Change Food for Good, 1231 Lafeyette Avenue 2nd Fl (2025)

11/12/2024

🗣️ Now Hiring: Program Coordinator - Part Time! $25/hr! 🗣️

We’re looking for an Program Coordinator to support our job training & educational programs, partner coordination and community resource efforts! 🏫

⭐️Pay Rate: $25 per hour
⭐️20-25 hrs per week
⭐️Experience in career coaching and employer engagement required
⭐️Valid Driver’s License required

Click the link in our bio to review the job description! 👀

If you or someone you know is looking for a job, we have the perfect role for you! 🤓

Email your resume & cover letter to [email protected] today! 💌

19/10/2024

Our final construction skills training day with really got us feeling like the cool kids on the block 😎

Good eats, great lessons and getting to create DIY hydroponics towers & channels… it doesn’t get much better than that. 🤓

Thank you to everyone at who made our construction skills so fun & eventful. 🙌🏽

15/10/2024

Rainy rooftop farm tours at with some of our Intro to AgTech Cohort 7 students! ☺️

Our participants are in the final stretch for ITAG, wrapping up their Plant Health API development, completing their farm design projects and building out NFT channels later this week! 🤞🏽

We cannot wait to see their portfolio projects & start matching folks to internship sites! ❤️

11/10/2024

Take a tour of .one ✅
Eat a massive (and delicious) lunch ✅
Make mushroom & bokashi take home kits with ✅

We had a TIME today with our Cohort 7 Intro to AgTech participants & our awesome partners! Full recap is on the wayyyy! 💕

09/09/2024

Getting to catch up with our favs from , talking about how we use tech to advance food systems on the Tech for Tomorrow panel, and getting to know how these are changing the tech industry… it really doesn’t get much better than that. 😌🙂‍↕️💕

Our full recap video is coming soooooon but in the meantime, we wanted to give a big thank you to for allowing us to share about how our work is contributing to the food (r)evolution and quickly shout out our friends and the awesome panelists who we got to share this space with at this year’s Baddiecon! 🫶🏽💅🏽

21/08/2024

Okay, this was an unexpected addition to our 2024 Bingo Card! Our work got published in Groeten Nieuws, a news source in the Netherlands that highlights agriculture efforts! 🤯🏔️

So exciting to see our work reach new agriculture enthusiasts abroad! 🫶🏽

16/08/2024

Intro to AgTech 2024’s registration is now open! 🤓 Earn a $250 stipend and jumpstart your career in tech, sustainable agriculture or construction! 🥳

If you are:

✔️ A New York City resident 🏙️

✔️ Unemployed or under-employed (earning less than $45k/year)

✔️ 18-24 years old

Join us for our FREE 10-week program and we’ll help propel your career with hands-on training, job placement & career readiness!

You’ll have the opportunity to:

🌱 Design and build sustainable smart farms for food relief
💻 Learn programming skills & implement sensor technologies into farm sites
🍄 Cultivate your farming knowledge - from hydroponics, aquaponics, aeroponics - and even mushrooms!
🛠️ Gain hands-on carpentry skills training to build your own projects
🧠 Learn how to design, build and maintain food security systems
🕴️Get matched to gainful job opportunities in growing sectors and receive ongoing career support
💰 Earn a $250 stipend and become eligible for a paid 3-6 month internship!
🤝 Join an empowered network of agricultural technologists dedicated to improving food systems - locally & globally!

We’re providing free training to cultivate the next generation of NYC-based urban farmers and agricultural technologists who build the food systems of the future. 🌱

✨ Click the link in our bio to apply & join us for our second info session on Monday, July 29nd at 5pm est! ✨

06/08/2024

Our Member Spotlight is officially live! 🥳

Thank you to the NYCETC team for supporting our work, sharing out our Intro to AgTech Cohort 8 sign up, and furthermore, giving us opportunities to advocate for equitable workforce development solutions in NYC over the years! 🫡

Check out nycetc.org/member/change-food-for-good to read our member spotlight! 💅🏽

25/07/2024

🚨ICYMI - Our next info session for ITAG is coming up on July 29th & August 9th! 🤓 Earn a $250 stipend and jumpstart your career in tech, sustainable agriculture or construction! 🥳

If you are:

✔️ A New York City resident 🏙️

✔️ Unemployed or under-employed (earning less than $45k/year)

✔️ 18-24 years old

Join us for our FREE 10-week program and we’ll help propel your career with hands-on training, job placement & career readiness!

You’ll have the opportunity to:

🌱 Design and build sustainable smart farms for food relief
💻 Learn programming skills & implement sensor technologies into farm sites
🍄 Cultivate your farming knowledge - from hydroponics, aquaponics, aeroponics - and even mushrooms!
🛠️ Gain hands-on carpentry skills training to build your own projects
🧠 Learn how to design, build and maintain food security systems
🕴️Get matched to gainful job opportunities in growing sectors and receive ongoing career support
💰 Earn a $250 stipend and become eligible for a paid 3-6 month internship!
🤝 Join an empowered network of agricultural technologists dedicated to improving food systems - locally & globally!

