My Nonprofit Reviews

Staff of Food & Water Action are extremely effective in devising comprehensive, well-coordinated campaigns to hold elected officials accountable and ensure that they focus on the policies needed to ensure universal access to safe food, clean water, and a livable climate.

My volunteer experience with the organization has been in a recent - successful - campaign to stop the permits that would have resulted in a new fracked-gas power plant in the North Bergen, NJ section of the Meadowlands. The Don't Gas the Meadowlands effort was extremely well-organized. It included a comprehensive, coordinated set of actions at the state, county, and local levels. Targeted communications and actions with elected officials were central to this effective campaign to prevent the construction of a fracked-gas plant. Food & Water Action's work continues, however, as a leader in a major statewide coalition working to get Gov. Murphy to enact a moratorium on all new fossil fuel projects in New Jersey until there are rules in place to achieve the Governor's own stated 100% clean energy goals.

New Jersey staff of Food & Water Action are the most skillful and savvy community organizers and strategists that I've seen in a long time. Their work in New Jersey couldn't be more important. The organization's aggressive and effective advocacy gives Jersey residents hope that we can get elected officials to do everything necessary to reduce greenhouse gases, a main contributor to climate change.

Among other efforts, Food & Water Watch was a leader in the hard-fought effort to stop the permits that would have resulted in a new fracked-gas power plant in the North Bergen, NJ section of the Meadowlands. The Don't Gas the Meadowlands effort was extremely well-organized. It included a comprehensive, coordinated set of actions at the state, county, and local levels - protest marches (March for Our Lungs), mobilization of school children, garnering support of state legislators, town leaders (particularly in Bergen County), petitions, and call-ins. Food & Water Watch was - and remains - a key actor in the state-wide coalition of nonprofit groups called Empower New Jersey, a campaign (still underway in Oct. 2019) to persuade Gov. Murphy to enact a moratorium on all new fossil fuel projects in New Jersey until there are rules in place to achieve the Governor's own stated 100% clean energy goals.

The work of Food & Water Watch in New Jersey couldn't be more important. Its aggressive and effective advocacy gives Jersey residents hope that we can get elected officials to do everything necessary to reduce greenhouse gases, a main contributor to climate change.