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Plant Chicago, NFP
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$15,000.00

Spring 2018

Chicago Area

To educate K-12 students in Chicago about closed loop food systems and healthy, sustainable food practices and increase community participation in Plant Chicago’s year-round farmers market, Cooking Matters, and new Community Learning Circle.

Big Green
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Land, Health, Community-Chicago

$10,000.00

Spring 2018

Chicago Area

To support programmatic activities within our Learning Garden schools to ensure integration and implementation of programming in the classroom and school culture, and to teach the teachers to use their Learning Garden to its fullest extent across grade levels and subjects

Faith in Place
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Land, Health, Community

$20,000

Spring 2018

East Central Illinois

To strengthen relationships with our current Green Teams, cultivate relationships with like-minded organizations and houses of worship in Coles and Douglas Counties, and grow Green Teams in these two counties.

Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund
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Land, Health, Community

$25,000

Spring 2018

East Central Illinois

For general operating funds to forward policy work, outreach to supportive individuals, and education of lawmakers and other decision makers about local food, land, and sustainable agriculture.

Fit-2-Serve
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Land, Health, Community

$20,000

Spring 2018

East Central Illinois

To create a sustainable food center (SFC) which will consist of community and school gardens in Mattoon where we will promote health by providing education and resources to farm community and school gardens and engage innovative practices to increase food security in our community while we grow the local agricultural economy through job training for youth.

Prairie Rivers Network
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Land, Health, Community

$25,000

Spring 2018

East Central Illinois

To expand its communications and outreach capacity to support conservation programs and organizational development, including building support for regenerative and organic agriculture practices in East Central Illinois that heal soil, protect water and wildlife, and grow food crops that can be marketed and consumed by East Central Illinois communities.

Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK)
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Land, Health, Community

$12,500

Spring 2018

East Central Illinois

To provide ten under-resourced schools with the funding and support they need to implement healthy eating and physical activity initiatives during the 2018-2019 school year, including in-depth technical assistance, resources and technology to support the implementation of AFHK's signature school health framework, Game On, in all ten schools.