After three years of planning, construc-tion and set up, we are excited to an-nounce the opening of our beautiful new pantry space at 376 Throop. In the midst of much new construction and gentri-fication in Bed-Stuy, this beautiful new glass and aluminum street front build-ing is not another market rate rental or condo, but instead a facility to bring more services to low-income local residents.

Our Opportunity Resource Center next door at Throop and Lafayette also offers an expanding array of employment and education programs.

Look for more to come.

Jeffrey Dunston, CEO

We are very pleased to announce that in June NEBHDCo’s Golden Harvest Pantry will be moving from 745 Lafayette to 376 Throop, just around the corner! We will open at the new space for regular distri-bution on Tuesday June 3rd, continuing the same pantry hours of Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am-12pm. The first floor of the new pantry will operate on the supermarket-style choice model, with families able to shop by family size of 1-6. Clients will select food according to their family’s needs and preferences. All current pantry clients will need to re-register, providing proof of family size. New clients will be able to shop for family size of one on the initial visit if they do not bring proof of family size with them. After that they must prove family size. And we’re going green! No more plastic bags– all clients will need to bring their own bags.

The new pantry will provide a beautiful new space and will offer much more fresh produce, some of it grown in NEBHDCo’s own gardens! New reach-in refrigeration units will provide more dairy products, frozen poultry and meats. A range of cooking classes and nutrition demon-strations will provide information about eating for health, and samples prepared from food available in the pantry. A new food garden behind the pantry has been built and planted with tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, basil, collards and more! The sec-ond floor will also have a benefits center to provide expanded benefits referral ser-vices. Plans are underway for more direct services to be provided, including SNAP enrollment and health care information.

To volunteer at the pantry (we need you!) and for more information, call Ms. Lisa Everett at 718-453-9490 x222.

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152 Tompkins Avenue Garden Earlier this year we hired a team of paid youth interns to build this garden from the ground up and grow food to be distrib-uted at our nearby Golden Harvest Food Pantry. They’re also learning about our urban environment as well as valuable job-skills. We are honored to be working with Crystal, Da’Equan, Simone, Warren, and Yasmine. They are a hardworking, fun, and brilliant team of young people. Would you like to grow your own food? Join us! We have spots for community members to grow with us!

Also, please join us for a garden party!Saturday, June 7th 12-3pm

We’ll have music, seed starting workshops, games and prizes, cooking demonstrations, and food!

The event is FREE. All are welcome to bring a dish to share.

Food Empower-ment Education and Sustainability Team (FEEST)On April 25th, we held our first FEEST din-ner. FEEST is our youth-led improvisational cooking program that invites youth to build community and engage in issues of food and social justice. As we each went around and named one ingredient per dish, we came up with wild ideas and somehow made a delicious menu that included roasted purple (purple?! Yes, purple!) sweet potatoes with rosemary, kale salad, cornmeal crusted pep-pers, and more! We shared stories, listened to music and danced a little too. Are you a young person from age 14-17? Please join us for the next FEEST!

Next up: Friday, May 30th 5pm – 8:30pm

Where: The Demonstration Kitchen @ 376 Throop Ave

Soul Food Junkies Film Screening and Cooking EventBaffled by his dad’s unwillingness to change his soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, filmmaker Byron Hurt learns-more about this rich culinary tradition and its relevance to black cultural identity.

6:30pm – Cook with Chef Jin! Together, we’ll prepare a nutritious soul food dish and take home the recipe to make it again! Arrive early – space is limited.

7pm SHARP - Soul Food Junkies Film Screening with nutritious soul food plates prepared by Chef Jin of Jinsjourney.com.

8pm – 8:30pm – Discussion of the movie and hopes for better food in here in Bed-Stuy.

Where: The Demonstration Kitchen @376 Throop AveRSVP for childcare by June 10th.

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Communities for Healthy Food Bed-Stuy means real jobs in the busi-ness of food, it means options for buying good food on our ‘hood budgets, it means we gather to build community spaces to grow, cook, share, and eat food. It means that we grow stronger together as we reclaim our right to great tasting, high quality, and sustainable food.

Hit us up for more information and to RSVP to any of the programs! Bianca Bockman at 718-453-9490 x215 or bbockman@nebhdco.org Visit us online at www.nebhdco.org

Here’s what’s happening this Spring and Summer…

Harvest Home Farmers’ Market We’re partnering with Harvest Home, an organization dedicated to increasing access to local, farm-fresh produce, educating the public about health and nutrition, support-ing regional agriculture and providing job opportunities during the market season. The “Marcy Park” market will operate from July – November on the corner of Myrtle and Marcy Aves.

Be in touch for more info and updates.

Central Brooklyn Food Co-opNEBHDCo has joined forces with the Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) and community members from Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy to organize and build a food cooperative that is “for us, by us”. With a racial and economic justice driven mis-sion, the co-op will not only offer healthy and affordable foods but will serve as an open community space. Before this co-op can become an up and running entity, it needs many people involved in the process. So, please join the effort now!

