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Forest Preserve Foundation
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$15,000.00

Fall 2020

Chicago Area

To support The Forest Preserve Experience, a summer internship program that provides paid conservation work in local preserves throughout South and West Cook County.

Growing Home, Inc.
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

Fall 2020

Chicago Area

To support Growing Home's Food Access Program with activities designed to improve the health of the entire community by showing residents of all ages that nutritious choices can be affordable, easy, and accessible.

NeighborSpace
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

Fall 2020

Chicago Area

To support revitalization of Unity Park in North Lawndale, a place of recreation, respite, and community building.

Plant Chicago, NFP
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

Fall 2020

Chicago Area

To support Plant Chicago’s nutrition and STEM education work with K -12 students, with a particular focus on their partner schools in the Back of the Yards neighborhood and the Southwest Side of Chicago.

Healthy Schools Campaign
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$50,000.00

Fall 2020

Chicago Area

To support Healthy Schools Campaign's work to ensure that Chicago students have access to healthy school environments where they can learn and thrive, eat and grow healthy food, and engage with the outdoors.

Garfield Park Community Council
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

Fall 2020

Chicago Area

To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, which supports resident-led food access programs through local gardens and community events to improve health outcomes and build economic opportunities in Garfield Park.

Seven Generations Ahead
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$15,000.00

Fall 2020

Chicago Area

To support general operations, with a particular focus on advancing solar energy installations and procurement, advancing food recovery and composting through the Wasted Food Action Alliance, and expanding the It’s Our Future program to new metro area communities.

Green Community Connections
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$25,000.00

Fall 2020

Chicago Area

To evolve and strengthen their mission-based work to provide rich film programs that demonstrate how healthy, sustainable food systems can solve problems relating to human and environmental health.

Savanna Institute
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Land, Health, Community

$35,000.00

Fall 2020

East Central Illinois

To expand its program to make agroforestry adoption easier at the farm and community level in East Central Illinois through educational opportunities, state and local agricultural policy development, and one-on-one technical support.

Illinois Stewardship Alliance
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Land, Health, Community

$47,000.00

Fall 2020

East Central Illinois

To support staff as they identify, recruit, and train farmers to engage in their work through the member-only caucuses, participate in coalitions, work closely with policymakers and their staff, communicate stories and produce reports on food system issues, and provide opportunities for personal engagement.