The People's Money (2022-2023)
Your Money, Your Community, Your Voice.
Changes at "CD40 Community Kitchen at Newkirk and Coney Island Ave"
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What problem would you like to solve?
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Why is it important to solve? Why is it relevant for the community?
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What idea do you have to address the problem?
One World Community Kitchen: Providing culinary and foodservice training for immigrant women and families as well as providing culturally appropriate, fresh, local, nutritious, and affordable foods to District 40. Our idea: create a culinary training program that will turn the women’s existing cooking skills into income streams. By training the women to produce meal prep kits, cut salad and fruit, samosas, baked goods, juices, smoothies, and other marketable items, tied to basic business skills, program participants will, right from the start, share in the proceeds that their cooking will generate. In addition to selling goods at our new People’s Farmers’ Market at 964 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11230 every Sunday from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, we already have several food coops expressing interest in buying those goods to sell to their members. The priority participants for the Brooklyn program will be recent immigrants and other women for whom training in a skill based upon their cooking knowledge and in entrepreneurship would mean greater economic independence. This project is needed to support the economic and financial security and independence of many immigrant women and families in our neighborhood. This project will not only provide a culinary and foodservice industry training space for immigrants with barriers like the English language and little to no work experience, but it will also provide our district with culturally appropriate, fresh, local, nutritious, and affordable foods.
Who would that help?
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What neighborhood would benefit from your idea?
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