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BUILD, Inc.
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Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh

$13,527.00

2020

Chicago Area

To expand their iris garden and involve more youth in its care, as well as to add some gardening efforts off-site, where youth will work with elders in the community to grow food.

Savanna Institute
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Nature-Based Climate Action Program

$170,000.00

2020

East Central Illinois

To establish and maintain 250 acres of agroforestry in Champaign and Piatt Counties. The plantings will focus on alley cropping and windbreaks, two of the top nature-based climate solutions identified for the US. Implementation will occur across 2-3 privately owned farms under long-term leases by the Savanna Institute.

City of Mattoon
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Nature-Based Climate Action Program

$32,500.00

2020

East Central Illinois

To plant 100 trees in 2021 and 2022 (50 trees per year) on City boulevards.  Tree replacements will be offered to residents who have had boulevard trees removed in the past year with plans to make the project an annual event. The City of Mattoon Tree Commission will coordinate the program.

Urban Forest Carbon Registry (City Forest Credits)
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Nature-Based Climate Action Program

$95,000.00

2020

East Central Illinois

To create a carbon credit program for small communities and landowners in Central IL to issue credits to projects in smaller communities and landowners.

Delta Institute
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Nature-Based Climate Action Program

$25,000.00

2020

East Central Illinois

To advance agroforestry goals at Zumwalt Acres by developing a nursery for fruit shrubs and nut trees, which will ultimately be transplanted into an agroforest with wind breaks, alley cropping, and multi-story cropping. And to build upon Zumwalt's current production of biochar by integrating it with compost and basalt rock to create a carbon-capturing soil amendment. 

City of Urbana
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Nature-Based Climate Action Program

$37,000.00

2020

East Central Illinois

To expand their Nature & Urban Biodiversity efforts by conducting a study to understand where gaps exist in the street tree specific canopy and the total community canopy, where vacant tree sites co-occur with urban heat concentrations as determined by satellite thermal imaging, and where vacant tree sites and/or urban heat co-occur with Environmental Justice (EJ) Zones as determined by Illinois Solar For All program.

Greenleaf Communities
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Nature-Based Climate Action Program

$20,000.00

2020

East Central Illinois

To build a network of farmers in central Illinois connected to others in the Midwest who practice regenerative agriculture to generate productive yields while sequestering carbon.

Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund (IECEF)
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Nature-Based Climate Action Program

$25,000.00

2020

East Central Illinois

To amplify the voice of partners in East Central Illinois and beyond to promote local ordinances which allow citizens greater autonomy in converting portions of their properties into natural landscapes and demonstrate to decision makers the value of natural areas as a mitigation tool in the fight against the impacts of climate change.

North Lake Community Development
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Nature-Based Climate Action Program

$84,000.00

2020

East Central Illinois

To begin the first phases of Project Green Tree: partner with a conservation engineer to generate a plan for native plantings around and on the banks of Asa Creek to reduce agricultural runoff and improve the quality of water, develop a 10-acre native tree nursery on a City-owned area currently in row crops, and add prairie grass/pollinator plantings and educational signage to the developing trail and wildlife corridor around Asa Creek.

The Conservation Fund
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Nature-Based Climate Action Program

$150,000.00

2020

East Central Illinois

To collaborate with Delta Institute to engage farmers in East-Central Illinois in carbon drawdown through nature-based agricultural practices. The elements include a carefully designed outreach strategy in partnership with Soil and Water Conservation Districts; an incentive payment framework using science from the new Soil Enrichment Protocol; and quantification of soil carbon sequestered.