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Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)
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Good Food Policy Program

$10,000.00

2024

National

We are engaged in two, multipart reporting initiatives — creative agricultural solutions to the climate crisis, the impediments such solutions face, and how agriculture depletes biodiversity, and how it can enhance biodiversity while feeding a growing population.

Food and Farm Communications Fund (Fiscal Sponsor: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation)
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Good Food Policy Program

$10,000.00

2024

National

To provide targeted communications funding and resources to community-based organizations working at the forefront of food and farm systems change. The Fund advances communications initiatives and media projects to help shift narrative and further the goals of the grassroots and their allies.

NeighborSpace
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

Fall 2023

Chicago Area

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.

SOS Children’s Villages Illinois
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

Fall 2023

Chicago Area

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.

Healthy Schools Campaign
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$50,000.00

Fall 2023

Chicago Area

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.

People Matter
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

Fall 2023

Chicago Area

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.

Garfield Park Community Council
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

Fall 2023

Chicago Area

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.

One Earth Collective
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$25,000.00

Fall 2023

Chicago Area

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.

Academy for Global Citizenship
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$20,000.00

Fall 2023

Chicago Area

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.

Just Roots Chicago
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$20,000.00

Fall 2023

Chicago Area

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.