Thank you for your interest in CFHE's Ujamaa Cafe program. Ujamaa Café, seeks to support neighborhood revitalization at the intersection of health and food equity. Ujamaa offers a cashless vending option addressing food and nutritional insecurity within food apartheid communities.  

About Coalition for Food and Health Equity

The Coalition for Food and Health Equity ("Coalition Equity")’s is a tax exempt non profit whose work is centered on building power within communities to establish sustainable, community-grown cultures of health. We stand firmly in the mission that racial health disparity results from historical and structurally oppressive systems designed to maintain cultures of disease, poverty, and violence impacting communities of color the most. CFHE's mission is to address the root causes of health inequity by identifying the ways structural oppression marginalizes communities and impedes health. Our current programs, The Hunger Project, Senior Wellness Program, Ujamaa Café, and UpRoot, UpRise, ReBuild - blog provide innovative direct and indirect services, outreach, community building and advocacy to transform health within our communities.

How to Become an Ujamaa Affiliate 

Do you have a health-conscious snack, beverage, breakfast, or lunch product that can be stocked in our mobile refrigerators? Start your application for consideration to join our Ujamaa Affiliate pool.

Initial Eligibility

Food vendors with a food item (beverage, snack, or pre-packaged breakfast or lunch meal) are welcome to apply to be a Ujamaa Affiliate by completing our application. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until June 1st. 

 
To be considered for the CFHE Ujamaa Affiliate Program you must meet the following criteria: 

• Be based in one of CFHE's Ujamaa location target areas
  • New Jersey: Camden, Newark, Paterson, Passaic
  • Pennsylvania: Greater Philadelphia, Chester, Coatesville
• Preference is given to minority and women-owned businesses as certified by their respective state.
• Alignment with the CFHE mission and a commitment to health and food equity, social justice, and community development.  
• Be a registered business in the State. 
• Vendors must have a physical commercal location. 
• Current and valid certification from municipal and/or county government inspection that the vendor has a Satisfactory rating. 

Application

The Ujamaa online application includes: 

• Business information and documentation section
• A narrative section on Mission Alignment
• Product information section

Application Process

1. Online Application

2. Interview. Finalists will be contacted for an interview performed by CFHE's Affiliate & Partnerships Committee 

3. Final decisions will be shared via email with selected restaurants invited to join the Ujamaa Restaurant Affiliate program.

*Only fully submitted applications will be considered for review.* 

I attest that the information provided in the application is true. That all documents and certifications provided are up to date, correct, and have not been tampered with. I agree that if any information comes back as fraudulent or the documents and certifications come back as fraudulent, my application to a Coalition for Food and Health Equity Ujamaa Mobile and Cafe Affiliate will be disqualified and I will not be allowed to reapply.

By submitting this application I acknowledge and affirm that all information, documentation, and certifications are true and I am the owner or hold a management level or higher position at the business/ company to submit this application. I understand that submitting this application is not a promise or guarantee of acceptance into the Ujamaa Affiliate program.