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Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)

Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos) is a grantmaking program offered to organizations in the Chicago region by the Lumpkin Family Foundation.

Land, Health, Community (LHC) is the Foundation’s primary and largest grantmaking program that has centered its giving in East Central Illinois. Through this grant program, the Foundation works toward a long-term vision of holistically healthy communities. As a reflection of our commitment to this vision, the Foundation has decided to strategically align its giving in the Chicago area to this long-standing grant program.

The Aspiramos Juntos program has been renamed Land, Health, Community—Chicago (LHC-C). In addition to a new name, the program has refined its focus areas to reflect our commitment, as a Foundation, to supporting holistically healthy communities. We believe that a community’s health is rooted in its ability to access and obtain life sustaining resources for all its residents without undue burden, systemic barriers, and inequitable opportunity.

To this end, we make grants in the Chicagoland area that align with this greater vision. Specifically, we look to fund projects and organizations that support the following vision:

  • Our communities are physically active, value healthy eating, and prioritize overall wellbeing. 
  • All communities can thrive. Communities that have faced and continue to face inequitable and unjust policies, laws, and practices will be equipped with the resources needed to realize their full potential.

The following sample forms should help you know what is needed for the process:

LHC-Chicago LOI       Foundation Universal Application  

All LOIs and Applications are accepted online only. Scroll to the bottom of this page to view past grantees.

Key Dates

Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) accepted beginning August 16, 2024

LOIs Due: September 27, 2024

Applications Invited: October 14, 2024

Applications Due: November 1, 2024

Decision Notifications: November 25, 2024

Funding Priorities

  1. Opportunities for children in/out of school to engage physically with and to learn about the natural world, to eat well, and to care for the planet.
  2. A community and/or multi-generational approach to addressing the mental health and wellness of youth.
  3. Efforts to increase access to healthy and sustainably produced food.
  4. Grassroots and community led initiatives centered on the pursuit of food justice.

Special Funding Opportunities

In addition to project-based funding, we also offer special funding for the following:

  • Community Garden Grants: Community Gardens which are defined are small patches of land that are used to connect community members to nature. These gardens are engaged in minimal food production (as opposed to larger urban farms). The maximum award for this type of grant is $5,000 per garden.  Please see guidelines below for more details.
  • Inspiration Grants: Inspiring proposals that center a collaborative approach to the pursuit of equity, justice, and restoration (please note that the maximum award for this type of grant is $10,000).

LHC-C Grantmaking Guidelines

In an effort to be more transparent and provide access to a wider range of applicants, the following guidelines will govern our grantmaking strategy. Taking our funding priorities into account, the LHC-C funding committee with review applications for our fall funding cycle within the following parameters:

What's New?

1. Community Garden Grants: This project-based funding is for those organizations looking to establish community gardens on previously underutilized green spaces or to improve upon and/or expand existing gardens.  This could be patches of land connected with schools, houses of worship, community centers, etc.  Organizations can apply for up to $5,000 per garden. An organization is eligible to apply for support of multiple gardens in one application.  

2. Inspirational Grants: We recognize that there are organizations throughout Chicago that are doing some amazing work in efforts to bring equity, justice and healing to communities that have been systematically neglected by unjust policies, laws, and practices.  We are offering grants of up to $10,000 to fund inspiring proposals, that are collaborative in nature, that are designed to foster healthy, vibrant and thriving communities.  Proposed projects should be able to be completed using the amount of funds that are being requested.  Projects have a greater chance of success if they showcase multiple community partners working together to accomplish a common goal.

Eligibility

Region: Priority will be given to organizations that are based within the boundaries of the City of Chicago. We will also consider applications from organizations just outside the city boundaries but that serve communities within the City or that serve communities adversely impacted by unjust and inequitable economic policies.

Organizational Budget: Grassroots Organizations: If the mission of your organization aligns with our funding priorities, and your organizational budget is less than $500,000, and the leadership and/or a sizable number of members of the Board and staff are members of your targeted community you are eligible to apply for a general operating grant. If you successfully receive a general operating grant for 2 consecutive years, you will then be eligible to apply for a multi-year grant of 3 years.

Larger Organizations: Organizations with an operating budget of $500,000 or more are eligible to apply for project-based funding. If you are funded by the Foundation for 3 consecutive years and your mission areas continue to align with our priorities, you will be eligible to apply for a multi-year grant of 3 years.

Please direct inquiries on the Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos) to:

Monique B. Schlichtman

Senior Program Officer, Chicago
Phone: 773-420-7047

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Amount Donated
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Grants Awarded

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Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos) Grantees

  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2023

    NeighborSpace

    to support the revitalization of Unity Park in North Lawndale and help create a place of recreation, respite, and community building in a West Side neighborhood.

    View NeighborSpace's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2023

    SOS Children's Villages Illinois

    to support the Urban Grower’s Club project to improve health outcomes for Chicago’s most vulnerable youth and families through instruction in nutrition, cooking, and urban gardening in community gardens and learning kitchens at SOS Illinois’ sites around Chicagoland.

