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| Organization Name | Grant Name | Grant Amount | Grant Cycle | Region |
Westside Health Authority | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $260,000.00 | 2024 | Chicago Area |
For continued support of the partnership with Forty Acres Fresh Market and its workforce hiring and operational activities toward the opening of its newly constructed brick-and-mortar grocery store. Once completed in Spring of 2025, the market will increase access to affordable fresh food retail in Austin. | ||||
The Evolved Network | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $25,000.00 | 2024 | Chicago Area |
For its Redefining Access project, with programming that melds the tangible elements of food consumption, preparation, and community involvement with the intangible values of love, trust, and purpose, transforming meals into enriching experiences that demonstrate how culinary practices can empower youth and reconfigure community dynamics. | ||||
GSJ Family Life Center | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $100,000.00 | 2024 | Chicago Area |
To support the the newly launched Austin Community Incubator Kitchen which provides healthy and local food-centered, community-driven entrepreneurship and nutritional education opportunities for Austin neighborhood residents. | ||||
Front Porch Arts Center, Inc. | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $40,000.00 | 2024 | Chicago Area |
For its public art and storytelling campaign, which will launch an outreach campaign to inform residents about healthy food options, community gardens, food enterprises, and food assistance programs in Austin through partnerships with local artists, food entrepreneurs, and community organizations. | ||||
Circle Urban Ministries | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $120,000.00 | 2024 | Chicago Area |
For its Seed 2 Success Program which seeks to address immediate food security needs by empowering youth with education and experience cultivating fresh produce in a hydroponic freight farm that will directly contribute to Circle Urban’s food pantry needs while driving sustainable, community-driven solutions to combat Austin’s food desert conditions. | ||||
Christ the King Jesuit College Prep | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $9,000.00 | 2024 | Chicago Area |
For its Cooking Club which teaches students culinary skills, healthy eating habits, and sustainable food practices. | ||||
Chicago Austin Youth Travel Adventures, Inc. NFP | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $30,000.00 | 2024 | Chicago Area |
For continued support of its Austin Farm to Table Trolley & Grow project dedicated to providing Austin residents and visitors with discovery journeys of food and history in the Austin neighborhood. | ||||
BUILD Inc. | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $150,000.00 | 2024 | Chicago Area |
For general support of its Austin Grown program, addressing food insecurity among youth by promoting access to healthy food options while teaching food preparation, youth leadership, and STEAM skills; providing youth with an opportunity to earn money by working on transformative community projects; and establishing a pipeline to Chicago’s farm-to-fork economy. | ||||
Beyond Hunger | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $60,000.00 | 2024 | Chicago Area |
For its Nutrition Education and Fresh Produce Expansion in Austin. Their Home Delivery program will continue purchasing produce from Forty Acres Fresh Market, increase its spending from Austin Harvest and PCC Austin Farm, and grow the number of homebound persons receiving fresh produce. | ||||
Austin Garden Collective | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $70,000.00 | 2024 | Chicago Area |
To support the Collective’s establishment as a 501(c)(3) organization, their partnership with community and urban agriculture organizations to create incubator farming sites in underutilized garden spaces, and the hiring of a Community Engagement consultant. | ||||