Next General Food Co-op Organizing Meeting: Wednesday, May 28th (6:30 – 8:30pm) 375 Stuyvesant Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11233 RSVP: Harvir Kaur, Food Justice Organizer hkaur@brooklynmove-mentcenter.org or 718.771-7000

Community Chef TrainingWe couldn’t be more excited to work with Just Food to bring their Community Chef training to Bed-Stuy. 20 community mem-bers will learn how to facilitate workshops about local, seasonal eating and cooking; basic nutrition; fruit and vegetable iden-tification; recipe selection and creation; knife skills; and food storage and prepa-ration. Community Chefs inspire and empower New Yorkers to create delicious and healthy meals for themselves and their families. After completing the four-day training, Community Chefs are paid to conduct cooking demonstration at farm-ers’ markets, health fairs, schools, bodegas, and community events.

When: Saturdays July 12th, 19th, 26th and August 2nd 10am – 5pm, All sessions are mandatory for the full day.

Where: The Demonstration Kitchen @ 376 Throop Ave.

Interested in applying? Get in touch for an application!

Cooking Workshops for SeniorsCalling all Seniors! Join Chef Jin of www.jinsjourney.com this summer for a cooking workshop series catered to living with or (even better!) preventing diet-related disease.

Workshop dates: July 18th, August 15th, and September 19th (Time TBD) Where: Lucille Rose Manor Senior Resi-dence, 364 Vernon Ave

Brooklyn Chef BattleNEBHDCo is excited to partner with Jin’s Journey, Inc. who on Saturday, June 28, 2014, will present the Brooklyn Chef Battle. This community event is an Iron Chef-style battle where three chef teams will have the chance to show off their talents in the kitchen. The Brooklyn Chef Battle event kicks off at 12p with vendors, activities and fun for the entire family. The vendor marketplace will feature a Family Center with games, an arts table, face paint-ing and more!

To purchase tickets, a booth space or to sponsor the Brooklyn Chef Battle visit www.jinsjourney.com/BKChefBattle or call (347) 469-1252. Saturday, June 28th :: 12-5pm :: 364 Vernon Avenue between Lewis and Stuyvesant.

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Ms. Shafon Longshore of Bedford Stuyvesant is the latest winner of a $500 award from the Finding Your Future Scholarship Fund, spon-sored by Michael SK McKinney. Ms. Longshore chose to take advantage of a great opportunity for youth between 13 – 18 who live in NEBHDCo buildings, are doing well in school and plan to attend college. We are grateful to Mr. McKinney for his generosity in providing funding for this program over the last two and half years, award-ing scholarships to seven outstanding youth. To follow Mr. McKinney’s ongoing work in commu-nity outreach and empowerment, see his blog at http://mskmpresents.blogspot.com.

Meet Our New Scholarship Winner!

Tenants Corner NEBHDCo Property Management Emergency Hotline 718-453-9490 x232

Summer cooling season is ap-proaching. Remember to keep windows closed when air con-ditioning is on. For safety, ALL (front or back windows) A/C units must be installed with metal bracket supports, and *+0�%*�ü.!�!/��,!�3%* +3/ċ�This is important for everyone, and required for all NEBHDCo tenants. Have them profes-sionally installed yourselves. If NEBHDCo management installs them for tenants, there will be a $600 charge. So stay cool, and stay safe!

NEBHDCo’s Opportunity Resource Center

We’d like to thank all of our funders, for making this work possible:

COMING UP: May 22nd is the next testing date for High School Equivalency/Adult Basic Educa-tion classes, starting at 1pm.Saturday classes start May 31st , 9:30am-3:30pm: Testing and classes will be held at the Center, 378 Throop Avenue, enter on Lafayette.

For more information call Ron Lee, St. Nick’s Alliance Workforce Development, 718-302-2057 x210.

Build it Green NYC, Carver Bank, City Harvest, Food Bank For New York City, GrowNYC, LISC, Kitchen Gardeners International, The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Michael SK McKinney/MSKM Presents, M&T Bank, New York Restoration Project, TD Bank, United Way

In October 2013 NEBHDCo’s new Opportunity Resource Center opened at Throop and Lafayette Avenues, to bring employment and educational support resources to Bed-Stuy. The Resource Cen-ter is managed by NEBHDCo staff, with employment support resources provided through partnerships with well-estab-lished local education, job readiness, job training and placement support agencies. Participating organizations include St. Nick’s Alliance, The HOPE Program,

Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow, Henkels & McCoy, NYC District 79 Alternative Education and Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. The primary service currently provided is linkages to our local partner agencies, with some classes provided directly at the Center. We have hosted employment and education fairs, information and enroll-ment events, and on-site testing for High School Equivalency (HSE) and Adult Basic Education (ABE).

GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD PANTRY376 Throop AvenueBetween Lafayette & Kosciuszko(starting June 3rd)

PROVIDING FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS REFERRALSEvery Tuesday and Thursday 10:00a—12:00pFor Info Call Lisa Everett 718-453-9490 x222All Current Clients Must Re-register With Proof of Family Size Bring your own bags, please!