‘‘What does growing some of your own food have to do with repairing your relationship to food and eating? Everything.’’

- Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Our Mission ⟶

 
 

Help Us Build a More Sustainable City.

In New York City, approximately 20 percent of food waste is generated by restaurants and caterers. Oftentimes, these businesses are unable to determine how much food is left over until late in the night, making donations difficult. Brooklyn Donates is working to transform the way we process food waste. We want to see the day when our city’s restaurants are no longer contributing to landfills, but they need your support to get there.

Source: Hoover, D., & Moreno, L. (2017). Estimating quantities and types of food waste at the city level. Natural Resources Defense Council.

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On November 18th, Brooklyn Donates is hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for our asylum-seeking neighbors at Floyd Bennett Field. We’re hosting around 50 people, primarily families, as a way to send a warm welcome to New York with a multi-course din
Thank you to all that donated today! If you couldn’t make it this week, we will be out here again next Sunday from 12-2pm collecting coats for our neighbors living at Floyd Bennett Field @fbfneighbors.
Brooklyn Donates is partnering with @fbfneighbors to collect winter coats for our asylum seeking neighbors over at Floyd Bennett Field. We will be collecting new and gently used coats through December 1st and our drop off sites / times will continuou
We just wanted to take some time to re-introduce ourselves! Pictured from left to right, we’re Leo, Jordan, and Olivia, the Brooklyn Donates board of directors. With backgrounds in hospitality, public health, and sustainability, and a shared

Please note: Although we put every effort into vetting Brooklyn Donates grant applicants, there may be information which we do not uncover. We provide grants in the best faith of helping small businesses and individuals, particularly those in the hardest hit communities, recover from the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. By providing a grant to a small business for its specific purpose, Brooklyn Donates in no way is providing an endorsement of the small business’s products or services, or endorsing the actions of their leadership.