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 the pandemic (2020), 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 millions of pounds of food to residents throughout Brooklyn’s eastern neighborhoods, prioritizing elderly people, disabled folks, and low-income families.

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 support the vision for the logistics and operations of the food hub food operation.

Since 2020, we have successfully distributed millions of pounds of food to East Brooklyn and NYC residents through Black Radish Home Delivery and our contributions through the support of Black and Brown Farmers and producers.

Architectural plans for Black Radish, a pilot store for our grocery store concept are in place.

EBMA volunteers and staff have been invited to collaborate on numerous research projects and city-wide convenings supporting food and nutrition policy.