Green Bronx Machine: Year In Review
As the year comes to an end, we can’t help but reflect on our massive impact in 2021. This includes:
- Helping to feed 10,000 people on Thanksgiving
- Supporting 1,500 teachers online
- Planting 100,000 seedlings
- Launching 3 new food pantries
- Serving more than 50,000 high-need students
- Growing 10,000 pounds of vegetables with students
- Rescuing 10,000 pounds of food from landfill
- Delivering another 100,000 pounds of food to families in need
- Cutting the ribbons on 10 tiny homes for foster care children in
- Appalachia – their first homes EVER!
- Reaching more than 2 million students through Let’s Learn with Mister Ritz
- Launching a Tower to Table to Tummy Cooking Show
- Testifying before US House of Representatives
- Launching our Food for Good Campaign with Danone
- Partnering with Quest Diagnostics to bring Green Bronx Machine programming and curricula to multiple cities across America
- Welcoming new board members, including Linda Femling (Google), Ana Garcia (NY Presbyterian), Joel Makower (Green Biz), Catherine Nelson (Columbia Threadneedle Investments/Ameriprise Financial)
And the world, our peers, and media have noticed! We were proud to:
- Win the Classy’s 2021 Social Innovation Award
- Win the Artemis Controlled Environment Agriculture’s Disruptor Award
- Win TMZ’s Food Hero Award
- Win NYC Food Policy Center’s Food Hero Award
- Win National Life Group’s 2021 Lifechanger Award
- Join the board of the Association of Vertical Farming
- Appear on the Tamryn Hall show
- Be featured on BBC
- Host Congressman Jim McGovern at our school
- Host the NY State Education Commissioner, Dr. Betty Rosa, and the NY State Agriculture Commissioner, Richard Ball, at the National Health, Wellness and Learning Center at CS55
- Be named to the NYC Mayor’s Food Transition Team
From the Bronx, to the world! In 2022, we will be embarking on Year 1 of our five-year strategic plan, developed in collaboration with PricewaterhouseCoopers, which will bring Green Bronx Machine to 20,000 schools throughout the country. We are poised, ready, willing, and able to do the work! Our work has always been organic and grassroots, supported by local people who love and appreciate what we do and how we do it: one child at a time, one classroom at a time, one school at a time, one community at a time. Today, we are asking for your support. Be it $1 or $100,000! Every drop of kindness helps fill the cup and gets us closer to making epic happen!
We thank you and we appreciate you!
