THE METRO-AREA NETWORK

Our Ecosystem

As more and more people become aware of the power of whole food, plant-based (WFPB) nutrition to combat chronic disease, Plant Powered Metro New York works to connect individuals, groups, and organizations to amplify our collective message. Our ecosystem includes a growing network of plant-based clinicians and health coaches in private practice and at many clinics and hospitals throughout the metro area, as well as local organizations that either advance plant-based nutrition or serve as hubs of activity for WFPB learning, connection, and support. These include:
  • Coalition for Healthy School Food: This New York-based organization advocates for healthy plant-based food in the NYC DOE system and others, offers an elementary-school nutrition and food curriculum, and supports schools in changing their menus to promote student health.
  • Faith-Based Communities, including Church of the Advent Hope (Upper East Side, Manhattan), Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Astoria, Queens), and St. Helena's School (Parkchester, Bronx), which each host WFPB educational events for their members and surrounding communities.
  • Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan: This Upper West Side wellness center has begun to host regular educational programming on whole food, plant-based nutrition, and PPMNY runs 21-day jumpstart programs there. Check out our events page for a list of upcoming programs with the JCC.
  • Montefiore Einstein Cardiac Wellness Program: Directed by Robert Ostfeld, MD, this program supports advanced cardiac patients in making extensive dietary change to prevent further cardiac events and reverse blockages.
  • NYC H+H/Bellevue Hospital's Plant-Based Lifestyle Medicine Program: Directed by Michelle McMacken, MD, this pilot program applies food as medicine for those with pre-existing medical conditions.
  • NYC Hip Hop is Green: This plant-based multimedia organization produces cultural and educational programming to empower leadership and connect communities to health and wellness resources.
  • Office of the Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams: With an incredible story of healing from advancing Type 2 diabetes, Borough President Adams is promoting plant-based nutrition across the local community, within hospitals, schools, and the general public.
  • Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: This Washington, DC-based organization conducts research and spearheads national and local campaigns that promote plant-based nutrition to save and improve human and animal lives.
  • PlantPure Communities: This national organization seeds and supports a network of hundreds of international groups led by volunteers, including those who came together to found Plant Powered Metro New York to educate and support their respective communities on evidence-based nutrition.
  • Save Our Sexy: A local nonprofit started by nurses, this public health organization is dedicated to reducing premature deaths in black men in underserved communities, focusing on diabetes and heart disease. Whole food, plant-based nutrition is a core piece of their holistic approach to health and wellness.
  • SOMOS Community Care: With a network of nearly 2,500 clinics in four New York City boroughs, SOMOS is educating its network of physicians on plant-based nutrition and running a series of 10-day jumpstart programs around the city.
  • SUNY Downstate Medical Center's Committee on Plant-Based Health & Nutrition: This multidisciplinary team at Downstate is promoting awareness of the health benefits of plant-based nutrition within their system and in the surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods.
  • Wellness Foundation: This organization in Sag Harbor, Long Island, runs educational programs in communities and schools to help adults and children prevent and reverse chronic disease with plant-based nutrition.
  • Local restaurants that are offering WFPB meals and hosting educational programs with our organizers, including Heidi's Health Kitchen (Babylon, Long Island) and Neerob Restaurant (Parkchester, Bronx)​. Even more restaurants are participating in PlantPure Communities Restaurant Campaign by making at least one WFPB oil-free dish, and indicating it with an "oil-free" designation on their menu! Check out this interactive map showing all restaurants offering WFPB + no-oil options. Contact us if you'd like to participate.

Become a Hub in the Network

If you're part of a neighborhood, workplace, faith-based community, health clinic, or residence that wants to increase your constituents' wellness using food as medicine, contact us to link up with our network and get started with whole-food, plant-based nutrition.​
"The inescapable fact is that certain people are making an awful lot of money today selling foods that are unhealthy. They want you to keep eating the foods they sell, even though doing so makes you fat, depletes your vitality, and shortens and degrades your life. They want you docile, compliant, and ignorant. They do not want you informed, active, and passionately alive, and they are quite willing to spend billions of dollars annually to accomplish their goals." - John Robbins
Plant Powered Metro New York is catalyzing the local movement for vibrant health through whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) nutrition. We are an independent member organization of the PlantPure Communities Pod Network and a fiscally-sponsored project of the Center for Transformative Action, a 501(c)(3) organization in Ithaca, NY.