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| Organization Name | Grant Name | Grant Amount | Grant Cycle | Region |
Prairie Rivers Network | Land, Health, Community | $60,000.00 | Fall 2020 | East Central Illinois |
For general operating support of ReGenerate Illinois (RI), a collaborative partnership to expand regenerative agriculture, the availability of regenerative-grown local foods and the IDEA Farm Network (IFN), a farmer-led learning community of over 430 farmers, researchers, NGOs, and educators. | ||||
Sola Gratia Farm | Land, Health, Community | $7,500.00 | Fall 2020 | East Central Illinois |
To improve soil fertility and plant health on newly acquired and existing acreage through increased and targeted soil testing and investment in equipment, nutrients, mycorrhizal fungi, and cover crop seeds. | ||||
Eastern Illinois University School of Technology | Land, Health, Community | $48,450.00 | Fall 2020 | East Central Illinois |
To increase the understanding of the scientific and commercial foundations for a profitable, sustainable, and environmentally-friendly alternative crop rotation for farmers in East Central Illinois through industrial hemp fiber. | ||||
The Land Connection | Land, Health, Community | $20,000.00 | Fall 2020 | East Central Illinois |
For general operating support to fund the Increasing Capacity to Build Strong and Resilient Local Food Systems project in Champaign County to provide farmers with the necessary networks, training, and education focused on improving environmental and ecological outcomes. | ||||
Austin Coming Together | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $20,875.00 | 2020 | Chicago Area |
To support coordination efforts on all food-related work in Austin as it pertains to the community’s quality of life plan, including community gardens, grocery stores, food cooperatives, and restaurants. The funding will also help to build the collective, positive narrative of the changes coming to Austin. | ||||
By the Hand Club for Kids | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $12,525.00 | 2020 | Chicago Area |
To expand their Austin Harvest pop-up market from a 12-week pilot last summer to a year-round program making low-cost produce available in the community and teaching entrepreneurialism to the youth. | ||||
NeighborSpace | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $25,050.00 | 2020 | Chicago Area |
To provide technical assistance in building capacity among the Austin community's network of gardens with needed infrastructure installations and improvements for community-managed spaces that address residents’ needs for safe gathering places and inter-generational community building. | ||||
Westside Health Authority | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $159,903.00 | 2020 | Chicago Area |
To support collaboration with Forty Acres Fresh Market, an existing for-profit fresh market concept, to move them into a permanent space and provide a full-service produce store in Austin. | ||||
Faith in Place | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $14,195.00 | 2020 | Chicago Area |
To build out a commercial kitchen at Greater St. John Bible Church where residents can obtain their sanitation certificates and caterers can execute contracts in a legally licensed kitchen. | ||||
GAP Community Center | Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh | $3,726.00 | 2020 | Chicago Area |
To teach children from the north end of Austin to cook, and to build a bridge between Austin’s Black population and the growing Latino population on the north end of the neighborhood. | ||||
