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| Organization Name | Grant Name | Grant Amount | Grant Cycle | Region |
Fresh Taste – Chicago Regional Food System Fund (Fiscal Sponsor: Forefront) | Land, Health, Community | $50,000.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
To contribute funding toward the collaborative Chicago Region Food System Fund, focusing on COVID-19 related response and building resilience in the local food system, an area approximately 200 miles from Chicago. Priority has been given to organizations producing food in, and supplying food to, communities of color. | ||||
Fresh Taste (Fiscal Sponsor: Forefront) | Land, Health, Community | $30,000.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
To systemically change the way food is produced and consumed in the Chicago region to promote healthy land, healthy people, and healthy communities by creating an effective funder and practitioner collaboration in the Upper Midwest to promote a resilient food system in the region. | ||||
Prairie Rivers Network | Land, Health, Community | $35,000.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
For general operating support for Prairie Rivers Network’s organizational capacity and development while strengthening ongoing and emerging agricultural programming to foster the adoption of agricultural practices and policies that regenerate and protect the land, air, water, and biodiversity of Illinois. | ||||
The Land Connection | Land, Health, Community | $25,000.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
To develop and launch a comprehensive farmland access program for Illinois farmers seeking land and landowners seeking conservation-minded farmers and the additional support services that would make those connections possible. | ||||
Fit-2-Serve | Land, Health, Community | $20,000.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
For organizational capacity building and expansion of Fit-2-Serve's current programs targeting youth through agriculture and rural development activities to create a stronger social fabric grounded in good health and sustainability. | ||||
Sierra Club Foundation | Land, Health, Community | $30,000.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
to engage community members in efforts to improve water quality through improved farming practices and wastewater treatment in five East Central Illinois watersheds. | ||||
Faith In Place | Land, Health, Community | $30,000.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
To continue the “Connecting Communities for Faith Environmental Leadership and Collaboration” project to engage East Central Illinois (ECI) people of faith to help protect the environment; strengthen grassroots leadership capacity; and increase connections among ECI communities. | ||||
Fresh Taste – Illinois Regenerative Agriculture Initiative (Fiscal Sponsor: Forefront) | Land, Health, Community | $30,000.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
To support the study of regenerative agriculture to advance productivity, profitability, and environmental health by actionable research, designed and conducted collaboratively with stakeholders, at the interface of agronomy, crop science, ecology, computer science, economics, and social dimensions. | ||||
Elevate CICC, Inc. | Land, Health, Community | $15,000.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
To provide funding for the Regional Growth Initiative, development of partnerships across the rural communities of East Central Illinois and the nation to work collaboratively to cultivate entrepreneurial and leadership skills in area youth and citizens. | ||||
Eastern Illinois University Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteerism | Land, Health, Community | $5,215.00 | Spring 2022 | East Central Illinois |
To support the EIU Campus Food Pantry in offering milk, eggs, bread, and fresh produce to compliment the nonperishable items meeting student hunger and food insecurity needs. | ||||