We’re providing free training to cultivate the next generation of NYC-based urban farmers and agricultural technologists who build the food systems of the future. 🌱

✨ Click the link in our bio to apply & join us for our second info session on Monday, July 29nd at 5pm or August 9th at 2pm est! ✨

24/07/2024

Intro to AgTech 2024’s registration is now open! 🤓 Earn a $250 stipend and jumpstart your career in tech, sustainable agriculture or construction! 🥳

If you are:

✔️ A New York City resident 🏙️

✔️ Unemployed or under-employed (earning less than $45k/year)

✔️ 18-24 years old

Join us for our FREE 10-week program and we’ll help propel your career with hands-on training, job placement & career readiness!

You’ll have the opportunity to:

🌱 Design and build sustainable smart farms for food relief
💻 Learn programming skills & implement sensor technologies into farm sites
🍄 Cultivate your farming knowledge - from hydroponics, aquaponics, aeroponics - and even mushrooms!
🛠️ Gain hands-on carpentry skills training to build your own projects
🧠 Learn how to design, build and maintain food security systems
🕴️Get matched to gainful job opportunities in growing sectors and receive ongoing career support
💰 Earn a $250 stipend and become eligible for a paid 3-6 month internship!
🤝 Join an empowered network of agricultural technologists dedicated to improving food systems - locally & globally!

We’re providing free training to cultivate the next generation of NYC-based urban farmers and agricultural technologists who build the food systems of the future. 🌱

✨ Click the link in our bio to apply & join us for our second info session on Monday, July 29nd at 5pm est! ✨

17/07/2024

Intro to AgTech 2024’s registration is now open! 🤓 Earn a $250 stipend and jumpstart your career in tech, sustainable agriculture or construction! 🥳

If you are:

✔️ A New York City resident 🏙️

✔️ Unemployed or under-employed (earning less than $45k/year)

✔️ 18-24 years old

Join us for our FREE 10-week program and we’ll help you jumpstart your career with hands-on training, job placement & career readiness! You’ll have the opportunity to:

🌱 Design and build sustainable smart farms for food relief
💻 Learn programming skills & implement sensor technologies into farm sites
🍄 Cultivate your farming knowledge - from hydroponics, aquaponics, aeroponics - and even mushrooms!
🛠️ Gain hands-on carpentry skills training to build your own projects
🧠 Learn how to design, build and maintain food security systems
🕴️Get matched to gainful job opportunities in growing sectors and receive ongoing career support
💰 Earn a $250 stipend and become eligible for a paid 3-6 month internship!
🤝 Join an empowered network of agricultural technologists dedicated to improving food systems - locally & globally!

We’re providing free training to cultivate the next generation of NYC-based urban farmers and agricultural technologists who build the food systems of the future. 🌱

✨ Click the link in our bio to apply & join us for our first info session on Monday, July 22nd at 5pm est! ✨

04/06/2024

We heard we should post more high res pics of our crops. 🤓

Also, raise your hand if you did not know cucumbers look this intriguing as they grow. 🙌🏽

22/05/2024

Our final HSMC intern shout out goes to Jennifer who entered our internship early this year after completing AgTech 101 and has been flourishing as a Farm Hand intern! She’s been maintaining the 4 systems alongside Jose, Oscar & and has been great to work with! 💪🏽

While her career aspirations are geared more toward healthcare, we’re sure her experience with plant care will come in handy once she enters her Biology courses in college soon! 🏥

21/05/2024

We got cukes coming in hot! We named the last one Pickle Rick. 🤓

20/05/2024

Jose was just about to wrap his internship when we got the news that our internship stipends have been extended with a 50% increase in hours for our interns! 🥳

So, Jose along with the rest of our current interns will be continuing their Farm Hand work on our systems until June 30th at ! 😁

Jose has shown great promise in and passion for sustainable agriculture and we can see a bright future in the sector ahead for him. Under guidance, he’s helped steward our 4 Gardyn tech systems and is aiming to pursue new ag roles when his internship wraps in the next few weeks! 💪🏽

Keep up the great work, Jose! 🙌🏽🌿🫡

07/05/2024

Oscar just wrapped his Farm Hand internship with us at ! 🥳🎉🎊

He, along with our other interns, helped maintain our systems at HSMC and is continuing to grow. 🌿

We’re glad he got to gain hands on experience and explore new job paths! 🤓

01/04/2024

We interrupt our regularly scheduled social media posts to inform you that our ITAG alum is on his way to successfully growing soilless PO-TAY-TOES! 🥳🤩😬

Keep up the great work, ! We love to see you grow! 👏🏽💪🏽😊

13/02/2024

Pole Pole Harvest & Training Days 🌱

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