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| Organization Name | Grant Name | Grant Amount | Grant Cycle | Region |
Union of Concerned Scientists | Good Food Policy Program | $40,000.00 | 2024 | National |
To provide mini-grants to Good Food for All (GFFA) members to support their individual organizational capacity to make progress on collective GFFA priorities and goals. | ||||
Savanna Institute | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $35,000.00 | 2024 | East Central Illinois |
For general operating funds to support agroforestry education and outreach programs in Illinois through the launch of an Illinois Agroforestry Partner Farm Network and creation of impactful, engaging educational experiences with agroforestry for diverse public audiences. | ||||
American Farmland Trust | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $40,000.00 | 2024 | East Central Illinois |
to expand and establish farmer-led, peer-to-peer programs in East Central Illinois that decrease waterway nutrient loading and sedimentation and help achieve water quality goals identified in Illinois’s Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy. | ||||
Prairie Rivers Network | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $25,000.00 | 2024 | East Central Illinois |
To mobilize our Save Our Trees coalition, continue monitoring, and collect plant tissue samples. We will work with partners to highlight the issue of herbicide drift, train individuals, park districts, and land managers on symptom identification and reporting, and raise awareness on the risks of herbicides. | ||||
Delta Institute | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $25,000.00 | 2024 | East Central Illinois |
to support the development of an economic tool that integrates soil health indicators when calculating property value to promote practices with the potential to assess land managed with sustainable agriculture practices at a higher value over conventional agriculture. | ||||
EIU/Biological Sciences | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $20,000.00 | 2024 | East Central Illinois |
to develop native plant landscapes and increase the engagement and participation of the community with nature through interpretive sessions and citizen scientist training workshops. | ||||
Faith in Place | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $30,000.00 | 2024 | East Central Illinois |
to increase faith-community-owned acreage used for nature-based climate solutions as well as increase the project’s educational outreach to houses of worship so as to expand public awareness and support for climate action. | ||||
The Nature Conservancy (Illinois Grazing Lands Coalition) | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $50,000.00 | 2024 | East Central Illinois |
to support outreach efforts to transition 40,000 acres of Illinois farmland to regenerative grazing management by 2025. Funds will also go toward strategic development plans to expand partner relationships and provide technical assistance to IL grazers. | ||||
Funders of Regenerative Agriculture (Fiscal Sponsor: Regenerative Agriculture Foundation) | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $20,000.00 | 2024 | East Central Illinois |
to support the organization and implementation of programs that accelerate the emergence of regenerative agriculture, healthy soil, and working lands systems that support people and the planet. | ||||
Champaign Parks Foundation | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $8,800.00 | 2024 | East Central Illinois |
to purchase 44 trees to be planted fall 2025 along the 1.0-mile walking/cycling path in Zahnd Park; some will be used to screen Staley Road. The path is part of a corridor which connects a rapidly developing health care/retail complex and its new multiuse biking/hiking/workout path, with areas east of I-57, by way of an expanded Windsor Road overpass with sidewalks and dedicated cycling lanes. | ||||
