Building on the Foundation of Universal Free School Lunch

A huge thank you to all who have contributed to the fight for universal free school lunch. 

We could not have done this without you.

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• Advocates for Children 

• African American Clergy & Elected Officials Education Committee (AACEO)

• Ali Cayne, Owner and Founder, Haven's Kitchen 

• Alliance for Quality Education 

• American Academy of Pediatrics New York Chapter 3 

• Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger 

• Beth Hark Christian Counseling Center, Inc. 

• B'nai Jeshurun

• Borough President Eric Adams

• Borough President Gale Brewer

• Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

• Borough President Melinda Katz

• Borough President James Oddo

• Bronx Bethany Community Corporation 

• Bronx Health Reach  

• BronxWorks

• Brooklyn Food Coalition 

• Brooklyn Kindergarten Society  

• Brooklyn Movement Center  

• Cafeteria Culture

• CAMBA  

• Celebrevents 

• Chhaya CDC 

• Child Development Support Corporation 

• Children's Aid Society 

• Children’s Defense Fund - NY 

• Citizens' Committee for Children 

• City Harvest 

• Coalition for Educational Justice 

• Community Food Advocates 

• Community Health Action of Staten Island 

• Congregation Ansche Chesed 

• Congregation Rodeph Sholom 

• Corbin Hill Farms 

• Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, Local 1: American Federation of School Administrators, AFL-CIO 

• CUNY School of Public Health  

• District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO

• East New York Farms!

• EcoStation 

• El Puente 

• Every Day is a Miracle, Inc.  

• Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies  

• First Corinthian Baptist Church Fishes and Loaves 

• Food Bank for New York City 

• FoodFight 

• Food Research and Action Center 

• Fort Greene Peace 

• Goddard Riverside Community Center  

• Good Shepherd Services 

• Henry Street Settlement 

• Hour Children 

• Human Services Council of New York  

• Hunger Action Network of NYS 

• Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House  

• Jamaica Seventh Day Adventist Church 

• Jan Poppendieck, Author, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America 

• Judson Memorial Church 

• Just Food 

• Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives 

• Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy at Teachers, College Columbia University  

• Lazarus Project

• Make the Road New York 

• Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer 

• Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor, NYU, Steinhardt School, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies & Public Health 

• Met Council on Jewish Poverty 

• Metropolitan NYC WIC Association

• Middle Collegiate Church 

• MinKwon Center for Community Action  

• Mosholu Montefiore Community Center 

• Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project 

• National Council of Jewish Women New York

• Neighborhood Family Services Coalition 

• New York City Coalition Against Hunger  

• New York City Coalition of Educational Justice

• New York City Council Black, Latino/a, and Asian Caucus

• New York City Progressive Caucus

• New York City Council Member Inez Barron  

• New York City Council Member Fernando Cabrera 

• New York City Council Member Margaret Chin

• New York City Council Member Andrew Cohen 

• New York City Council Member Costa Constantinides 

• New York City Council Member Robert Cornegy 

• New York City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley 

• New York City Council Member Laurie Cumbo 

• New York City Council Member Maria del Carmen-Arroyo 

• New York City Council Member Chaim Deutsch 

• New York City Council Member Inez E. Dickens 

• New York City Council Member Daniel Dromm 

• New York City Council Member Rafael Espinal  

• New York City Council Member Mathieu Eugene  

• New York City Council Member Julissa Ferreras-Copeland

• New York City Council Member Daniel Garodnick  

• New York City Council Member Vincent Gentile 

• New York City Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson 

• New York City Council Member David G. Greenfield 

• New York City Council Member Barry Grodenchik

• New York City Council Member Corey Johnson 

• New York City Council Member Ben Kallos 

• New York City Council Member Andy King 

• New York City Council Member Peter Koo 

• New York City Council Member Karen Koslowitz 

• New York City Council Member Rory Lancman 

• New York City Council Member Brad Lander 

• New York City Council Member Stephen Levin 

• New York City Council Member Mark Levine 

• New York City Council Member Alan Maisel 

• New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca 

• New York City Council Member Rosie Mendez 

• New York City Council Member I. Daneek Miller 

• New York City Council Member Annabel Palma 

• New York City Council Member Antonio Reynoso 

• New York City Council Member Donovan Richards 

• New York City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez 

• New York City Council Member Deborah Rose 

• New York City Council Member Helen Rosenthal 

• New York City Council Member Rafael Salamanca

• New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres 

• New York City Council Member Mark Treyger 

• New York City Council Member James Vacca 

• New York City Council Member Paul Vallone 

• New York City Council Member Mark Weprin  

• New York City Council Member Jumaane D. Williams 

• New York City Council Member Ruben Wills

• New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito

• New York City Food and Fitness Partnership 

• New York City Food Forum

• New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College 

• New York City LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce 

• New York City Public Advocate Letitia James 

• New York Common Pantry 

• New York Faith and Justice 

• New York State Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas  

• New York State Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal  

• New York State Senator Liz Krueger  

• Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation 

• Rachael Ray and her Yum-o! Organization 

• Red Rabbit 

• Resilience Advocacy Project

• Robert Jackson, Former Chair, New York City Council Education Committee 

• Romemu: Judaism for Body, Mind, Spirit 

• School Food FOCUS 

• Share Our Strength 

• Silvia Center 

• Single Stop USA 

• Slow Food NYC 

• Society for the Advancement of Judaism 

• Southside United HDFC

• Los Sures 

• St. Nick's Alliance 

• Students for Service

• Sunnyside Community 

• Teenergetic

• The After School Corporation 

• The Battery Conservancy  

• The Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew  

• The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF) 

