Our Mission
To utilize high-impact public policy that ensures all New Yorkers have access to healthy, affordable, culturally appropriate foods within an equity-centered food system.
Our Vision
Access to quality food is an essential human right. Lack of access is an income equity issue compounded by systemic racial and gender-based barriers.
We believe the government has a fundamental responsibility and an unmatched capacity to end poverty and its consequence: hunger. To that end, we advocate for high-impact public policy change that ensures all New Yorkers have access to healthy, affordable, plentiful, and culturally appropriate foods.
Our Approach
We strive for high-impact policy change and strong implementation that dismantle income inequities and racial and gender-based barriers;
We are guided by solid policy and budget analysis;
We build creative and strategic coalitions;
We believe in the strength of collective power, experiences, and knowledge; and
We are fueled by the full partnership and meaningful engagement of people most directly affected.
Our Values
We create and maintain a safe space where CFA team members are expected to work proactively and effectively, and are not expected to be ‘perfect or infallible,’ but rather as open, intentional, thoughtful, ever-evolving humans.
CFA creates and honors healthy and proactive communication and shared accountability to facilitate and maintain our commitment to racial equity.
CFA is committed to continuous learning and professional development. We are not static, and we recognize the team’s potential to constantly evolve our understanding of racial equity and justice.
We actively invest in the overall wellness of our team and promote practices to reinforce our well-being. Maintaining a four-day workweek is one of the ways we achieve this.