    View SOS Children's Villages Illinois's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2023

    Healthy Schools Campaign

    to enable Chicago schools to provide students with a healthy school environment where they can learn, eat, grow healthy food, and engage with the outdoors.

    View Healthy Schools Campaign's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2023

    People Matter

    for the Garden Youth Program, serving low-income Black, Brown, and Asian youth ages 11-18 to build leadership and environmental organizing skills and expand the organization’s environmental and gardening networks in the community.

    View People Matter's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2023

    Garfield Park Community Council

    for the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative to improve health with a focus on increasing access to local, fresh foods through community-operated green spaces and neighborhood markets.

    View Garfield Park Community Council's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2023

    One Earth Collective

    to expand and develop the One Earth Film Festival model to allow Chicago-area partners to autonomously manage film events and other initiatives aimed at young filmmakers.

    View One Earth Collective's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2023

    Academy for Global Citizenship

    to support the creation of a community-designed, nature-immersed convening space alongside walking trails to provide a nexus for neighborhood gathering, recreation, and nature-based play.

    View Academy for Global Citizenship's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2023

    Just Roots Chicago

    to support the Growing Young Leaders program, providing job training and leadership development for south suburban youth between the ages of 16-24 at their three-acre peri urban farm in Sauk Village.

    View Just Roots Chicago's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2023

    Foundation of Little Village

    to continue the development of the first Food Clinic in Chicago to improve health outcomes by 15-30% and make better lifestyle behavior choices for program participants in Little Village. Phase 2 adds healthcare professionals to provide guidance and resources on how to improve the study & evidence-based intervention.

    View Foundation of Little Village's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2023

    Heartland Human Care Services

    to fund Chicago FarmWorks’ community garden, broadening its reach and deepening its impact by supporting staff and food production costs associated with implementing the program and expanding community engagement.

    View Heartland Human Care Services's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2023

    Star Farm Chicago

    to expand outdoor garden programming and improve the long-term health outcomes of community residents by sharing local, nutritious produce and health cooking demonstrations in the Back of the Yards area of Chicago.

    View Star Farm Chicago's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2023

    Gardeneers

    to support their team of growers and educators who continue growing food on their largest production site for at-risk Chicago residents.

    View Gardeneers's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2023

    Openlands

    to inform teachers of the benefit of using the school garden as an extension of the classroom and to encourage parents and community members to develop a sense of ownership of the school garden through workshops offered in English and Spanish.

    View Openlands's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2023

    Experimental Station

    to build upon the work of its 61st Street Farmers Market by expanding educational programming in the Woodlawn neighborhood in Chicago to rebuild local knowledge of the nutritional benefits of fresh and healthy foods

    View Experimental Station's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2023

    Stein Learning Gardens at St. Sabina

    for general operating costs to support the Barbara’s Market farm stand in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood of Chicago.

    View Stein Learning Gardens at St. Sabina's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2023

    Forest Preserve Foundation

    to fund programs introducing conservation practices and career development for young people of color.

    View Forest Preserve Foundation's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2023

    Urban Autism Solutions

    for the hiring of an assistant farmer and purchasing supplies for the Growing Solutions Farm that supports young adults with autism.

    View Urban Autism Solutions's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2023

    Chicago Lights

    for Farm Camp supplies and to support the salary costs of staff members who will provide 67.5 hours of youth development programming.

    View Chicago Lights's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2023

    Refugee Education and Adventure Challenge (REACH)

    to support refugee youth leaders and their peers in their authentic connections to health and sustainable lifestyles through the REACH adventure camp. Programming includes peer mentoring training.

    View Refugee Education and Adventure Challenge (REACH)'s Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2022

    NeighborSpace

    To support comprehensive stewardship activities in 120+ NeighborSpace community gardens and neighborhood farms, including ongoing maintenance and training garden/farm leaders and other volunteers.

    View NeighborSpace's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2022

    Foundation of Little Village

    To expand the participation of the Cocina Rx preventive care food clinic pilot program based on personalized nutrition through medically tailored meals w/advanced microbiome testing (University of Chicago), tele-nutrition, health coaching, and culinary arts training.

    View Foundation of Little Village's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2022

    Academy for Global Citizenship

    To support Cultivate Collective’s urban agriculture start-up costs associated with the launch of their three-acre farm and associated programs. The farm is located in Southwest Chicago at the site of a former Chicago Housing Authority community, approximately 1.5 miles from Midway Airport.

    View Academy for Global Citizenship's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2022

    The Good Food Catalyst

    To provide training and education for ‘good food’ entrepreneurs to achieve scale, sustainability, and financial stability, with a focus on women and minority-owned businesses that may lack traditional access to training and business education opportunities.

    View The Good Food Catalyst's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2022

    One Earth Collective

    To continue the One Earth Film Festival (OEFF), its youth initiatives, and to develop a branded, turnkey model to allow our extensive Chicago-area partner network to autonomously manage film events at a quality consistent with those offered directly by OEFF.

    View One Earth Collective's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2022

    Growing Home, Inc.

