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| Organization Name | Grant Name | Grant Amount | Grant Cycle | Region |
National Young Farmers Coalition | Good Food Policy Program | $10,000.00 | 2022 | National |
To create a cohort of young farmers trained to become leaders ready to bring their political know-how home to their agricultural communities, resulting in an expanded network equipped to serve as mentors, advocates, technical assistants, and public officials, resourced to serve without sacrificing their vital work as farmers and land stewards. | ||||
Chicago Lights Urban Farm | Land, Health, Community-Chicago | $10,000.00 | Spring 2022 | Chicago Area |
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. | ||||
Heartland Human Care Services | Land, Health, Community-Chicago | $10,000.00 | Spring 2022 | Chicago Area |
To support Chicago FarmWorks, which grows food on several urban agricultural sites and provides residents with farm-totable, hyper-local produce and offers job training and transitional employment. | ||||
Seven Generations Ahead | Land, Health, Community-Chicago | $15,000.00 | Spring 2022 | Chicago Area |
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. | ||||
Gardeneers | Land, Health, Community-Chicago | $30,000.00 | Spring 2022 | Chicago Area |
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. | ||||
People Matter | Land, Health, Community-Chicago | $20,000.00 | Spring 2022 | Chicago Area |
For general operations support 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. | ||||
Just Roots Chicago | Land, Health, Community-Chicago | $15,000.00 | Spring 2022 | Chicago Area |
To support two of our core educational initiatives at the It Takes A Village Community Farm in Sauk Village serving students 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. | ||||
Forest Preserve Foundation | Land, Health, Community-Chicago | $20,000.00 | Spring 2022 | Chicago Area |
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. | ||||
Openlands | Land, Health, Community-Chicago | $20,000.00 | Spring 2022 | Chicago Area |
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. | ||||
Farmworker & Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) | Land, Health, Community | $30,000.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
To conduct community outreach and labor rights education in East Central Illinois to low-income Latinx workers and their households in the cannery, farms, greenhouse, landscaping, meat, nursery, packinghouse, poultry, restaurants, and snow plowing industries. | ||||
