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The organization Brooklyn Org is awarding each of them $100,000 to help continue their work.
Brooklyn Org will honor them on Tuesday. The organization provides funding to various nonprofits in Brooklyn.
One of the nonprofits being recognized is the Brownsville Community Culinary Center, which offers free culinary vocational training to Brownsville residents. The center also runs a Food Is Medicine program, which supports people with diabetes through nutrition education, cooking classes and fitness activities. Jocelynne Rainey, CEO of Brooklyn Org, and Alexis Aquino, executive director of the Brownsville Community Culinary Center, joined "Weekends On 1" Sunday morning to discuss more.
To view the entire piece by NY1’s Rocco Vertuccio please visit the link below.
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The 2025 Brooklyn Org Spark Prize winner!
“At the Brownsville Community Culinary Center, we know that good food can spark powerful positive changes in the health and overall well-being of people, so we are thrilled to be honored with the Brooklyn Org Spark Prize, which is rooted in the idea of sparking transformational change in communities,”- Alexis Aquino, Executive Director and Executive Chef at Brownsville Community Culinary Center.
To view the entire piece by Brooklyn.org, please visit the link below.
HuffPost
Brownsville, Brooklyn is a food desert. But in 2018, the Brownsville Community Culinary Center opened its doors to provide healthy food options that are also affordable. Since then, it’s helped dozens of local residents train to become chefs, while also providing the community with its first sit-down restaurant in decades.
To view the entire piece by HuffPost, please visit the link below.
The New York Times
The crux of the initiative is an educational program that will put students, most in their 20s and early 30s and from the community, through 40 weeks of kitchen classwork and apprenticing, for which they are paid a stipend. The intention is to prepare them for careers in the food and restaurant industry as they make the meals to be served at the center, which will be run as a nonprofit.
To view the entire article by The New York Times, please visit the link below.
Brownstoner
The Brownsville Community Culinary Center, located at 69 Belmont Avenue, has announced that in addition to their restaurant, culinary training program and community space, they will soon debut their Diabetes Wellness Program, with an aim to serve the neighborhood.
To view the entire article by The New York Times, please visit the link below.
WNYC
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