    To support the Food Access program, designed to improve the health of the local community through food delivery and outreach showing residents of all ages that nutritious choices can be affordable, easy, and accessible.

    View Growing Home, Inc.'s Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2022

    Healthy Schools Campaign

    For continued funding of HSC's work ensuring that Chicago students have access to healthy school environments where they can learn and thrive, eat and grow healthy food, and engage with the outdoors. This work contributes to sustainable food systems and environmental practices throughout the region.

    View Healthy Schools Campaign's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2022

    Friends of the Chicago River

    For continued support of the Chicago River Schools Network (CRSN) program, providing K-12 teachers and students with free virtual and in-person resources for immersing students in the history, ecology, and improving health of the Chicago River watershed, a 673-square-mile region that encompasses the City of Chicago and much of Cook County, plus portions of Lake County and beyond.

    View Friends of the Chicago River's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2022

    Garfield Park Community Council

    To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, which supports resident-led food access programs through local gardens and community events to improve health outcomes and build economic opportunities in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago.

    View Garfield Park Community Council's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2022

    Heartland Human Care Services

    To fund the rebuilding of the on-site greenhouse at HHCS' main farm in East Garfield Park. The greenhouse will increase crop production, minimize plant disease, and provide additional space for learning and skill set training for Transitional Jobs participants.

    View Heartland Human Care Services's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2022

    Chicago Lights Urban Farm

    For the purchase of Farm Camp supplies and to support the salary costs of staff members who will provide five weeks of positive youth development opportunities for children ages six through eleven residing in the Cabrini Green public housing development at no cost to their families.

    View Chicago Lights Urban Farm's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2022

    Heartland Human Care Services

    To support Chicago FarmWorks, which grows food on several urban agricultural sites, formerly vacant or blighted areas of our community, and provides residents with farm-totable, hyper-local produce. In addition to increasing access to healthy food, FarmWorks expands individuals’ economic opportunities by offering job training and transitional employment at their main farm site and community-based employment partner sites.

    View Heartland Human Care Services's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2022

    Seven Generations Ahead

    For general operations support to build healthy and sustainable communities, with the primary focus on equitable sustainability and driving greenhouse gas emissions reductions through projects with Chicago Public Schools and policies that ensure equitable outcomes and support the development of the renewable and circular economy.

    View Seven Generations Ahead's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2022

    Gardeneers

    To support Gardeneers' network of partner schools, primarily on the West and South slides of Chicago, in low-income, under-resourced communities of color that face barriers to fresh, healthy food access. Their school farm and garden programs contribute positively to the larger food system by building students’ awareness, knowledge, and skills to directly address food inequality and become leaders who care for themselves, their communities, and their environment.

    View Gardeneers's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2022

    People Matter

    For general operations support for building organizational capacity to advance their mission through projects and leadership development work that nurtures and cultivates community leaders to protect and improve their communities in addressing environmental justice and sustainability.

    View People Matter's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2022

    Just Roots Chicago

    To support two of our core educational initiatives at the It Takes A Village Community Farm in Sauk Village —Youth Education and Fresh Food Farmacy. These programs serve students 6th-12th grade and families with chronic and/or diet related health conditions to provide access to farm fresh food, hands-on gardening and cooking education, and opportunities to build relationships with their neighbors.

    View Just Roots Chicago's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2022

    Forest Preserve Foundation

    To support the Forest Preserve Experience, a paid summer jobs program for youth served by the Housing Authority of Cook County, to engage participants in team building exercises, job skills and financial literacy training, environmental education, and conservation efforts in local preserves throughout south and west Cook County.

    View Forest Preserve Foundation's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2022

    Openlands

    To support the Building School Gardens (BSG) program to share expertise, resources, and encouragement in spending time outdoors learning about and working with the natural world in two distinct ways: workshops and in-garden support for 91 schools and their surrounding communities.

    View Openlands's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2021

    Trinity UCC Child Care Centers, Inc.

    To support the Trinity Eats Education program, focused on helping children and their parents become more knowledgeable about nutrition and enabling them to make healthy choices every day.

  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2021

    Growing Home, Inc.

    To support Growing Home's Food Access Program with activities designed to improve the health of the entire community by showing residents of all ages that nutritious choices can be affordable, easy, and accessible. Funds will go towards new initiatives in food delivery and outreach in light of COVID-19.

    View Growing Home, Inc. 's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2021

    Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival

    To support OEFF as they continue their mission-based work by evolving their organizational model, strengthening their youth programs for building advocacy and resiliency of the next generation, and continuing to provide rich film programs that demonstrate how healthy, sustainable food systems can solve problems relating to human and environmental health.

    View Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2021

    Healthy Schools Campaign

    To support HSC's local and national work that ensures that Chicago students have access to healthy school environments where they can learn and thrive, eat and grow healthy food, and engage with the outdoors.  This work contributes to sustainable food systems and environmental practices throughout the region.

    View Healthy Schools Campaign's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2021

    Garfield Park Community Council

    To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, which supports resident-led food access programs through local gardens and community events to improve health outcomes and build economic opportunities in Garfield Park.

