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Healthy Retail Networking Group Summer Quarterly Meeting Thursday, August 6 th , 2015 Community Development Corporation in the Southwest Bronx Communities for Healthy Food NYC Bronx Helpers Partnership Role New Settlements
Healthy Retail Networking Group Summer Quarterly Meeting Thursday, August 6th, 2015
▪ Community Development
Corporation in the Southwest Bronx
▪ Communities for Healthy Food NYC ▪ Bronx Helpers ▪ Partnership Role
New Settlement’s affordable housing on Townsend Ave.
▪ Partnership Role: Citywide
partnership with on-the-ground community-based organization.
▪ Healthy Retail Program ▪ South Bronx Community Action
Network
▪ Alternative Food Conference ▪ Youth Organizing Fellowship
New Settlement’s Multicultural Afterschool Program visits Fredarlet Deli for Community Celebration
2 Sets of Goals
▪ Stores: > healthy food, affordability,
sales, traffic, and enhanced customer relations
▪ Students: enhanced confidence, sense
measuring success)
Scope
Bronx Helpers CHEFS for Change Victor and Robert conducting an in-store promotion at C-Town
▪ 9 schools and communities ▪ 15 stores ▪ Afterschool ▪ Summer
▪ Community celebration at Fredarlet
Deli
▪ 489 cooking samples during
community celebration
▪ Deepened organizational
relationships and ongoing collaboration
▪ Bronx Helpers panel on healthy retail ▪ 6 youth-led cooking demos at 2
partnering stores
▪ Youth-identified healthy snack
products list and priorities for remerchandising
Bronx Helper Jocelyn shares a Fruit Kebob with a community member outside of C-Town
New shelving and refrigeration units Eligio, Fredarlet’s
February 12, 2015 American Dairy Association & Dairy Council City Harvest Shop Healthy, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene Urban Health Plan
Kelvin, the owner of C-Town, tries the Bronx Helpers’ homemade Fruit Kebobs made with products sold in his store
Challenges
▪ Youth work, retail
interventions, and cooking activities are all time-intensive and require extensive planning and coordination
▪ Limited organizational and
retail outlet capacity
▪ Building in long-term
commitment to both partnership and investment in community
Recommendations
▪ When working collaboratively, assess
each organization’s resources and strengths and jointly determine an appropriate strategy
▪ Assess fit and feasibility of projects
and partnerships
▪ Be flexible in partnership in the face
▪ Explore research and employment
▪ Take one step at a time and expect
incremental progress over months
▪ Youth-designed social justice
smoothie menu
▪ New Settlement Apartments and
South Bronx Community Action Network planning Bronx Alternative Food Conference and Youth Organizing Fellowship
▪ Youth assist stores with sourcing
and stocking youth-identified snack list and remerchandising
Bronx Helpers Jarie, Jocelyn, and Asamia
▪ Taisy Conk – Community Healthy
Food Advocate – New Settlement Apartments t.conk@newsettlement.org
▪ Steven Deheeger – Manager,
Healthy Neighborhoods South Bronx – City Harvest sdeheeger@cityharvest.org
▪ David Bartolomi – Family Cook
Productions
dbartolomi@gmail.com
*Photos by Reeve Jolliffe