Feeding and Funding Our City:
Recovery for New York City’s Invisibilized Food Ecosystem
Tuesday March 1, 2022
2:00 – 3:30pm ET
Zoom meeting
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This is a funder only event
Co-sponsored by Philanthropy New York and
NYC Workforce Funders
Street vendors and food delivery workers are essential to the New York City food system, but since long before the pandemic, the day-to-day realities of these essential workforces were largely invisibilized.
In 2021, street vendors and food delivery workers took to the streets and organized to win major policy changes for increased worker rights such as: creating the first centralized civilian office for street vendors in NYC; lifting the cap on vendor permits for the first time in 40 years; securing six groundbreaking NYC bills that provide labor rights and protections for 65,000 app delivery workers; and helping to create the Excluded Workers Fund, a $2.1 Billion fund New Yorkers excluded from relief due to the nature of their work or immigration status.
Join CFF and Philanthropy New York for this virtual briefing, where funding organizations will hear from representatives of the Street Vendor Project and Worker’s Justice Project’s Los Deliveristas Unidos, as well as a funder supporting both organizations. Learn about the important yet often overlooked role these workers play in our urban food ecosystem, the core elements of successful and ongoing campaign strategies, as well as the upcoming policy changes street vendors and delivery workers are organizing to achieve in 2022 and beyond.
Learning objectives:
- How COVID-19 highlighted the role of street vendors & food delivery workers in our urban food ecosystem
- Lessons learned from local policy wins and setbacks for street vendors & food delivery workers
- How an equitable economic recovery for street vendors & food delivery workers will impact the economic recovery of New York City
Speakers:
- Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, Street Vendor Project
- Mohamed Attia, Street Vendor Project
- Ligia Guallpa, Worker’s Justice Project
- Hildalyn Colón Hernández, Worker’s Justice Project
- Jennifer Ching (moderator), North Star Fund
More about the presenting organizations
The Street Vendor Project (SVP) is a membership-driven organization that champions the rights of street vendors as small businesses to earn a living and contribute to the culture and life of New York City. Through direct legal representation, small business training, leadership development, and strategic legislative advocacy, SVP builds power and community among vendors.
Worker’s Justice Project is a member-led organization that is organizing to raise industry standards in the app delivery, construction, and domestic worker industries. From the streets to the apps, we have been building a worker-led organizing movement as Los Deliveristas Unidos to rewrite the rules of the gig economy and deliver essential protections to the 65,000 Deliveristas that keep New Yorkers fed.