    View Garfield Park Community Council's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2021

    Friends of the Chicago River

    To support the Chicago River Schools Network which provides K-12 teachers the training and personalized assistance they need to immerse their students in the turbulent history, evolving ecology, and improving health of the Chicago River.


    View Friends of the Chicago River's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2021

    NeighborSpace

    To support comprehensive stewardship activities in the more than 120 NBSP community gardens and neighborhood farms.

    View NeighborSpace's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2021

    Plant Chicago, NFP

    To support building out a center for circular economy programming in a former firehouse on the southwest side of Chicago.

    View Plant Chicago, NFP's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2021

    Seven Generations Ahead

    To support general operations, with a particular focus on advancing solar energy installations and procurement, advancing food recovery and composting through the Wasted Food Action Alliance, and expanding the It’s Our Future program to new metro area communities.

    View Seven Generations Ahead's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2021

    Openlands

    To support the Building School Gardens (BSG) program.  In fall 2021, BSG will support 91 schools, nearly 50,000 enrolled students, and their surrounding communities with similar demographics. BSG supports students, teachers, and community members by sharing expertise, resources, and encouragement in spending time outdoors learning about and working with the natural world in two distinct ways: workshops and in-garden support.

    View Openlands's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2021

    Faith in Place

    To support Faith in Place’s Chicago Eco-Ambassadors program which provides youth, ages 14-18, with enriching opportunities to learn about environmental justice and sustainability; engage in the natural world through camping and habitat stewardship; and grow their leadership, communications, and career skills.

    View Faith in Place's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2021

    Star Farm Chicago

    To support Star Farm's bi-monthly Family Garden Days. Each 4-hour session will be held either at the Star Farm Community Garden or the Star Farm Incubator Farm. The programs will include a garden workshop led by one of the Star farm incubator growers, one of the Star Farm outreach staff, and/or a guest speaker or artist.

    View Star Farm Chicago's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2021

    Gardeneers

    To support Gardeneers' network of partner schools, primarily on the West and South slides of Chicago, in low-income, under-resourced communities of color that face barriers to fresh, healthy food access. Their school farm and garden programs contribute positively to the larger food system by building students’ awareness, knowledge, and skills to directly address food inequality and become leaders who care for themselves, their communities, and their environment.

    View Gardeneers's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2021

    Heartland Human Care Services

    To support Chicago FarmWorks which grows food on several urban agricultural sites, formerly vacant or blighted areas of our community, and provides residents with farm-totable, hyper-local produce. In addition to increasing access to healthy food, FarmWorks expands individuals’ economic opportunities by offering job training and transitional employment at their main farm site and community-based employment partner sites.

    View Heartland Human Care Services's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2020

    Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital

    To support “Healthy Food, Healthy Kids, Healthy Planet” which will be a digital curriculum for organizations serving youth ages 12-18. The curriculum will link healthy eating and physical activity to climate change, food justice, and health equity and emphasize opportunities for youth.

    View Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2020

    Forest Preserve Foundation, Inc.

    To support The Forest Preserve Experience, a summer internship program that provides paid conservation work to youth served by the Housing Authority of Cook County. Taking place in local preserves throughout South and West Cook County, this program intends to introduce underserved youth to conservation and the environment while providing work experience and professional development opportunities.

    View Forest Preserve Foundation, Inc. 's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2020

    Growing Home, Inc.

    To support Growing Home's Food Access Program with activities designed to improve the health of the entire community by showing residents of all ages that nutritious choices can be affordable, easy, and accessible.  Funds will go towards new initiatives in food delivery and outreach in light of COVID-19.

    View Growing Home, Inc.'s Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2020

    NeighborSpace

    To support revitalization of Unity Park in North Lawndale. The project will create a place of recreation, respite, and community building in a West Side neighborhood that lacks accessible, intergenerational public green space for outdoor activities and community gatherings that promote physical and emotional health and well-being.

    View NeighborSpace's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2020

    Plant Chicago

    To support Plant Chicago’s nutrition and STEM education work with K -12 students, with a particular focus on their partner schools in the Back of the Yards neighborhood and the Southwest Side of Chicago.

    View Plant Chicago's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2020

    Healthy Schools Campaign

    To support Healthy Schools Campaign's work to ensure that Chicago students have access to healthy school environments where they can learn and thrive, eat and grow healthy food, and engage with the outdoors. This work contributes to sustainable food systems and environmental practices throughout the region.

    View Healthy Schools Campaign's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2020

    Garfield Park Community Council

    To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, which supports resident-led food access programs through local gardens and community events to improve health outcomes and build economic opportunities in Garfield Park.

    View Garfield Park Community Council's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2020

    Seven Generations Ahead

    To support general operations, with a particular focus on advancing solar energy installations and procurement, advancing food recovery and composting through the Wasted Food Action Alliance, and expanding the It’s Our Future program to new metro area communities.

