Bring Us to Your Community
Your partner in plant-based learning
Looking to make nutrition and wellness a feature of your organization’s offerings?
Plant Powered Metro New York collaborates with groups and companies all over the metro area providing evidence-based nutrition programming on introductory to advanced topics, both in-person and online. Our partners include community centers, hospitals, aging services organizations, businesses, and faith-based communities — groups serving widely diverse community members.
Our message goes beyond the mainstream public health ideas of “early detection” and “disease management.”
Instead, we focus on using plant-based nutrition as a critically effective tool to prevent, treat, and even reverse health conditions that many people believe are inevitable due to aging or unlucky genes.
We’ll make your job easy by bringing our cooking and nutrition classes to you. Plant Powered Metro NY will:
- Recommend the best topics and formats for your needs
- Assign an educator or instructional team
- Provide attractive promotional materials
- Provide all class materials
- Bring any cooking supplies, if applicable
Fees are tailored to the program length and the type of program you’d like to offer.
Find the Right Fit for You
Workshops & Cooking Demos
PPMNY organizes a variety of workshops on plant-based nutrition. These sessions can be general or focused on a specific health condition, either structured as stand-alone events or a series.
We offer straight-up presentations, cooking programs, lunch-and-learns, or skills-based workshops on label reading and grocery shopping. Tell us your interests, and we’ll make it happen!
Health Empowerment Seminars
If you’re looking to take a deeper dive through a day-long or half-day event or retreat, our seminars cover a lot of ground! PPMNY guides participants through the science and art of whole food, plant-based nutrition and lifestyle skills. Your group will come away with actionable ideas, tools, and goals to make health-promoting changes.
Food for Life Classes
PPMNY retains a roster of local instructors to present Food for Life, an award-winning nutrition education program developed by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Designed by physicians, nurses, and registered dietitians, Food for Life (FFL) classes involve cooking demonstrations, engaging educational videos, and group discussion. We bring Food for Life to you — kitchens not required — presenting classes as single workshops or in a series.
Each FFL program includes:
- Information about how certain foods and nutrients work to promote or discourage disease.
- Cooking demonstrations and tastings of delicious and healthy recipes to add to your repertoire.
- Practical cooking skills, and tips for incorporating healthy eating habits into daily life.
- A supportive and motivational atmosphere to empower participants to take charge of their health with the food on their plates.
- Opportunities for continued Lifestyle Support after completing a Food for Life series.
Plant Powered Jumpstart
The Jumpstart is our most comprehensive dietary and wellness offering for your constituents or employees. The program provides a structured, multi-session exploration of plant-based nutrition over 2-4 weeks, including learning sessions, cooking demos, peer mentorship, and curated resources. It’s a memorable and transformational way to jumpstart a new phase in your community’s health. PPMNY offers private Jumpstarts to our community partners, or you may choose to sponsor your constituents’ participation in our public programs, typically offered three times per year.
Ready to talk about bringing plant-powered learning to your community?
Contact Lianna Levine Reisner, PPMNY Network Director, for next steps.
Our Partners
Partner Spotlight
Learn about how we met the needs of organizations with our tailored programming.
Their Goals
When the country’s largest public healthcare system started to open clinical programs in plant-based nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine, the initiative turned heads. Alongside their cutting-edge approach to patient care, H+H leaders wanted to offer meaningful employee wellness programming that would engage staff from all locations in understanding the power of plant-based nutrition.
How We’ve Worked Together
PPMNY presents our Jumpstart semi-annually with H+H’s Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine team. Each program enrolls 200 employees for intensive learning and dietary change support, modeled after our other Plant Powered Jumpstart programs. We also regularly present plant-based cooking demos that are recorded and made available in their internal staff portal. These demos feature plant-based cuisines from cultures that mirror the incredible diversity of the staff.
We also work with individual hospitals, including Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx and Harlem Hospital, to offer staff and patient nutrition programming.
Their Goals
JASA is a citywide provider of aging services, with a network of older adult centers and retirement communities. They reached out about nutrition education for their older adults — initially online during the pandemic and then later for on-site engagement at their centers. Over time, their leaders recognized that their staff needed more training in evidence-based nutrition, to create a healthier food culture and to offer better health services.
How We’ve Worked Together
We’ve presented Food for Life classes, cooking demos, and nutrition empowerment summits for JASA’s clients, and led staff lunch-and-learns for all center leaders and their health services department. JASA also sponsored their center directors and health services staff to participate in our Plant Powered Jumpstart, for personal wellness and professional development.
Their Goals
The acclaimed global media corporation sought out evidence-based nutrition expertise for their employee well-being initiatives. Serving tens of thousands of employees, Hearst presents a full schedule of employee workshops and invited PPMNY to partner.
How We’ve Worked Together
Since 2021, PPMNY has organized virtual nutrition presentations on diverse topics like cardiovascular and metabolic health, men’s health, and immune health, as well as cooking demos for Black History Month and for holidays. In 2024, we were invited to present a cooking class for local employees in their Good Housekeeping demo kitchen!
Their Goals
The Mexican Coalition supports more than 18,000 families in the Latina community to help them realize their full civic, cultural, and political integration into American society. Serving mostly immigrants and essential workers, the Coalition recognized the burden of diabetes and other chronic diseases in the community and wanted to offer culturally relevant nutrition programming for families.
How We’ve Worked Together
Our Spanish-speaking educators and volunteers have presented Food for Life classes, featuring demonstrations of familiar Latin meals reimagined through a whole food, plant-based lens. Our team supports lifestyle change among entire families, helping them choose and prepare healthier foods that honor their heritage.
Their Goals
Tenant leaders in this lively apartment community were curious to learn more about plant-based nutrition as a wellness strategy. Their residents enjoy a tight-knit community with an active programming schedule.
How We’ve Worked Together
We’ve organized Food for Life classes on general health, diabetes, and maternal and family health, with a follow-up support group. The residents are highly engaged and have been motivated to continue hosting classes and potlucks to make whole food, plant-based nutrition part of their community ethos. Some tenants have gone on to participate in our Jumpstart program, too.
