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Family Matters
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

2024

Chicago Area

To implement the Holistic Expansiveness Project (HEP). Through HEP, we will expand access to youth-identified outdoor recreation experiences, including overnight camping and nature exploration; tap into the youths’ desires to explore new-to-them cuisines and to cook nutritious dishes using vegetables harvested from our Youth Garden; and cultivate teamwork and leadership skills through twice-weekly physical activity games.

Faith in Place
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$15,000.00

2024

Chicago Area

Additional funding support for staff and technical assistance on regranted tree-planting and tree-workforce projects designed and led by underserved communities.

Experimental Station
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$20,000.00

2024

Chicago Area

To expand the 61st Street Farmers Market’s hands-on food education programming in partnership with neighboring CPS’ Carnegie Elementary School and Jackson Park Terrace (JPT) low-income housing complex. We will bring dynamic food and gardening education to over 300 Carnegie youth (adding K-1 to current grades 2-5, at the request of Carnegie School) and 100 adult JPT residents between Dec 2024–Nov 2025.

Chicago Voyagers
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

2024

Chicago Area

Funding for the continuation of Chicago Voyagers’ trauma-informed, experiential programming that facilitates physical activity, encourages healthy living, and fosters emotional wellbeing among youth ages 12-18 from Chicagoland’s underserved neighborhoods by offering access to safe outdoor spaces, where they engage in physical activities like hiking, canoeing, and rock climbing–pivotal for both physical health and mental resilience.

Brave Space Alliance
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

2024

Chicago Area

For the BSA Community Pantry, an alternative food system reaching Black and brown, trans and LGB+ individuals on the South Side of Chicago, many of whom do not feel comfortable visiting other pantries that are often religiously affiliated, require proof of poverty/need, or provide foods with low nutrient density.

Academy for Global Citizenship
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$20,000.00

2024

Chicago Area

For the development of the East Plaza on the AGC campus: paving the area, adding outdoor furniture, installing Wi-Fi and improving access by extending both the fire lane and the kitchen delivery lane to meet the straightened road. In addition, they will landscape the area regained from the road realignment, incorporating greenery like bushes and grass to enhance the campus’s natural beauty.

Urban Autism Solutions
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$5,000.00

2024

Chicago Area

To enhance the activities at Growing Solutions Farm (GSF), an innovative urban agriculture program designed to empower young adults with autism by providing them with work readiness skills while promoting food security for families in our community. GSF is a dynamic learning environment, featuring garden beds, composting bins, and a hoop house that extends our growing season.

Plant Chicago, NFP
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$5,000.00

2024

Chicago Area

For the improvement and expansion of the Plant’s Indoor Victory Garden (IVG) to more southwest-side Chicago residents and entrepreneurs interested in growing their own food. Plant Chicago provides space, equipment, and a community of shared knowledge, with access offered on a sliding scale. IVG users may use Plant Chicago's plots of racking systems, lights, soil, grow trays, seeds, and processing and cold storage equipment.

Friends of the Chicago River
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$5,000.00

2024

Chicago Area

To sustain and build upon Friends of the Chicago River’s CRSN education program by providing teachers with standards-based curricula and 50 fieldtrips to the river for 150 hours of outdoor experiential learning, including water quality testing and macroinvertebrate studies; 200 hours of volunteer stewardship; and year-round participation from 16 schools.

Chicago Run
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$5,000.00

2024

Chicago Area

To provide funding for our full program continuum both during- and out-of-school to develop social-emotional skills; to build resilience to stress and trauma; and to foster connection and community at our current partner sites – McCormick Elementary, Zapata Elementary, and Little Village Academy – and to expand to two new sites.