    View Seven Generations Ahead's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2020

    Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival

    To support OEFF as they continue their mission-based work by evolving their organizational model, strengthening their youth programs for building advocacy and resiliency of the next generation, and continuing to provide rich film programs that demonstrate how healthy, sustainable food systems can solve problems relating to human and environmental health.

    View Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2020

    Advocates for Urban Agriculture

    To support AUA's coordinated technical assistance initiative that will produce a series of deliverables designed to help Chicago area farmers expand their capacity to both produce and distribute locally grown food and value added products, addressing a growing demand for healthy, local food.

    View Advocates for Urban Agriculture's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2020

    Gardeneers

    To support their team of growers and educators who continue growing food on their largest production sites for at-risk Chicago residents with plans to grow nearly 10,000 pounds of produce to be safely donated in these communities in 2020.

    View Gardeneers's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2020

    Angelic Organics Learning Center

    To support On-Farm program scholarships to subsidize children who attend the Learning Center’s day camp, custom programs, and school programs. 

    View Angelic Organics Learning Center's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2020

    Openlands

    To inform teachers of the benefit of using the school garden as an extension of the classroom and to encourage parents and community members to share the sense of ownership of the school garden through workshops that will also be offered in Spanish.

    View Openlands's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2020

    Catholic Bishop of Chicago - Stein Learning Gardens

    To support the Grow Your Groceries Campaign at St. Sabina's Stein Learning Gardens.  Grow Your Groceries is a collaborative effort of four non-profit urban agriculture organizations and three Chicago university contributors to deliver home garden kits to food insecure families starting on the south side of Chicago in Auburn-Gresham, Back of the Yards, Englewood, and Chicago Lawn.

    View Catholic Bishop of Chicago - Stein Learning Gardens's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2020

    Heartland Human Care Services

    To support Chicago FarmWorks’ community garden, broadening its reach and deepening its impact by supporting staff and food production costs associated with implementing the program and expanding community engagement.

    View Heartland Human Care Services's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2019

    Gardeneers

    To support the expansion of their Growing School Gardens program across their network of 20 partner schools.

    View Gardeneers's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2019

    Big Green

    To support the staff, training, and materials needed to bring their Learning Gardens to life. 

    View Big Green 's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2019

    Chicago Academy of Sciences

    To support Chicago Conservation Corp which strengthens volunteer leaders to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods across Chicago through self-determined service projects that address environmental sustainability issues in their own communities.

    View Chicago Academy of Sciences's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2019

    Openlands

    To inform teachers of the benefit of using the school garden as an extension of the classroom and to encourage parents and community members to share the sense of ownership of the school garden through workshops that will also be offered in Spanish.

    View Openlands's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2019

    Heartland Human Care Services

    To support Chicago FarmWorks’ new community garden, ensuring that the program is able to maximize growing capacity, as well as support program operations at the East Garfield Park and Harvest Commons sites.

    View Heartland Human Care Services's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2019

    Catholic Bishop of Chicago - Stein Learning Gardens

    To support “Phase II Production Expansion Project” at Stein Learning Gardens, which aims to greatly expand their programming by developing a double-wide lot near the Saint Sabina Church campus.

    View Catholic Bishop of Chicago - Stein Learning Gardens's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2019

    Angelic Organics Learning Center

    To support On-Farm program scholarships. Scholarships subsidize children who attend the Learning Center’s day camp, overnight camp, custom, and school programs.

    View Angelic Organics Learning Center 's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2019

    Opportunity Knocks

     To support the Knockout Farm which is operated by more than 75 young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities from Oak Park/River Forest and surrounding communities.

    View Opportunity Knocks's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2019

    Just Roots

    To support construction of three raised garden beds for teaching students gardening skills in their Community Learning Gardens in Bronzeville and Englewood.

    View Just Roots's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2019

    Garfield Park Community Council

     To support improvements to the Garfield Park Neighborhood Market, which sells produce harvested through the Garfield Park Garden Network.

    View Garfield Park Community Council's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2019

    Enlace Chicago

    To support the development of resident-run garden spaces in the Little Village community.

    View Enlace Chicago 's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2019

    Plant Chicago

    To support Plant Chicago’s nutrition and STEM education work with K -12 students, with a particular focus on their partner schools in the Back of the Yards neighborhood and the Southwest Side of Chicago.

    View Plant Chicago's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2019

    Advocates for Urban Agriculture

    To support AUA's coordinated technical assistance initiative that will produce a series of deliverables designed to help Chicago area farmers expand their capacity to both produce and distribute locally grown food and value added products, addressing a growing demand for healthy, local food.

    View Advocates for Urban Agriculture's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2019

    Seven Generations Ahead

    To support general operations, with a particular focus on advancing solar energy installations and procurement, implementing GreenTown Climate Crisis 2020, advancing food recovery and composting through the Wasted Food Action Alliance, and expanding the It’s Our Future program to new metro area communities.

    View Seven Generations Ahead's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2019

    NeighborSpace

    To support activities associated with designing a nature play area at the newly acquired Harambee Community Garden in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side, developing community leaders, and plans for stewarding and programming the garden site.

