Cheyenna Layne Weber and Ali Issa [This piece was submitted in November, 2020 and originally published early January, 2021 in the Japanese-language magazine Social Movements, in collaboration with The Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative Union (Seikatsu.) Founded in 1965, Seikatsu is a … Read More
Action Alert: Protect NYC’s Community Gardens!
*Español Abajo* Last month, CEANYC was proud to join the New York City Community Garden Coalition (NYCCGC), Earthjustice, and over 50 more organizations in petitioning NYC to protect our community gardens. … Read More
Solidarity Snapshot: Sawdayah Brownlee
How did you get into this work? Why did you get into this work?I became politicized in the work of sustainability/food justice/agriculture through my work with the farm Brother Nature Produce, D-Town Farm, and the Detroit Black Community Food Security … Read More
Solidarity Economy at Netroots
Cooperatives as a Tool for Social Justice Netroots Nation Conference July 11-13, 2019 Philadelphia, PA Social movements have long used economic cooperation towards liberation. In 1970s Philadelphia, Movement for a New Society created affordable housing co-ops for activists. During the … Read More
Seikatsu comes to NYC
Seikatsu Comes to New York City Earlier this Fall, CEANYC had the opportunity to host 13 visitors from the Seikatsu Club Consumer Cooperative Union (Seikatsu). Seikatsu is a consumer co-op federation that includes 32 different autonomous cooperatives spanning 21 prefectures … Read More
CLI Cohort 2018
Ali Soofi Currently pursuing his bachelors degree in Environmental Science, Ali is an aspiring ecologist and conservation researcher. With experience managing both the Black Seed Farmers Market and the Regional Environmental Council’s Mobile Farmers Market in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ali … Read More
New BQLT Partnership!
New BQLT Partnership! We are extremely excited to announce our new partnership with the Brooklyn Queens Land Trust, an organization that stewards 37 different gardens in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Their gardens serve as classrooms, food production sites … Read More
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