• The Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Community Food Council 

• The New York Academy of Medicine

• THE POINT Community Development Corporation  

• The River Fund 

• The Ryan Center 

• Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan 

• True Gospel Tabernacle 

• UJA-Federation of NY 

• United Community Centers/United Community Day Care Center 

• United Federation of Teachers 

• United Neighborhood Houses 

• Union Settlement Association 

• United Way of New York City 

• Uniting Disabled Individuals, Inc. 

• University Settlement 

• Urban Youth Collaborative

• Wellness In The Schools 

• West End Presbyterian Church 

• West Side Campaign Against Hunger 

• WhyHunger 

• Women’s City Club of New York 

• YMCA of Greater New York 

• YWCA of the City of New York

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PARENT LEADERSHIP BODIES

• The Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Council (CPAC)

• The Education Council Consortium (ECC)

• Citywide Council on High Schools (CCHS)

• Citywide Council on Special Education (CCSE)

• Citywide Council on English Language Learners (CCELL)

• Brooklyn High School Presidents’ Council

• Alumni/Senior Members, Borough High School Presidents’ Council of Brooklyn

• Manhattan High School Presidents’ Council

• Queens High School Presidents’ Council

• Staten Island Federation of Parent Teacher Associations

• Community Board 2 (Manhattan)

• Community Education Council 1 -Manhattan

• Community Education Council 2 -Manhattan

• Community Education Council 3 -Manhattan

• Community Education Council 4 -Manhattan 

• Community Education Council 7 -Bronx

• Community Education Council 8 -Bronx

• Community Education Council 9 -Bronx

• Community Education Council 11 -Bronx

• Community Education Council 12 -Bronx

• Community Education Council 13 -Brooklyn

• Community Education Council 15 -Brooklyn

• Community Education Council 16 -Brooklyn

• Community Education Council 17 -Brooklyn 

• Community Education Council 18 -Brooklyn 

• Community Education Council 19 - Brooklyn

• Community Education Council 20 -Brooklyn 

• Community Education Council 21 -Brooklyn 

• Community Education Council 23 -Brooklyn 

• Community Education Council 26 –Queens

• Community Education Council 28 -Queens

• Community Education Council 30 -Queens

• Community Education Council 31 -Staten Island

• District 9 PTA Presidents’ Council

• District 10 PTA Presidents’ Council

• District 13 PTA Presidents’ Council

• District 17 PTA Presidents’ Council

• District 18 PTA Presidents’ Council

• District 26 PTA Presidents’ Council

• Academy of American Studies PTA, Queens

• Baccalaureate School for Global Education PTA, Brooklyn

• Bedford Academy High School Parent Teacher Association, Brooklyn

• Bronx Leadership Academy High School PA, Bronx

• Community School 55 PA, Bronx

• Intermediate School 2 Parent Teacher Association, Staten Island  

• IS 117 Joseph H. Wade PTA, Bronx

• IS 259 Parent Teacher Association, Brooklyn

• IS 313 School of Leadership and Development PA, Bronx

• Mount Eden Children’s Academy PA, Bronx

• MS 145 Arturo Toscanini PTA, Bronx

• MS 327 PA, Bronx

• MS 328 New Millennium Business Academy PA, Bronx

• New Dorp High School Parent Teacher Association, Staten Island 

• Park Slope Collegiate Parent Teacher Association, Brooklyn

• PS 8 Robert Fulton School Parent Teacher Association Executive Board, Brooklyn

• PS 9 Teunis G. Bergen School Parent Teacher Organization, Brooklyn

• PS 20 The Clinton School Parent Teacher Association, Brooklyn

• PS 35 Franz Siegel PTA, Bronx

• PS 42 Calremont PTA, Bronx

• PS 70 PA, Bronx

• PS 109 Sedgwick PA, Bronx

• PS 126 Dr. Marjorie H Dunbar PTA, Bronx

• PS 144 Michelangelo PA, Bronx

• PS 164 Parent Teacher Association, Brooklyn

• PS 199 The Shakespeare School PTA, Bronx

• PS 251 Paerdegat PTA, Brooklyn

• PS/IS 266Q Parent Teacher Association, Queens

• PS 443 Family School PTA, Bronx

• PS 454 Mott Hall PTA, Bronx

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