    View NeighborSpace's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2019

    Healthy Schools Campaign

    To support work ensuring that 361,000 Chicago students have access to healthy school environments where they can learn and thrive, including the change to eat and grow healthy food and engage with the outdoors.

    View Healthy Schools Campaign's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2019

    Oak Park River Forest School Green Teams Collaborative

    To support Joey FineRhyme Assemblies and Workshops for K-8 schools through the Oak Park and River Forest School Green Teams Collaborative.

    View Oak Park River Forest School Green Teams Collaborative's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2019

    Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival

    To support OEFF as they continue their mission-based work by evolving their organizational model, strengthening their youth programs for building advocacy and resiliency of the next generation, and continuing to provide rich film programs that demonstrate how healthy, sustainable food systems can solve problems relating to human and environmental health.

    View Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2018

    Green City Market

     To support Edible Education: Farm, School, and Home in 2019, providing interactive food-based learning for Chicago students and increasing local food access to Chicago families.

    View Green City Market's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2018

    Enlace Chicago

    To support Enlace’s Community Garden Initiative which supports the development of resident-run garden spaces in the Little Village community.

    View Enlace Chicago's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2018

    Growing Home

    To support A New Farm for Englewood  which is a 16,500 square foot farm in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood.  This will add a third site to their farm campus and grow an additional 8,000 pounds of produce per year--all of which they will keep in Englewood through affordable sales or donations.

    View Growing Home's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2018

    Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival

    To support One Earth Film Festival: Collaboration for Healthier People and Planet which provides expanded programming, engagement and impact in the greater Chicagoland region, through their annual 10-day Festival in March 2019, and innovative programming that has evolved from, and enhanced the reach of, the Festival.

    View Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival 's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2018

    Girls in the Game

    To support Girls in the Game's After School program, which is provided at no cost to girls or their families in communities with high rates of poverty and violence including Englewood, Humboldt Park, and North Lawndale.  Girls in the Game runs weekly programming that encourages physical activity and physical and emotional health at 35 Chicago sites for three 10-week seasons as well as events on days of non-school attendance. 

    View Girls in the Game's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2018

    Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange

    To support an "End of School Year Donation Drive" in Spring 2019 that engages suburban and city schools in creative reuse, aiding them in their "green" efforts to go beyond recycling to include redistributing and reuse. 

    View Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2018

    Healthy Schools Campaign

    To support Change for Good, an effort to transform Chicago schools and classrooms so children have the opportunity to eat well, grow food, be physically active and spend time outdoors. 

    View Healthy Schools Campaign's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2018

    Garfield Park Community Council

    To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, in which the GPCC aims to improve access to local, fresh food and use the local food movement as a tool for economic and community development.

    View Garfield Park Community Council's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2018

    Oak Park River Forest School Green Teams Collaborative

    To support bringing educational and motivational school assemblies to Oak Park and River Forest Schools that will increase K-8 student knowledge of environmental issues and community sustainability efforts and provoke individual action.

  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall 2018

    Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods

    To support the Curious Little Bee / La Pequeña Abeja Curiosa program which invites participants to build a personal relationship with the natural world, our local food systems, and the importance of bee and other pollinator life to environmental sustainability.

    View Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2018

    The WasteShed

    To support environmental education about “creative reuse” and preventing waste, with a focus on children and youth, teacher support, and school programming.

    View The WasteShed's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2018

    Gardeneers

    To expand programming at 4 partner schools North Lawndale and to serve each of the partner schools twice per week and double the students directly served in the school garden programs to total 520 students.  To also implement a Student Run Community Farm stand each week for parents and neighbors of each school.

    View Gardeneers's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2018

    Grow Greater Englewood

    GGE will provide an infrastructure and assist local urban farmers to create economically viable community-based farm enterprises along the elevated rail viaduct between 58th and 59th Streets in Chicago. Englewood Community Farms will provide land, shared equipment, and entrepreneurship training for 4-5 for-profit or cooperative farming operations on contiguous parcels of land.

    View Grow Greater Englewood's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2018

    Openlands

    To support Building School Gardens which works with 58 Chicago Public Schools to care for and maintain their school garden as both an outdoor classroom during school and a neighborhood park after school and on the weekends. The program aims to foster the next generation of environmental stewards by building awareness of and respect for the natural world while improving the quality of life for the entire community.

    View Openlands's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2018

    Advocates for Urban Agriculture

    To support a new individualized training initiative to help growers scale and professionalize their operations, as well as expanded outreach that will deliver education, mentoring, and resources to existing and potential growers in some of Chicago's most distressed communities. 

    View Advocates for Urban Agriculture's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2018

    Plant Chicago

    To support Closed Loop in the Classroom, an initiative of Plant Chicago, which educates K-12 students in Chicago about closed loop food systems and healthy, sustainable food practices. In addition to education, the initiative will increase community participation in Plant Chicago’s year-round farmers market, Cooking Matters, and new Community Learning Circle.

