COOKFOX Day of Service 2026
On Friday, May 15th, 2026, COOKFOX ventured out of the office for its 11th annual Day of Service. Studio members visited sites across the city—from midtown Manhattan to Governors Island to the Brooklyn Army Terminal—partnering with organizations like the Ali Forney Center, Grow NYC, and the Brooklyn Public Library to reconnect with local communities and engage the studio’s environmental and social mission.
Hands-on volunteer work included gardening at OKO Farms, cleaning bioswales with the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, and sorting through recycled fabrics with Fab Scrap. At the Ali Forney Center, studio members cleaned and organized storage closets, while at the Brooklyn Public Library, CookFoxers assembled grab-and-go summer activity kits for young visitors. Studio members also hopped on the ferry to Governors Island to tend to Grow NYC’s garden beds.
Begun in 2016, our Day of Service is an opportunity to reconnect with local communities and engage our studio’s environmental and social mission. In the past decade, COOKFOX has developed impactful relationships with our partner organizations by returning to the same sites year after year and pursuing pro-bono projects beyond our one-day volunteer work. In collaboration with the Ali Forney Center, we renovated and refurbished the kitchen, dining, and administration areas at an emergency housing shelter in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and we completed a kitchen renovation at the Center’s 20-bed housing project in Astoria, Queens.
Sites like these are often the first places homeless and at-risk youth turn to after experiencing housing instability. Our studio is honored and grateful for the opportunity to create welcoming spaces that support a mission deeply meaningful to us.
