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| Organization Name | Grant Name | Grant Amount | Grant Cycle | Region |
Ballard Nature Center | Land, Health, Community | $5,000 | Fall 2019 | East Central Illinois |
To enhance and improve native landscaping around the visitor center and to purchase new bird feeders for the bird watching area. Plants that benefit pollinators will be a large focus of the landscaping project, which will make it a teaching tool for the connection between pollinators and food production. Funds will also be used to purchase and install a drinking fountain system. | ||||
Champaign County Forest Preserve District Foundation | Land, Health, Community | $16,000 | Fall 2019 | East Central Illinois |
To hire an architectural firm to create conceptual designs for the nature center that would include exhibits and design elements to not only honor the Grand Prairie and agricultural history of the region, but also to encourage sustainable use of construction materials, water, soil, and energy. | ||||
Greenleaf Communities | Land, Health, Community | $15,000 | Fall 2019 | East Central Illinois |
For funding a two-day workshop at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center that will bring together leaders and stakeholders from across many sectors such as sustainable agriculture practitioners, sensing technology researchers and manufacturers, agricultural researchers and engineers, Extension services, and environmental non-profit organizations to articulate and discuss the best ways to monitor and assimilate data for promoting soil health, challenges in implementing the technologies, how to accelerate their deployment, and benefits to farmers. | ||||
Rodale Institute | Land, Health, Community | $5,500 | Fall 2019 | East Central Illinois |
To support the training of organic farmers from East Central Illinois on effective advocacy strategies to educate policymakers about their experiences, the challenges farmers face within the organic sector, and strategies to motivate more farmers to transition to organic production. | ||||
Sola Gratia Farm | Land, Health, Community | $6,900 | Fall 2019 | East Central Illinois |
For start-up costs associated with transitioning the farm's existing infrastructure from seasonal to year-round. Funds will be used to winterize infrastructure and purchase supplies for cold-weather production. | ||||
The Conservation Fund | Land, Health, Community | $20,000 | Fall 2019 | East Central Illinois |
To launch Phase 2 of the Illinois Farmland Conservation Initiative to advance farmland protection through outreach, cultivation, and convening, in East Central Illinois, of partners to generate alignment of understanding and ideate creative, innovative, priority policy actions to encourage farmland protection in Illinois and provide a path to farmland access for the next generation of farmers. | ||||
The Land Connection | Land, Health, Community | $20,000 | Fall 2019 | East Central Illinois |
For general operating support to provide farmers with the necessary networks, training, and education, focused on improving environmental and ecological outcomes, and to facilitate access to healthy, locally grown and raised food directly from producers. | ||||
University of Illinois Extension | Land, Health, Community | $12,585 | Fall 2019 | East Central Illinois |
To develop a watershed plan, in partnership with Illinois Extension and local stakeholders, for the upper portion of the Little Wabash River Watershed, focused on a subwatershed of the Little Wabash located in Cumberland and Effingham counties. | ||||
Illinois Stewardship Alliance | Land, Health, Community | $25,000 | Fall 2019 | East Central Illinois |
To connect Central Illinois family farmers with reliable markets, drive local food consumption, and foster political leadership for quality local food and sustainable agricultural policies, engage our members in driving community and political leadership, and undertake an evaluation on the strategies we have chosen to build a strong local food and sustainable agriculture and to make course corrections where necessary. | ||||
National Family Farm Coalition | Good Food Policy Program | $20,000.00 | 2019 | National |
To pay for activities required to elevate the voice and priorities of our members who primarily live in rural America, advocate for policy changes that enrich their lives, and raise the profile of community-based and controlled food systems. | ||||