    View Plant Chicago's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring 2018

    Big Green

    To support two programmatic activities within our Learning Garden schools:  Edible Garden Initiative and Garden-Based Education Initiative which ensure integration and implementation of Learning Garden programming in the classroom and school culture, and teach the teachers to use their Learning Garden to its fullest extent across grade levels and subjects. 

    View Big Green's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2017

    Enlace Chicago

    To support the development of resident-run garden spaces in the Little Village community with environmental and health-related programming in the gardens.  View Enlace Chicago 's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2017

    Purple Asparagus

    To support the Delicious Nutritious Adventures program and Family Cooking Program, which helps students explore a new healthy ingredient each month by learning about it, tasting it, and cooking with it to schools in Austin, North Austin, Galewood, Back of the Yards, Canaryville, New City, and Humboldt Park communities.  View Purple Asparagus's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2017

    Chicago Academy of Sciences

    To support the Chicago Conservation Corps (C3) to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods across Chicago through self-determined service projects that address environmental sustainability issues in their own communities.  View Chicago Academy of Sciences 's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2017

    Chicago Youth Centers

    To support the Lean and Green Project to provide fresh produce, support urban farming and aquaponics education, and to teach youth and their families how to prepare healthy meals as they develop a lifestyle focused on health, wellness, nutrition, and environmental sustainability.  View Chicago Youth Centers's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2017

    Erie Elementary Charter School

    To support the Health and Wellness Initiative, which increases students' knowledge and understanding of nutrition and healthy eating, as well as their participation in physical activity. They will also offer parent workshops focusing on nutrition and culinary education to make healthy food choices on a limited budget. View Erie Elementary Charter School 's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2017

    Institute of Cultural Affairs

    To support the Nourish Comm(unity) series to coordinate four cross-cultural events exploring various ways Chicago communities employ sustainability to enhance their community, culture, and connections to address the challenge of siloed efforts and competition within the field of sustainability and climate change.

    View Institute of Cultural Affairs's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2017

    Garfield Park Community Council

    To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative develop its staff team and programs as they use the production of fresh, local food as a tool for rebuilding social and economic infrastructure on Chicago's West Side.  View Garfield Park Community Council's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2017

    Openlands

    To support the Building School Gardens program which works with 58 Chicago Public Schools across the city to use their school garden as an extension of the classroom, impacting more than 38,000 students daily. View Openlands's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2017

    The Kitchen Community

    To support school Learning Gardens with Edible Garden and Garden-Based Education Initiatives.  These initiatives ensure that school leaders are prepared to utilize the Learning Garden to its fullest extent, broadening their skills in outdoor, experiential education and giving them tools with which to engage students.

    View The Kitchen Community's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2017

    Alliance for the Great Lakes

    To support the "Educating the Next Generation of Great Lake Stewards in the Chicago Area" program which works to advance Great Lakes stewardship and restoration efforts.  View Alliance for the Great Lakes's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2017

    Plant Chicago, NFP

    To support Closed Loop in the Classroom which is an initiative of Plant Chicago that educates K-12 students in Chicago about closed loop food systems and healthy, sustainable food practices. In addition to education, the initiative will increase community participation in the year round farmers market run by Plant Chicago. Plant Chicago operates out of the Back of the Yards neighborhood, a low-income community located on the southside of Chicago.

    View Plant Chicago, NFP's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2017

    Healthy Schools Campaign

    To support the Change for Good program which seeks to transform Chicago schools and classrooms into environments that ensure children have the opportunity to eat well, be physically active and spend time outdoors.  View Healthy Schools Campaign's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2017

    The WasteShed

    To support environmental education about “creative reuse” and preventing waste, with a focus on children, teacher support, and school programming.

    View The WasteShed's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2017

    Peterson Garden Project

    To support programs that offer lifelong learning opportunities which give at-risk families, youth, and seniors access to fresh, homegrown food and skills to prepare it.  View Peterson Garden Project's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Spring2017

    Advocates for Urban Agriculture

    To support expansion and capacity of community gardens and farms in at-risk Chicago neighborhoods.  View Advocates for Urban Agriculture's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos) Spring2016

    Healthy Schools Campaign

    To support Change for Good, an effort to transform Chicago schools and classrooms into environments that ensure children have the opportunity to eat well, be physically active and spend time outdoors.

    View Healthy Schools Campaign's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos) Spring2016

    Chicago Horticultural Society (dba Chicago Botanic Garden)

    To support Windy City Harvest (WCH), a program that trains at least 170 Chicago youth and adults, including ex-offenders, in sustainable urban agriculture and creates access to 55000 servings of fresh produce for low-income residents in the Chicago region’s food insecure communities, such as North Lawndale, Austin, Pilsen, and Washington Park.

    View Chicago Horticultural Society (dba Chicago Botanic Garden)'s Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos) Spring2016

    Openlands

    To support the Building School Gardens program which works with Chicago Public Schools across the city to use their school garden as an extension of their classroom.

