Working creatively with youth to achieve zero waste, climate-smart communities and a plastic free biosphere.
Cafeteria Culture
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        • Crossword Puzzle MPmad
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    • Press Release: Plastic Free Lunch Day Nov 2, 2022
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      • DATA +ACTION litter clean up
      • Student and Teacher Litter Data Collection
    • Save Our Compost NYC
    • Skip the Straw
    • NY Bag Bill
    • NYC Foam Ban >
      • Foam Trays Out of Schools
      • Trayless Tuesdays
    • Youth Action on Plastic Pollution
    • Plastic Water Bottle ban NYC
    • Alternative Messaging >
      • No-Styro Puppets
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Donors and Partners

Thank you to our generous current and past donors, including:

FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK
Fund for the City of New York
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US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2
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The Japan Foundation New York
Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation
Founded by Kim and Jack Johnson to support environmental, art, and music education.
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Cafeteria Culture is proud to be a part of the 1% for the Planet network, which connects businesses and nonprofits to protect the planet. If you own a business, consider joining 1% for the Planet, naming Cafeteria Culture as your beneficiary.  Everyone wins!  For more information please visit www.onepercentfortheplanet.org.
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Cloud Nine Hospitality Group - a 1% for the Planet Partner - is the operating team behind several of New York City's most charming and Japanese-inspired restaurants.
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ALL THAT BUZZ
with
Victoria Herbert
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FocusCamera.com
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New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission
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NEW YORK CHAPTER
FRESCO Decorative Finishes
Decorative Finishes
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NYU Community Fund
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Captain Planet Foundation
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Collaborating Agencies
​and Organizations include:


Government

New York City Department of Education
NYC DoE Sustainability Initiative
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NYC Dept. of Education, Office of Food and Nutrtion
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New York City Department of Education
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NYC Department of Environmental Protection
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US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2
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Gateway National Recreation Area
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Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board
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Brooklyn College, CUNY, Department of Earth and Environmental Studies
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Learn more about donating to Cafeteria Culture and our donors.

NGO partners
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collaborators include

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Cafeteria Culture is a Core Member of the #breakfreefromplastic movement
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plasticpollutioncoalition.org
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12th Street Model (El Sol Brillante), Community Garden
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Safer Chemicals Healthy Families
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Parsons The New School for Design
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Sixth Street Community Center

current & past
School Partners include

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PS 15 Patrick F Daley, Red Hook, Brooklyn (D15)
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PS 188 The Island School, Manhattan (D1)
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MS 246 Walt Whitman Middle School, Brooklyn (D17)
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PS 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lower East Side, Manhattan (D1)
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PS 32 the Belmont School, Bronx (D10)
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PS 372 The Children's School, Brooklyn (D15)
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PS 20 the Anna Silver School, Lower East Side, (D1)
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PS 221 Toussaint L'Ouverture, Brooklyn (D17)
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The Earth School NYC
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​New Explorations Into Science, Technology + Math School, Manhattan, NYC (D1)
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PS 167 The Parkway, Brooklyn (D17)
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The Children's Workshop
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The STAR Academy at PS 63
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The Neighborhood School
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Hunter College Elementary
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The Brooklyn New School PS 146
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The Green School Brooklyn
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P.S. 89 Green Committee
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East Village Community School


If your organization is interested in collaborating with Cafeteria Culture, please send an email to info@cafeteriaculture.org.
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Our VISION
We envision a plastic free, equitable zero waste future where landfill and incinerator garbage as we know it no longer exists;
where post consumption waste from food to packaging is drastically reduced
and what remains benefits our schools, communities, and the environment. 


Cafeteria Culture (CafCu) is a Project of The Fund for the City of New York, a charitable organization.
Founded in 2009 as Styrofoam Out of Schools.
Donations to Cafeteria Culture are eligible for charitable deductions under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Cafeteria Culture is a vendor of New York City Department of Education via Fund for the City of New York

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