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| Organization Name | Grant Name | Grant Amount | Grant Cycle | Region |
Food Access Project | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $150,000.00 | 2023 | Chicago Area |
For the 'Coordinated Delivery for Individuals with Disabilities living in the Austin Community' project providing monthly grocery deliveries and fresh produce to disabled individuals facing food insecurity in and around Austin. | ||||
NeighborSpace | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $200,000.00 | 2023 | Chicago Area |
Funds will allow the Austin Garden Collective to increase its capacity to distribute and manage seven to ten sub grants for garden repair and infrastructure projects; seven to ten sub-grants for garden programming; and stipends for community outreach and engagement. | ||||
BUILD, Inc. | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $215,000.00 | 2023 | Chicago Area |
For the expansion of Austin Grown programming and staffing at a new facility and farm and for renovations to their outdoor education center allowing for year-round utilization, and a hydroponic garden. | ||||
GSJ Family Life Center | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $43,500.00 | 2023 | Chicago Area |
To provide healthy and local food-centered, community-driven entrepreneurship and nutritional education opportunities for Austin neighborhood residents through the establishment and operation of a community kitchen. | ||||
Beyond Hunger | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $70,500.00 | 2023 | Chicago Area |
To support the Fresh Produce Initiative to forge partnerships with local farms and produce suppliers to increase access to fresh produce for food-insecure older adults living in Austin. Funding will deepen the organization’s work with Forty Acres Fresh Market, while allowing it to seek new local producers to establish purchasing agreements. | ||||
Root-Riot Harambee | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $50,000.00 | 2023 | Chicago Area |
General operating support to assist Root-Riot Harambee enhance programming, staffing, hire consultants, pay for capital improvements, and/or the development of new programs at the Harambee garden, one of the longest-running volunteer gardens in Austin. | ||||
Austin Coming Together | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $450,000.00 | 2023 | Chicago Area |
For Austin Eats, a coalition working to strengthen the healthy food ecosystem in Austin by increasing the collective impact of its member organizations to improve education and economic development outcomes for the community. | ||||
The Evolved Network | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $30,000.00 | 2023 | Chicago Area |
To provide holistic healing with experiential programming through culinary arts and gardening, equipping youth in systematically oppressed communities with transformative healing, skills, and support. | ||||
The Land Institute | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $20,000.00 | 2023 | East Central Illinois |
to explore opportunities to help Illinois growers leverage native nitrogen-fixing legumes, like Illinois bundleflower, and prairie grasses as perennial groundcovers (i.e., perennial cover crops), which do not need to be replanted each year and provide permanent soil cover and protection. | ||||
Re-AMP Network (Fiscal Sponsor: The Minneapolis Foundation) | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $20,000.00 | 2023 | East Central Illinois |
for general operating funds to support the equitable decarbonization of the Midwest through a systems-based collaboration of over twenty non-profit organizations. | ||||
