East Brooklyn Mutual Aid (EBMA) is focused on delivering good and high-quality food and improving the healthy food options in predominantly BIPOC neighborhoods of East New York.
We have an active board with members representing significant
sectors related to our programs and offer the following programs.
Black Radish Home Delivery
provides healthy food to elderly people,
disabled folks, and low-income families.
Community days
Six farmer's markets
that support local BIPOC producers will operate from May-December at Christian Cultural Center (CCC).
support BIPOC farmers by providing labor to farmers and educating community members about land, food, health, and nutrition.
EBMA was organized to support those affected by Covid-19, particularly immunocompromised and unemployed people, by providing free groceries and social support, and we have expanded to strengthen movements for food sovereignty and community reliance through
direct community organizing.
EBMA’s longest-running program is Black Radish in which we source low-cost groceries from predominantly Black Distributors and farmers and deliver them directly to the doors of hungry New Yorkers. We have successfully distributed more than one million pounds of food to over 100,000 residents throughout Brooklyn’s eastern neighborhoods, prioritizing elderly people, disabled folks, and low-income families. For those that need support with meal preparation, Emba partners with Collective Fare, a Black-owned -chef -collaborative, to endure community members can receive culturally relevant and notorious meals.
WHAT IS MUTUAL AID?
It’s about living in solidarity with one another,
about exchanging resources to best support the community at large.
People give what they can and take what they need
-all without the expectation of receiving something in return.
Our major accomplishments include the following:
We are creating plans and the operational infrastructure for a food hub in East New York in the Industrial business zone with the Community Land Trust of East New York, The Community Board, and the Economic Development Corp of New York. EBMA will oversee the logistics and operations of the food hub food operation
Since COVID-19, we have successfully distributed more than one million pounds of food to over 100,000 residents through Black Radish Home Delivery.
We are in lease negotiations and have drawn architectural plans for Black Radish at Chestnut Commons, a pilot store for our food hub concept.
We are in lease negotiations and have drawn architectural plans for Black Radish at Chestnut Commons, a pilot store for our food hub concept.
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