    View Openlands's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos) Spring2016

    Peterson Garden Project

    To support a community-based food education program to ensure that everyone in their community has access to healthy food that is both affordable and sustainably produced. Education in organic gardening and home cooking classes at PGP’s network of 8 community gardens, a high school garden, and the Community Cooking School, all in neighborhoods with a high percentage of at-risk families, will be part of the program.

    View Peterson Garden Project's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos) Spring2016

    NeighborSpace

    To support the Jardincito Community Stewardship Project which will result in effective stewardship and meaningful engagement at the Jardincito nature play garden in Little Village, the Chicago neighborhood with the least amount of open green space per capita.

    View NeighborSpace's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2016

    Garfield Park Community Council

    To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, an effort that is using the production of fresh, local food as a means of rebuilding social and economic infrastructure on Chicago's West Side.

    View Garfield Park Community Council's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2016

    Growing Home, Inc.

    To support Growing Home’s project “Expanding Local Food in Englewood” which aims to encourage the development of a robust food system and thriving green corridor in Greater Englewood.

    View Growing Home, Inc.'s Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2016

    Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods

    To support the Caminando con Cuentos project which will help bilingual 1st to 5th grade students from Highwood, Round Lake and Waukegan, IL, be physically active in a welcoming, natural environment, become more aware of local nature, and establish a stronger sense of place through story and writing.

    View Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2016

    Purple Asparagus

    To support the Family Cooking Program (FCP) as a supplement to its Delicious Nutritious Adventures (DNA) programming in 14 schools located in the following Chicago communities: Austin, Hermosa, Irving Park, Lincoln Square, Lakeview, West Town, New City (Back of the Yards), Armour Square, Near South Side, Humboldt Park, West Town, Dunning, and Portage Park. .

    View Purple Asparagus's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2016

    Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry

    To support the Surplus Project, an innovative collaboration developed to reduce food waste; increase access to healthy, convenient meals; and reduce food insecurity in our community.

    View Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2016

    FamilyFarmed

    General Support for FamilyFarmed which is based in Chicago and serves farmers and Good Food communities all over the United States.

    View FamilyFarmed's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2016

    Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival

    To support the 2017 One Earth Film Fest - Building Impact through Community Engagement, Phase 2

    View Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2016

    Seven Generations Ahead

     To support SGA's comprehensive portfolio of program work and general operations.

    View Seven Generations Ahead's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2015

    Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival

    To subsidize first-time film events in hard-to-reach communities, and to support the development of an improved system to measure our impact.

    View Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2015

    Academy for Global Citizenship (AGC)

    To support AGC's unique initiatives, including their food program, community engagement and expanded learning opportunities, and International Baccalaureate Programme.

    View Academy for Global Citizenship (AGC)'s Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2015

    Universidad Popular

    To support the Parent And Children Together (PACT) project which will provide fitness, nutrition and cooking lessons to families in the Pilsen/Little Village Community of Chicago.

    View Universidad Popular's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2015

    Alliance for the Great Lakes

    To support Educating the Next Generation of Great Lakes Stewards in Chicago Area which will recruit 5000 plus volunteers to work 60 coastal sites in IL, work with 150 educators in IL on Great Lakes in My World curriculum, link stewardship efforts to expanded on-the-ground projects, as well as local and regional policies, and evaluate the impact on the citizens and youth.

    View Alliance for the Great Lakes's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2015

    Chicago Arts Orchestra

    To support Paisajes Musicales, a music education program bringing young people, especially from low-income families and communities of color, into direct contact with professional classical musicians. .

    View Chicago Arts Orchestra's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2015

    Growing Home, Inc.

    To reach more individuals by extending their farm stand hours, offering their workshops to new audiences through organizational partnerships, and increasing the amount of their organic produce that reaches low-income individuals.

    View Growing Home, Inc.'s Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2015

    Seven Generations Ahead

    General support for SGA. The desired outcomes include positive changes with respect to core sustainability indicators that we measure including community and institution energy consumption; renewable energy procurement; greenhouse gas emissions; waste diverted from landfill; total waste generated; community and institution potable water consumption; vehicle miles traveled; public transit use; miles of bike lanes; new green infrastructure additions; and other project-specific process measures.

    View Seven Generations Ahead's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2015

    Purple Asparagus

    To deliver the Delicious Nutritious Adventures (DNA) programming to an entire grade level during the 2016/17 school year in Chicago Public Schools. Students will gain an interest in whole fruits and vegetables, learn how to make healthy food choices, learn how to talk about food, and increase fruit and vegetable consumption. Their families will receive simple and healthy recipes and be motivated to cook more at home.

    View Purple Asparagus's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2015

    Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry

    To support The Surplus Project, an innovative collaboration developed to reduce food waste, increase access to healthy, convenient meals, and reduce food insecurity in our community.

    View Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry's Website
  • Land, Health, Community-Chicago (formerly Aspiramos Juntos)Fall2015

    Plant Chicago, NFP

    To educate K-12 students in Chicago about closed loop food systems and healthy, sustainable food practices. The initiative will also increase community participation in the year round farmers market run by Plant Chicago.

    View Plant Chicago, NFP's Website