My Nonprofit Reviews

In every environmental/justice campaign they launch, F&WW persists until they win, and it’s deeply satisfying for me to play a part. F&WW in recent years has campaigned against fossil fuels even more effectively by partnering with 350NY, WeAct for Environmental Justice, Climate Mondays, NY Communities for Change and NY Renews. F&WW stands and pushes for all the right things: Healthy living environments for all New Yorkers, a strong Green New Deal with well-paying jobs, increased taxes on the very wealthy, and a 100% renewable energy system.
Devoting personal time and energy to Food & Water Watch’s initiatives is rewarding—F&WW combines passion with compassion in standing up both for a livable Climate and for environmental justice. At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic we phone banked and urged constituents to press their state governments to enact moratoria on residential water and electricity shutoffs.
I’m totally with F&WW’s ambitious goal of putting an end to toxic, Climate-destructive fracked gas operations throughout NYS. F&WW mobilizes members and volunteers like me for trips to Albany to both educate and lobby our representatives—and I’m always glad to join these campaigns.
As a deeply concerned father I’m especially glad for the opportunity to work with an effective environmental justice organization like Food & Water Action, which is committed to securing an environmentally healthy and sustainable future for all of our kids--including my son Ben, Ben’s generation, and generations to come.

I've enjoyed volunteering for over 7 years now with Food & Water Watch, a great environmental and environmental justice advocacy organization. Years ago F&WW among many other campaigns was at the forefront of united opposition against the TPP, a nightmarish international trade “deal;” as well against Enbridge’s toxic Tar Sands oil pipelining schemes, Trump's efforts to eviscerate the EPA; and the proliferation of fracking operations in NY.
Stopping at last the disastrous Williams fracked gas pipeline in NY Harbor and another prospective monster, the Danskammer power plant in Newburgh after protracted campaigns are standouts among the exhilarating triumphs I’ve gotten to share with fellow F&WW activists.
Over the years F&WW more and more has campaigned even more effectively for needed legislative and other official action with new coalition partners 350NY, WeAct for Environmental Justice, Climate Mondays, NY Communities for Change and NY Renews in pushing for a strong Green New Deal with well-paying jobs, increased taxes on the very wealthy, and a 100% renewable energy system.
It's been great to meet and work with these new campaign allies and partners, deepening my hope that we can actually prevail in our grand Climate objective even as highly placed national and international players disappointingly fail to create needed policy and action.
In this era of high Climate anxiety it’s also been satisfying to join Food & Water Watch’s ongoing campaigns to demand action for Climate and Community from our nigh-feckless leadership in Albany, to wit: surprising our former governor at his numerous secretive fundraisers and reminding him frequently and LOUDLY of NYS’s critical renewable energy mandate; and continuing this great bird-dogging tradition with a similarly foot-dragging Gov. Hochul.
I’m also drawn to how Food & Water Watch combines passion with compassion in standing up for environmental justice and human rights. When the deadly Covid-19 pandemic erupted in America, we countered the heartless fecklessness of the Trump administration, pressing state governments to enact moratoria on residential water and electricity shutoffs.
And, in ongoing campaigns to end all Climate-wrecking fracked gas extraction, processing, vaporizing, and transport, F&WW aims to help bring essential protections and relief to the many harmfully impacted frontline communities .
In line with this commitment F&WW also strongly calls for TAXING the RICH—NYS’s very wealthiest citizens—to help fund the critically needed Green New Deal. F&WW campaigns for this reform also because it’s critically needed to relieve financially struggling New Yorkers of their crippling and wholly unjust tax burden; and I for one am more than happy to join fellow activists in demanding this long-overdue reform for the good of the many.
I think that on a personal level I most value working with Food & Water Action for its commitment to securing an environmentally healthy and sustainable future for all of our kids--including my son Ben, Ben’s generation, and generations to come.

My RAVE for Food & Water Action
I'm proud to be associated with this great organization which is working effectively for the well-being of NY communities and our shared global biosphere.
Food & Water Action has been at the forefront of such crucial environmental campaigns as stopping the import of toxic Tar Sands oil; saving the EPA; and preventing numerous fracking, gas transport and pipelining operations from getting under way in NY.
Food & Water Action also stands strong for environmental justice and human rights. Time and again we’ve rallied, lobbied and petitioned Albany for environmental protection and justice for frontline communities threatened by extraction operations, prospective new fracked gas power plants, pipeline construction, and LNG transport projects. We’ve agitated and we continue to agitate for a fair tax increase on NY’s wealthiest to help finance a crucial Green New Deal.
And when the deadly Covid-19 pandemic erupted in America, we prevailed against the callous fecklessness of the Trump administration, pressing state governments to enact moratoria on residential water and electricity shutoffs.
I believe I most value working with Food & Water Action for its commitment to securing an environmentally sustainable future for ALL of our kids, including my son Ben and his generation.
David Vassar
Morningside Heights
New York, NY 10027

[Warning to Reader: Long-winded RAVE] I've had the privilege of volunteering for over 7 years now with Food & Water Action, which has been at the forefront of numerous good campaigns including those in opposition to: the TPP, an awful international trade deal; the import of toxic Tar Sands oil; Trump's efforts to abolish the EPA; and the proliferation of fracking operations in NY.
We F&WA activists have bused to and assembled in Albany and gathered time and again at NYC office of Andrew Cuomo to demand--respectfully and loudly--a just tax increase on the rich to fund a GND, cessation of all new fossil fuel projects, and 100% renewable energy for New York.
Additionally, often with short notice for us eager volunteers, we've rallied at Cuomo's furtive mega-donor fundraising events calling on the Guv to live up to his self-appellation as NY's "environmental champ." these have always been enjoyable gatherings to me, and I don't know of any other organizations that have been able to pull off such blitzkrieg rallies to the surprise and dismay of the targeted official.
The long-awaited bans on a second Williams fracked gas pipeline and subsequently on fracking waste from PA were especially satisfying wins. It took persistent and determined campaigning by all of us working with F&WA to prevail in these protracted 'fracking wars.'
F&WA over the years has also effectively allied itself with environmental coalition partners like 350NY, Climate Mondays, NY Communities for Change and NY Renews to push for a strong Green New Deal, crucially including well-paying green jobs as well as enactment of the Sanders/Ocasio Cortez-sponsored Fracking Ban Act.
Food & Water Action is also defending human rights and protecting community health by pressing State governments to enact moratoria on residential water and electricity shutoffs for residents unable to pay their utility bills consequent to loss of employment in our ongoing pandemic.
I greatly value having the chance to volunteer with Food & water Action in working to secure an environmentally sustainable future for our kids and generations to come; in these times, more than ever, my son Ben's future well-being is foremost on my mind. I also value greatly F&WA's ongoing commitment to environmental justice for frontline communities harmfully exposed to nearby fossil fuel operations, as well as justice for the many who are disenfranchised by a savagely unfair economic system heavily favoring the very wealthiest in our society at the expense of the 99%.
I'm proud to be associated with this highly effective organization which is working for the greater good of the human community and our common global biosphere. (I'd gladly award Food & Water Action a SIXTH star if I had that choice.)