RiseBoro Community Partnership and the Brooklyn Movement Center are collaborating on the Central Brooklyn Food Democracy Project (CBFDP), an initiative to create a new food economy that fosters Black self-determination, food justice, and economic justice within the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods of Central Brooklyn, specifically Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. At the center of the project, is the Central Brooklyn Food Cooperative, which, has gathered over 250 members to launch a Black-led, consumer-owned food store to provide healthy and affordable food to low- and moderate-income residents.

Black-owned food-based worker coops, established with training and support from RiseBoro, will trade with the Food Coop, with each other, and with buyers outside the network.  The Food Coop will open a brick-and-mortar store that will help lay the groundwork for an integrated, neighborhood-centered local food economy. CCF support will help low- and moderate-income residents cultivate food sovereignty and a healthy food culture for their community based on values of self-determination and cooperation.